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===Germany===
===Germany===
[[File:President and First Lady Obama with Chancellor Merkel.jpg|thumb|left|320px|Barack and Michelle Obama are welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, professor Joachim Sauer. During the [[European migrant crisis]] resulting from Obama's [[Arab Spring]] [[color revolution]]s, all leaders of major European powers were childless with no concern for the next generation.]]
In 2016, a 10-day maneuver was carried out in [[Poland]] with 31,000 NATO troops from 24 nations and thousands of tanks and other vehicles. The exercise was the first time [[German]] troops taking part crossed [[Poland]] towards Russia since the [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion of 1941]]. These moves led then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to accuse NATO of “saber-rattling” and “war-mongering.” Steinmeier told ''Bild am Sontag'' newspaper: "What we shouldn’t do now is inflame the situation further through saber-rattling and warmongering. Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance’s eastern border will bring security is mistaken. We are well-advised to not create pretexts to renew an old confrontation,” saying it would be 'fatal to search only for military solutions and a policy of deterrence.”<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/28/the-tangled-tale-of-nato-expansion-at-the-heart-of-ukraine-crisis/</ref>
In 2016, a 10-day maneuver was carried out in [[Poland]] with 31,000 NATO troops from 24 nations and thousands of tanks and other vehicles. The exercise was the first time [[German]] troops taking part crossed [[Poland]] towards Russia since the [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion of 1941]]. These moves led then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to accuse NATO of “saber-rattling” and “war-mongering.” Steinmeier told ''Bild am Sontag'' newspaper: "What we shouldn’t do now is inflame the situation further through saber-rattling and warmongering. Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance’s eastern border will bring security is mistaken. We are well-advised to not create pretexts to renew an old confrontation,” saying it would be 'fatal to search only for military solutions and a policy of deterrence.”<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/28/the-tangled-tale-of-nato-expansion-at-the-heart-of-ukraine-crisis/</ref>