Systematically cutting off Berlin’s international partnerships and access to cheap energy may prove to be the country’s downfall.
The Greens are dragging Germany down with their foreign and energy policies
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, front center, speaks during a government questioning as part of a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. © AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described her recent visit to China as “more than shocking,” arguing that while Germany should not “decouple” from Beijing, it should no longer be Berlin’s most important trading partner.
Baerbock was in Beijing on an apparent damage-control visit, following Emmanuel Macron’s widely publicized trip to the country and subsequent criticism of the US. Her critical remarks on China came on Wednesday, as she spoke to the Bundestag.
The Green Party of Germany, which is part of a governing coalition with the larger Social Democratic Party (SPD), are known for hawkish Atlanticist foreign policies. Having started out as an anti-war environmentalist party in 1980, its views have now changed into supporting NATO and its expansion eastward, seeing the military alliance as crucial to Europe’s defense, and pushing against making deals with Russia and China.
Now, having seized control of the country’s foreign ministry, the Greens are seeking to dismantle Berlin’s highly favorable geopolitical relationship with China while also going full-throttle in their confrontation with Moscow. Gone are the days of pragmatism, prudence and common sense, and here are the days of divisive liberal fundamentalism, which has allowed the US to readily dismantle the foundations of Germany’s prosperity and economic strength. Baerbock is a disaster, and she’s taking Germany down with her.
Despite being the largest and most powerful economy in Europe, which has shaped the direction and integration of a whole continent, Germany’s future now looks bleak. The escalation of the Ukraine conflict, combined with Washington’s likely but vehemently denied destruction of Nord Stream 2, has destroyed the foundations of the country’s energy security and its industrial competitiveness. The damage done is evidenced by the fact that it’s forecasted to scrape a 0.3% GDP growth rate in 2023, while year-on-year inflation stood at 8.7% in February.
Baerbock now seems content to swing the demolition ball at her country’s relationship with China, its largest trading partner. She has sought to unveil new rules to discourage the expansion of German businesses in the country, using the talking point of “reducing dependence.” Germany’s trade with China was worth €245 billion ($270.8 billion) in 2021. But the question is, if not China, then who? Because look at the consequences of this ‘reduced dependence’ on Russia. The Greens are subserviating Germany to the US agenda and are actively dismantling everything that has made Germany successful, in exchange for practically nothing.
The fanatical environmental policies of the Greens, mixed with their foreign policy, are making the situation even worse. Despite the fact that the country has suffered an energy crisis, having lost its partnership with Russia, the Greens have always pursued one foundational pillar of their politics – the opposition to nuclear energy. This has forced the country to stay on the self-destructive route of abandoning nuclear power, despite overwhelming consensus that it is cheap, safe, and of course strategically important in the environment they are creating. Germany shut down its last nuclear power plants last week in a move that baffled international commentators and energy experts.
Because of these policies, Germany is under threat of national decline. The legacy of the influence of the Green Party in Olaf Scholz’s government has been to dismantle the foundations of its economic growth, expand the influence of the US over Germany wholesale, and of course rip up geopolitical partnerships that were built on realism and self-interest. Under Merkel, Germany was a powerful and influential player because it acted as a maverick, without deviating from the values it deemed important. The price of ripping up these legacies, cheered on by US-sponsored think-tankers targeting Berlin relentlessly, has been to create a Germany which will be weaker, poorer and less relevant – an American vassal. Who needs multipolarity when you can put a Green Party in charge of your foreign ministry? Germany is thus experiencing a slow death at the hands of the Greens.
Germany suffers also of decline in natality, while immigrant turcs established in germany have many children. It is a question of time before turkish people are the majority in Germany. Already some german towns, women have completely disappeard from cafes/ terrasses in the center of town; all males
The same is happening more or less in other european countries.
No cheap fuel any more thanks to the usa, our ” friend and ally”, and going back to coal to make electricity….
No more heavy industries, such as steal plants etc.
And the young european politicians are not up to the job. Must be said that von der leyen or MacKinsey dictate policies.
And with the ” common currency” the euro, countries can be coerced into acting against their own interests. We see it with Orban and Hungary. The only man by the way in the EU, being up to the job of ruling his country in the interest of his own population.
Never give up your purse if you want to be free.
Yes europe in in full decline
ALL ‘northern’ people are DNA diluted by ‘non-northern’ people.
Evolutionary fact is: The harsh living conditions of the ‘northern’ people had them to be clever to survive. especially SAVING.
And now, the once working principle of Darwinian “mutation and selection”, has been perverted to been replaced by PC ‘inclusion’ instead of SELECTION
Let’s jump: It’s all about the DEBTORS and the SAVERS.
DEBTORS are like kids in the lolly shop. SAVERS (parents) have failed upon their kids. Savers have failed to teach and paradoxically comprehend, that ‘SAVING” comes from ‘having not much’. If you live in a virtual world -and let’s not deny, that our current world (financial) system is a virtual world-, where you have everything and even can re-spawn, why would you ponder anything that is bound to REALITY and real economy? These “kids” are not brainwashed. They have NEVER been thinking in the first place. It’s all a big mirage, a matrix they have not had the fortune to experience.
And THAT fortune comes at a prize.
That prize is demise.
The longer it takes, the harder the fall.
The fire will burn.
Phoenix out of the ashes.