Oh what a day 😱 the German government just collapsed 😱
Source: apnews.com/article/germany-sch…
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Germany's Scholz fires his finance minister in a blow to the ruling coalition
Germany’s center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced hs is firing Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which could undermine the ruling three-party coalition that relies on Lindner’s pro-business party.KIRSTEN GRIESHABER (AP News)
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Emmanuel Florac
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Taschenlampe Müller
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No!
If there’s one thing we can be certain about, it’s that the next German government will continue its steadfast support of Israel, no matter the circumstances. Unconditional support for Israel is embedded in the fabric of Germany’s post-Nazi political establishment. This applies whether the coalition involves the CDU/CSU (staunch Israel supporters since 1951), the AfD (antisemitic Zionists and anti-Muslim nationalists), the SPD (traditional Israel supporters), or the Greens (progressive yet unwavering Israel supporters). The only party that deviates slightly from this stance is BSW, but it has virtually no chance of gaining power in the Bundestag.
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Taschenlampe Müller
in reply to anonymiss • • •Indeed, the irony is hard to miss. The German Greens still view themselves as proto-pacifists and anti-imperialists, yet in reality, they've come to embody the same old German chauvinism and militarism—but this time dressed up in rainbow colours.
A (possible) coalition between the CDU and the Greens could be a pretty explosive mix. It would bring together old-school capital and the new left-liberal establishment , teaming up to take on both external (Russia/China/Iran) and internal (any opposition) "threats." In practice, this partnership might look less like socio-economic progress and more like using green ideology to push neoliberal economic agendas. The result? A political front that is as much about social control as it is about neoliberal doctrine, creating a climate where the lines between liberal "progressism" and class domination get erased.
But that's just my thoughts...could be absolutely wrong, wouldn't be the first time
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Emmanuel Florac
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Absolutely—Baerbock is a blunt disaster. But the German political class has no shortage of even more hawkish ideologues waiting in the wings. The era of foreign ministers from the '60s through the '90s, who prioritized diplomatic negotiations in Germany’s own interest, seems long gone. Today, German foreign policy appears more like an echo of NATO and U.S. interests than an independent voice for the country. And this alignment isn’t likely to change, no matter which government leads Germany in the years—or even decades—to come.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •so that it had to be your article which made me aware that I urgently have to watch German news again :D
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Emmanuel Florac
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in reply to anonymiss • • •I know now why this happens worldwide, Emanuel
It is the COVID which damaged the worldwide economy for an entire election period.
The governments which had to deal with corona are gone due to the folks hating to have their rights restricted for a few months;
and now the next governments all are voted out by the same people who did vote out the former government - the ego of simpletons not wanting to see that the worldwide recession is a result of that combined with the Ukraine and Israel war which costs the West tons of money.
People should be educated better - but you can't do it when globalization has kept them down for decades.