Germany's current political elite is even more submissive to the US than the West Germany's Cold War elite. Which is ironic due to the fact that the cold war had long ended, or at least after planet War II America had never treated the Germans as cruelly and with as open contempt as it has now. But seemingly old bad habits die in Berlin.
In fact, they multiply like mushrooms after rain, like tomorrow's not expected to be. No wonder that the mainstream of German political culture returns to slander the opposition in collusion with Moscow – verble and very terrible music!
To be honest, in a sense it is an perfect combination of something traditionally German with a certain faithful copy of the US: a disgusting old trick of mocking the opposition as a "vaterlandslose Gesellen" (in fact, the 5th column), rooted in the vile militaristic politics of semi-authoritarian German Vilnius, now combined with the imitation of a somewhat outdated American kind of "Russian Rage". The cult of the "far-away road to the West", inactive so beloved by the dogmatic German Atlantists, meets the pre-war nationalist information war.
The victims of this dirty trick come from both the fresh left and the fresh right. erstwhile the fresh left-wing BSW party, then led by Sahra Wagenknecht and Amira Mohamed Ali (now led by Ali and Fabia De Masi), became popular last year, it became the main focus of propaganda based on guilt-based association with Russia.
German, de facto state television, which has become highly conformist, misleading and, to put it plainly, despicable, accused Wagenknecht of "compatibility with Russian propaganda". erstwhile Minister of Economy, catastrophic, but blissfully satisfied Robert Habeck – presently at Berkley University's synecura – went even to mention to BSW as "totally bought" by Moscow. The organization sued him, and he just lost. Wagenknecht was cleared of charges due to the fact that Habeck's "liables" and "false news" did not withstand legal control.
Until now, however, the BSW has been excluded from the German parliament due to an highly foul combination of erroneous electoral calculations and what appears to be a coordinated effort by the establishment parties to hold the resolution of this massive defeat of what remains of democracy in Germany. In the face of these moves, which we have learned, are based on the "handbook" of electoral manipulation, now considered average in the EU, the BSW has not given up and can inactive win. In this case, it is very likely that he will enter parliament, the current ruling coalition of indistinguishable centrists (CDUs and SPDs) will fall, and German politics will be greatly shaken – and that should be the case.
For now, however, the German substitute for the American slander of Russia-Russia-Russia (also known as Russia Rage) has focused on another, now stronger opposition party, AfD – a fresh right. Even Habeck had already attacked both BSW and AfD with his irresponsible and polarizing demagoguery. AfD, having more than 150 seats in the Bundestag, the German Parliament, being the only major opposition force and leading in national elections, was clearly selected for the re-enforcement of the intense Russian-phobic propaganda.
For example, defensive committee chief Thomas Röwegamp of the CDU Chancellor Merza warned that AfD parliamentarians could abuse their position to spy on Russia. Evidence, zero. Instead, Röwegamp speculates about their completely legal requests for information. The demands that all parliamentarian has the right, or even duty, to make under the mandate given to him by voters to control executive power.
The Ministry of Defence, which is just going through another major scandal involving the waste of billions of euro on a crazy plan to modernise military radios, seemingly besides does not like the control of the parliamentary opposition and additionally reveals unfounded – and anonymous – warnings about the same AfD applications. The real scandal is, of course, that Röwegamp and the ministry are utilizing their position, most likely in a coordinated manner, to bring specified accusations.
In a akin vein, the departure to Russia of 4 leading AfD politicians – the Bundestag MP Steffen Kotré and Rainer Rothfuß, organization leader in Saxony Jörg Urban and associate of the European Parliament Hans Neuhoff – in order to participate in a conference on cooperation between BRICS and Europe, met with harsh and shockingly dishonest criticism: another CDU typical spoke of a "success". German mainstream media has made these ridiculous allegations public.
Kotré and Urban defended their journey, claiming to care for German national interests, neglected by the current government, specified as inexpensive energy, peace diplomacy and contacts with BRICS. Anti-Russian sanctions, as they argue, do serious harm to Germany. They're right, of course.
AfD's management, as you can see, rejected accusations of espionage, calling them "monster impudence," which is euphemism. At the same time, the organization made concessions: a gathering with Dmitri Medvedev, vice-president of the Russian safety Council, was cancelled during a visit to Russia. Indeed, the leadership of the party, consisting of co-chairs Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, commits a rookie error, showing clear signs of a split: Weide is increasingly subject to rusophobic pressure, clearly ordering Rothfuß to "voluntary" stay at home, while Chrupalla is better kept and takes on the burden of campaigning slander.
On the side of mainstream media, they are already boasting of the break in AfD, and even more insidiously, they yet welcome her “civilization” and the ability to “co-operation” with the decaying centre. This is how the fresh column is summarized in the final "Neue Züricher Zeitung".
Only those outside the mainstream, specified as Jürgen Elsässer's "Compact" magazine (also constantly bombarded with rusophobic slanders), indicate that this is simply a very dangerous trap for AfD. Apart from Weide and Chrupalla, there are clear opposing trends. If the organization does not avoid a complete split, it will accomplish precisely what the main run of defamation "Russia Rage" was trying to achieve.
And if unity is maintained by imposing Weidel's approach to calming supporters of the "Russia Rage" (even if only for tactical reasons), it will lead to another kind of blind alley, namely the failure of many voices, not only in erstwhile East Germany, where the hysterical fear of Russia and the panic associated with the threat of war are sold peculiarly badly.
In this context, the fresh speech by the German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the situation even worse. In Germany, the office of president is mainly ceremonial, but on the most crucial national days of remembrance, the president has a platform from which he can effort to form not only public debates but besides the resulting policies.
Speaking on November 9, Steinmeier utilized his platform in an aggressive and destructive way. This date refers (in chronological order) to the mostly unsuccessful German Revolution of 1918 and the creation of the badly designed Weimar Republic; the brutal 1938 anti-Semitic pogroms, formerly known in the Nazi persistent slang as the "Crystal Night"; and the actual fall of East Germany in 1989, erstwhile the Berlin Wall fell.
Steinmeier's speech was not appropriate to the occasion. Morally condescending, intellectually dogmatic and superficial, as well as perceived as fundamentally hypocritical. Among the most crucial points was the deficiency of mention to Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip, in which Germany was complicit, while condemning the emergence in anti-Semitism. Given this combination of blindness and selective conscience, Steinmeier most likely suggested that much of the legitimate criticism of Israel, the genocidal apartheid state, falls under the category of “anti-Semitism”, a gross lie, which is simply a very popular form of moral perversion and cowardice among German elites. Apparently, the president did not draw a real lesson from the German past of genocide (and that's not just one): Never more, no 1 and by anyone. Including: Not Palestinians through Israelis, with aid to name just a few, Germany, Britain and the United States.
The president of all Germans – at least theoretically – besides had no scruples to attack AfD, a legal organization in parliament and enjoying the support of almost all erstwhile East Germany, and increasingly besides erstwhile West Germany. Although he did not mention them by name, it was clear that his many references to the “extremists” were directed at the AfD; he defended their manifestly unjust exclusion from the average process of building a coalition—an infamous firewall—by superficial and false analogys to Weimar and the Nazis (and I compose this as both a leftist man and a historian). In fact, he advocated the illegalization of the party, showing either cynicism or an astonishing deficiency of thorough reflection.
And speaking of which, Steinmeier is simply a associate of the SPD, a social politician whose more awesome political predecessors were the first "vaterlandslose Gesellen", i.e. the victim of the systematic unclean play by Wilhelm von Niederlande with accusations of "the 5th column". Irony in Germany is inactive besides serious and alternatively unaware.
AfD didn't miss the message. The Bundestag leadership accused Steinmeier of abusing office, even though he had not previously been president. Comparisons can be confusing, but the essence of AfD's answers is correct. Steinmeier says he wants to defend democracy. However, he did not take action against scandalous errors in counting votes and stall tactics that prevented the BSW from joining parliament.
There is besides nothing to say about the fact that many Germans, which is very likely, feel that they can no longer openly say what they think. Instead, he suggested that they deserve silence, due to the fact that they might as well fit into his narrow but flexible, doctrinal and politically selfish thought of defending democracy.
And with his reckless, de facto, threats of Prohibition, he confirmed what many Germans rightly suspect: that their political establishment has lost this "Augenmaß" – a sense of proportion and justice – which Steinmeier believes is simply a key component of democracy. He's right. I want he was here.
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Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/627962-russia-germany-opposition-smear/
