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re: Germany’s Right Wing Victory
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:42 am to threeputt23
Posted on 9/8/26 at 9:42 am to threeputt23
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:07 am to Don Quixote
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:27 am to TrueTiger
Right on cue. It’s amazing how these results always go the same way.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:51 am to threeputt23
They need to bring back those cool helmets. Military enlistment will go up just to get one.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 11:36 am to threeputt23
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Will Germany’s recent right wing political victory and deportation plans be a wake up call for the rest of Western Europe??
It was only one state, and they still fell one seat shy of an absolute majority, so unless they find someone from one of the other parties to work with them (who have pledged they would not work with the AfD), they won't be able to get much done.
The next federal election in Germany is in 2029. That'll be the big one for Deutschland. No new deportation plans until then.
This post was edited on 9/8/26 at 11:37 am
Posted on 9/8/26 at 1:12 pm to threeputt23
something interesting - a CDU elected member of the state parliament just announced he would abstain when AfD's candidate comes up for a vote. This could be big because the CDU (the center-right party that is the leading party in the country right now) could be fracturing a little over.
The fracture is over the move of a united front against the AfD which would include the communists. The Union parties have long has a firewall against what they call the far-right and the far-left. So this move to cooperate with the communists might send move some Union members to think the AfD is better than communists.
Just another interesting dynamic and shows the chaotic state of German politics right now.
The fracture is over the move of a united front against the AfD which would include the communists. The Union parties have long has a firewall against what they call the far-right and the far-left. So this move to cooperate with the communists might send move some Union members to think the AfD is better than communists.
Just another interesting dynamic and shows the chaotic state of German politics right now.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 1:20 pm to JimEverett
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"Seismic", "a socio-political earthquake", "a watershed moment for Germany".
This was how political analysts and many media outlets described the stunning victory of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in local elections in Germany on Sunday. Is that an exaggeration?
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The answer: very significant.
First and foremost, at home in Germany.
The vote may have been regional but it impacts at national level. The AfD landslide piles even more pressure on the already beleaguered centrist coalition government in Berlin. It may prove to be the nail in the political coffin of Germany's deeply unpopular conservative Chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He had promised to slash the AfD's popularity.
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The AfD is well known to be particularly popular in east Germany but it's now also polling as the biggest political party nationwide.
Germany's political mainstream has failed voters, it would seem. What does Europe's biggest single economy, its most populous nation not counting Russia, do now?
Tiny Saxony-Anhalt is causing waves outside Germany too.
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The AfD's anti-immigration, anti-woke, "Germany for Germans" message chimes closely with Donald Trump's MAGA missive.
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Whether it's a rallying cry for "Germany First" or "Italy First" or "France for the French!", the concern in Brussels is that the rise of nationalist parties strains European cohesion at a time when outside events demand it more than ever.
Nationalist parties like the AfD or Italy's League Party tend to be deeply Eurosceptic, but Brussels says Europe needs to stand united to counter Donald Trump's bullying, for example, or to effectively protect European business against China's goods dumping.
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Voters on this continent feel lost and let down by parties they've supported over and again for decades. Looking right or left now at election time does not mean they've all suddenly become extremist.
The AfD campaign slogan in Saxony-Anhalt was an upbeat "Anything is Possible!" Plus a promise to make Germans feel proud of their country again. Till now untried and untested in government, people seem increasingly willing to give them a go.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 1:58 pm to soonerinlOUisiana
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Then suppose that we learned that said regime was committing the same atrocities against its moslem population that the Nazis committed against the Jews.
Remember the Boxnian/Serbian/Balkans war? Remember our degree of involvement there?
Posted on 9/8/26 at 3:55 pm to threeputt23
Surely you are not this naive? Same as here, no one gets “elected”. They are installed. It’s the equivalent of Bush being president. Someone who pretends to be a Christian conservative but worked to subtly undermine the country. They’ll throw you some crumbs to make it seem like they’re working at your behest, but they’re owned by the globalists.
Posted on 9/9/26 at 7:35 am to BFIV
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Remember the Boxnian/Serbian/Balkans war? Remember our degree of involvement there?
Yes. But that wasn’t even remotely comparable to the Holocaust. That’s also why I added in the parameter that there be a comparable military force in power.
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