German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/51,
pp. 6139-6140.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
The foreign policy spokesman of the CDU, Jürgen Hardt, lost
himself [verstieg sich] in a
remarkable analysis of the new National Security Strategy of the United States.
He called it – and I cite: “AfD nonsense”, which somehow found access into
American strategy. You hear correctly: In the bizarre, imaginary world of the
Union, the AfD is no longer only remote-controlled from Moscow. No, now we even
guide the pen of U.S. President Donald Trump for his National Security
Strategy. We are the auto-pen, when wanted.
Who looks away from CDU propaganda to reality nevertheless
quickly recognizes: Godfather of the strategy was not the AfD, but healthy
human understanding.
Boris
Mijatović (Greens): Nice that you confirm the distinction.
In the introduction, it says – Listen: “The purpose of
foreign policy is the protection of the core national interests; that is the
sole focus of this strategy” [*https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf,
1]. A sentence like a rock, a sentence for the ages! And now compare this sentence
for once with the expressions of Foreign Minister Wadephul this week, who
justified the flying in of Afghans at taxpayers expense. Wadephul said, I cite: “I
see in each refugee a creature of God.”
Peter Beyer
(CSU/CSU): Do you see it differently?
Herein appears the fundamental rupture. The U.S.A. makes an
interests-guided Realpolitik, the
Federal government continues to make a values-guided, feelings policy. Only the
flavor has been shifted a bit. Under the Green Baerbock, the foreign policy was
feminist, under the Christian Democrat Wadephul, it is now pastoral. Church day
sayings are Wadephul’s foreign policy offering. That is no policy change, and
that is no “left is past”. That is old wine in new bottles.
Donald Trump said what the German foreign policy for decades
sought to deny: States have no friends, states also have no values, at least
not in foreign policy. States have interests. And who believes foreign policy
is a study circle for values friendships, he errs not only like the Union, but
treads underfoot our German interests.
Deborah Düring
(Greens): Which interests do you then represent?
The misfortune of values-guided foreign policy is chronic double-morality
and impotence. Frau Baerbock was so feminist that she fed the Islamist regime
of al-Julani in Syria with millions of euros of German tax money. In thanks,
the latter refused to shake her hand and ordered the massacre of minorities. A
truly great moment in feminist diplomacy.
Wadephul prates: “Each refugee is a creature of God.” Yet
does he overtake every refugee on this planet to Germany? Naturally not, even
if the Union would perhaps gladly do it. Such statements are thus cheap courage
free of cost. Out of the mouth of a German foreign minister, they are a
declaration of political bankruptcy. At the end of the day, you sell to the population
values promises which in the hard reality are not to be kept, and which, with
permission, in the migration policy also should not be kept.
How refreshingly clear on the other hand is the U.S. American
strategy. Cite:
“We want
full control over our borders, over our immigration system, and over transportation
networks through which people come to our country
– legally and illegally.”[*, 3]
Why exists no German paper which expresses this self-evident
thing, why does there exist no German paper which clearly says this? A glance
at the government bench here delivers the answer: This government has no
strategy, this government is incapable of strategy.
It is revealing there is just one, single area in which the
CDU/CSU is suddenly not at all interested in political values. Cite from the
U.S. Strategy:
“The larger
issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that
undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration
policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech,
and”
– listen well, dear colleagues of the Union –
“suppression
of political opposition, cratering of birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
[*, 25]
End citation from the U.S. Security Strategy.
Ja, ladies and
gentlemen, your anti-democratic, even wicked machinations do not remain hidden
on that side of the Atlantic. A wrong word on the net? House search! Criticism
of migration? A case for the Constitution Defense! Engagement in an
association? Only with the correct party book! Election success of the
opposition? Verbieten! – that is your
policy. You have changed Germany into a attitude-state, into a woke, open-air
prison.
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): Rubbish!
And when the U.S.A. holds up the mirror to you, you react
with whining and are outraged. That is the hideous reality which you yourselves
have created.
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): You don’t believe that yourself! You yourself need to laugh!
In that regard, it would nevertheless be so simple. The Americans
write, cite:
“America [Die Vereinigten Staaten] is,
understandably, sentimentally [emotional]
attached to the European
continent” [*, 26]
Naturally, since it is ultimately so that descendents of
Europeans have settled the American continent. Therefore: Who so acts as to estrange
America from Europe, who estranges the growing child from the parents, he lies.
America does not estrange itself. Yet America has no desire for parents who have given up. America
has no interest in European and German self-abnegation. Unlike you, the U.S.A.
wants no Europe, no Germany, which degenerates into an authoritarian, Islamized
Moloch, incapable of alliance.
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): Such rubbish!
What Washington demands is nothing new. It is something
which my party, the AfD, demands for many years in this house. Dear colleagues,
finally end the course of civilizational self-abnegation. The U.S. strategy is
no affront, the U.S. strategy is a blueprint. We require no priggish church day
sayings,
Boris
Mijatović (Greens): Were you ever at a church day, Herr Frohnmaier?
we require a return to Realpolitik,
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): Where actually is your delegation?
we require a Politik
which our border, our sovereignty,
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): Not ten people are there!
and our identity defends without compromise.
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): Where are the people?
Ladies and gentlemen – and to the hecklers in this place – I
can only simply say again to you: Listen for once! Then perhaps even your Politik finally becomes better. You would
thereby render to the citizens in Germany at Christmas a great service; since
the citizens in Germany have a nose full of the bad Politik of the old parties.
Johannes
Fechner (SPD): Weak speech!
[trans: tem]
[*https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf]
