Germany's greed for war
- Mar 4
- 8 min read
Updated: Mar 8
Confrontation instead of diplomacy, geopolitics instead of international law, rearmament instead of values
Germany – wake up! You are squandering your values.
Without values, you gamble away your future.
When I wrote several times last year that the federal election would be a referendum on Germany's path to war, this is confirmed not only by the accelerated rearmament that began on Tuesday after the election. Just as pesticides and heavy metals are found in food and attack the chemical structure of DNA, there has been an exorbitant increase in the media's coverage of the population with Russophobia since the "turning point" in history. This is conditioned to believe that rearmament has become the primary investment goal and that support for Ukraine functions almost as an eternity clause, as it is tied to the goal that Russia must not win this war and, ideally, be defeated.
Our society largely accepts all of this with indifference, because one cannot speak of a large peace movement with any significant impact. But anyone who believes that Russophobia adequately describes the increasingly resurgent aggressive German character must increasingly realize that they have not penetrated its deeper layers. A glance at the German stance on the war in Gaza makes this clear, but the German character now has even more to offer. When Israel attacked Iran last year, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on June 17th on ZDF :
This is the dirty work Israel does for all of us. ... I can only say I have the utmost respect for the Israeli army and the Israeli leadership for having the courage to do this.
Scholars disagree on whether last year's attack was already illegal under international law, and proponents of the war argue that Israel faces an existential threat from what they now consider a genuine threat: an Iranian nuclear bomb. The fact that US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated as recently as March that Iran would not build a nuclear bomb and that Supreme Leader Khamenei had not reinstated the nuclear weapons program he had suspended in 2003 was disregarded.
Friedrich Merz's widely criticized statement was not a slip of the tongue, but a calculated move. By suggesting that Germany had been too cowardly or too complacent to get its hands dirty, he is preparing the German people for his intention to close this perceived gap. Germany's hunger for war stems from the urge to finally be capable of action again – whatever the cost under international law. On January 23 of this year, he said... in a speech at the Körber Global Leaders Dialogue on Germany's foreign and European policy priorities:
We need a change in policy, including in foreign and security policy, in order to effectively assert our interests and values during this time of epochal change.
That Germany doesn't take international law seriously and increasingly ignores it was evident at the beginning of the year when the Chancellor avoided clearly commenting on the hostage-taking of President Maduro . When Iran was attacked again, he declared :
Existing rules, including those of international law, are being increasingly disregarded. ... From everything we know, numerous prominent representatives of the Iranian regime have died as a result, including the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. ... International legal classifications will likely have relatively little effect in this situation.
When asked about the violation of international law, he said:
We see the dilemma that international legal measures and steps, which we have repeatedly attempted to take over the past decades, are clearly ineffective against a regime that is developing nuclear weapons and brutally oppressing its own people. This puts us in a difficult position. But we can at least say this much from an international legal perspective: It is an ongoing conflict, spanning decades, which Israel and the United States of America now want to end through military strikes, both with regard to the terrorism that is gripping the entire region and with regard to the development of nuclear-capable missiles. There is no ideal time to take such action, but there may come a time when it is too late. That is why our assessment is very comprehensive and has led to the conclusion I have just described.
In summary, it must be stated that the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany shows understanding for the fact that the USA and Israel violate international law and take heads of state hostage or murder them. By endorsing this, he legitimizes a spiral of escalation to which Germany is joining through its rearmament and its increasingly aggressive self-image. Under the guise of realpolitik and European sovereignty, he is pursuing a course of geopolitical maturity. In this regard, however, a remark from my analysis "On the Nature of American Politics" is important to understand that this in no way leads to greater sovereignty:
Even though political and media assessments – and often discrediting ones – of Donald Trump have only changed marginally since the presidential election, this doesn't really reflect a zeitgeist characterized by shortsightedness and self-interest. Therefore, one cannot rule out the possibility that this is a carefully calculated overture to a drama that will impose considerable burdens on citizens in the coming years. By portraying Donald Trump as the bad boy who harasses Europe and demands high tariffs, significant increases in defense budgets, and the costs of reconstruction in Ukraine, politicians in this country can gain political capital from their voters by "wringing" him to ensure that things don't turn out as badly as he demands. Many will likely be convinced of their own power, but ultimately it will be a game designed to appease the public, and the stronger party will win: the USA.
That such an understanding is not far removed from the attempt to blame the attacked party for its suffering – which includes the death of 171 girls in a girls' school – was demonstrated when the Chancellor, together with President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer, denied Iran the right to counterattacks and threatened it with German military force:
The leaders of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom are appalled by Iran's indiscriminate and disproportionate missile attacks on countries in the region, including those not involved in the original US and Israeli military operations. ... We call on Iran to immediately cease its reckless attacks. We will take the necessary measures to defend our interests and those of our allies in the region. This may potentially include, if necessary, enabling proportionate military defensive measures to destroy Iran's ability to launch missiles and drones at their source.
Regarding the double standards, it is sufficient to look at the way we deal with Russia ( Olaf Scholz on September 20, 2022 in New York before the United Nations General Assembly:
Our world has clear rules, rules that we, as the United Nations, have created together. This Charter promises us all peaceful coexistence. This Charter is our collective rejection of a lawless world! Our problem is not a lack of rules; our problem is the lack of will to abide by and enforce them. ... Therefore, we cannot sit idly by when a heavily armed, nuclear superpower—moreover, a founding member of the United Nations and a permanent member of the UN Security Council—seeks to redefine borders by force. Russia's war of conquest against Ukraine is inexcusable.
) as well as September 12th. What consequences this immediate action will have for Germany's reputation in the world and for its security – given that Islamic clerics have called for jihad and a fatwa has been issued declaring revenge for the death of Iran's Supreme Leader a religious duty for Muslims – remains to be seen, as does the question of what conclusions Russia and China will draw. This had an immediate effect on gas prices – they rose by 44 percent – and diesel prices at petrol stations exceeded the 2-euro mark.
When we dissect the nature of current German politics, we encounter a frightening form of systemic self-preservation, which, in the increasing continuity of its actions and its moral decay, suggests something far worse: an organism that sacrifices its host—the German population and its right to a good life—in order to save its ossified power structures. This "greed for war," which Friedrich Merz so openly articulates today and which is already evident in the way Germany deals with Russia and in its ignorance of the resulting consequences for the German population and economy, is the desperate attempt of a relic to feign relevance by destroying resources it can no longer creatively validate.. Hannah Arendt's understanding that evil is not monstrous but comes disguised as normality sharpens our awareness, in light of current German politics, of being both a witness to and a victim of a facet of this normality: a facet whose manifestation in a new horror we are rapidly approaching.
Being normal without a norm makes being normal the norm.
This entity has long since abandoned humanity as an end in itself. While the " AI pandemic " erodes the economic foundations of the population, politics fails to respond with civilizational innovations that would generate the strength for society to substantially and sustainably meet the challenges of our time. Instead, we witness a deliberate draining of vital energy: funding for education and research is dwindling, while the defense budget explodes to over 80 billion euros. The system is devouring the cognitive future of our generations, transforming it into steel and explosives. It is the reversal of progress: investing in the tools of death because we are incapable of mastering, let alone strengthening, the tools of life—values, individuality, education, cognitive diversity.
Russophobia and threats against Iran serve a perfidious systemic function: they distract from civilizational stagnation—which, incidentally, also applies to the discussions surrounding migration . A being that perceives itself as being at war and wants to become capable of warfare doesn't have to answer questions about social justice, educational reforms, or how AI can address mass unemployment. The "external enemy" justifies the "internal silence." International law becomes a mere pawn—invoked to bind the adversary and violated—as in the case of Iran—to demonstrate one's own capacity for action. It is a departure from reason in favor of a crude power calculation.
Contributing to this is the systematic dumbing down of the population – by weakening cognitive diversity through monocultural opinion corridors that are constantly being narrowed: The silent individual is valued more than the one who, through constant individual engagement with the challenges of the times, strengthens their flexibility, cognitive and creative abilities, and resilience. The goal is a "war-ready" mass, subservient enough to foot the bill for an arms race that exceeds the capabilities of the supposed enemy elevenfold.
The entity that Friedrich Merz leads today is a vampire system. It drains the innovative spirit and the hopes of current generations for a livable future to feed an anachronistic dream of geopolitical grandeur and nuclear sharing. It is a path to destruction, because the system could no longer exist in the light of knowledge and progress. The flames of war are intended to overshadow the wreckage of an educational and economic model that has reached its limits.
Anyone who talks about values today while simultaneously eyeing nuclear weapons, allowing schools and infrastructure, as well as thinking and emotions, to decay, has forfeited the right to call themselves civilized. In the end, nature defeats itself – but the price the population pays is the surrender of its future .
Germany 2026 , I dread you: In the 4th year after the 33rd year of the "turning point" of the fall of the Berlin Wall - on the way to the 39th year, which this time will probably come much faster.
