Although the rightwing AfD party had its best voting outcome in history, doubling the last election results, the fact remains that Germany voted for things to remain basically the same.
The man expected to be the next Chancellor after failed Olaf Scholz, CDU’s leader Friedrich Merz adopted a clearly confrontational stance against the Donald J. Trump administration, going as far as warning that NATO may be finished and that Europe must have an alliance that is ‘independent’ from the US.
Merz added that Europe will have to have to build an ‘independent defense capability’ – regardless of the fact that Germany doesn’t have a single combat-ready division in its armed forces.
US President Trump described the German election result as a ‘great day for Germany and for the United States of America’ – but Merz is unmoved and believes Trump is ‘indifferent’ about the continent.
In his unprecedented criticism of Trump, he compared the US administration to ‘Moscow’ after Elon Musk backed the rightwing AfD in the German vote.
The Telegraph reported:
“’My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA’, Mr. Merz said. ‘I never thought I would have to say something like this on a television program. But after Donald Trump’s statements last week at the latest, it is clear that the Americans, at least this part of the Americans, this administration, are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe. […] I am very curious to see how we are heading towards the Nato summit at the end of June … whether we will still be talking about Nato in its current form or whether we will have to establish an independent European defense capability much more quickly.’”
The campaign was shaken multiple times by senseless attacks by illegal migrants, and while the CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6 percent of the vote, it was followed by the rightwing AfD with 20.8 percent.
“His comments mark the strongest rebuttal of Mr. Trump any head of government has made in response to the US president’s growing cooperation with Russia and criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky. ‘I have absolutely no illusions about what is happening from America’, Mr Merz said on Sunday night.”
“’Just look at the recent interventions in the German election campaign by Mr. Elon Musk — that is a unique event. The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately outrageous than the interventions we have seen from Moscow’.”
Merz stated that Germany is under ‘massive pressure’ from two sides (the US and Russia). He vowed to make his absolute priority to create ‘unity in Europe.’
“He added: ‘I am not sure what the American government’s position on this war will be in the coming weeks and months. My impression over the last few days is that Russia and America are coming together here, over the heads of Ukraine and therefore also over the heads of Europe’.”
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