Alice Weidel, July 19, 2022, War and Ideology

AfD Kompakt, July 19, 2022.

There is a reason that out of the pacifist Greens grew a party which supports weapons deliveries to war zones, refuses any diplomacy and thereby a priori makes peace negotiations impossible. For the Greens evidently regard the war in the Ukraine as proper means for implementing their ideology.

Baerbock’s statements not only show how far ideological delusion has progressed in the governing party, but furthermore that the Greens well-nigh welcome a military conflict in the middle of Europe. Thereby also becomes clear the reason for Baerbock’s attitude of rejection in regards any diplomacy. It is after all striking that she rejected a talk with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, even though that would have been able to be a first step in the direction of peace.

Baerbock’s “climate change” is not the greatest “threat to our security”, but the Foreign Minister herself, just as is a Green party completely separated from Realpolitik, which understands the war as a “booster” for their ideological agenda and abandons our country to ruin. Following these statements of Baerbock, the Greens need to be immediately relieved of their responsibility.

 

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Peter Boehringer, July 12, 2022, Euro Devaluation

AfD Kompakt, July 12, 2022.

The euro’s weakness is no accident. It is the logical consequence of the failed economics and unchecked monetary policy of past decades. With its inflation policy, the ECB has in fact managed in a milieu of weak currencies to bring forth the weakest of all currencies and even to devalue the euro against the currency of the U.S.A., the world’s debts champion. Despite the record high inflation, the ECB avoids an appropriate change of interest rate and continually purchases state debts solely to maintain the euro’s southern countries’ ability to pay. The result of this state of affairs, contrary to treaty, is the devaluation of the euro.

In addition, the euro’s exchange rate is closely connected with the state of the German economy. Its downfall is the result of its real economic manipulation [Gängelung] by the Federal government and the EU: Over-regulation, CO₂ planned economy, subventions and cohesion policy, transfer payments, sanctions policy, debates laden with ideology are the crippling poison which undermines the economic power of the entire EU and this leads to the devaluation of the euro.

This devaluation to parity at the same time contradicts the myth according to which the severe price increases are in the first instance to be traced back to the war in the Ukraine. It is much more evident that the euro loses value on a broad front – the higher import prices thereby intensify the problem of inflation.

If the ECB does not immediately begin the change in interest rate, the capital flight out of the euro zone will be accelerated, purchasing power further weaken and the entire euro zone drawn into stagflation. Yet since here a reversal in the monetary policy will foreseeably fail due to resistance of Italy, France and other countries, can ultimately only an exit of Germany from the euro zone and a return to the D-mark stop the devaluation and with it the asoziale inflation.

 

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Rüdiger Lucassen, July 8, 2022, A European NATO

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/48, pp. 5106-5107.

Right honorable Frau President. Excellencies. Dear colleagues.

With Sweden and Finland, two European nations join NATO upon which Germany and the alliance can rely. Both countries maintain high value armed forces. Sweden re-activated the defense duty in 2018. Finland has a reservists corps which is superior even to many European regular armies. And quite important: The culture of both of these northern countries guarantees a smooth integration into the alliance.

Germany’s security will profit directly from this expansion. Who today agrees to the reception of Sweden and Finland into NATO acknowledges it for Germany’s security. Sweden and Finland strengthen the northern flank of NATO. The last weeks however have shown where the weakness of the alliance lies: On the southern flank. Turkey has again used the entrance negotiations to extort Europe. Erdogan has thereby once again demonstrated that Turkey will never be a part of Europe.

Ladies and gentlemen, the northern expansion offers the opportunity to finally strengthen the European pillar of NATO. Who does this can bury a still-born like the EU army. For another thing, it is the way to a European NATO along with the way to a greater independence from the U.S.A. That is for Germany and Europe a goal of immense significance. I may remind the Federal government that independence from America during the Trump time was largely in fashion. You should now show that this viewpoint not only had to do with your aversion to Trump but was in fact strategically founded.

A European NATO is a necessity so as to free Europe from the vise grip of the great powers. Sweden and Finland can contribute to that. As a welcoming gift, the Federal government should finally let deeds follow the many words. The goal must be to build up the Bundeswehr as Europe’s army of greatest combat strength and to undertake leadership [die Bundeswehr zur kampfstärksten Armee Europas aufzubauen und Führung zu übernehmen]. Strategic autonomy will not be made a present; one must take it upon oneself.

Many thanks.

 

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