I have long been an admirer of Germany. One of my very first toys was a model roadster made in Germany with a clockwork mechanism, a five speed gearbox, and working steering that must have been made around 1946. My first car in 1966 was a Volkswagen Beetle, and I went on to own three more Volkswagens, an Audi, two BMWs and two BMW motorcycles.
My current car is a 2011 Buick Regal CXL made in Russelsheim, Germany by the Adam Opel company. So, yes, I’m a Germanophile. As such I have also visited Germany, including the BMW factory and museum in Munich, the Hofbrauhaus and Obersaltzberg.
Because of this interest I have, over the years, written a number of pro-German blog posts, such as those here, here, here, or more recently, here. I mention all this because the rest of this post is going to be very negative about Germany, its leaders and its domestic and foreign policy.
If ever a country has royally screwed up it’s Germany.
Where to start? No, I’m not going to go back that far; let’s start with the Basic Law forced on Germany in 1949 by the Allies. This implies, in Article 146, the Basic Law is only temporary because it says it shall “cease to apply on the day on which a constitution freely adopted by the German people takes effect.”
Despite revisions to the Basic Law, no such constitution written by delegates to a Constitutional Convention, and approved by a general vote of the German people, has yet been created or adopted. This omission is a profound failure of political identity and national will. If you would like to read a counter argument, here it is, but it doesn’t refute what I’ve just written. It includes this paragraph, for example, which is simply untrue.
Deutsche Reich still existed at the end of WWII, and was simply renamed to the Federal Republic of Germany. They aren’t separate governments.
The German Basic Law was dictated by others and only adopted after a clear threat of force. Everyone knows statements made, or contracts signed, under duress are null and void. In effect, Germany not only has no constitution, it also has no legal government.
Perhaps this is the reason its administration has made a series of disastrous domestic, and international, decisions that damage German interests, jobs, people, culture and future. You would almost think the laws being passed or the decisions made were in the interests of someone else.
The most egregious agreement was to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1955, an action which, again, was coerced by the Western Allies, as a condition for removing their occupation forces. The ostensible reason for the alliance was to block Soviet expansion, but the real reason was to stop Germany from adopting an independent foreign and defence policy.
You’re not a free people if old enemies can dictate your new friends
Next we come to Angela Merkel’s policy in relation to the 2015 migrant crisis. While neighbouring countries took in some refugees (France 450,000 and Italy 300,000) Germany wecomed 1.5 Million refugees. Most of these, of course, were economic migrants with little or no interest in integration. The result was a rise in street crime and assaults on women.
Angela’s father Horst Kaźmierczak was a pastor in the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg so we can blame Christian feelings of universality for her subsequent open door policy on migrants. Unfortunately, good intentions do not guaratee good outcomes and social dislocation continues to this day.
While this was going on, Germany gave in to pressure from the environmental movement and from the Greens to abandon coal-fired power plants, and, nuclear energy. A strong government would have laughed off these damaging policies, but Germany closed its last coal mine in 2018 and its last nuclear power plant in 2023.
Meanwhile, next door, France utilizes nuclear power to provide 76 percent of its electricity. You really have to give your head a shake when your immediate neighbour and peer competitor gets its energy from a source you’re abandoning.
Well, there’s always Natural Gas, or at least there would be if the United States hadn’t illegally blown up the principle supply routes from Russia.
In a Substack article, the American reporter, Seymour Hersh, alleged that the September 26, 2022, sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which carried natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, was carried out by the U.S. in a top-secret CIA operation ordered by President Joe Biden, with collaboration from Norway.
This, more than any other incident, should have been a casus belli for the German government to break diplomatic relations with the United States, leave NATO and demand damages in the Billions of dollars in the International Court of Justice. What did it do? Nothing.
Actually, worse than nothing, it joined the American funded proxy war in Ukraine against the very country that was providing the gas that powered German industry! To put this in farmhouse terms, this is like letting your neighbour shoot the fuel delivery truck driver. I know, I’m reaching for analogies here, but you get my meaning.
The result has been nothing short of catastrophic. Here’s the Spectator:
But on Monday, the country recorded that imports outstripped exports for more than 30 years. True, other countries are recording huge deficits, not least the UK. For Germany, though, it matters more. Its entire economy has been built around creating an industrial machine that dominates global markets. That machine is now grinding to a halt.
And why? The lack of cheap Russian natural gas, the lack of German nuclear energy, the lack of coal-fired power plants; that’s why!
Is there any hope for Germany? Yes there is, in the person of Sahra Wagenknecht, a rising politician who has the nerve to say the unsayable on immigration, the environment, NATO and relations with Russia. Here’s Euronews with her background.
After the reunification of Germany, she went on to study philosophy, earning an MA for a thesis on Karl Marx’s interpretation of Hegel, published as a book in 1997.
She then received a doctorate in microeconomics of developed countries, all while pursuing a career in politics. After German leftist parties joined to form Die Linke in 2007, Wagenknecht became one of its most prominent but divisive figures and, eventually, one of its leaders in the Bundestag.
So a leftie, you would say, but no. She split from Die Linke and formed her own party.
Wagenknecht’s split from the leading leftist party in Germany was rooted in her belief that left-wing parties no longer serve the working class, have loosened up too much on migration and have given in excessively to environmental policies — matters she vehemently opposes.
Where she really goes off the reservation is on foreign policy, and here we see an answer to my criticism earlier:
Wagenknecht’s economic model supports social spending, high wages, state benefits and state ownership. However, her domestic and foreign policy views radically differ from those of the mainstream left in the country.
In 2017, she called for the dissolution of NATO and a new security agreement that would bring Germany closer to Russia, the country’s biggest gas supplier.
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Wagenknecht opposed sanctioning the Kremlin and refused to back sending military aid to Kyiv.
In early 2023, she launched a petition to stop the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and try to bring about a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. Her “Manifesto for Peace” received around 700,000 signatures on the Change.org petition platform in less than a month.
Her stance on Ukraine has been lauded and supported by AfD and other far-right groups.
Germany has come up with a real man for the job, an Alpha Woman, and from the Left, not the Right. A geneticist might say with most of the Alpha Men killed in the war, and the rest discredited on the Right, Germany’s saviour would have to be a woman on the Left.
Whether that’s the reason or not, the fact is that Germany is being led by feeble, craven politicians afraid of their own shadows. They have driven Germany into a black hole from which it cannot recover without a change in leadership, policy and direction.
I appeal to Germany now, the German voter, to look at the economic situation, the perilous military situation next door, the immigration situation in the streets and vote for Sarah Wagenknecht’s party, the Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice (BSW) or the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Both will get you where you need to go, and you really, really need to get there soon.
The old mainline parties have failed. Give them the boot.
