“This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it. This threat is real, and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it. If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London and Bali; in Washington and New York.”

President Donald Trump, last week? No, then–Sen. Barack Obama, in Berlin in 2008.

For all of the headlines and shock waves created by Trump’s confrontational approach toward Germany — reinforced by yet another incendiary tweet on Tuesday — the issues the 45th president is raising with Europe’s largest economy are not particularly new.

Obama raised the two issues Trump identified — weak military spending and too large a trade deficit — on multiple occasions.

Check out this comment Obama made, with Merkel at his side, in Baden-Baden in 2009:

“It’s not the Germans’ fault that they make good products that the United States wants to buy. And we want to make sure that we’re making good products that Germans want to buy. But if you look overall, there’s probably going to need to be a rebalancing of who’s spending, who’s saving, what are the overall trade patterns.”

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In 2010, Obama used a G-20 event to chastise European countries including Germany for reducing spending so quickly after the recession ended. “We must be flexible in adjusting the pace of consolidation and learn from the consequential mistakes of the past when stimulus was too quickly withdrawn and resulted in renewed economic hardships and recession,” Obama said.

Later, the calls from Obama on Germany were more focused on the need to provide Greece with debt relief, assistance that Merkel has been reticent to provide, as well as apologies for wiretapping the German head of state. But those themes — of spending more generally, and on the military in particular — did not go away.

In Obama’s final months of office, Germany was one of six countries negatively singled out in the Treasury’s “foreign-exchange policies of major trading partners” report, and it’s hard to imagine anyone in the Trump administration disagreeing with a single word. Noting that Germany had the world’s largest current-account surplus, the Obama administration said the surplus represented “substantial excess saving” that could be used to support German domestic demand and contribute to euro-area and global rebalancing. Germany also has “substantial” fiscal-policy space to provide additional support to demand, as well as the ability to encourage more private investment.

A quick look at the data explains the American frustration toward Germany. On military spending, Germany hasn’t been at the NATO target of 2% of gross domestic product since 1991 — and, if anything, it’s been moving further from, not closer to, the target, as data from the World Bank show.

Even if a new promise were entirely fulfilled by Germany, the country still be spending only 1.2% of GDP on defense in 2020.

Meanwhile, Germany’s budget surplus last year reached the highest level since reunification.

Merkel may be right that, as she stated this weekend, the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner.

Germany hasn’t been for a long time.