Demonstrators march through Berlin to protest U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2017. (Omer Messinger/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
Germans see relations as negative; Americans see them as positive. What is going wrong?
Germans and Americans have very different ideas of the relationship between their two countries, according to a survey published by the Körber Foundation and the American Pew Research Center last month.
While 73 percent of Germans surveyed described relations with the United States of America as “somewhat bad” or “very bad,” 70 percent of Americans said that relations with the German Federal Republic were “somewhat good” or “very good.”
Just a year ago, only 56 percent of Germans said their country’s relationship with the U.S. was bad. Germany’s increasing discontent is said to be caused by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Prior to Trump’s election, almost all presidents were viewed positively in Germany. A November 2016 survey conducted on behalf of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung found that 85 percent of Germans had a negative opinion about the newly elected president. Conversely, only 4 percent, at the time, viewed President-elect Donald Trump positively.
The German news media is mostly to blame for this. A 2017 Harvard journalism study found that the German media has the most negative reporting about Trump. A stark 98 percent of coverage by public broadcaster ard was classified as negative. The U.S. media at the time was “only” 80 percent negative.
“Humanity as a whole is being set back just because of one single person,” one of Germany’s largest magazines, Der Spiegel, wrote in January 2017. But this hatred for Trump is expanding to hatred for all of America.
Guttenberg vs. Trump
Even more critical than Germany’s media is Germany’s “America expert,” Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. The former German defense minister, who currently lives in the U.S., shows no mercy when it comes to his assessment of President Trump. After one year of the Trump administration, Guttenberg said (Trumpet translation throughout):
I truly believe that we are dealing with a narcissist here and with someone who rather quickly reaches his intellectual limits. Sometimes I think we are dealing with a schoolboy who, once you take the toy away, knows how to lash out. All that doesn’t make the dealing easier. Something may happen in [his] head that we experienced during our school years, but it shouldn’t happen among adults. That’s why I do have great concerns that a surprise could come that will resonate in more than a tired laugh in reaction to a tweet. Hence it is important to be vigilant.
Guttenberg uses almost every chance he gets to lash out at the president. His rhetoric even caused Fox News to ban him from live interviews. Germany’s merkur.de reported:
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg got a letter recently that made him, to a good degree, proud. The arch-conservative tv channel Fox News told him that he would, for the time being, no longer be invited as a guest in their broadcasts. In a live conversation, he compared Donald Trump to a comic figure of the Simpson series. “I’ll hang that letter someday on my toilet,” Guttenberg says cheerfully.
In September, Guttenberg was invited to speak at a political forum in Dortmund. He again spoke in fury on when the topic of the president came up. He stated that he believes the White House “chaos” will continue for another six years, rather than end after two.
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From Rhetoric to Action
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Bible prophecy reveals that Germany will ally with China and many other rising nations against America. We at the Trumpet have repeatedly pointed to prophecies in Deuteronomy 28, Isaiah 23 and Ezekiel 4 and 5 describing an economic siege that will be waged against America. Referring to the prophecy in Deuteronomy 28, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry notes in his book Ezekiel: The End-Time Prophet:
The Holy Roman Empire [a German-led European empire], along with the kings of the east (the Asian nations), will cause economic problems and bring on destruction in many ways “until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee” (verse 52). The real pressure is coming from without. “In all thy gates” refers to a trade war.
In Isaiah’s End-Time Vision, Mr. Flurry notes: “[C]onsidering that China has come to possess most of the world’s strategic sea-gates (which, ironically, at one time were held by Britain and America), we believe there may be a brief alliance between the German-led Holy Roman Empire and certain Asian powers (Russia, China, Japan—the kings of the east).”
This prophecy of an economic siege was revealed decades ago to the late Herbert W. Armstrong. (Request your free copy of He Was Right to learn more about his Bible-based predictions.) Through Mr. Armstrong, God pleaded with the modern nations of Israel to turn from their sins. But the nation has not repented. God is now sending a final warning for individuals to repent and be protected before His punishment is executed.
The stage for this punishment has been set before our eyes.
Guttenberg and Schröder are not always of the same opinion, but they are both working behind the scenes to bring down America. Schröder has made great strides to ally Germany and Russia economically. This alliance, marked by the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, is a strong indicator of the coming economic siege. To learn more about this trend, read “Germany and Russia’s Secret War Against America.”
Many older Germans remember their cities lying in ruin after the end of World War ii. American planes bombed the cities to the ground to stop Germany. But today, some are seeking revenge for the lost war and more than 70 years of “suppression,” as Schröder and others see it. This spirit of revenge is most evident when talking to the older generation in Germany, but the hatred for America is seen in all ages. Germany is even rewriting history to strengthen this hatred.
The mood change in Germany has been prophesied. Germany envies America’s superpower status. Although the two may continue to cooperate for a short time, Germany’s hatred toward America will soon lead it to betray its “friend.” Watch “Germany’s Break From America” to learn about this prophesied betrayal.
Full article: The German-American Relationship Illusion (The Trumpet)
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