A German opinion after US Vice President addresses Munich Security Conference (1)
February 14, 2025
After yesterday's brilliant speech by Vice President Vance at the Security Conference in Munich, which encouraged many Germans that something can change and made the politicians and leftists foam at the mouth, as you could see from the speeches and responses of President Steinmeier, Chancellor Scholz, Mr. Merz (soon to be Chancellor) and Ms. StrackZimmermann (FDP), I would like to share with you my view of what has been happening in Germany for many years.
The fact that, above all, Mr. Vance's wish that all parties should talk to each other, whether left or right, because this is part of democracy, has caused such disgust and such a lack of understanding among those (no longer) politicians in power, unfortunately speaks volumes.
The next fact that the AfD (with Ms. Weidel as chairman) and the BSW (Ms. Wagenknecht is chairman, founder and namesake) were not invited to the aforementioned security conference also speaks volumes.
A long time ago, I was proud of this country and have never hidden abroad where I was born and where I (like to) live.
Nowadays, I don't really like this country anymore. Yes, it has to do with the flooding of this country with migrants who don't want to integrate or work here (because they don't have to), but also with the policy and the politicians that are pushing this country further and further into the abyss. It started with the offer of former Chancellor Merkel (2011) to the Greens when she called for the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in response to the Fukushima disaster (a tsunami damaged the power plant, everyone knows the consequences). She didn't win the state elections back then, but apparently she won the hearts of the left-wing Greens. And she aligned her politics accordingly and turned the formerly conservative CDU into another left-wing party.
The AfD was founded in 2013 as a party that wanted to end Germany's leftwing course. It adopted the CDU's party program from 2002/2003 and was denounced as a right-wing extremist party. Since the last government (“Ampelregierung”), the course towards the abyss has accelerated even more. The migration of industrial companies, bankruptcies and business closures have multiplied. As has unemployment.
And immigration (from less educated backgrounds and Islamic countries) has increased. And with it crime: every day there are various knife attacks with deaths and injuries, every day two gang rapes and other crimes (this can be read in the crime statistics and is not the result of any hysteria or even hatred of foreigners, as is often propagated). And after every terrorist attack on our way of living, we hear the same justifications from the politicians in charge, who since 2015 no longer know how many and who have come to Germany.
Back to the lack of energy supply, for which we are completely dependent on foreign countries on many days. On days without wind and sun, which there were in abundance in December and January, we can count ourselves lucky that there has not been a complete blackout so far. The question is, of course, why so few gas-fired power plants have been built so far (one is new in the whole of Germany, three are under construction, the rest of the planned 13 gas-fired power plants are in the approval or planning stage) to be used as storage or bridging systems. The next question is why all safe and functional nuclear power plants have been shut down and some of the cooling towers have already been demolished before replacements have been built. These questions can really only be answered ideologically, because in reality this makes no sense (at least to me).
Why has a secure energy supply been sacrificed to green idealism? How can you be so stupid to bet on solar and wind energy as an industrial country? How to make a man Minister of Economics, who says „I always found patriotism disgusting. I can't and have never been able to relate to Germany” (aus: Patriotismus: ein linkes Plädoyer von 2010)?
How can you choose a woman as Secretary of State who has embellished her CV (she obtained an undergraduate diploma from a German university and claims to have completed a master's degree at an elite London university, although she only completed a two-semester, paid (online) course there. Her master's certificate cannot be found and she is neither known nor ever enrolled at said elite university) and unfortunately has no diplomatic skills at all.
And now a Mr. Vice President Vance comes along and holds up a mirror to those present at the Munich Security Conference. And unfortunately they react as expected: We are right. Everything we do is right, everyone who says something against it is wrong (every German who dares to criticize is a Nazi).
Which brings me to the next point: left-wing school education. How the politicians scolded Ms. Weidel (AfD) when she claimed that Hitler was a communist.
In 1919, Hitler was deputy soldiers' councilor in the Munich Council Republic. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a communist state and „Soviet“ means „Council“ in English. Hitler wanted something different politically than the communists, but he nevertheless began his career as a communist.
In 1931, Goebbels wrote down the self-image of the NSDAP (National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) in the Berlin regional newspaper "Der Angriff":
"According to the idea of the NSDAP, we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national property-owning bloc."
The obvious similarities and parallels between the Nazi regime and the Soviet dictatorship as well as the socialist orientation of Nazi ideology were and are intended to be concealed.
So that people who are against the current government or its decisions can be called “fascists”, even though the National Socialists never called themselves such.
And everyone who thinks they are on the right side joins in.
By the way: The hundreds of thousands who demonstrate against the AfD (and now also against the CDU) are largely paid demonstrators.
To return to the beginning and Mr. Vance's speech:
Every one of his sentences hit exactly what many people feel and notice but don't dare to express.
And every one of his sentences showed current german politicians that their path is the wrong one.
But: nothing will change, not after the elections that take place in a week.
For that to happen, Mr. Merz would have to have the courage to form a coalition with the party behind the firewall (the AfD) or to strive for a minority government. He won't do that, because in the background Mrs. Merkel is pulling the left-wing strings.
The coalition negotiations with the left-wing SPD and the equally left-wing Greens will probably drag on for months, if they can even reach an agreement.
Perhaps it will end like it is currently in Austria. Coalition negotiations there have been broken off.
Because, as has now become public, the Brussels EPP (chairman: Manfred Weber, CSU) played a role in the background (who do not approve of a right-wing government).
This brings us full circle to the formerly conservative CDU/CSU: the smirking Söder, who makes fun of Mr. Vance’s criticism of his policy. But none of the people next to him joined in his laughter. They sat like rabbits in front of the snake and looked at it with wide, disturbed eyes.
I am very concerned about the decline of this country and every day there are new reports that make me despair.
That is why Vice President Vance's speech, which I watched in its original form, touched me very much and I am really glad that there are still politicians like him.
Mr. Merz (the CDU's candidate for chancellor) was extremely outraged about Vice President Vance, claiming that transatlantic relations are being broken. "Germany does not need to be lectured by the USA, and especially when it comes to democracy, we know better. The firewall is democratic!".
It's a pity, Mr Merz, it seems that this country is not going to last.