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Terry's avatar

I think the challenges for Germany, the US and perhaps the rest of the world are very similar.

In the summer of 2017 I attended a village fest and concert. This was a few months before Angela Merkel's four election as Chancellor. The band's frontman launched into "We're not going to take it, anymore", all the while giving Trump his middle finger and urging the audience to do the same. Given the problems in Germany and an election coming up, I could only wonder why? Now, I never liked Trump, but I did vote for him twice, something about the other candidate bothered me more... Does this sound familiar ? On January 6th 2021, that changed as he broke his oath of office to "protect the Constitution". Why were these local Germans not more concerned with their own leaders?

People decry the AFD, yet the AFD is the only party that has long addressed serious issues that affect German citizens (IMHO), until recently. When Mr Merz moved to address some of those issues, the other parties made an uproar about his party (joining the radicals of AFD?).

Here is my question for German history experts: The National Socialist Party (Nazis) did many horrible things, they also drug Germany out of the "Great Depression". Would it have been possible to do that without all the rest, especially without the destruction of German democracy and beginning another World War? I dare believe that stopping those two would have prevented the other horrors.

Looking forward to your comments on any of the above.

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Mihaita's avatar

Paid subscribers sure afraid of free content free speech

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Mihaita's avatar

Germany is not in decline . It’s at war against extremism … AFD is a Russian led operation… we must protect Democracy.

„AFD verboten 🚫

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Jörg Luyken's avatar

interesting - what is your evidence for this statement? "AFD is a Russian led operation"

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Mihaita's avatar

I leave similar question what’s your evidence for Germany’s decline furthermore what evidence you have that German Kanzler Friedrich Merz is lame duck?

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Mihaita's avatar

Try reading news outsourcing to look for truth .

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Mihaita's avatar

If your open minded enough you could judge correctly.. not defending extremism..

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Mihaita's avatar

Russia since 1918 entire existence was provoking warmongering and spreading propaganda …. AFD is an extremist deceitful organization just like its predecessor. Either one is open minded or closed minded.

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Gabriela Gabriela's avatar

Germany's decline began in 2015, when Angela Merkel let in 2 million unvetted migrants (mostly young men under 25). Do you remember the rapes and assaults, of German young women, at Christmas time in most of the major cities by these migrants? Gangs and crime are now rampant, riots, housing shortage, not enough money to afford everything due to having to support migrants that are not blending into German society or workforce. Small German towns are being overwhelmed by Muslims who do not want to blend into German society. Mosques are taking over churches. Please take a look at what has happened to England: most small towns have Muslim mayors and government employees...Sharia Law is prevalent. Englanders are not having as many children as Muslims (6-8 per family vs 1-2 for non-Muslim families) Europe is doomed. I had wanted to retire to Germany as I am a native German speaker (both parents were born in Germany in 1929). We emigrated to Canada (the USA was on a quota system and it took us many years to be allowed into the USA).

I will stay in my beautiful America where I have a wonderful life without the threat of Sharia Law and a Muslim invasion. I cannot live in a country that will allow this system to become dominant.

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Gabriela Gabriela's avatar

Germany's decline began in 2015, when Angela Merkel let in 2 million unvetted migrants (mostly young men under 25). Do you remember the rapes and assaults, of German young women, at Christmas time in most of the major cities by these migrants? Gangs and crime are now rampant, riots, housing shortage, not enough money to afford everything due to having to support migrants that are not blending into German society or workforce. Small German towns are being overwhelmed by Muslims who do not want to blend into German society. Mosques are taking over churches. Please take a look at what has happened to England: most small towns have Muslim mayors and government employees...Sharia Law is prevalent. Englanders are not having as many children as Muslims (6-8 per family vs 1-2 for non-Muslim families) Europe is doomed. I had wanted to retire to Germany as I am a native German speaker (both parents were born in Germany in 1929). We emigrated to Canada (the USA was on a quota system and it took us many years to be allowed into the USA).

I will stay in my beautiful America where I have a wonderful life without the threat of Sharia Law and a Muslim invasion. I cannot live in a country that will allow this system to become dominant.

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