Elections will be held on Sunday.

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Germany: Quo vadis?

For the road to somewhere

no road yet for your thoughts and actions?

Do not despair. Create a beaten path there and walk it—

no matter how bumpy it may be.

Tread it firmly by using it again and again. Then, from there

to get to somewhere or anywhere.

A few words about myself first. A month has now passed since I published the first article on the redesigned homepage: nine more have followed since. When I mentioned as one of my motivations the effort to overcome the writer's block that overcame me last year, it has indeed proven true: action often follows advice.

Today I can say with a certain degree of confidence: Anyone who reads Liske's "Perspective" can be assured of an objective analytical quality, focused on the benefit of our country and its people, encompassing both time and complexity. From this perspective emerge viewpoints, suggestions, ideas, and concepts that, to a considerable extent, are not available anywhere else. I sincerely thank everyone for their support so far and for the kind words regarding the quality. Those who would also like to support my work can do so here .

Now, some thoughts on Sunday's election. Not everyone will have read all the articles so far and paid attention to the aspects relevant to the election. Therefore, here is a reflection on the election. I suggest taking a look at the articles for the points that catch your attention, so you can gain additional benefit from the explanations there. Another suggestion: Use the links included in the texts. Sometimes they serve the purpose of providing evidence, sometimes they offer aphorisms or quotations to add depth and stimulate your thinking through mental provocations , breaking through familiar thought patterns (book recommendation: Serious Creativity by Edward de Bono, 1 , 2 ). It's worth taking the time to do so.

It began with an analysis of the nature of American politics: The other side of the coin (Another article on this topic will follow shortly). For us Germans, it is extremely important to understand this politics, and this applies not only to politicians and the media. Every citizen should follow it closely and reflect on its impact on their own lives: This is particularly relevant now with regard to the American-Russian talks, but also the still-existing intention to deploy intermediate-range missiles starting next year.

Since March 2022, I have been writing about a US war against Russia, and later I also recognized one against Germany ( 1 ). If, now, parallel to the talks in Saudi Arabia about peace in Ukraine, politicians are defiantly lamenting that they aren't even allowed a seat at the kids' table ( Chancellor from 0:53 , Annalena Baerbock from 4:20 , Friedrich Merz : NATO membership for Ukraine not off the table for Merz), while they continue to escalate the situation with arms and ammunition deliveries to Ukraine and poison the population with Russophobic demagoguery – everyone should read the commentary by t-online editor-in-chief Florian Harms from February 18th – then reflecting on this beyond Sunday could be very helpful. The same applies to the decisions (from 1:17 onwards) that might be made starting next Monday – regardless of the fact that such intentions are based on significant miscalculations. However, speculating on what else might be done "out of consideration for the voters" only after the election is certainly worthwhile.

I then turned my attention to the attacks in Aschaffenburg and Magdeburg: These are no coincidences . Even in the headline, I discussed what I later elaborated upon. The same applies to the fact that the migration debate serves only as a distraction. If voters fail to recognize the influence that rearmament and foreign policy have on whether all those fine campaign promises become reality, they shouldn't be surprised when they wake up at the end of the day in a different reality than the one they voted for.

And that brings us to the migration debate initiated by the CDU/CSU and their five-point plan: The Russians: Who else? My objection there was to something that has not been addressed anywhere politically or in the media to this day.

The migration crisis stems largely from the Syrian civil war, which Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has fueled and prolonged for years. To this day, Putin instrumentalizes migration as a hybrid weapon, sending hundreds of people across the Belarusian border to Europe every week. As a result of Russia's war of aggression, which violates international law, more than one million Ukrainians have fled to Germany.

In this "turning point" of history, our society is being flooded with Russophobia almost daily and almost everywhere, to such an extent that such things no longer register: The spreading normality is becoming the norm of our social culture, and from it arises actions that are detrimental to the country and its people. In the present case, a plan for managing migration is worthless if it is not based on a comprehensive problem analysis to which it responds adequately. Here, not only is this lacking, but the thesis of Putin being responsible is—as has been proven—false and serves to obscure the true causes of migration. But how can a problem be substantially solved if the underlying assumptions are wrong and the underlying thinking is not even capable of solving the problem: because it is characterized by Russophobic demagoguery, cowardice, and an insufficient capacity for comprehensive problem-solving? Then the intended action becomes a dud and serves only the purpose of deceiving voters.

Before turning to the version presented by the German Bundestag on January 29 and especially 31, I was inspired by a morning devotion on Deutschlandfunk radio on January 27 to reflect on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: I am ashamed! I did so five years ago as well ( 1 , 2 ). It is always shameful how, on commemorative days like this, we find grand words and speak of not tolerating forgetting, yet there is no trace of this in our concrete actions. Just as in the days of fascism, we are stoking hatred against Russia to justify rearmament, and we are unable to derive from raison d'état the responsibility to also oppose the genocide in Gaza. This happens, not least, because the citizens—the voters—tolerate it. If it is then accepted that Friedrich Merz, Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner declare their intention to deliver TAURUS to Ukraine and that they, together with the SPD, want to continue burning taxpayers' money in Ukraine, then voices in this direction signify approval of this course: which is then also responsible for the fact that funds are not available for many other issues and, through the intention to loosen the debt brake for this purpose, for the fact that future generations will be burdened even more.

Then there was my analysis of the Bundestag debate from January 31st – which began with a theatrical critique . Reactions ranged from "I haven't laughed so much in these hopeless times" to "Your portrayal of the recently performed political theater has a literary quality," but everyone understood : They were debating a largely unsubstantiated, hysterical debate characterized by attacks on political opponents and insults, in which there was virtually no focus on ideas for solving problems, but rather on attacks against the political opposition, and especially the AfD. This overall spectacle, however, served a purpose: to use the migration debate to distract from the issues that, according to the research group Wahlen, are most important to voters. According to them, by far the most important issue is war and security (48 percent). This is followed by the economy (41 percent) and social justice (40 percent). Refugees and asylum lag far behind (27 percent). Three days before the election, Markus Preiß had to admit in the final round of the ARD's "Election 2025" segment : War and peace is the most important issue for voters. This logically confirms what I've discussed several times before: Sunday's election is a referendum on war and peace. ( 1 , 2 ).

Without a doubt, migration flows are a major problem for Germany ( Part 2 ). The number of migrants, the resources they tie up, and the costs incurred are immense. Therefore, it is necessary to finally confront the truth that the vast majority of people are fleeing wars initiated by the USA – which is significantly supported by Germany. When one also understands how this affects the non-war-related economy and social aspects – similarly in the places where war is raging and migration originates – the path opens to the realization of how, in the truest sense of the word, war and peace are the decisive issues. Meanwhile, we are already so far down the path of war that Germans themselves can become migrants again, hoping for a welcoming culture from their neighbors.

However, if the political and media narrative is turned on its head – with migration becoming the most important issue – this serves only one purpose: distraction ( Part 3 ). I expressed what people are willing to do to achieve this with the assertion that one cannot rule out the possibility that the attacks in Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg, as well as those in Mannheim and Solingen, were carried out with the intention of influencing the federal elections through the migration debate. My fear of being branded a conspiracy theorist was allayed just two days later by ZDF and Phoenix: Following the attack in Munich , ZDF moderator Wulf Schmiese and Linda Zervakis, ARD "security experts," Marietta Slomka on Bluesky , and security expert Jörg Trauboth on Phoenix all discussed the issue in the same – I correct myself, in a similar – manner. Since, unlike me, they were genuine experts, they were sufficiently competent to know immediately who was responsible for the attacks: " The Russians: Who else? " Germany 2025 (2024), I dread you, I have been closing my posts on X for some time now when I encounter such abilities: In the year 4 after the year 33 of the "turning point" of the fall of the Berlin Wall – on the way to the year 39, which this time will probably come much faster.

Sunday's election will therefore be a referendum on Germany's path to war , for rarely have the intentions – from the Taurus missile to unconditional support for Ukraine, rearmament, and the path to conscription – been communicated so openly. Beyond considering global aspects, the current circumstances offer little hope of speaking of a referendum on war and peace. All the more reason, then, for voters not to simply cast their ballots on Sunday, but rather to make their voices heard. Voters must retain their voices and strengthen them – for their own sake.

Democracy needs more than just the voice of the people,

but also their eyes, their ears, and their minds.

I then explored these related ideas in Enlivening humanity. Immanuel Kant, whose 300th birthday is being commemorated this year, already knew how difficult it is to develop into a self-determined self.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in a lack of understanding, but in a lack of resolve and courage to use it without the guidance of another.

Beyond Sunday, advocating for peace and delving deeper into the causes of the problems facing Germany – understanding that the time for simple answers is over and only the truth offers hope – can be of existential importance and makes it clear that this is a more significant individual contribution to strengthening our democracy than simply casting a vote on Sunday .

An increasing self-determination for each and every one of us

makes a similar contribution to our country as a drop of water,

which gives the current its power.

We are a people who only have a future together .

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