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German Warmongers Are Going to Kill Us All
On both sides of the Atlantic, so-called “Leftists” are leading us down the Neocon path to global destruction.
I spent most of the 1980’s and half the 1990’s living in Germany. I have always known the Germans to be a peace-loving people, and the Germans I know — most of whom are in their 50’s and 60’s — are painfully aware of their past. They have always adopted a left-leaning attitude towards most matters, but especially war.
When the Green Party (Die Grünen) appeared on the German political scene in 1983, they ran on a popular platform. They were 100% against NATO, against nukes, and against war. In fact, the first time that Die Grünen were elected to parliament, it was thanks to the massive anti-war and anti-NATO demonstrations that had rocked Germany in response to America’s Pershing II missile deployment.
Their leader and cofounder was a radical anti-war activist named Petra Kelly (whose father was a US Army officer). I remember when Petra and her fellow Greens caused a stir by knitting sweaters while sitting in the Bundestag.
Today, I am a member of the US Green Party, and when I first joined the party, I was thinking of those sweater-knitting peaceniks in Germany.
When I saw that the Greens had joined the ruling coalition in Germany, I was relieved, even hopeful. When I saw that a Green Party official was going to be Foreign Minister, I thought, “finally, maybe the Germans can revive the concept of détente”.
How wrong I was.
The Greens today: Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
When I first realised the unrelenting militarism of Germany’s Green Party, I was shocked and disgusted.
With the spectre of German Panzers once more rolling across the steppes toward Russia, I had to ask myself: how does that happen?
The answer was clear: Annalena Baerbock
Germany’s Foreign Minister has proven herself to be a bloodthirsty warmonger who, it seems, cannot get enough of the war in Ukraine. “We are fighting a war against Russia”, she declared during her address to the Council of Europe. Granted, it was an…
