AfD Kompakt, October 5, 2021.
Good relations with Washington are in our interest. It is
therefore important that our interests be respected by Washington. In the past,
that was not always the case: One thinks of the U.S.A.’s attempt to hinder Nord
Stream 2 or to entangle us in interventionist foreign policy adventure, the
consequences of which have more harmed us than been of use. From there proceeds
a not unfounded scepticism in regards U.S. foreign policy. This scepticism
however ought not mislead to proceeding on a confrontation course with the
U.S.A.
Trade is the key for good relations. If goods do not cross
the borders, soldiers will, a French economist once said. And what the Picula
Report on EU-US relations today discussed in the EU parliament here
establishes is correct: Among other things, an intensification and improvement of trade
relations between the EU and the U.S.A. and a reciprocal suspension and deconstruction
of tariffs.
Nevertheless, the Picula Report cannot be agreed to because
it mixes up interests policy with a leftist ideology: Where it should be about
an adjustment of interests eye to eye, it deals with an LGBTIQ fetish, gender
equality, an indirect forced vaccination, internet censorship on account of alleged
hate speech, so-called racism, and climate dirigisme. Trade policy thus becomes
a vehicle of a leftist cultural revolution.
We reject this and demand closer yet de-ideologized
relations with the U.S.A.
[trans: tem]
