Germany's Merz Says Iran Is Humiliating U.S. as Talks Stall

Monday, April 27, 2026

"The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result," [German Chancellor Friedrich Merz] said during a talk to students in the town of Marsberg. "An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible," he added at the venue in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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I hope it continues.

I hope Israel has to Abide by an Agreement crafted by others that does not benefit Them.

Trump is a Dope. He's not very Intelligent, that's obvious to anyone at this point.

Netanyahu is the Real Menace.

He needs to be Boxed in and Destroyed.

By Trump's inconsistencies, would be Ironic and Fitting.

#1 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-04-27 10:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump lost his war on Feb. 28, 2026.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-04-27 10:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump has been humiliating the US for years now.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-04-27 10:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

American voters have been humiliating America since 1964 (Gulf of Tonkin Resolution).

#4 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-04-27 11:41 AM | Reply

"To better understand the president's foreign policy, one must study the behavior of small children. ... Intellectual honesty does not seem to be the hallmark of this administration's foreign policy. A more helpful way of understanding the president's whims is to think of him as a small child who develops an obsessive fixation on a new toy before losing all interest. You can wait him out or try to appease him, but you can't talk him into a rational assessment of cost versus benefit, or assume his stated preference will hold true for very long."

Jonathan Chait

#5 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-04-27 11:53 AM | Reply

What happened to the necrotic orange chomo's boast of having all the cards?

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-04-27 12:03 PM | Reply

And this is after Pete Hegseth got rid of woke, DEI, beards and all those terrible military officials who put country before Trump.

I thought changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War, fighting for Jesus and returning to a warrior ethos was supposed to make the US military unstoppable?

I guess there's a difference between acting tough and being tough. Hegseth and Trump are paper tigers playing with their toys.

#7 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-04-27 12:44 PM | Reply

Turns out that all that significantly weakens the US military.

Fortunately, significantly weakening the US military is actually a very good thing for the rest of the world, and ultimately for the US too.

#8 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-04-27 12:50 PM | Reply

"Weakened US military" will be the rallying cry for why we need to cut social programs and spend 5% GDP on Department of War.

Republicans started a war they can't win, with the goal of emptying the public Treasury. All in the name of protecting the public.

Republicans who are dumb can't figure that out. They'll always believe the Iranian Sky is about to be Falling on them at any moment. They don't understand what Smedley Butler said.

Republicans who know the truth, they don't really mind, because a tiny bit of the grift trickles down into their brokerage accounts.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-27 01:23 PM | Reply

The orange baby humping woman raping grifting orange pig traitor is an embarrassment to us all but if Iranian baby lusting woman beating murdering scum think they are any better, than that is a sick joke. The world is being held hostage by these two horrible groups of people and maybe the only good thing that will come of all this war, death and economic disaster are that the world really starts to make plans to get away from fossil fuels as the main way to drive our economies and keep us warm, cool and fed?

#10 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2026-04-27 01:25 PM | Reply