German AfD moves to expel young politician who fought Russians in Ukraine
German AfD moves to expel young politician who fought Russians in Ukraine
A 22-year-old German politician who secretly served in Ukraine’s army now faces expulsion from the pro-Russian Alternative for Germany party after calling his own leadership “Russia-kissers.”
I was looking at moving to Germany soon, can anyone there tell me if it is just headed towards US-levels of fascism? I feel like a lot of the news articles I read say as much, but I don't unfortunately know if the sources are the equivalent of FOX News or what.
You already got good answers but I'm going to add this:
English language news are (still) obsessed with Germany's past and every Nazi thing out of Germany will get amplified 10x more than, say, out of France or Sweden.
I don't think that will happen. We are watchful of everything working towards that direction.
And the racism is not nearly as open as in the US even in areas where the AfD is strong.
Germany, and especially Berlin, has been a Zionist police state for over a year, in addition to all the racism and Islamophobia. Fascism is absolutely making a comeback in Germany. See: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/germany and https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/western-central-and-south-eastern-europe/germany/report-germany/
I’m stuck here in the US like you, but I want to point out that you might not get a meaningfully useful answer to your question here. The majority of posters here are still actively denying that the civil war has already started because that only happens in poor countries.
Ew 🖕🖕🖕🖕 F that guy
Does someone know what's the overall sentiment of the German far-right wing to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Obviously the AfD is pro-Russia, and the far-right shares similar views on queer people - or "LGBT extremism" as the Russian state calls it - for example, but on the other hand I can also see them showing sympathy for Ukraine with controversial figures like Oleksandr Alfiorov as head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.
The modern far-right is heavily Pro-Russia overall. It's the strongest in East Germany where there is also a lot of nostalgia for the GDR, both from the right and the left.
Add in some public AfD-figures making claims like "Hitler was a communist" and there is just infinite confusion and anyone ends up being free to believe whatever fits their view.
So you have far-right people opposing Ukraine because Ukraine had a Nazi-Battalion and you have far-right people claiming the Nazis were actually leftists. There's no logic to be found here, but it all boils down to them being fans of Russia and gobbling up whatever gets pushed in their Facebook/Instagram/Twitter-Feeds.
I found a (possibly outdated) interesting German analysis paper by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation from March 2022 on how right wing extremists and conspiracy ideologists reacted to the conflict.
I am not german so i don't know either, but Russia doesn't have enough influence to force people to believe their stories. I believe even people who agree with Putin from a political point of view understand his invasion wasn't called for. They know Zelensky isn't a nazi. Even if they buy the story of NATO having expanded too far east they are often not against being in NATO for example. It is interesting there seems to be a difference in how the party leaders treat Russia and how their voters view Russia.
What i think matters most is not what they think but rather how much they care. Their nationalism comes from a need to care for themselves first, it's a kind of egoism that i think is rooted in a falsely perceived threat (There are no houses/jobs, because foreigners took them. The taxes are too high because there are too many lazy people living off benefits. There is no good healthcare/education because CEO's earn too much)*. These threats they perceive are much bigger problems, so they can't afford to worry about that that war in Ukraine. They will say it's not really our business anyway, we shouldn't meddle with foreign affairs. Let the Russians deal with this.
* before i get dogpiled, i'm not saying that it isn't a problem if there is a lack of housing and jobs, there are high taxes and health care and education are unaffordable; my point is they see an enemy that cause these issues intentionally and they need to fight that enemy (foreigners/lazy people/CEO's).
European far-right are similar to republicans in Russia's eyes. We cannot know how much money and influence there is between Russia and them but it is clear that they are the side Russia supports. Obviously it is entire possible that a far-right party isn't financially or otherwise supported by Russia, but even if they are not at all, the party will have a similar views of the world.
I am not german so i don’t know either, but Russia doesn’t have enough influence to force people to believe their stories.
There are enough right wing and conspiracy theories channels on social media that will spread their lies to the last boomer and Facebook moms. Russia doesn't need much to spread their ideas, just a few believable looking news sites run by them, and enough local influencers who share their stories in the German right wing bubbles to confirm what the people already believe.
they see an enemy that cause these issues intentionally
Expensive housing is caused by zoning laws. It is intentional, just not organised by foreigners and lazy people.
In a somehow related news, Hungary Moves to Jail Its Own Citizen for Joining Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia
The Hungarian authorities have charged the man in absentia with “illegal recruitment by joining an armed organization outside the forces of an allied state for the purpose of engaging in armed conflict.”
This is what you get from the far-right (and the far-left) I guess.
Trump hardliners want a power shift in the EU with the help of European allies. and this is one example.
Translation:
There are increasing indications that the Trump movement is actively interfering with the political future of the European Union. In March, the most influential conservative think tank in Washington, the Heritage Foundation, invited conservative thinkers from Vienna and Budapest to present their plans for the EU during a workshop.
“It is right for the United States to be involved in the future of Europe,” Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation told Nieuwsuur. According to the prominent conservative thinker, Donald Trump is America's first eurosceptic president. “The United States has protected Europe for so long that European governments should respect America’s views.”
Polish and Hungarian think tanks published an ambitious plan in March to fundamentally reform and dismantle the EU from within. A Hungarian investigative journalist uncovered the project, titled The Great Reset. The proposal was quickly adopted by the Heritage Foundation, the intellectual force behind Project 2025, the ideological blueprint for Trump’s agenda.
Power Back to Nation States
The now-public roadmap includes proposals to strip power from the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. It also calls for renaming the EU to the “European Community of Nations.” Power, according to the document, should return to the individual nation states of Europe.
“These proposals essentially amount to the complete dismantling of the European Commission, which would be reduced to handling only trivial matters,” explains Szabolcs Panyi, the journalist who obtained the document.
Nieuwsuur also spoke with one of the Polish authors of the plan, Zbigniew Przybyłowski of the conservative Ordo Iuris Institute: “We are calling for the restoration of democracy, freedom, and the sovereignty of nations. You could call that a power shift.”
“It’s quite unusual for such an article to appear on the U.S. State Department’s website.” – Lobbying expert Kenneth HaarU.S. Government Statement on Europe
In May of this year, a policy document appeared on the website of the U.S. State Department. In it, the American government raised alarm about the current state of Europe. The policy piece described Europe as having “degenerated into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, and restrictions on religious freedom.” It criticized efforts to limit election participation, for example by labeling Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as “extremist.”
The document, titled The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, called for strengthening ties with far-right and ultraconservative allies in Europe, such as French politician Marine Le Pen, AfD leader Alice Weidel, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Dutch PVV leader Geert Wilders. It is unclear whether the U.S. policy statement was influenced by the Polish-Hungarian Great Reset project.
“There has already been collaboration between the MAGA movement (Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign) and the European far-right,” says Danish lobby researcher Kenneth Haar. “But seeing such a document appear on the U.S. government’s official website is remarkable.”
“The Pro-European Candidate is a Disaster”
Haar points to the Conservative Political Action Conferences (CPAC) from the U.S., which have been held in Europe for the past three years. “These are very large conferences with hundreds of participants and prominent speakers, involving all major far-right parties in Europe.”
This also occurred recently during a tight race between two Polish presidential candidates. At a special CPAC conference in Poland, Trump’s former Homeland Security Secretary publicly called for a vote in favor of the eurosceptic candidate Karol Nawrocki. She labeled his pro-European opponent “a disaster.” Members of the Trump camp also expressed explicit support this year for Germany’s far-right AfD.
“The Heritage Foundation and the entire MAGA alliance appear to be succeeding in uniting Europe’s far-right parties in a way those parties haven’t been able to achieve on their own,” Haar adds.
Nile Gardiner, Director of European Policy at the Heritage Foundation, sees signs of a shift already: “A wind of change is blowing through Europe, including the Netherlands. There’s growing distrust of the concentration of power among unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.”
Brussels Silent
The European Commission has yet to respond to the ambitions coming from Washington. But according to Hungarian journalist Panyi, Brussels should be paying close attention to the far-reaching American involvement in European politics.
“We see that two EU member states—Hungary and Poland—are trying to shape the future of the EU outside of official decision-making procedures. They are enlisting the help of the U.S. in the hope that Trump will put pressure on the European Commission. That’s a threat.”
Gardiner, on the other hand, sees it as an opportunity. “Europe works best when it is a collaboration between sovereign nation states. The EU, by contrast, is about concentrating political power in Brussels. In 20 to 30 years, the EU will look very different than it does today.”
Disclosure
For this report, Nieuwsuur investigated the plans of European and American think tanks regarding the political future of Europe. Nieuwsuur spoke with experts, MEPs, and journalists from France, the Netherlands, Czechia, Hungary, the UK, Germany, and Poland. We interviewed the following sources:
The U.S. State Department declined to comment on Nieuwsuur's questions. The European Commission has not yet responded. Any future statements will be added here.
They should focus on their own political system... We like democracy, F*** off
Would you say the EU is democratic? It's the one thing they got right, that the EU is undermining democracy. The European Commission are representatives of representatives. Van der Leyen was a backroom deal.
Your comment shows a lack of understanding of what democracy is.
There is plenty of forms of democracy, and the appointment of the president of the European Commission is democratic.
It's a form of parliamentary democracy, where the European Council, a symbolic "head of state" of the EU made of heads of states/governments of EU members, nominates a candidate, which has to then be approved by the European Parliament.
This is a democratic system very close to what is adopted in many democratic countries.
So yes, this is democratic. There is no "backroom deal", this is just literally how a parliamentary democracy works. You elect representatives who make decisions for you, including appointing the executive.
Do you know Von Der Leyen is working on a new independent satellite system Eutelstat en IRIS to replace starlink and help ukraine? It was her proposal. Ursula von der Leyen doing a lot of great things for Europe make no mistake. I honestly don't care about her pfizer gate, because thats how negotiations work in politics. It cant be all transparant because why show all your cards on first hand... Thats not how that business works. I think she handled it well. She's also working to make Europe less dependent on oil and gas, but to rely more on green energy sources. Plus we have multiple parties representing different groups in the EU. Instead of having only 2 or 4 like in the US. Plus we investing in science and universities, climate, or own independent software and satellites... So yes we doing good under Von Der Leyen imo.
Plus she is a woman on the top, which is such a good example for little girls to see how far they can go in life which I am here for.