In the Bundestag debate on the amendment to the Basic Law, it was clear from the start how much the political personnel of the SPD and CDU have detached themselves from the geopolitical developments on the one hand, but also from the respect for the will of the voters on the other hand.
Both the chairman of the SPD, Lars Klingbeil and the chairman of the CDU, Friedrich Merz, claim that Germany is being called upon to take a leadership role and assume responsibility in the face of geopolitical developments. Germany is called upon to lead and take responsibility, a repeated assertion of German politics. It sounds good and, above all, impressive, but upon closer inspection, it is nothing at all.
Although I have been observing politics for a long time, I have never heard of foreign politicians publicly asking, “Germany, please lead us!” The idea that something like this could happen is simply absurd. It is a result of German megalomania, merely fantasized, short, it has nothing to do with reality. Why does no one correct this worst of all German illusions? Is the belief in German superiority and leadership strength so deeply rooted in German society that one no longer even notices the absurdity?
Merz remains true to the loss of reality in his speech, too. “The whole world is looking at Germany” he claims and is so wrong, as one can only be wrong, while he says that, a plane lands in Moscow. On board is US special envoy Steve Witkoff, who will brief Moscow on the results of a US delegation’s meeting with Ukrainian representatives in the Saudi port city of Jidda and will explore possibilities for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine war.
The world is looking at that. Germany has not only not contributed to these events, but has even tried to sabotage the development. Currently, no one is interested in Germany and its bizarre rearmament plans internationally. It has clearly become clear that Germany lacks the will for peace and the world has shown this to Germany in the last few years.
In a similar way, as Merz and Klingbeil have lost contact with the geopolitical reality, they have also lost contact with the people. Klingbeil offers the Greens a kind of Jamaica coalition light, if they agree to the Basic Law amendment and the associated militarization of Germany. In general, the Greens have nothing against militarization. They are currently the most beautiful of all the parties represented in the Bundestag. Only, there should still be something for the climate in there. Klingbeil is coming to the Greens.
“We have offered to expand the special fund to include aspects of climate protection” Klingbeil is thus promoting in the green camp. “They have the firm commitment that in the design of the special fund and in the reform of the debt brake for the next legislative period, they will be closely involved and will participate.”
It is hard to imagine more contempt for the voters and towards democracy. Because the majority for a Basic Law amendment is missing in the next legislative period, Klingbeil wants to rush it through before the new Bundestag is even constituted. Because the votes of the Greens are necessary for this, Klingbeil promises them the right to participate. The crashing-abandoned politics of the Ampel coalition will be continued against the will of the voters. This fits, as the Merz-CDU is breaking all its election promises and switching to a red-green course.
In the election campaign, Merz promised fiscal discipline. There was no mention of a de facto abolition of the debt brake. In the election campaign, Merz railed against “green and left-wing spinners.” Now he is ready to implement their politics. The peak of contempt for the voters, however, is that this political trickery and backstabbing is justified by saying it serves the protection of democracy, as it brings the “extremist parties” to their right to participate in politics, meaning the AfD and the BSW. The will of the voters should not be exercised in the Bundestag.
Whatever the Bundestag decides on the Basic Law and the debt brake, it is already clear that this coalition has no future, as it wants to govern against reality. It misjudges the geopolitical realities and, before the official start of government business, it is acting character- and responsibility-less against the interests of the voters and the signs of the times. The continued so, for which the established German parties stand, has been rejected. Eternal and representatives of German megalomania will neither have the majority of German voters nor the international community on the government bench in the Bundestag.