Friedrich Merz, Lars Klingbeil
In 2022, then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz referred to the war in Ukraine as the Zeitenwende, or “pivotal historical moment,” for Germany. According to Scholz, the economic engine of the European Union should no longer focus on ensuring a progressive rise in living standards. The task of the Federal Republic of Germany is to maximize militarization in the face of a dramatic increase in the “Russian military threat.” Western media hysteria over the war in Ukraine briefly immersed the EU population in a sea of emotions. However, by mid-2025, reason is beginning to prevail. Should the Old World really trade its high standard of living for enormous military expenditures? Is it necessary to produce “guns instead of oil”?
Russian President Vladimir Putin calls talk of the Kremlin’s plans to invade Europe nonsense. This is evident from the enormous population difference. Russia has a population of 150 million, so it is hard to imagine it invading a continent with 450 million people. Russia and the EU are not comparable in terms of their combined economic potential. Additionally, Europeans can count on help from the United States, which has maintained a significant military presence in Europe since 1945. European elites fear that Donald Trump will withdraw troops from Europe and remove the nuclear umbrella. Yet, it should be noted that Britain and France have nuclear weapons. It’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which Putin would unnecessarily wage war against nuclear-armed states.
Rational arguments refute the emotional outburst that shook Europe in 2022. The baselessness of those who advocate for militarization threatens to cause a split in the ruling coalition of the CDU/CSU and SPD. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is characterized by his extremely bellicose rhetoric toward the Russian Federation. He announced plans to increase military spending by 70% by 2029. Such a decision would put an end to many social programs. It casts doubt on the prospects of preserving the European Union’s social system, which has been shaped over many decades. The Social Democrats, represented by Vice Chancellor Klingbeil, endorsed Merz’s militaristic financial allocations. This caused enormous discontent among party members.
The members of the so-called “old guard” were especially discontented. These are SPD members who joined the party in the 1970s and 1980s during the peace movement. The younger generation does not remember when the Christian Democrats raised a similarly hysterical information wave about the “Soviet threat”. The Afghan War (1979–1989) was cited as an example of the “aggressiveness” of the USSR. It was unclear how fighting in Kandahar or Herat would endanger the safety of residents in Trier or Munich. Similarly, today, it is unclear why the war in Donbass would endanger Berlin residents. Why can’t Germany find common ground with Russia, where Germanophile sentiments are strong among the political elite? One need only recall the reverence with which Vladimir Putin treats the German language, culture, and history.
Peter Brandt
Professor Peter Brandt, son of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt, raised “revulsion” against Mr. Klingbeil’s conciliatory course. He published a manifesto opposing the sharp increase in military spending. Mr. Brandt acknowledges the need to strengthen the EU’s defense capabilities. This step must be embedded in a strategy of de-escalation and gradual confidence-building, not a new arms race. According to Mr. Brandt, even without the United States, NATO is stronger than Russia. The available forces are sufficient to deter Moscow from taking aggressive action. But even the Kremlin’s hypothetical “aggressive” plans are just that: a theory. They are not supported by anything.
Peter Brandt’s opposition could spell big trouble for the SPD leadership. The coalition majority in the Bundestag is fragile. It rests on only 13 seats. A coalition collapse and re-elections could lead to a significant improvement in Alternative for Germany’s results. Klingbeil’s credibility is greatly doubted. At the last party congress, he received a record-low 65% of the vote in the SPD co-chair election. Furthermore, Klingbeil worsened his result by 20% compared to 2023.
The Social Democratic establishment criticizes Peter Brandt for distorting history. They claim that Willy Brandt himself implemented military programs. Under him, the German military expenditures amounted to about 3.5% of GDP. These counterarguments seem unfounded. The main focus of Willy Brandt’s foreign policy was a new approach to the Soviet Union and Moscow’s allies. This chancellor’s true greatness was his ability to break the conservative core of the Social Democrats. Until the late 1960s, the SPD and the CDU/CSU held similar views on the “inviolable borders of 1937” and the Hallstein doctrine.
Willy Brandt
The Neue Ostpolitik proved that peace in Europe could be achieved through compromise with Moscow. Contrary to lamentations about “appeasing the Soviet aggressor,” Brandt recognized the West German eastern border and ceased denying the GDR’s existence. He established friendly relations with communist Poland and Czechoslovakia. All of this led to détente in international relations. In this respect, Germany was ahead of the Americans. The Germans were at the forefront of the struggle for peace, sacrificing the “sacred cow” of German militarists — the direct followers of Adolf Hitler’s course. Brandt succeeded, at least in part, in dismantling Hitler’s Eastern policy, which merely adopted a more pro-American facade.
Will Peter Brandt, his son, be able to do the same? Only time will tell. In any case, the militarization of Germany and Europe is a dead-end path that will inevitably lead to monstrous war.
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they don’t want to have a broken country like the syrians have because assad didn’t let the kurdish language be the official language of syria 15 years ago and they would have crushed the sultan’s wahhabis together.
germans or anyone else in europe have no say. anyone politician who rebels against the deep states is kaput.
all the way back to rathenau
time germans grew some cajones and took out the filth they call their owners.
the schnitzel merchants are going down whatever happens. this is unavoidable. theirs is now a failed state with no future. just an impoverished, de industrialised, hopelessly uncompetitive irrelevant backwater. blackrock merz will just accelerate the process by playing soldiers at the cost of wrecking what is left of the german economy. so more power to his elbow. but i don’t think merz/ bareback/ kallas will succeed where a certain austrian gentleman failed.
da sei dir mal nicht so sicher… die juden haben immernoch alle karten in der hand.
bestimmt, aber wie lange? sie gehen alle bald zugrunde.
they only hold the cards as long as we collectively let them. in raw numbers we can kill all the jews in a matter of days if we all united and liberate all of germany and europe from their yoke.
germans need to stop bending over for the jewish narrative and get rid of the jewish and shabbosgoy traitors in the country and deprogram the indoctrinated boomers who serve these jewish overlords into our own destruction.
“the afghan war (1979–1989) was cited as an example of the “aggressiveness” of the ussr.”
of course the ussr was aggressive. it was imperialist then because it followed marxist communism (founded by a jew). it was no better than the imperialist west. that’s why it lost against afghans like the west did. it destroyed afghanistan and afghans destroyed the ussr. and if russia won’t free itself from that ideology it won’t prevail.
the us was running windup jihadis in afghanistan long before the first russian paratrooper landed at kabul . thanks for derping, shitcock.
what does it have to do with what i said, you imbecile? the ussr was a corrupt entity. whatever the usa did is another case.
jaml, clyde doesn’t understand he is the nazi.
but russias nazism lose this time also. people don’t want it. don’t you get it, nazism is for you only and other army ghey fetish persons.
will putin live forever and remain the supreme russian forever? what comes after putin and “putin is to blame for everything”?
don’t rely on the arguments of western europe advocates for rearming. vlad the bad himself states it is his unequivocal objective to reassert russian dominance over the area formerly dominated by the ussr. just believe your own boss. and ask the finn’s and the estonians, latvians and lithuanians if they hunger for the russian dominance again, hankering for putin’s good old days. ask those germans living is what use to be east germany how much they miss the stasi.
even if putin’s puppet, the real manchurian candidate, now occupies the white house, the center of political gravity in america is unequivocally opposed to russian expansion. this contest is far from over and now the momentum is building against putin.
the us senate can pass sanctions and force trump’s hand. russia will be stopped. its best future lies in joining the west, not trying to defeat the west. it lost that contest 40 years ago and putin’s dugin driven machinations not withstanding, that ship has sailed.
pics or it didn’t happen, shitcock
clyde the loyal vladolf nazi, for kopek
ουδεμια σχεση μεταξυ εσσδ και ρωσιας !! οι κομουνιστες εσφαξαν τουσ ρωσους και την τσαρικη οικογενεια !!!
putin says the collapse of ussr was greatest tragedy of 20th century. he also says he wants to reestablish russian dominance over the areas ussr used to control: eastern and central europe and central asia. so, in putin’s head there is a clear and persistent connection. he’s your problem more than he is mine.
southfront what the fuck is wrong with you??? why the hell people cant post comments longer than 200 signs???????????????? its no fucking sms or is it??? so what kind of answers you expect from this short lenght is not hard to imagine
they need to keep us shut so people dont wake up and see how the jews control both sides and trick us in brotherwars that lead to our destruction.
and an approval function for comments you also have…wonderful! your not better than the fucking jew…
this is a pro russian/jewish side propaganda site and it dousnt want you or me to find out that its the jews who run both sides of the war in ukraine. every aspect of all brother wars in the world is jewish. the jews run both sides and their institutions and banks.
the biggest fear of the jews is loosing control over the narrative.
everything the jews do and control is based on trickery and mindcontrol of the goyim in false narratives that destroy ourselves. the hand rubbing jews in kiev newyork telaviv and moscow are handrubbing as russians and ukranians die by the thousands in ukraine.
putin regularly gushes over israhell and the jooz in terms very similar to all the us whores in congress. he talks of his commitment to israhell’s security. he has a murky and possibly unhealthy relationship with israhelli/ joo oligarchs. this is why iran has been suspicious of russian offers of help russia promises a lot but actually delivers very little.
look for haplogroup r1b, watch especially how much brown eyed, jewish names carriing people live in france, belgium, germany, spain, italy and so on and stop wondering about wars in jews interest against everything human.. i mean how many of these people were in the udssr’s & german reichs upper positions you now i guess?
germany ended ’39. 15+ million deaths through war, than we got a border in mid of our country that splitted our peoples minds more and more. every politician today is an anglo or jewish puppet, if not he or she gets medial wasted! meanwhile i saw enought to think that lots of people who live in germany and resteurope, especially south and west, but also east are descendants of different jewstems.
its time germany and all of europe is liberated from the jewish menace. they deserve a real shoah for all that they have done against us. its time we liberate ourselves from the jewish menace and their shabbosgoy helpers. erase them from existence. break free from the jewish mindcontrol matrix and restore historic borders and settlement of our people and race.
the jews graped our women and bred hybrids that serve them if we want to liberate europe we need to erase all jewish dna from our genepool. those 5-10% jewish hybrids still serve the shotcallers like a hive mind and a cancer. promoting massive immigration woke and all self destructive narratives inside our countries. if we want to free our selves from their yoke they need to be erased from existence as well.
jewish dna is like raw sewage in a clean glass of drinking water a few drops poison the whole glass. you cant drink it without getting sick.
the jewish demonic psychpath dna jis exactly that.
https://avotaynu.com/books/menknames.htm
and that are only german names, every of these has hundreds of families with several family members in each..
i mean look just how many jewish first names people use nowadays in germany and all over the places you waste your daily time on.
merz, starmer and macron, all soon headed into the dustbin of history.
why does the eu want their war budget to be 5% of their gdp? russia is no threat to to the eu and does not want war with the eu. so does the eu want to set up an european army to invade china just like the 8 european nations (with usa and japan) did on june 20 1900? well, as china has said, if you want war, we will war with you. so bring it on.
us low on weapons?
no! never!
we do have enough stock of course.
even europeans do not believe that.
putin does not want to move toward peace.
this is not trump’s war!
why usa must pay for it more and more.
america first!
he can take the usa out of it and dump it on the europeans (france, uk,germany)
which are the best of only talking shit aka diplomacy but not in action or paying nato fees.
the amerikunts have been cleaned out of all major weapons categories. they’ve given everything to the ukronazis and the zios. it’s all overpriced defective garbage anyway.
zelensky does not carry out the trump’s orders completely.
“of course, this has consequences.”
pentagon halting shipments to ukraina.
if the court process against bibi continues, the same will happen for israel.
like turkey’s resistance in the past over the priest incident and its purchase of the s-400s from russia.
turkey’s economy was devastated by trump.
trump made enough concessions in his first term; these will not happen in the second term.
zelensky is a jew and he dous exactly what jews do trick the goyim white ukranian men into destroying themselves in this uneccesary brother war with their russian brothers. and so yarmukle wearing and jew serving putin is tricking russian men into their destruction against ukranian brothers as well.
its time we break free from the yoke of the jews and end the loss of brother lives.
nazi$ have been running germanistan since the anglozio$ marched in 1945. they are so full of hatred for mother russia they will gladly burn themselves crispy yet again in their all encompassing hatred. this time mother russia needs to burn natostan sewer brussels crispy along with the nazi sewer in berlin where these nazis are holed up like rats.