This is remarkable to watch on multiple levels. There is the diplomatic dimension, where an American Under Secretary of State is not supposed to call a spade a spade. But when the people demanding deference to those outdated conventions are the very same elites who fear their own citizens and suppress them through increasingly tyrannical censorship, they have forfeited any claim to courtesy. You can almost picture German elites getting whiplash just from reading it.Then there is the tactical side of it. Sarah Rodgers knows perfectly well that what she is saying is not permitted speech in Germany. That is precisely why she says it so bluntly and forcefully, almost daring the German government to react. The point is the opposite of subtle persuasion (that did not work). Instead, she’s inviting the German government to lash out at her, which would make their repression even more visible and self-incriminating.
There is also a deeper historical message embedded in this. The United States did not sacrifice blood and treasure to liberate Germany after World War II so that it could quietly slide back into old authoritarian habits under a different pretext. And if it insists on doing so, it should not assume American indulgence or silence. That era is over.
Remarkable. Good on her. What a difference a year makes.
l used to muse about a startling turn of events when armagheddon happens; the european armies including Germany amass at lsrael’s borders, the germans are ‘allowed’ to enter first. the individual german soldiers privately thinking ooooooooh gawd not again, why me?? but suddenly in a shocking about face, in keeping with a most extremely high level secret agreement and understanding, based on a gamble of historic proportions, they afre ordered to turn around 180 degrees and at the last moment take up DEFENSIVE positions.
the explanation, it is germany’s way of finally ATONING for the holocaust, SAVING jews
instead of murdering them
whaaaaaaall that aint gonna happen now is it?
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I think Undersecretary of State Sarah B Rogers has been reading exactly how accurately Secretary of State Rubio has been in his assessments of how things are…
It’s a welcome change from the recent past.
How ironic that just today the EU eunuchs claimed VP JD Vance “hates us”
https://www.politico.eu/article/jd-vance-europe-greenland-us-vice-president-washington-marco-rubio/
No, he doesn’t hate you per se … he HATES your Authoritarian policies. He hates your destruction of every single European State.
Hans Mahncke … WOW! Reading his X posts just fired me up! That man is a STRAIGHT thinker. And his analysis is spot on … Germany has just been called out. Our Undersecretary is trying to save the aFD from getting thrown into the German gulag Buchenwald. Brilliant! I LOVE Marco Rubio more and more each day.
“The United States did not sacrifice blood and treasure to liberate Germany”
Stop right there and it’s accurate.
The United States did not sacrifice blood and treasure to liberate Germany in either World War.
The U.S. sat back and played baseball while the rest of the Allies fought 3/4s of WWI and 1/2 of WWII without them while the U.S. was having a snit of American isolationism, again.
The U.S. fought WWI for profit and to catch up militarily to the rest of the Great Powers, and fought WWII because Germany was sucked into declaring war of the U.S. by Japan.
Liberating Germany didn’t figure in either war for the U.S.
“ The U.S. sat back and played baseball while the rest of the Allies fought 3/4s of WWI and 1/2 of WWII without them while the U.S. was having a snit of American isolationism, again. “
A brilliant strategy. USA for the win. (Twice).
Yes, the U.S. was on the winning side.
Do they get to brag about free speech? Sure, but in doing so they are liars.
So, the US suffering more than 419,000 deaths in WW2 and more than 117,000 in WW1 was not a sacrifice of blood and treasure.
BTW, Canada’s were around 43,000 and roughly 60,000.
“So, the US suffering yada yada yada was not a sacrifice of blood and treasure.”
Did the U.S. do it to liberate Germany? NO they most certainly did not.
Did the U.S, do it so that Germans could have free speech? NO they did not.
Did the U.S do it to bring Democracy to Germany? NO they did not.
Did Americans fight to return Democracy back to their own country after the Democrats STOLE the 2020 election?
No they did not.
Learn to comprehend what you read, Lupus solus.
And why don’t you back up your opinions with facts, data, etc.
Also, the only “fighting” you seem to be doing is slamming the US on a blog. Typical keyboard quarterback BS.
It isn’t an “opinion” that the U.S. didn’t fight WWII to liberate Germany.
It’s a FACT that the U.S. fought Germany because Germany declared war on the U.S.
The numbers in your January 16, 2026 at 7:49 am comment are irrelevant to that fact.
“the only “fighting” you seem to be doing is slamming the US”
Says the person who cannot comprehend that the U.S. did not fight WWII to liberate Germany or to bring free speech to Germans.
Oz, the overriding fact is they did liberate Germany (and bring democracy and free speech) by sacrificing blood and treasure.
And just how are the number of young men killed, many of them teenagers, not relevant to the end result.
“Oz, the overriding fact is they did liberate Germany”
Simply repeating a statement doesn’t make it true.
The U.S. was in FDR’s 4th term. FDR died in office.
FDR was never fit for that office, health-wise, but the Democrat-run media kept FDR’s bad health a secret from the American people.
Free speech? Democracy? The U.S. had neither.
Sure, whatever you say chump.
Ooz, how is yer portion of BAT soup these daz???
Or, we could say that the U.S. delayed committing to those wars (we were giving supplies prior to entry in both) because many in Congress, representing the wishes of their constituents, did not wish to entangle themselves in what were seen as wars that we not our own.
You can argue that they were, but you could also argue that they were not.
In the end, we did fight in them though, and we did supply you with material, and in that we did indeed spend our blood and treasure on those things when we could have perhaps spent them on something else here at home — ‘allies’ who now chastise us unrelentingly for not doing more, boast that they fought longer and lost more men, and ascribe to us nefarious reasons for helping them in the first place (I might posit a notion that none of the other players in either of those wars could be accused of having perfectly innocent ones themselves; perhaps accusing my country is a form of projection).
But by all means, you and your comrades should continue to complain about it; please do so on social media, as it helps my people realize just what we’ve been dealing with all along…and it hardens our hearts towards you, which is if not a good thing, a just one…
The United States did in fact liberate Germany and certainly sacrificed blood and treasure to do it. They didn’t fight the war to liberate Germany. They liberated Germany to win the war. The war was fought to end the danger that Nazi Germany had posed to the world, and since the available alternative of a Communist Germany would be just as dangerous, they had to produce a liberal democratic Germany in order to be safe.
Germany was not “sucked into” declaring war by the Japanese. Hitler thought it was the clever thing to do.
Obviously Germany didn’t need liberating after the First World War, only punishment, perhaps indeed only correction. The Kaiser’s Germany was quite reasonably civilised. They didn’t suffer from malignant ideology, only appalling judgment.
He hates their politicians and the institutions of their governments. He most certainly doesn’t hate the people. They know this; they also know their people are beginning to hate them, hence the screaming and wailing…and the oppression.
This was replying to Kenji.
I voted for this. Take that Germany!
Now do Canada, Pete Hoekstra.
Canada is a bit of a different situation. In many ways your history is rather more like America’s: you aren’t a Eurasian power and their concerns, their intrigues are not truly yours — or they shouldn’t have to be.
But you were part of the Commonwealth (still are), and thus considered a colony to be exploited — you may not have had your Gallipoli, but you certainly had your Vimy Ridge and your Dieppe.
Perhaps my country is tired of being entangled in Eurasian schemes because it leads to those for us (and we are not part of the Commonwealth; they should have no hold upon us) — I’m certain the people are beginning to see this and our own politicians who allow it, at the people’s expense.
Maybe that’s what he might tell you at a future date, or maybe not, but I wonder: how would Canadians take it?