I’ve used that image a number of times since it was taken in 2018. This is the German group at the UN laughing at President Trump as he warned them of the danger of becoming so dependent on Russian natural gas for their energy. He had made the same point to them in other meetings, especially as they thumped the table demanding tougher actions be taken against Russia even before the invasion of Ukraine. How, Trump asked, were they going to “get tough” against a nation that increasingly had them by the short and curlies?
Naturally the dumb fucks are not laughing now, with most gas supplies from Russia to Germany cut off at by Russia, and then reinforced by sanctions demanded by the EU and NATO, but with resulting massive spikes in energy costs (Germany is now paying four times as much as the US on average across all energy sources). Their dependence on Russia looked even more stupid as they shut down their nuclear reactor fleet, making them even more reliant on gas when the wind stops.
I didn’t know any of the politicians in that group, but it seems that one is still around and quite prominent. The guy at the front right of that photo is one Christoph Heusgen and it turns out that he was the Chairman of the recent Munich Security Conference where US VP Vance made such a big splash with his speech admonishing the Euros for slipping badly on democracy, free speech and other civil liberties (Stone Cold Silence From The Brahmin Class).
Apparently this hurt a lot of feelings, especially with the Germans, some of whom got very angry. But Mr Heusgen reacted a little differently in his closing speech.
With aval Ewald von Kleist, this conference started as a transatlantic conference. After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday, we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore. I’m very grateful to all those European politicians that spoke out and reaffirmed the values and principles that they are defending. No one did this better than president Zelensky. Let me conclude and this becomes difficult…
Well at least he also recognised the degrading of that “common value base” but obviously he thinks he and his German Stasi are the ones preserving it. But it’s not impressive when a man veers between snickering high-school-mean-girls laughter and tearful hurtiness. There’s certainly also a born-to-rule arrogance to them:
These people have no leg to stand on in criticising Vladimir Putin, hence Vance’s question as to whether the EU (and Britain) really are still on the side of the US in defending democracy and civil liberties. With all this crap going on it’s increasingly hard for Americans to care about these nations and their peoples. A shared history only goes so far when you start diverging from it.
No wonder Germany, and the EU, is in the shit with people like this “leading” it.
No Minister 
I have been to Russia several times and learned some things about its people and their wishes.
Since the failure of communism and the Soviet Union, they have wanted the same things that we residents of western nations have.
Decent jobs.
Homes of their own to live in.
Supportive relationships with friends and family members.
Hope for a better future.
They have and still want peace, trade with people in other nations, harmony, prosperity and basic human rights.
Selling natural resources to other European nations and buying other products from them was mutually beneficial but perhaps not for the “rulers” of the American Empire?
The available evidence indicates that the gas supply to Germany was shut of by people in the USA government. That was definitely not for the benefit of the Russian or German people.
That horrible Mr. Putin tired to get Russia admitted to Nato and the UN but “that would never do!”
The conflict in the Ukraine is a proxy war between Russia and the USA that is killing innocent people and destroying their property. That tragedy could have been prevented by negotiations between the political authorities but they did not want to.
The USA is the richest and most powerful Nation and its political authorities would like it to become even more rich and powerful.
American citizens have paid billions to arm “Ukraine” and keep the death and destruction going that is very profitable for the owners of the companies that supply the weapons and the politicians they support.
Citizens of the USA are told that this war is protecting them from Russian invasion. Most probably don’t know enough geography to understand that Ukraine is very far away and not a part of their country.
Watching a war might be entertaining “reality tv” if so many innocent people were not being really injured, killed and displaced from their homes.
The USA and the CIA have a history of interfering in other countries affairs for their own idealogical benefit. eg Chile, Equador, Guatamala, Vietnam.
Western Europe has lived under a protective umbrella supplied by the USA since the 1950’s with the threat of Stalins ambitions about.
Stalins long gone and the Soviets have largely moved on.
Nato’s still around though, and needs a war to justify itself.
NATO is a necrotic tumour and a money soaking beauracy that has infected Europe
It has almost totally swallowed the Balkans with only the Orthodox Christian Nation of Serbia keeping freedom alive there.
Its attempt to occupy Orthodox Georgia led to the South Osstian war in 2008.
Meanwhile its latest attempt at occupying Orthodox Christian lands has led a split in the Church and death and misery for millions.
And while the average Westerner thinks its mission is to make the world safe for homoseual marriage, or something, in reality NATO is the epitome of pure EVIL that has been reponsible for millions of deaths, in the Balkans, North Africa and in particular the Middle East