The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday 30 May 2017

VERBAL DUEL ESCALATE TENSION BETWEEN US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND GERMANY

Here it is bit modified. 

First it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel who gave indications that all was not well between Germany and its traditional allies Britain and America. She slammed the two countries saying Germany could no longer trust its "traditional allies". According to a report in The Guardian, while speaking at an election rally in Munich, German Chancellor said “the times in which we could completely depend on others are, to a certain extent, over". Elections in Germany are due in September 2017.

The recently concluded NATO and G7 Summits between the world's most industrialized nations saw differences between the world's most powerful and influential leaders coming out in open. The Guardian described the summits as "bruising meetings" while The Telegraph wrote that the impression after the G7 Summit was, "that, for the first time in decades, more divides industrialised Western powers than unites them". Without naming Trump, Merkel described the Sicily G7 Summit as “six against one” saying as “the result of the talks was very difficult, if not to say very unsatisfactory”, The Guardian report said.

But Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel didn't mince his words while taking on Trump. Following Merkel's harsh words, he blamed Trump for "weakening the west". "The short-sighted policies of the American government stand against the interests of the European Union (EU). The West has become smaller, at least it has become weaker", a CNN report quoted him saying. And the charge of "standing against the interests of the European Union" is not baseless. Donald Trump has been vocally anti-EU. Trump has also termed ‘Brexit a great development for the UK’.

How Donald Trump is becoming a controversial figure in Germany also becomes clear from the reaction of Martin Schulz, Merkel's main political rival and a former president of the European Parliament. According to a report in The Hill, Schulz has slammed Trump, "The chancellor represent all of us at summits like these. And I reject with outrage the way this man takes it upon himself to treat the head of our country's government. That is unacceptable."

This was enough for Trump to react it seems. And he expressed his displeasure and anger through a tweet again reminding Germany of the "massive trade deficit" that the country has with the US and its "far less" NATO contribution than required and added that he was going to change it.

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will change
4:10 PM - 30 May 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869503804307275776

On May 25, Donald Trump had charged Germans for cornering business and jobs in the US. While blasting Germans, Trump had said, "The Germans are bad, very bad. See the millions of cars they are selling to the U.S. Terrible. We will stop this." In response to Trump’s criticism, Sigmar Gabriel had quipped that the US automakers needed to come up with better cars. He termed products of American automakers “worse, weaker and more expensive”, an Associated Press report said.

And during the G7 Summit also, he behaved like he was acting unilaterally. While six G7 members, Germany, France, Italy, Britain, Japan and Canada reiterated their commitment for the 2015 Paris climate deal, Trump remained non-committal saying he needed more time to think over it. Merkel was blunt in her criticism over Trump's stand saying the developments say the US will not stay with the climate deal.

Trump has been a vocal critic of the Paris climate deal and he had promised to cancel the deal if he became the US President. And according to a Daily Mail report, Trump has "made up his mind to withdraw US from Paris climate deal". The G7 Summit said it would fight against protectionism while protectionism has been a cornerstone of Trump administration.

©SantoshChaubey