German chancellor reiterated the importance of respecting a country’s borders to maintain peace
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned that all countries deserve to honor the holiness of the borders, regardless Panama.
“The precept of the inviolability of borders applies to all countries, east or west of the United States,” Scholz said Wednesday after speaking with several European leaders and the president of the European Council.
“Every state will have to condemn it, whether it’s a small country or a very tough state. This is a touchdown precept of foreign law and a key detail of what we call Western values,” he added.
Scholz did not mention Trump by name but said that he and other leaders discussed “a certain level of incomprehension” that came from the statements made by the U.S.
The German chancellor’s comments came here less than a century after his country invaded Europe’s top and World War II began. While the country is guilty of incitement to World War II and the Holocaust, the new generations look on with deep guilt.
Scholz has said in the past that protecting freedom and those under attack are Germany’s duty to spare him such atrocities as they happen.
Trump, who has in the past scoffed at retaking Greenland, reiterated his comments this week, this time hinting that the U. S. would not oppose the military’s use of force to retake Greenland or the Panama Canal.
Greenland is a self-governing island country and a territory of Denmark. The Danish prime minister and the prime minister of Greenland have said that Greenland is for sale.
However, Trump, raising national security problems, said that the idea that he would take from Greenland would get advantages to all.
Scholz told Newshouings on Wednesday that borders “should not be transferred through force” and highlighted the importance of joining as a best friend, in specific United States, to the law of Ukraine at its borders.
“We are doing this to the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine, but also to the precept of the inviolability of borders. This precept is found and is the basis of our peace order,” Scholz said.
The comment also gave the impression of being an oblique way of communicating with Trump, who has sympathized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticized Ukrainian help.
During his first term, Trump considered pulling the U.S. out of NATO – a key alliance formed after World War II in which members agreed to defend each other against attacks by other countries.
Trump has been highly critical of NATO. During his press conference on Wednesday, the president-elect called for alliance members to spend up to five percent of their GDP on defense – up from two percent.
In recent weeks, Trump has accelerated his attacks against the allies. He threatened to impose costs in Canada, Mexico and the European Union. He laughed at Canada as “State 51” and blamed Mexico for fentanyl overdose in the United States
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