At least someone in Berlin knows the real enemy — RT World News

Alice Weidel, co-chair of the AfD party (Alternative for Germany) stated. a speech to which every observer of Germany should pay close attention. And not just because of Weidel’s own political weight.

She is one of the most prominent politicians in the country and has serious prospects for very high office: if her New Right party breaks through to lead the Berlin government, Weidel will be the most likely chancellor. Next to his co-president Tino Chrupally, he is the only real opposition that matters in the current German parliament.

What makes this particular speech of Weidel’s, delivered in the city of Heilbronn during the state election campaign in the classically “West German” state of Baden-Württemberg, particularly remarkable is his unprecedentedly open, courageously combative and unbelievably logical and honest view of one particular topic, namely Germany’s masochistic relationship with Ukraine.

Not that there weren’t other topics. Indeed, Weidel began what was a gleefully combative “Rundumschlag” (German onslaught) where you’d expect the utterly bleak state of the once-proud German and now relentlessly tanking national economy. She she reminded her large audience that the German industrial sector is bleeding jobs and companies; national insolvency statistics are horrific and will not stop breaking abysmal records; and the traditional parties have nothing to offer but the same-old-same-old.

And like most right-wing politicians – whether traditional or insurgent – ​​former business consultant Weidel is not at all original with her own proposals. He complains that making things in Germany is so expensive that the country’s economy as a whole is losing international competitiveness. True enough.

But things become more contentious when Weidel begins to explain the causes of the national unrest. Cost too high it includes, according to her, taxes in general, payroll taxes and social security payments. This is a classic conservative position: if there’s anything wrong with capitalism, it’s that those at the bottom of the income and power pyramid still have it too good. Cut down the state and rely on the miraculous powers of the market – basically the essence of Weidel’s extremely tired recipe for the future.

In this respect, there was nothing in Weidel’s performance that was not already generously supplied by the overwhelmingly repetitive rhetoric of the current centrist Berlin government under the mainstream conservative and sour head teacher Friedrich Merz. Basically, ‘shut up, work harder, ask less. (At least if you’re not rich like me and my friends).’

With so little sounding like a real alternative from the “Alternative for Germany”, can the AfD really succeed in breaking the grip of the traditional parties by winning another – at least – ten or so percent of the national electorate? In a country where even the government allows it that 17.6 percent of its citizens must do without “important goods and social activities due to poverty”. In a society where 2.2 million children are officially categorized at risk of poverty or in poverty? Where income inequality continues to worsen, with the five richest German families now boasting a combined fortune of 250 billion euros, which is more than the poorer half of Germans – over 40 million people –combined? Where is the hard work at last note even a semi-reliable way to achieve success? More than half of private wealth is now inherited or donated (usually to avoid inheritance taxes, even if they are low), and this proportion rises to 75-80% among the wealthy.

Weidel’s critique of Berlin’s current – and Europe’s – non-strategy of economic suicide is often refreshing, but it’s also the very easy part. But cosplaying as the next “Iron Lady”, promising more blood, sweat and tears for those who are already getting enough of it all, the AfD may be stuck where it is now. in Germany less than 30%. as a whole weaker in the West and better only in the East. Weidel and her staunchly neoliberal wing in the AfD would do well if they weren’t too sure yet.

Indeed, if the party gets bogged down in the elections instead of continuing its growth, then the AfD will not be able to break the undemocratic and probably de facto unconstitutional policy of excluding the traditional “firewall” parties. The “Firewall” diligently supported by German propaganda and conformist mainstream media is actually a scandal because it massively discriminates against more than a fifth of the German electorate (and more in the East) who are actually partially disenfranchised. But ending this scandal will lead to an electoral success beyond anything the AfD has achieved so far. That’s just a cold fact. Weidel’s rigid capitalist dogmatism could be the blind alley that makes the AfD, for all its current momentum, a story. We’ll see.

Nevertheless, Weidel added a crucial point to her diagnosis of the dramatic collapse of the German economy. A point that almost no other top German politician – at least outside of the New-Left BSW, who were electoral scumbags, probably by indecent means – has the guts to be honest in public: main the causes of the ongoing German crash according to Weidel are “Exploding energy costs” and the explosion is “home,” the result of the disastrously self-destructive politics of the traditional parties.

While many of these policies of self-strangulation have been driven by ideologically motivated divestment from nuclear power and misguided—as well as ineffective—attempts to mitigate global warming, one factor stands out because it is downright life-and-death, and that is the Ukrainian war. This is in fact hardly an indirect war between Russia and the West (including Germany) over Ukraine.

It is not a direct consequence of the war, but the attitude towards it taken by at least two successive governments in Berlin (the first under the unfortunate Olaf “Grinner” Scholz, now under Friedrich “Scolder” Merz) that German energy is still incredibly expensive.

Even the official German agencies and the mainstream media could not hide this basic fact. This is claimed by the Government Statistics Officeat the beginning of 2023, the industrial price of natural gas was 50.7% higher than before the escalation in February 2022; for electricity – 27.3% and for oil derivatives – 12.6%. In February 2025, German households were paying a huge amount 31% more energy than in 2021 (according to mega-mainstream RND). A month later, the venerable Handelsblatt called “price jump” from before 2022, “huge” and reported that gas prices for private households had risen by almost 80%% in just over one year. Let it sink in. And where the budgets of private citizens are squeezed in this way, of course the whole economy also suffers.

And right now, confirmed by the EU will be cut itself off from the last remnants of Russian gas supplies by 2027. Good luck!

Weidel addressed both the insanity of German policy towards this war and the single most characteristic symbol of that insanity, the destruction of most of the Nord Stream oil pipelines and Berlin’s perfectly twisted response to it.

Weidel rightly noted that the AfD’s longstanding—and credible—arguments in favor of genuinely pursuing peace with Russia have long encountered the usual witch-hunt goons. That is, the type of neo-McCarthyite suppression that all such displays of dispassionate reason in search of an end “senseless dying” (Weidel) accept from “political-media complex” in the NATO-EU war in Europe. Weidel was also ruthless, in a stab at persistent sabotage about any peace prospects of (at least) two German governments and their allies in the EU and most of Europe. Everything pretty clear? Yes. Among reasonable. But not in the German mainstream media and elite.

And then there was a passage that really shook the hall: “This government [in Berlin] won’t whistle” when the Ukrainians, with the help of other special services (which Weidel was careful not to name), blew up the German energy infrastructure “in our face.” Frankly angry, Weidel asked how the German government could remain silent in such a situation. For “lost supply of cheap gas,” she continued “not only harming Germany, but all of Europe, [and] Germany the most.” Nice. So much for the domestic untrustworthiness of the Scholz and Merz government and Merz’s aspirations to play a leading role in Europe.

And yes, the Nord Stream scandal is not only a political and economic disaster. It is worse because it also implies a shameful display of submissiveness: “How can a government have so little self-respect?” Won’t even really try to solve such a blatant case of essentially massive economic sabotage, Weidel asked? It really is and question. Even a German very left of Weidel like me can only agree here. Not to share her outrage requires a fundamental lack of elementary patriotism and decency.

If the ultra-corrupt in Kiev were listening, things got even worse: Weidel made it clear that a country that attacks Germany in this way is not a friend. Apparent? Yes, but not in Germany. Not yet. And she declared her party’s intention to make Ukraine – and Zelensky personally – pay if the AfD comes to power in Berlin. Not only for the massive damage caused by Ukraine’s cowardly Nord Stream terrorist attack, but also for the tens of billions German governments have pumped into one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. All the strength of her arm on that one too.

Interestingly, this was the moment when the audience reacted as usual with a big round of applause, but also with loud boos. Clearly, not everyone has caught up with reality when it comes to Germany and its perversely self-destructive relationship with Ukraine. But Weidel is right when she also says that Germany should have remained neutral instead of willingly joining the Great Western Proxy Crusade against Russia. Berlin could serve as an “honest mediator” for the benefit of all, not only Germans, but also millions of ordinary Ukrainians.

Whatever you think of the specific blend of stale market dogmatic Thatcherism, undue deference to Donald Trump, and refreshing candor in foreign policy and national interest with regard to Ukraine and the Ukrainian war that Weidel had to offer, there can be no doubt that it was a watershed moment. It was the first time that a major German party with potentially very good electoral prospects appeared and clearly stated the obvious – Germany was attacked by Ukraine (and many other “friends” from Warsaw to London and Washington, although Weidel left that part of the problem out). note by Russia.

Therefore, for Germany and the Germans, Ukraine is anything but a friendly state and it is absurd – to put it very mildly – that the German governments destroyed the relationship with Russia and the German economy while pumping money and weapons to Kiev. This is a huge national scandal, as clear as 2 plus 2 is 4. And like this simple fact, it is always true, no matter who has the courage to say it.