Geopolitical Focus | September, 2024

Germany votes for the Alternative (AFD), according to the powers in session, the right wingers, a definition by left wingers and elites. The AFD, branded and labeled in the same fashion as the MAGA movement by President Biden’s fascist label, won about 30% of the votes in Saxony and Thuringia, two former states of the GDR . The people of those two states, when unified, enjoyed the benefits of a democratic system that was bitterly undermined by a former “Ossie” Angela Merkel , who turned the entire Germany into a political ideological one-party state, with strong-arm tactics and personal favors, putting her people in power with the help of state media, ZDF, and ARD. The current political powers garnered less than 10% in this particular election, and a 30% approval across Germany. The devastating effects on Germany’s industries and living standards, the result of a green/social-focused agenda and blindly following US policies, are ignored by the media and the elites, who refuse to accept the AFD. The label NAZI is ringing louder after the election. You don’t have to be a sympathizer for the AFD, but the danger of a totalitarian leader is more critical to a democracy, and fuels a rift—is the existence of an AFD part of this?

As free citizens , we stand up for direct democracy, the separation of powers and the rule of law, the social market economy, subsidiarity, federalism, the family, and the living tradition of German culture. Because democracy and freedom stand on the foundation of common cultural values and historical memories. In the tradition of the two revolutions of 1848 and 1989, we articulate with our bourgeois protest the will to complete national unity in freedom and to create a Europe of sovereign democratic states that are bound together in peace, self-determination, and good neighborliness.

We are doing everything in our power to fundamentally renew our country in the spirit of freedom and democracy and to reassert these principles. We are open to the world, but we want to be and remain Germans. We want to preserve human dignity, the family with children, our Western Christian culture, our language and tradition in a peaceful, democratic, and sovereign nation-state of the German people in the long term.

All sounds very familiar around the world. Yes, there might be extreme points or elements, but that is still democracy—undermining 30% of voters is totalitarian. While the current government coalition is now adapting some face-saving measures that resonate with protest parties, there is still no direction while the German industry remains in a recession (thanks to the wind and solar/EV policy or Energy in all and the US sanctions on Ukraine). Adapt this to the US, and you know what’s coming under a socialist agenda. In short, the media and the elites preserve their status, democratic or not.

Perhaps a wakeup call to come , as Volkswagen, aiming to convert 100% to EV by 2030, is in trouble and may have to cut its workforce and close plants. The rest of the industry is not in much better shape, as the German government leads with a collaborative, appeasing global view (sanctions because Joe says, immigration because our people are aging and the EU says, etc.), missing what’s needed to survive, thrive, and lead.

Rather than tell the Ukrainian hero and selfish president to find a way to live with Russia as his neighbor and keep the US/EU and NATO political and military expansion interests away, the EU should work on integrating Russia for peace. Perhaps this would put Orban in Ursula von der Leyen’s place. Then the discussion would again start with the word NAZI—but logic in the world of AI is racist NAZI thinking? Not an easy path.

Here is an essay from a doomsday war monger demagoguing a president who resided for four years with no new wars. Contrast that with the current US administration: frequent flyers and military equipment suppliers, but only to kill, not achieve results or resolve.

France —after the left and Macron’s party aligned to defeat the Le Pen party—finally has a new Prime Minister, to the dislike of the communists and potentially all the other parties. The alliances formed to defeat Le Pen may also defeat the purpose to govern the country . This weakens Macron and France. Not saying Le Pen was the answer, but manipulating the vote by sacrificing party members from the ballot is manipulating the vote.

Putin is traveling to Mongolia, and China does not object, but the ICC wants to punish the Mongolians for refusing to exercise the warrant on Putin and not arrest him. Perhaps Mongolians simply like Putin better than 37 individual Russian states equipped with NATO weapons. Who says NATO will stop expanding after Ukraine? China remains an aggressor, and what better way to fight China on foot? Why does the US have military bases around the globe for peace, yet all we see are wars and military spending? For 2024, that spending in real dollars is probably reaching WWII levels. And who prevents all that money from being put to use—4% of the population or the other 96%?

CIA Chief to negotiate a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. Does he know more than Joe Biden or Anthony Blinken, or have they all lost credibility? Why are the British not front and center in the discussion—they started the separation in the first place? And do we really think Hamas won’t continue tit-for-tat with one hostage for a Hamas leader? Are we sincere about freeing hostages? Killing everybody has never resolved any problems; otherwise, we’d no longer have any. Mr. Netanyahu needs to come to the same conclusion , otherwise, these negotiations are just a face-saving exercise until the US election. And where was the intelligence on October 7, 2023? Perhaps like the Victoria Nuland moment in Ukraine in 2014, a special-order brain fart by the CIA.

While the West is fighting its democracy values with weapons, the BRICS people are negotiating with the likes of Turkey —and Orban’s Hungary may also see an approach possible, given the hostility he gets from the EU.

Turkey’s interest in an economic platform led by China and Russia has raised eyebrows in European capitals. A second Turkish official told MEE that Turkey is attracted to BRICS because it does not require political or economic commitments or agreements.

Pay attention to the words “ does not require political or economic agreements” —this from a so-called totalitarian system, while the EU oppresses its members both ways: ideological one-party called democracy, and economic control in a “friend-shoring” system, or sanctioning non-compliers.

Restrictive measures or ‘ sanctions ’ are an essential tool of the EU ’s Common Foreign and Security Policy. They allow the EU to respond to global challenges and developments that go against its objectives and values. Decisions on sanctions are taken by the Council of the European Union by unanimity.

Beijing invites Africa , while the US or Europe is busy sending some low-level diplomats to sell democracy with no strategy or cohesion. The US has lost South America as partners and is on its way to losing influence in many parts of the world, until America understands that weapons and military explorations are destructive ways for peace. Here is a piece of wisdom from someone who obviously does not believe Europe, as individual countries, can survive without US dominance—again a power approach. Compare that to the BRICS approach: self-interest, yes, but talks anyway.

The Climate Apostles are running the bells that a Trump presidency might derail the efforts to push China on climate efforts. Since the US buys batteries and solar equipment, and China is leading in global clean power production, what is the US concern? Perhaps Podesta was assuring the Chinese—no tariffs on solar panels until we can make our own?

The absurdity of some strategic thinkers—why would you start a war for snow, reindeer, and woods? It really makes you wonder what strategic interest Russia must have to invade Finland, or was the fearmongering more about wishing for US troops stationed in Finland, just in case to start a war on two or three fronts? Is St. Petersburg something of strategic value? It’s remarkable to give up neutrality for war.

The United States has similar agreements facilitating military collaboration with the other NATO members bordering mainland Russia: Norway, Estonia, and Latvia. These agreements also specify which of the hosting country’s bases can be used by U.S. forces. After Finland and the United States signed the agreement, Ivalo became the closest base to mainland Russia immediately accessible to U.S. troops.

“It is premature to assess what will possibly be invested in Ivalo, and the criteria are not public,” says Ville Ahtiainen, the deputy commander of the Lapland Border Guard, “but the overall result will be good, and it will deepen the cooperation between our countries.”

And one more thought —if you can’t beat them, join them. Peace over destruction at all times —it’s no longer your copycat. Investment in education and people leads the way, not wokeness. Only independence (interdependence) is freedom. What if the climate czars were replaced by real peace czars? But then, stories like Genghis Khan come back to haunt us. See any reason below not repeated today—other than plunder is replaced by defending strategic interest?

Thus, the Mongol Empire arose as a result of two typical factors in steppe politics—Chinese imperial interference and the need for plunder—plus one quirky personal factor. Had Shah Muhammad’s manners been better, the western world might never have learned to tremble at the name of Genghis Khan.