Germany Tipping Point: AfD Surges as CDU Crumbles

 

Germany is at a political tipping point as the AfD surges past 29% while Friedrich Merz and the CDU face historic collapse. Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris on The Duran break down why Alice Weidel has become Europe's most effective opposition leader, why Merz's rearmament economic plan is a disaster for the German economy, and how the political establishment is preparing to blame Russia rather than their own failures. Is Germany about to experience its most transformative political moment since the founding of the Federal Republic?

The Rise of the New German Militarism

 

In an interview in Berlin, German journalist Patrik Babb explains the rise of the new German militarism and why Germany is so obedient to the U.S.

Russian Duma Members Warn of Possible 'European Reich March to the East'

 

The sharp warnings coming from Russian political leaders about the growth of 1930s-style revanchism in Germany, and the EU in general, did not begin with their response to the May 22 drone attack on the Starobelsk trade school, which killed 18 youth.

Back on May 7, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, wrote a lengthy, widely-discussed article headlined “Germany’s new militarization: Revival of the spirit or blatant revanchism?”.

The newspaper Vzglyad questioned a number of Russian Duma members about their response to Medvedev’s article.

Yevgeny Popov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, stated: “We see industrial growth in Germany: civilian conglomerates that once manufactured automobiles are once again shifting onto a wartime footing. We see massive investments in weaponry, an expansion of the army, and active recruitment efforts. And most importantly—the current German government makes no secret of its plans to wage war against Russia… We must ensure that a revanchist Germany is never again able to rear its head and threaten our country and our people,” the deputy concluded.  (more...)

Russian Duma Members Warn of Possible 'European Reich March to the East'

Operation Geschäftsfreund: How West Germany Paid for Israel’s Nuclear Bomb

 

In March 2026, an investigation in Haaretz argued that West Germany may have “secretly financed” much of Israel’s Dimona nuclear project through off‑the‑books loans worth roughly 2 billion Deutschmarks, funneled under the cover of “Negev development.” Historical clues indicate that Germany secretly funded Israel’s nuclear program and raise the questions about how much Dimona cost, who really paid for it, and what that says about Germany’s postwar “moral responsibility”.

This article picks up where that story stops. It goes back to Bundestag files, development‑bank records and declassified intelligence histories to show, in considerably sharper detail, how Bonn built a secret credit machine for Israel, who ran it, and how it locked Germany into a nuclear order it still refuses to name.

Germany did not just look away while Israel built the bomb. It helped pay for it, hid the money off the books, and then spent decades pretending that nothing of the sort had ever happened. Today, the same state that secretly bankrolled Dimona presents itself as a guardian of non‑proliferation and lectures Iran on the dangers of nuclear ambiguity.

Germany never tires of preaching its “historical responsibility” to Israel. Reparations. Moral duty, and postwar atonement, even though the archives expose a different reality. What actually happened was a cold-blooded, decade-long secret cash pipeline, codenamed Operation Geschäftsfreund  (Business Friend)— that funnelled nearly two billion Deutsche Marks into Israel under the cover of “development” projects while Bonn kept parliament, the public and much of its own bureaucracy in the dark.

The key paper trail runs through the Bundestag’s own 2012 reply, Drucksache 17/10482. There the government finally acknowledged that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a confidential understanding at the Waldorf Astoria in New York on 14 March 1960: a special 2 billion DM credit line, paid out over roughly a decade and shielded from public scrutiny for “foreign-policy reasons.” The arrangement was implemented through the state development bank KfW and booked as bilateral capital aid for Israel’s economy, formally “development assistance,” in practice something far more sensitive.  (more...)

Operation Geschäftsfreund: How West Germany Paid for Israel’s Nuclear Bomb

Will World War III Begin on German Soil?

 

It is arguably the case that the spark that could unleash nuclear World War III between NATO and Russia (and China) will not come from the war against Iran or even Ukraine—dangerous though those crises continue to be—but from Germany.

On a widely watched TV talk show on ZDF, Germany’s second public television channel, a highly-respected retired brigadier general who was Military Policy Adviser to former Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2006-2013, Erich Vad, finally gave voice to what many Germans have been scared to say out loud. “Your rhetoric is driving us into a war!” he told CDU security expert Roderich Kiesewetter, a well-known war hawk. If the anti-Russian war mobilization of Germany by the Merz government continues; if they insist on bringing Ukraine into the EU on an expedited basis; and if Germany and other NATO countries keep producing and guiding the drones that are raining havoc on Russia, “You will have Russian missile strikes on our country!” Vad warned.

Vad didn’t mince his words: “The day will come when they [the Russians] carry out retaliatory strikes against Europe, against Germany. First conventionally, and if necessary, they’ll go one level higher. Russia is the world’s strongest nuclear power. If we bring Ukraine into Europe, we will bring the war with Russia into Europe!”

Vad was not overstating the problem.

The Russian government is placing the blame squarely on the nations of NATO and the EU for what they call the “barbaric” May 22 attack on the Starobelsk trade school in the Lugansk People’s Republic, in which Ukrainian drones killed 18 adolescents (at last count) and wounded dozens more as they slept in their dormitories. “This constitutes a manifestation of neo-Nazism,” President Vladimir Putin charged.  (more...)

Will World War III Begin on German Soil?

The Baltic States Are Now the “Most Dangerous Place” in the World

 

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses why NATO's escalation in the Baltic region has made it the most likely staging ground for a great war between NATO and Russia.

EU elites have caused ‘unimaginable damage’ – ex-Polish PM

 

Leszek Miller has lashed out at Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas, and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel have done “unimaginable damage” to the EU through a series of disastrous policies, former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller has said.

Miller, who was responsible for Warsaw’s 2004 accession to the EU, took to X on Tuesday after Merkel received the newly created European Order of Merit award, presented to her by von der Leyen during a ceremony in Strasbourg.

“Merkel and von der Leyen are two German women who have caused unimaginable damage to the European Union. I hope that justice will still catch up with them,” Miller wrote.

Merkel led Germany from 2005 to 2021 through multiple crises. Among her most divisive policies was the decision to admit large numbers of asylum seekers during the 2015 migration crisis.  (more...)

EU elites have caused ‘unimaginable damage’ – ex-Polish PM

How Gaza is exposing Germany’s ‘never again’ myth

 

Germany’s unconditional support for Israel has been an easy way to avoid examining our brutal past. The colossal weight of the ongoing genocide in Gaza is crushing our facile myths and forcing us to re-examine our historical dogma.

We Germans live in a reality shaped by our genocidal history. But while the national narrative of “collective guilt” for the Holocaust is omnipresent, German lived experience exposes this as more myth than reality. With our performative “commemoration culture,” we instrumentalize the Holocaust to distance ourselves from our past, to deflect from our current far-right problems, and to rebrand ourselves as a champion of morality. A central part of crafting our self-serving image, our “genocide hubris,” is our current unquestioning support of Israeli war crimes, a hubris that has crumbled under the weight of our complicity in the Gaza genocide.

I loved growing up in West Germany of the 1980s and early ‘90s. As a half-German, half-French child, I only had a vague conception of nationality, or of why I should be proud of being what my passport says I am. Thus, I was happy that Germany appeared different from other countries, seemingly less concerned with national pride. That, after two catastrophic World Wars, we didn’t have to have our flag plastered everywhere like the Americans. We were reformed, we were sober now. No more nationalism, no more wars, and no more genocide. If we were proud to be German, it was because we were proud of our “constitutional patriotism” and our new, postwar humanistic values.

In German childhoods, our recent history loomed large. We knew how Germans had been sadistic, hateful, even genocidal in the past. We knew why movie supervillains, from Dr. Strangelove to Hans Gruber, were naturally German. In school, we learned everything about the genocide of the Jews, with footnotes on the Romani genocide, Aktion T4, and – since I went to a Catholic school – the persecution of the Catholic church. (No mention of the countless Slavic victims of Nazi Germany, however, those remained firmly below the awareness threshold.) A Holocaust survivor came to school to give us a first-hand account of the unspeakable horrors that the Jewish people had been subjected to. We read Anne Frank. We memorised Paul Celan’s Holocaust poem “Todesfuge,” with the haunting refrain that “Death is a master from Germany.” We saw Schindler’s List on a school trip to the cinema. We saw the first “Stolpersteine” memorials being installed in the ‘90s. Our school theatre performance was – naturally – Eugène Ionesco’s Nazi allegory, Rhinocéros. When our final high school trip took us to Prague, we made the obligatory, gut-wrenching stop at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

The lesson couldn’t be clearer: we, as a people, had committed the ultimate sin, and we had to be thoroughly educated to ensure it would never happen again.

And yet, while I was growing up, current affairs were more “again and again” than “never again,” as an endless string of neo-Nazi terrorism echoed uncomfortably the late Weimar Republic  (more...)

How Gaza is exposing Germany’s ‘never again’ myth

Germany’s Military Patronage Of Ukraine Is A Crucial Part Of Its Grand Strategy

 

Taking the lead in containing Russia in Europe on the US’ behalf is the prerequisite for rebuilding “Fortress Europe” and thus becoming the continent’s hegemon without firing a shot.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced during his recent visit to Kiev that their countries will jointly develop “deep strike” capabilities. RT’s article about this major move reminded readers that “Berlin has emerged as Kiev’s largest single military donor after the US switched from donating weapons directly to Ukraine to selling it to Kiev’s other NATO backers which hand them over. Germany spent around €20 billion ($23.5 billion) on weapons for Ukraine from January 2022 to February 2026”.

Germany’s military patronage of Ukraine is a crucial part of its grand strategy and has been in the making since summer 2023. In brief, former Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s hegemonic manifesto from December 2022 made clear his country’s ambitions to recreate what’s been described elsewhere as “Fortress Europe” in current geopolitical conditions. This necessitates building the largest army in Europe, which it’s in the process of doing, and exerting military influence over Ukraine to threaten Russia.

From the perspective of Germany’s permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies, their country now bears “responsibility for Europe” per the title of its first-ever postwar military strategy from late April. Its publication was followed by influential Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby, considered to be the military-strategic brain behind Trump 2.0, praising Germany for “taking the leading role” in the transformation to “NATO 3.0”.  (more...)

Germany’s Military Patronage Of Ukraine Is A Crucial Part Of Its Grand Strategy

Max Otte: Germany's Decline & the Civilizational Crisis of the West

 

Max Otte is an entrepreneur, political economist, investment manager, philanthropist and political activist. With 141 votes, he was the runner-up for the election of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany on 13 Februar 2022. Otte discusses the political crisis of Germany, Europe and the US.

Poland Is Now The Last Country Standing In The Way Of A Federalized Europe

 

Its conservative president is totally against this project and can veto related legislation tabled by the liberal prime minister since the latter’s ruling coalition doesn’t have the two-thirds majority to overrule him, thus enabling Poland to play the role that Hungary did prior to Orban’s downfall.

Politico earlier reported that “European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen waited less than a day after Hungary voted Viktor Orbán out of office to call for the EU to get more power over national governments to force through foreign policy decisions.” In particular, she wants qualified majority voting on foreign policy matters whereby at least 55% of member states vote in favor and they represent at least 65% of the EU’s population, which hasn’t yet happened in order to safeguard state sovereignty.

Spanish journalist and analyst Javier Villamor published a piece at The European Conservative that same day about how “Hungary’s Fall Clears Path for a More Centralized EU”. In brief, “The removal of Brussels’ most persistent opponent is set to accelerate plans to curb national vetoes, expand EU borrowing, and tighten control over member states.” The combined effect would amount to furthering the plan to federalize Europe in alignment with what the EU elites have wanted for some time already.

Von der Leyen’s plan in summer 2024 to “build a veritable union of defense” as well as Germany’s “two-speed Europe” proposal earlier this year and the proposal to fast-track Ukraine’s EU membership are all complementary means to this end that’ll now be easier to implement after Orban’s downfall. If progress is made on any of what was mentioned thus far, then states will lose even more sovereignty than they already have, and this could have disastrous implications for their national identity and social cohesion.  (more...)

Poland Is Now The Last Country Standing In The Way Of A Federalized Europe

Germany Becomes A Ukraine War Lab, and a Staging Ground For a Forever War On Russia

 

In February, under the white light of a Bavarian assembly hall, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, walked past rows of unfinished drones. The joint venture hosting them, linking Germany’s Quantum Systems with Ukraine’s Frontline Robotics, is already producing aircraft for Ukraine, plans to scale toward 10,000 units a year, and has already sent its first batch east. This is what Berlin now calls support for Ukraine, not crates on a runway, not old equipment hauled out of Bundeswehr depots, but German soil giving Ukrainian war design an industrial home.

For years, German officials sold their Ukraine policy in the language of restraint, solidarity and defensive necessity, but today, that language is buckling under what Berlin is now doing in plain sight. Germany has signed onto Ukraine’s defence innovation platform, opened itself to battlefield-data sharing, backed joint ventures that turn Ukrainian combat know-how into German-produced drones and robots, and committed itself to work on long-range strike systems with a reach of up to 1,500 kilometres. The result is no longer the picture of a cautious donor helping from a distance. It is a state folding Ukraine’s war labs into its own industrial base and building the rear area of a long war against Russia on German territory.

The Munich drone line strips away the euphemism. Ukraine is not simply receiving German kit from stockpiles. Ukrainian battlefield-proven designs, software and operational lessons are being fused with German capital, German factory capacity and German political cover inside ventures built to scale weapons production for a war Berlin still insists it is not fighting. The Auterion-Airlogix Joint Venture GmbH makes the point even more bluntly. Registered in Germany and launched in February, it combines Airlogix’s battle-tested Ukrainian UAV platforms with Auterion’s autonomy software and is meant to produce thousands of autonomous, combat-ready systems in Germany for the Ukrainian armed forces. Every time Ukrainian engineers find a way through Russian jamming or air defences, German industry is there to absorb the lesson and turn it into volume.

The named systems give the arrangement a harder outline. During Zelensky’s Berlin visit in April, Germany and Ukraine signed an implementation arrangement under their October 2025 defence-industry agreement covering the joint production of the unmanned systems Anubis and Seth-X-G, with a contract value of €281 million. Anubis has been described as a heavy AI-guided deep-strike system with a range in the 1,500 to 1,600 kilometre band and a 45 kilogram warhead, while Seth-X is designed for attack missions in heavily contested environments. Production is planned in the thousands under German-backed joint-venture arrangements. Once those names are on the table, the fiction that Berlin is merely helping Ukraine hold the line becomes harder to maintain.  (more...)

Germany Becomes A Ukraine War Lab, and a Staging Ground For a Forever War On Russia

Heil the new German Reich

 

Just don't mention Germany is in breach of the WWII surrender deal. Starmer, the dodo of British politics clutching corpses. P*edos 'R' Us and Harriet Harmthem's dead embrace. What next?Jimmy Savile?

What's the Matter with Europe?

 

The world laments

How Religious Cults Mirror Political Extremism

 

Tackling high-control religious cults, mind control, Community of Jesus, Grenville Christian College, religious cult trauma, Christian nationalism, Trump-era politics, and cult survivor stories... What happens to children raised inside secretive, authoritarian belief systems?

In this episode of Cults, Culture, & Coercion, Dr. Steven Hassan interviews writer and cult survivor Ewan Whyte about his upbringing in the Community of Jesus, a Christian nationalist aligned group that supports right-wing and Trump-era political movements. Dr. Hassan and Whyte discuss how some high-control religious environments intersect with broader political ideologies, and how narratives around “religious freedom” can be used to resist accountability.

Ewan Whyte's work examines life inside authoritarian religious communities. Drawing from his personal experience and research, Whyte describes how children were subjected to intense indoctrination, forced labor, corporal punishment, and “light sessions” which were group confrontation sessions designed to break down individual identity and enforce conformity.

In this conversation, Dr. Hassan and Ewan Whyte explore:

• How children were systemically separated from their parents within a high-control religious organization
• The use of “light sessions” as a form of psychological manipulation and mind control
• Patterns of harsh discipline, boundary violations, and lack of accountability for perpetrators
• How claims of "religious freedom" can be used to deflect scrutiny and hide abuse
• The role of indoctrination, fear, and coercion in shaping an individual's identity
• The long-term psychological impact on people raised in cult environments
• The legal case involving Grenville Christian College and its findings
• Connections between authoritarian religious systems and political influence
• How children were used for labor and restricted from normal development
• The challenges of leaving a high-control group and rebuilding a life

This episode provides a rare first-hand perspective on life inside a high-control Christian cult and the long-lasting psychological impact of coercive environments, as well as the resilience of those who leave and rebuild.

Germany's Self-Destruct Pact: Merz Pushes Europe to the Brink

 

Germany is in crisis. Friedrich Merz and the CDU are pushing Germany toward confrontation with Russia, slashing social services to fund a massive military buildup, and picking fights with both the United States and China — all while Germany's industrial economy collapses to 2008 financial crisis levels. Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou of The Duran break down how Germany is abandoning the very foundations it was built on, why the CDU is united behind this self-destructive course, and whether stoking fear of Russia is the establishment's last desperate move to block the AfD from taking power. Is Germany heading toward a complete political and economic breakdown?

• Intro — Merz, Germany, and the Russia escalation debate
• Mercouris: Germany hurtling toward the cliff
• The foundations of the German Federal Republic explained
• Why German leaders are always sensitive about the US alliance
• Quarreling with America during an economic collapse
• Germany's industrial PMI drops to 2008 crisis levels
• CDU fully on board — a kamikaze approach to policy
• Why Merz's unpopularity is an asset for the CDU
• Regional elections — CDU stable, SPD and FDP collapsing
• Is stoking Russia fear the CDU's plan to block the AfD?

Dr. E Michael Jones on Satanism, Revolution, & Genocide

 

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The Crisis In Europe No One Is Talking About

 

Kit Klarenberg blows the whistle on Euro imperialism

German Imperialism - A Modern Phenonmenon

 

We look at the reality of German imperialism today as practiced via the European Union

Is German imperialism a thing of the past? Does it belong to the era of Kaiser Wilhelm II with its last blood soaked flurry coming with the Austrian failed water colour artist? In this episode we answer this question with a resounding NO.

German imperialism is a very real and very modern phenomenon. In its modern incarnation German imperialism re-emerges in the late 1980s with the counter revolution in the East. What becomes clear as the 1990s move into the 2000s is that the unified Germany has come to control the EU and dominate the former Peoples Democracies of Eastern and Central Europe.

German imperialism is real. It is rearming and its a dangerous force that deserves a serious analytical treatment. Here at the Decline & Fall show we aim to provide that.

Germany's complicity in US-Israeli war crimes

Germany and Italy have blocked a bid by Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland to suspend a European Union's partnership agreement with Israel.

Germany has long extended support to the Israeli regime despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank, and the aggressions against elsewhere in the region, including Iran and Lebanon.