
Germany Turns Against America
Friedrich Merz, Germany's future chancellor, embodies the old West Germany. He is a Catholic, a lawyer, devoid of charisma and passion – and has been a loyal friend of the United States of America until now. As such, he worked for years as a lobbyist with the honorific of chairman of the board of the German branch of BlackRock and opened the doors to Germany Inc and the politicians representing it to the world's largest asset manager.
To experience Merz today is to rub one's eyes. This mediocre guy with the charisma of an administrative official rises to plunge Germany into massive new debt in order to challenge the USA.
Merz is the vocal advocate of an endless war in Ukraine. This is not surprising, since the fear of Russia has been part of the German mainstream sentiment since 1941 and is one of the few things that were adopted unchanged by the new republic after 1945.
Accordingly, he does not like Donald Trump's peace efforts, although no country has as much to gain from them as Germany.
What Merz has now done using constitutionally questionable means is to change the German constitution, which provides for a strict upper limit for new debt. He did not do this with the newly elected (February 23) Bundestag, but used the time until its constituent session on March 25 to decide a critical matter in the old parliament, voted out of office by the vast majority of the population, for which there would no longer be a majority in the newly elected parliament.
With undemocratic tricks, he is effectively abolishing the debt ceiling, for which he has always fought vehemently – Merz's entire political career revolved around his commitment to fiscal discipline.
Instead of trying to reach an agreement with the Trump administration, he now wants to build a European counterweight to the US and speaks of that necessity in a tone of utter conviction.
The French nuclear umbrella – if one wants to call the few and moreover obsolete French nuclear warheads an umbrella at all – is to be extended to Germany. A European defense community is to be created. And the national general staffs are to be united. All paid for by Germany.
It's a kind of Napoleon 2.0. – as farce. France can relabel its military as“European,” but in fact retains command while Germany pays. Merz, out of irrational fear of Russia, betrays his American friends in order to subordinate himself to France.
Modern Germany, once founded against Napoleon by the Prussian reformers, becomes a French protectorate again: the old Confederation of the Rhine.

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