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2024-09-26 Europe
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'Green Transition': The Hydra That Strangled the German Economy Loses Two Heads
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Gregor Spitzen
[REGNUM] The entire leadership of the German Greens is resigning. Which is quite natural: after all, the party showed a simply disastrous result in the recent elections to the East German Landtags
The Greens failed to overcome the 5% threshold in Brandenburg, Saxony or Thuringia. And it is not surprising that the electorate in the former GDR territory gave the political adventurers a firm "no!"
What is surprising is how a party that has repeatedly demonstrated its hypocrisy and, at times, outright disregard for the opinions of its own voters in recent years has been able to play such an important role in German political life for so long.
"GREEN TRANSITION"
The Green Party was founded in 1980 in West Germany amid demonstrations for peace, nuclear disarmament and environmental protection, and initially did indeed champion the ideals of humanism and universal values. But in less than twenty years, it took a sharp turn toward militarism, taking an active part in organizing NATO's invasion of Yugoslavia with the total bombing of its civilian infrastructure.
With the start of the SVO in Ukraine, the ugly metamorphoses of the German "greens" received a new impetus: it got to the point that even the mainstream magazine Spiegel called the party leaders "olive-green" militarists, placing their images in camouflage uniforms on the cover of one of its issues.
But the icing on the cake, perhaps, was the transformation of one of the party’s founding fathers, Yoschka Fischer, who in his youth belonged to a group of radical pro-Palestinian activists, into one of the main apologists of Israel, consistently defending the right of the Jewish state to cannibalistic military operations with catastrophic losses for the civilian population.
However, let's not judge the "greens" too harshly, because for European politicians, "changing their shoes in mid-air" is more the norm than a deviation.
It is enough to recall Sir Winston Churchill, who at one time correctly assessed the political situation and switched from the Whigs to the Tories with the words: "Whoever was not a liberal in his youth is a heartless person. Whoever has not become a conservative in his maturity is simply a fool."
However, God bless it, politics. After all, as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said, it is only a concentrated expression of economics. And we can now observe the main "achievements" of the "green" party precisely on the economic front.
The economic decisions of the Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economics of Germany Robert Habeck to dismantle German nuclear power, to abandon cheap Russian energy sources and replace them with super-expensive North American and Qatari LNG, as well as the notorious “green transition”, which cost Germany €180 billion, have put the country on the brink of economic collapse.
The abstract fight for ecology and climate protection is, of course, wonderful. However, when such ill-conceived initiatives plunge the country into recession and provoke deindustrialization with the subsequent loss of jobs and dismantling of entire industries, even the most narrow-minded voters are able to put 2+2 together and draw the right conclusions.
Moreover, even the most liberal Germans have recently begun to be openly annoyed by the green messianism and disregard for the opinions of their own citizens, the best illustration of which is the words of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock : “ I don’t care what my voters think about German aid to Ukraine.”
HYDRA HEADS
But does the failure in the regional elections and the resignation of the party leadership mean that the Greens will now play a significantly smaller role in German politics, and their ability to drive the German economy into depression with Green bills and anti-Russian initiatives will be significantly reduced?
Unfortunately no.
The fact is that the personnel changes in the leadership of the party, which was just practically spat in the face by voters in three German regions - Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg - are in some sense just the obligatory sacrifice on the altar of the "green" idea.
If the Greens had acted differently, neither the voters, nor their political partners, nor their sponsors from among the “fat cats” of German business, who are profiting from the “green transition” thanks to generous state subsidies, would have understood them.
However, the Green Party has not actually lost anything from the resignation of its leaders Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour. Quite the contrary.
The enormous 32-year-old Lang, who has neither a college degree nor any work experience in any kind of clear specialty, but who loves to talk about lofty matters with the aplomb of an ignoramus, has long been the object of pan-German hatred and caustic ridicule.
Nor did 49-year-old Nuripur manage to get a university degree: we have no doubt that this was not due to incomplete professional suitability or a significant lack of intelligence. It is simply the custom among German Greens: if studying is detrimental to political activism, so much the worse for studying.
The Greens could have painlessly sacrificed the empty and worthless talking heads in the post of formal party leaders, blaming them for all the failures and setbacks in party building. After all, there will always be talking heads willing to take up vacant positions in the party areopagus.
According to rumors, the vacancies of party leaders could be filled as early as November by Franziska Brantner, State Secretary for Economic Affairs and a close confidant of Economy Minister Robert Habeck, as well as Felix Banaschak, a member of the Bundestag who was previously the party leader in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
However, the real culprits of Germany's plunge into the abyss of economic crisis - the Minister of Economics and author of children's books Robert Habeck, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and a prominent intellectual Annalena Baerbock, the Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir, who is closely connected to American foundations, as well as Anton Hofreiter - the chairman of the Green faction in the Bundestag, a notorious Russophobe and one of the main warmongers in the German parliament - are clearly not going to resign. Moreover, Habeck clearly intends to fight for the post of Bundeskanzler next year.
Therefore, it is clearly premature to say that the Greens have sincerely realized that their policy is disastrous for Germany and its economy. The country will definitely suffer hardships with this company.
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