Germany Shall Not Rearm
German militarism and industrial power triggered two global conflicts. Now, cloaked by NATO and the EU, German imperial ambitions on the continent are resurfacing.
Oh, fantastic! Looks like Germany’s shiny new Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul, is itching to roll out a full-blown kangaroo court to sidestep the pesky International Criminal Court. Because, you know, who needs legitimate international justice when you can whip up a circus trial to suit your fancy? Forget Germany’s decades-long love affair with the ICC—Wadephul’s apparently ready to toss all that out the window for some good ol’ fashioned shenanigans. Bravo, Mr. Wadephul, truly a visionary move!
And he's echoed in unison by the entire parade of European clowns, flocking to Lviv, the capital of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, to celebrate the victory over Nazism. Oh, the irony! Oh, the amnesia!
Heaven forbid we bring up the tiny detail that any "special tribunal" needs the UN Security Council’s blessing, a resolution! And—gasp—Germany doesn’t hold a permanent seat, because, you know, losing WWII and that whole Nazi stuff (rightly) keeps her out of the VIP club. Meanwhile, Russia’s just lounging there with its veto. Guess you’ll have to sweet-talk Moscow first - tough luck, Mr. Wadephul!
This laughably sketchy “special tribunal” slapped together with zero legitimacy is clearly just a cute little trick to keep those petty Ukrainian war crimes from ever seeing a courtroom—something the ICC would’ve jumped on faster than you can say “justice.” And, oopsie, every Western bigwig’s got their fingerprints all over those crimes. Nice one, Mr. Wadephul, but your grand plan’s about as subtle as a Tiger tank doing donuts in an orchard in Normandy, 1944. We’re onto you, genius.
Let’s just keep stomping right into the mess, shall we? Brace yourself for the splatter!
The European Union has never been a force for peace. The EU is nothing but a global impotence, a mere branch of NATO, a military alliance that, since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, has strayed away from its defensive purpose. The EU is the hybrid, non-military arm of NATO. NATO and the EU enable the elites across the Rhine to once again pursue the continental imperialism that caused two world wars and over 150 million deaths. This imperialism has always rested on the twin pillars of militarism and industry.
Calls for reindustrialization via armaments, such as von der Leyen’s virtual €800 billion plan, are presented as necessary measures. Yet, the war in Ukraine and anti-Russian sentiment serve as mere excuses for Germany’s rearmament, which stands as the primary security threat in Europe, alongside Turkey’s Qatar-funded military expansion.
The European project has handed Germany the reins to dominate the continent’s industry and economy. Post-Berlin Wall, NATO has been Germany’s tool to steer American military might in its favor across the same continent, with Ukraine as a prime example.
Trump’s victory, tossing a hefty spanner into the “Hübsche”1 works, has laid bare this truth. It also sheds light on the deep-seated animosity toward Russia, which—by no accident—burns hottest in Northern Europe. This is proof that a cohesive Europe is a myth. Bismarck foresaw this long ago, just as he noted that geography remains history’s only fixed star.
François Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, once quipped, “I love Germany so much that I’m thrilled there are two of them.” This sentiment was shared by others, including Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Treasury Secretary under Roosevelt, who crafted the Morgenthau Plan to ensure Germany could never again ignite global conflict.
The plan was bold, proposing to divide Germany into northern and southern states, internationalize the northern Rhineland, transfer the Saar to France, cede Silesia to Poland, and split East Prussia between Poland and the Soviet Union. It also aimed to dismantle Germany’s heavy industry and obliterate its coal and iron mines.