WAKE UP, EUROPE – AT 11:51 A.M. ET:  There are more and more stories out of Europe showing that at least some Europeans, and even some leaders, are starting to be alarmed at the enemies they face.  Maybe they're starting to listen to President Trump.  From Reuters: 

BERLIN (Reuters) - North Korean rockets can now be fitted with nuclear weapons and could reach Germany and central Europe, a top official with Germany’s foreign intelligence agency told lawmakers this week, according to a report in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

BND Deputy Director Ole Diehl told lawmakers during a closed-door meeting that the assessment was “certain,” the newspaper reported, citing participants in the briefing.

At the same time, Diehl said the agency viewed talks between North and South Korea as a positive sign.

No comment was immediately available from the BND.

A senior North Korean diplomat left for Finland on Sunday for talks with former U.S. and South Korean officials, Yonhap News Agency reported, amid a series of diplomatic encounters ahead of a possible U.S.-North Korean summit.

North Korea is pursuing its nuclear and missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

It defends the programmes as a necessary deterrent against perceived plans for invasion by the United States, which stations 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the Korean war. The United States denies such plans.

COMMENT:  There have been some encouraging comments by German officials this week, finally waking up to the fact that the refugee stream from the Mideast constitutes a clear and present danger to European culture.  That doesn't mean, of course, that European culture is all that perfect.  Germany has a history.  But European civilization is still one of the great centers of Western ideas, although bypassed by the United States.  Europe has a right to defend its democratic traditions, although you'd never know it listening to some European "intellectuals" and so-called journalists.

March 18,  2018