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The German Elite’s Anti-Americanism

Much of the sense of European superiority towards America has long rested on an elitist belief that America is dominated by the wrong kind of voters.

Trump has no idea of foreign policy.” “Amateur diplomats.” “Trump privatises foreign policy.” These are the phrases echoing through German newsrooms and opinion columns—often accompanied by imagery that goes considerably further: Der Spiegel’s covers depicting Trump as Hitler or as a dictator are only the most prominent examples. The cumulative effect on public opinion has been measurable. A recent Allensbach survey found that German approval for cooperation with and trust in America had fallen dramatically, from 62% in 2020 to just 34%. A full 64% of respondents agreed that “Donald Trump disregards international rules and long-standing alliances, thereby bringing chaos to the world.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 10, 2026March 9, 2026•0•Germany, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?, USA

German high school students protest against military service

Young people gathered in Berlin’s central Potsdamer Square on Thursday and marched through the German capital to protest against the government’s plans to reintroduce military service. While the police counted around 3,000 participants, organizers claimed there were 6,000 demonstrators in Berlin and 50,000 in more than 130 towns and cities across Germany.

“I don’t think I’ll be dying for my friends, relatives or acquaintances, in the worst-case scenario,” 17-year-old Shmuel Schatz, spokesperson for the School Strike Committee, told DW’s Gasia Ohanes. “Rather, in the end, only for those who are put into the trenches for the interests of large corporations like Rheinmetall, ThyssenKrupp, and others, so they can line their pockets at the expense of war.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 6, 2026March 6, 2026•0•Germany

German Federal Prosecutor: 96% of Cases Linked to Islamist or Foreign Extremism

AfD MP warns that Germany’s irresponsible liberal migration policies have contributed to a surge in the number of extremists under investigation.

In 2025, the German Federal Prosecutor General’s office initiated 305 new proceedings, with 180 related to Islamist terrorism and 114 concerning foreign extremism.

“Right-wing extremism” accounted for just nine cases, and left-wing extremism only two. The data was disclosed in response to a parliamentary inquiry by Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) MP Martin Hess.

by Blazingcatfur•March 4, 2026March 3, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Is it a crime to mock politicians in Germany?

On 23 February 2026, police in Heilbronn, a city in south-west Germany, opened a criminal investigation into a retired man. His alleged crime? Calling chancellor Freidrich Merz ‘Pinocchio’. No threats. No incitement. Just a blunt, rather amusing suggestion that Germany’s national leader tells lies. Welcome to Germany in 2026, where mocking a politician is now a police matter.

by Blazingcatfur•March 4, 2026March 3, 2026•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Germany

Germany Is Pumping Up Its Military Spending. That Worries Its Neighbors.

President Emmanuel Macron of France has persistently called for Europe to act decisively to defend itself and its own interests in a world where Russia is on the march, China is economically aggressive and the United States is turning away.

Mr. Macron first talked of the need for European strategic “autonomy” in 2017. In the last year, with trans-Atlantic relations spinning downward, Europeans seem to have heard the message: They need to do more and spend more in their own defense.

But there is a built-in political problem. Germany is already spending much more money than its European partners, according to military spending trackers, like that of the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based research organization. After years of aversion to war because of its history and a hope that the collapse of the Soviet Union would bring about a more peaceful world, the German military had shrunk badly.

by Blazingcatfur•March 3, 2026March 3, 2026•0•Germany

Germany is aging and shrinking much faster than expected

The latest forecasts predict a sharp decline in the population. One reason is that too few children are being born. Immigration, even in greater numbers, will not offset the trend.

The figure 1.35 should set off alarm bells for policymakers: on average, each woman in Germany now has just 1.35 children — a record low, and far below the 2.1 needed to keep the population stable. These latest calculations from the Federal Statistical Office underscore the scale of the demographic challenge.

In 2025, about 650,000 children were born in Germany, down from around 677,000 the year before. In both years, around one million people died. By December 31, 2025, the population stood at approximately 83.5 million — 100,000 fewer than at the end of 2024.

by Blazingcatfur•February 28, 2026February 28, 2026•0•Demography, Germany

German Court Blocks Intelligence Agency From Branding AfD ‘Confirmed Extremist

A court in Cologne has dealt a significant blow to Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, ruling that it may not, for now, classify the opposition Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation.

In a decision published on Thursday, February 26th, the Administrative Court said that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) must await the outcome of the main legal proceedings before treating the party as “gesichert rechtsextremistisch”—a designation that would allow expanded surveillance powers and further embolden calls for a party ban.

by Blazingcatfur•February 26, 2026February 26, 2026•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Back to the GDR? Why east Germans doubt reunification was worth it

A month after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the East German rock star Petra Zieger and her band winched their instruments up to the top of the Brandenburg Gate, looming 85ft over the government district.

For a little over a decade she and her husband, the band’s drummer Peter Taudte, had been testing the boundaries of what artists could get away with under the stifling censorship of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Her hit single Das Eis taut (“The Ice is Thawing”), thought to be the only piece of music ever performed atop the landmark, captured the zeitgeist: a volatile mixture of optimism, wariness, uncertainty and excitement.

by Blazingcatfur•February 25, 2026February 24, 2026•0•Germany

The German army’s drones disaster

German politicians like to talk about Zeitenwende – the country’s great turning point in its defence policy since the invasion of Ukraine. And it has certainly turned: towards spending billions of taxpayer euros on drones that cannot fly in frontline situations, seemingly cannot hit their targets, and whose largest investors sit not in Berlin or Brussels, but in Silicon Valley boardrooms with direct lines to the White House and CIA. If this is European defence sovereignty, one could wonder what this dependency actually looks like. And if Europe really is serious about this change.

Seems there’s a lesson for Carney in this. But I’m sure his China pivot will smooth things out.

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2026February 24, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany, WTF?

Happy Ramadan! Afghan knifeman attacks multiple people in German train station

Afghan knifeman attacks multiple people at Jehovah’s Witness stand in German train station before being overpowered by hero civilians

An Afghan knifeman has attacked multiple people at a Jehovah’s Witness stand in a German train station.

The 35-year-old attacker was then overpowered by heroic civilians at Würzburg Central Station who rushed to the victims’ aid.

Police are treating it as an attempted homicide and have arrested a suspect in connection with the attack who is now in custody.

h/t Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2026February 23, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany’s AfD poll 37% ahead of rivals in September regional vote

The ~~anti-immigrant~~ Pro-Germany Alternative for Germany (AfD) party holds a commanding lead in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as voters across several regions are set to cast their ballots in a bumper election year.

The AfD topped a representative survey by pollsters Forsa in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 37%, followed by the Social Democrats (SPD), who lead the current state government, with 23%.

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2026February 19, 2026•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Germany Records Sharp Increase in Ideologically Motivated Attacks Against Its Nationals

New federal data reveals a steady climb in criminal offenses targeting Germans based on their ethnicity. According to a government report requested by Alternative für Deutschland MP Martin Hess, authorities recorded 377 anti-German incidents in 2025. While this represents a modest 3.3% increase from the 365 cases in 2024, the long-term trend is stark: in 2019, there were fewer than a third as many cases (132).

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2026February 19, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

GWYN MORGAN: Germany’s green energy gamble and open borders backfired, Canada should take note

Muslims in Germany: Caliphate is the solution

Germany was postwar Europe’s greatest economic success story. Today, it is a cautionary tale. Once the continent’s industrial engine, Germany has spent the past decade dismantling the foundations of its prosperity through energy and immigration policies driven more by ideology than evidence or good sense. The results have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash. Canada should study this record closely because we are pursuing many of the same policies.

Germany has one thing going for it Canada does not – The AfD.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2026February 17, 2026•0•Canada, Germany

Germany: Have Certain Terrorists Been Getting a Pass?

In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, a reportedly leftist radical network, “Volcano Group” (Vulkangruppe), committed an arson attack against the power grid in Berlin, Germany, causing an electricity blackout that left 45,000 households and 2,000 businesses – approximately 100,000 people – without heat and light during freezing winter temperatures for up to five days. It was reportedly the longest blackout in Germany since World War II.

The radicals in Volcano Group claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement, they said that the network had aimed to “cut the juice to the ruling class” and claimed that the attack was about action to protect the climate from fossil fuels, artificial intelligence and a “greed for energy.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2026February 17, 2026•0•"Far Left Extremism", Germany, terror attack, Terrorism - Domestic

German and UK military chiefs state case for rearming

The defense chief of Germany’s Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer, and the United Kingdom’s chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, have jointly stated the case for rearming, amid the threat posed by Russia.

The top military officials penned a joint letter, published in The Guardian and German newspaper Welt, in which they said there was a “moral” case to be made for rearming.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•Germany, UK