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Bulletins and News Discussion from February 24th to March 2nd, 2025 - Fascists? In Germany?! - COTW: Germany

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The results are in from the German elections, and the outcome is pretty unsurprising for those who have been paying attention to the German socioeconomic situation, and prove our predictions from years ago correct. The conservatives (CDU/CSU) won the plurality of votes (28%), representing a slight gain from 2021. Meanwhile, Scholz's party, the SPD, collapsed from first place in 2021 to third place this year, almost halving their number of seats; the Greens had a less dramatic collapse but still lost many votes. The coalition of CDU/CSU + SPD seems like the most likely end result of this election; something something nothing ever happens but everything keeps getting worse.

Outside the main coalition, there's three important takeaways IMO.

First is that AfD - the far-right Euroskeptic party - has skyrocketed into second place, achieving a full 20% of the vote. This is definitely very concerning and does not exactly bode well for the future, but it isn't necessarily immediately disastrous, because the CDU/CSU (as well as the SDP and Greens) has vowed that they will not form a coalition with the AfD.

Second is that Die Linke - the pro-NATO, pro-Israel socdem party - has mostly reversed its awful performance in 2021, increasing its vote share from 4.9% to 8.8%. What this suggests is that while Germans are fleeing from the center, a very significant minority are going leftwards (though still aren't particularly anti-imperialist).

Third is that the BSW under Wagenknect, who split off from the Die Linke (absolute classic), appears to have barely fallen short of the 5% vote share needed to get seats in the Bundestag. The BSW has some good foreign policies (peace with Russia, for instance) but pretty awful domestic policies; quite patsoccy.


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  • Today European leaders were gathered in Kiev's Sportpalast to scream and shout for total war. They had come to mark three years of slaughter—not to mourn, not to reflect, but to demand more.

    Among the most fanatical was Denmark's iron-fisted leader Mette Frederiksen who was slava'ing the Ukraini like it's 2022. She made some very non-delusional and sensible comments:

    The defense of Ukraine does not stop if there is some kind of peace agreement. Ukraine must still be able to defend itself on the day when Russia surely returns

    I do not think a future peace agreement will prevent Russia from attacking again; on the contrary, we risk that a peace agreement on the wrong terms gives Russia a really good reason to return at a later time. So peace can be dangerous.

    Peace can be dangerous. Say that again. Say it slowly. Say it in front of a mirror and watch your soul leave your body. These are the words of someone who has been getting high on their own supply for so long that reality has ceased to exist.

    Of course, these sorts of pronouncements always come from the people least likely to find themselves bleeding out in a trench, clawing through the mud while their lungs fill with blood.

    There is one reason why leaders from around the world have traveled all the way to Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of the war

    Unity, unity, unity. That is the only way forward

    Strengthen Europe, make us as strong as possible, and rearm at a pace that is almost hard to comprehend, because deterring further Russian activity and invasion of other countries is the most important thing

    It’s 1914 all over again. Pour everything into the war machine, build bigger guns, scream louder, demand more. Europe is circling the drain, losing its grip on the world, and its leaders have responded by embracing full-blown hysteria.

    When it comes to climate change—that slow, undeniable apocalypse—there is no urgency. No war cries. No blank checks. We are boiling the planet, the crops we depend on are failing, entire nations are being washed away. We are told, time and again, that fixing it would be too expensive. That it’s too complicated. That we must be realistic.

    But war? War gets the checkbook thrown open. War is where the money flows, where the urgency kicks in, where logic goes to die.

    The suits at Lockheed Martin and Elbit must have been grinning like jackals in a chicken coop. They have found the perfect pay pigs in western Europe's political elites and they're going to milk them for everything they've got.

    The conditions for peace must be set through strength. And I believe that is the most important task for Europe right now

    A peace agreement without sustainable peace would mean great danger for all of us. It would give Russia the opportunity to rebuild and launch another attack on Ukraine or another European country.

    Apparently a "sustainable peace" is one where Russia is unable to rebuild. Such an option would only be on the table in the event of a total Russian defeat, a completely delusional scenario Uber the current circumstances.

    And then there's the obvious question that nobody seems to be asking: Why?

    Why would Russia want to attack Europe? What would they gain?

    But logic has no place here—only raw hysteria and the unshakable belief that the only path forward is through endless escalation. The west is losing its global dominance and Europe is becoming completely irrelevant and in return European leaders cling to maximalist demands that are as delusional as they are grandiose.

    Ukraine has not only defended its own country but all of Europe for the past three years

    Ukraine has been chewed up and spat out in a pointless, grinding slaughter engineered by American empire-builders and gleefully endorsed by their dipshit European vassals. There’s nothing noble in this. No great crusade. Just a vast, nightmarish meat grinder fueled by the illusions of people who will never bleed out in a trench themselves.

    And I believe that none of us here can truly put into words how grateful we are. But we can show it through action

    I urge all European countries to increase support for Ukraine. Not tomorrow, but today.

    And dear friends, today gathered here, we do not have to look far to find the hero of our time ... Dear Volodymyr, you have fought for three long years against a full-scale war started by Russia

    Nobody seems to have told Frederiksen that Washington has marked Zelensky for disposal, she still kneels at the altar of Saint Volodymyr, patron saint of the self-righteous Western liberal.

    Three years of trench warfare. Three years of death and destruction. And the only people who have come out ahead are the arms dealers and the politicians posing for photo ops.

    The war has gone as anyone who's not high on western exceptionalism could have predicted right from the start, Ukraine has not only lost a war and some territory, it has lost its future for generations.

    And when it all collapses, they will need a scapegoat. Enter Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister and aspiring architect of the next Dolchstoßlegende

    It is not about shaming and blaming, but it is clear that if everyone had done the same, Ukraine would have the upper hand. And that message needs to really 'sink in' for the countries it is directed at

    Here comes the old stab-in-the-back myth. The war isn’t going badly because it was a doomed enterprise from the start—no, it’s failing because the rest of Europe didn’t do enough.

    Today, we mark the third anniversary of Putin’s full-scale illegal war, and we want to send a signal of solidarity—it is time to step up

    He thinks he's still living in 2022.

    There is a lot of talk about a post-war plan, but we believe the most important thing right now is to step up and give Ukraine strength so that the country is in the best possible position when peace negotiations eventually take place

    Right. And if they had just stepped up and shoveled more coal into the boilers of the Titanic, maybe it could’ve rammed through that iceberg.

    One might as well argue that a man should set fire to his house so that he might later have a more comfortable conversation with the arsonist

    And so the war drags on. The politicians pose for the cameras. The merchants of death collect their winnings. And the soldiers die.

    What the hell is Europe even fighting for?

    Not peace. Never peace.

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