A Tale of Multiple Germanies

I am going to say a few things which may shock you, but bear with me and we shall explore my hypothesis: there's no such thing as a unified Germany, but in reality, there are several Germanies. Post-1990 Germany is an artificial entity that is actually two if not more countries (Bavaria) under the banner of the Federal Republic. And whereas the globalists especially those in the (Dis)United Kingdom have vaingloriously boasted about the future breakup of Russia, the mid-21st century demented dotage of Europe as a civilization may include not one, but multiple Germanies as successor states to the Federal Republic.

Above video: Recorded for Stas' MrSlavikman Eyes of Truth YouTube channel on February 25, 2025

Otto von Bismarck and a Brief History of German Anti-Slavism

Let's support my hypothesis with a history lesson of moderate length, from the Furor Teutonicus which annhilated multiple Roman Legions in the dark Teutoberg Forest, all the way to the end of the Cold War and the present day. For the Germans, the unifying decade was 1871-1881, when Germany was unified by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who famously advised his successors in Berlin to always make a good treaty with the Russians and never expect to cheat them and not have the Russians come back for their money (with a vengeance!). Many Reddit mid-wits dismiss this famous Bismarck quote as made up by the Russians, even though there's every reason to believe Bismarck said something about maintaining good relations with the Tsar. That's because Bismarck advocated for balance of power realpolitik which included the alliance of the Three Emperors, the so-called Drei Koenige (a play on the Biblical Three Kings who brought presents to baby Jesus) pact with St Petersburg.

What's certainly true is that Bismarck was a Teutonic supremacist who viewed German rule over the mutinous Poles as well as the German blooded Romanovs ruling the Russian Empire as part of a European natural order, whereby the masculine Germans always ended up leading if not dominating the supposedly more feminine and passive Slavs. These days, in one of those historic role reversals, it's the masculine Slavs who increasingly perceive the Germans as effeminized girly men, with much of the war-like German gene pool eliminated by 1945. Regardless, the Tavistock Institute-trained Anglophile Austrian painter took the German anti-Slavicism of his contemporaries to a radicalized extreme, paving the way for the genocide of millions in Poland and the USSR from 1941-44. Which was followed by the destruction of the Third Reich by Soviet Russian and Polish armies plus the Anglo-American-French Allies 80 years ago this spring. Today's Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-ruled British anti-Slavism and views of the Ukrainians, with their Galicia (formerly Hapsburg ruled western Ukraine)-centric nationalism, as honorary non-Slavs and the Russians as racially inferior barbarians has carried on the Hitlerite tradition. But as Josef Stalin, one evil SOB who proved much smarter and more pragmatic than Hitler famously said, "Hitlers come and go, but the German people will remain".

The Initially Reluctant German Empire Becomes a Vicious Predator Before Being Destroyed by the Russians With Anglo-American Help

Bismarck accomplished his impressive feats of diplomacy accompanied by armaments with the King of Prussia, later crowned Kaiser Wilhelm I, through two orchestrated wars: the Prussian-Austrian war and then the Franco-Prussian war. Both resulted in Prussian victories, with the majority of then-small Germanic kingdoms and petty duchies swept up as allies, who acceded to a greater Prussia forming the German Confederacy, which very quickly turned into the German Reich or Empire. Wilhelm, through all this, was a very reluctant participant.

Wilhelm I was surrounded by a liberal intelligentsia who did not want more European wars with an embittered and revanchist France, or a greater German empire. That would include rejecting a Grossdeutschland merger with Prussia's historically domineering rivals the Catholic Hapsburgs, whose empire included many non-German Czechs and Hungarians. But Bismarck wheedled and played Wilhelm I with great skill, and exploited the enduring mistrust of the French, in the two to three generations after Napoleon, across Europe.

Thus was born in 1883 the Second German Reich–the first Reich being, according to German historians, the medieval kingdom of Charlemagne, as the Germanic Franks became the Papacy-blessed rulers of the mix of Normans and ancient Celts and Gauls who formed the ancestry of the modern French. But Imperial Germany emerged far too late to catch up with the other European imperialist powers in carving up Africa and the weakening Ottoman Empire's oil-rich domains across the Middle East, since the Anglo-French condominium had a centuries-long head start. Starved of the natural resources the Nazis tried in vain to seize by force and occupied across its western half by Nazism's Anglo-American investors, the Reich died in May 1945, 62 years and two World War charnel houses for the German people later.

After four decades of Cold War division of Germany, in 1985, a new Soviet leader would come to power who'd eventually create an opening for the nascent European Community (EC–later the European Union) to attempt the creation of a 4th Reich. One that one and a half generations later, is censoring speech in Belgium and nullifying elections to prevent the peace candidate from winning in Romania. Many of the leading Nazi professors, some of whom joined the postwar globalist Bilderberg group run by former SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, would be proud. The Germans may have lost the war on the battlefield and in the ruins of their bombed out cities, but as depicted in Russian film White Tiger directed by Karel Shahknazarov, the spirit of the Third Reich lives on among the EU elites.

Germany Reunifies--But the Former East Germans Largely Get Left Behind, and NATO Expansion Plants the Seeds for War a Generation Later

Germany, by the grace of the Western media-feted last Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin (both of whom were surrounded by liberal elites, some of whom were later accused of being CIA-asset traitors), was united once more in 1989-90. Gorbachev in his characteristic naïveté said, regarding the risks of a then German economic powerhouse once more slipping its borders and becoming aggressive, such that even Margaret Thatcher was reluctant to see immediate reunification as the Iron Curtain came down, “We know our German friends well,” he said. “We know their ability to think creatively, to learn from life and to make changes when necessary..."

The former Warsaw Pact countries in the 1990s were supposed to become a demilitarized buffer between the Collective West and the Russian Federation. Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed the End of History and the triumph of liberal democracy, with the deposed Gorbachev going on to infamously record Pizza Hut commercials for to make ends meet in retirement. German reunification, like Ukrainian independence as a neutral non-nuclear state forswearing membership in any military bloc a couple years later (recorded in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum), came with a critical caveat. Under various verbal and informal promises from the United States, confirmed by the statements of then Bush 41 Secretary of State James Baker and the memoirs of then West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich-Genscher, the reunited Germans could remain in NATO, but the Alliance with its American bases, in Jim Baker's famous words, would move "not one inch east of the Oder" River. This was the 1946 East German-Polish border on the Oder-Neisse line advocated by Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference and confirmed with the British and Americans at the Potsdam Conference, which would mark the firm limit of NATO's eastward expansion.

NATO's Official Lies--If It's Not Committed to Paper, Then it Never Happened

To this day, on all its websites and materials, NATO officially denies the voluminous evidence of the "not one inch east" agreements, on the disingenuous grounds that Baker and Genscher could not speak for all present NATO leaders or bind future ones. But the main and most deceitful argument is that the alliance never officially committed such a promise not to expand eastward to paper. Official NATO websites and talking points also deny that anyone could've possibly envisioned the expansion of the Alliance in 1990, when there's indisputable scholarly evidence and abundant memoirs testifying that foreswearing NATO expansion and Never Again-ing any German coercive behavior towards Germany's neighbors was very much on the minds of both late Soviet and Western leaders--including the mind of President Reagan's gal, Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher!

Thus the big lie rationalizing subsequent Western leaders perfidy toward the Russians is maintained, despite the fact that history including Cold War history is full of major agreements reached between the Russians and Western powers which for political reasons, were never put in writing. Starting with Joseph Stalin's deal with Winston Churchill to abandon the Greek Communists in return for the Nazi collaborator Vlasovites (infamously praised by Alexander Solzhenitsyn) who'd surrendered as Wehrmacht POWs to the Western Allies (Operation Keelhaul), being forcibly repatriated to the USSR for trial and execution as traitors. Most famously, there was the deal reached via back channels between JFK and Khrushchev for the publicized withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, in return for American Jupiter missiles being quietly removed from Turkey.

What's evident to realist professors most prominently John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs and other respected historians of the post-Cold War settlement is that, even if all terms for the handshake deal between Bush and Gorbachev weren't recorded in writing, many of them were expressed via the various written agreements from Bush 41's Malta summit with Gorbachev in December 1989 through the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 to the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997. In which President Boris Yeltsin reluctantly accepted the Clintons' first round of NATO expansion into the so-called Visegrád Group, led by Poland, in part because Bill Clinton wanted the Eastern European voting blocs in the 1996 presidential election. Yeltsin's weak protests to Clinton and declarations that the Russia-NATO Founding Act was a 'forced step' notwithstanding, the fundamental premise of every major agreement was both sides declaring the Cold War with its rival military blocs was over, and that they were no longer enemies.

Putin's Appeal to the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act as the Basis for a Post-SMO Settlement Between the Russians and the Americans--Over the Europeans' Heads

From the standpoint of international law, which mostly exists through diplomatic protocol and treaties, it was to this 1997 agreement that the trained lawyer and highly legalistic Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed to in vain three and a half years ago. The Russia-NATO Founding Act's disavowal of any NATO intent to deploy forces in the newly accepted former Warsaw Pact countries and their westward rollback to Germany were the Russian-mirrored terms presented to NATO and the US by the Kremlin in December 2021, weeks before Moscow launched the Special Military Operation in February 2022.

At that time, the Biden Administration-led Collective West arrogantly dismissed Putin's eve-of-war appeal for a comprehensive settlement. But now that NATO is running out of Ukrainians to push into the SMO meatgrinder and a newly elected Trump team has shocked the Eurovassals by ruling out any American troops deploying to Ukraine alongside their so-called peacekeepers, London and Paris are contemplating sending a European army to fight and die for the Ukraine in no-longer-disavowable numbers, with thousands of Union Jack and tricolour-draped caskets. Hence first Macron and then Starmer's begging visits to the White House this week, calling for unspecified American support, which it looks like they both didn't receive.

Trump of course, is exploiting London and Paris' 'fight Russia to the last Ukrainian' cowardice, as well as his own deliberately contradictory statements--one week Trump muses about the Ukraine potentially becoming Russia, the next week he brags about sending more military aid now that Zelensky is flying into Washington, having reluctantly agreed to his coercive mineral rights demands--as leverage. That is, operating according to Nixonian Madman Theory or The Art of the Deal set-out negotiation tactics, which are being applied to the US allied Eurovassals as much or more than to the Russians, Trump is reportedly pursuing a grand bargain to be reached somewhere between a Minsk 3.0 ceasefire and the new Yalta agreement naively touted as in the offing by some Russian TV commentators.

To be fair, not every single member of Russia's Fifth Column of closeted liberals with their Russian oligarch masters' have fled the country these past three years. Many of them have carefully hidden their longing for a return to pre-2022 if not pre-2014 business as usual with the Collective West, whereby Russia returns to her globalist-intended role from the 1990s through mid-2000s as a raw materials colony of the Western economies, and are now grasping at Trumpian straws. But even with all his Elon Musk-directed DOGE and other leverage on the Swamp Creatures in Washington, it's by no means clear that Trump at age 78 either:

A) knows what the hell he's talking about and beyond his own elderly cognition issues, is receiving sound military and intelligence advice about the truly desperate state of the Ukraine or

B) actually has the power to force the Western warmongers, both those in Washington and those concentrated in an increasingly fascist Western Europe from London to Berlin, into finally back off their war against Russia.

The Americans and Russian envoys who just met this week in Istanbul, for example, were discussing much more than Ukraine. But after 6 1/2 hours of talks, Russian diplomatic sources report, they were not anywhere close to a resolution. For now, the two sides have agreed to keep talking and easing previous restrictions on each other’s diplomats and embassies, which is some progress we suppose. From the Russians perspective, it doesn't really matter whether Trump is in charge and whether or not he's finally tamed the deep state which to quote Andrei Martyanov, "hates Russian guts". Because the Russians like the North Vietnamese at the Paris Peace Talks know that they hold the high cards and are more than capable of talking and fighting at the same time, knowing full well that time is on their side.

So this means Russia's demands for turning back the clock to the 1997 disposition of NATO forces in Europe are on the negotiating table. If the Americans reject them, then as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and everyone else on the Russian side has repeatedly declared, the outcome will be decided in Russia's favor on the battlefield. And a looming Russian victory over the greatest proxy army NATO has ever and will ever assemble, whether the Zelensky regime collapses next month or next year, means the defeat of a regime armed by Germany with panzers, self-propelled howitzers, APCs, and SAMs, with Berlin knowing damn well about the cult of the Waffen SS Galitzien division and the Wehrmacht in the Ukrainians' ranks.

Thus, Germany and NATO's looming collective defeat in the Ukraine can and will have an enormous impact on German politics. It's the returning shadow of 1945 with the highly symbolic 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and prospect of another German defeat at the hands of the Russians that's making the Atlantik-Brücke managed permanent political class increasingly hysterical. Combining a looming military defeat with the death spiral of Germany's non-arms industries, cut off from affordable Russian energy and facing Trump's 25% tariff on German cars, and you have the likes of Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and the incoming minority government traffic light 2.0 coalition forming Chancellor Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz behaving like desperate gamblers, preparing their final turn at the casino roulette wheel.

Baerbock "360 degrees" as we call her notoriously declared months ago that it doesn't matter to her what the German voters demand, she will support Ukraine's war to the bitter end regardless. And Merz has declared, following JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference criticizing British and German restrictions on free speech, that for the first time since 1945, Germany must be prepared to stand up to (read: fight) both the Americans and Russians. Given how that ended for the Germans the last time they tried, and the facts about Merz's hardcore Nazi mayor grandfather Josef Paul Sovinny, who can say that they did Nazi that one coming?

The "Wall in the Head": Seeds of Discord Within Germany, Planted During the Die Wende (The Change) of the Early 1990s

Besides the bad faith expansion of NATO in contravention of real promises, there was another mostly unspoken problem with the post Cold War settlement, which planted the seeds for the second Cold War and current hot war between Russia and NATO in Ukraine. And that's an internal German problem, the triumph of wesserbesser-ism (West Germans know best) and the socioeconomic marginalization of the ossis (East Germans).

After the wall came down Germans usually referred to this phenomenon in a politically correct way, as the "Wall in the mind" that still separated the two Germanies. But now we've seen both European parliamentary and national elections whereby the old East is almost solid AfD sky blue, while the former West Germany is a sea of CDU/CSU black, with a few islands of SPD red in the old Ruhr Rust Belt and Hamburg industrial areas, plus Green votes concentrated around Berlin where the bureaucrats live, as well as in leftist German university towns (where the Greens' conversion from anti-nuclear power peaceniks to Woke-tlanticist warriors against Russia is complete). And it can no longer be argued that this is simply a partisan or, as in the case of the Red State vs Blue State Republican vs Democrat dialectic in the US, largely a matter of the divide between 'diverse' urban vs older white suburban/rural voters. Rather this is a cultural division within the supposedly unified Federal Republic, dating back to 1990, but with roots in centuries of ethno-religious history.

Digging deeper, it's a divide between the largely Catholic former West Germany and the nominally Protestant East Germany dating to the nearly genocidal Thirty Years War, which killed off something like a quarter of the German population during the 17th century, as well as more traces of Germanicized Slavic ancestry in the Ossis compared to the Wessis. ESW's own cofounder can trace his ancestors on the paternal side back to such origins, and we probably can as well through our ethnically German Soviet citizen grandfather.

Notwithstanding the fact that East Germany was a Soviet Army occupied socialist dictatorship for 40 years, no one officially asked the people of the GDR (in German, Deutsche Demokratische Republik), whether they wanted to be reunited with the West Germans practically overnight. While millions of East Germans took to the streets in apparent approbation of the joyous fall of The Wall in 1989 (and yes, the CIA secretly subsidized The Scorpions' soundtrack, and without David Hasselhoff's knowledge, probably his Berlin tour too), despite the DeutscheWelle (DW) spin on that history, there was no official German referendum on reunification. No more than Soviet citizens were given the chance to vote as a unified populace on the so-called Belovezha Accords which divided the three sisters and successors to historic Rus (Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine), establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The East German experience presaged what would happen to suddenly state-deprived Russians, who went to sleep in the August 1991 USSR, but woke up in an independent country called Ukraine, being presented with a fait accompli. In Russian there's an expression for this, which translates as: They married me off without me.

Like Italy, Germany Never Existed as Its Own Unified State Prior to the 1800s: A Short Summary of the Germans' Regional Gradients

So Germany became unified once again in 1990 and has stayed so through 2025, for a total of 97 years out of the past 142 years. But Germany like Italy had never truly existed as a unified state before the 19th century. The Frankish Germanic state of Charlemagne was a post-facto construct of 19th century German historians, much like Ukrainian nationalist historians to this day distort the history of medieval Rus to downplay the Kievan rulers' common Viking ancestry and dynastic ties with the princes of pre-Kievan Pskov and Novgorod the Great. However, while Germany may have legally renounced its claim to Kaliningrad (prior to Red Army conquest in 1945 of the old East Prussia) and settled its boundaries, it is by no means an internally unified state. And the results of last week’s elections have shown the truth hiding behind the empty smiles and emptier eyes and unhinged minds of the Berlin elites.

As we look at the results of the voting by each Länder, or German equivalent to a US state or Canadian province, we see that almost the entirety of former East Germany voted for the AfD, with the exception of the Berlin and the suburbs within government and so-called 'creative' workers commuter train distance to Berlin. The rest of Germany, with a few minor exceptions, went first and foremost to the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU. Equally, when we review the data for the 18 to 24 age category, we see that 21% voted AfD, leading our editor James Smith to prematurely declare "the [German] kids are alright".

Speaking only for ourselves, we cannot agree, because 27% of the 18 to 24-year-olds who cast ballots voted for Die Linke (The Left), the woke pro-transgenderism socialists, who are often described in non-German media as (but are not in any shape or form) successors to the old East German Socialist Unity Party. Upon further inspection of the results, however, we see that the majority of those in that age category voting AfD were in the former East Germany, while the majority of that age category voting Die Linke were in the former West Germany.

The German electoral map of February 2025: Black represents CDU/CSU, Red the SPD, and green is the Greens. Light or sky blue is the AfD.

So the East-West differences cut much deeper than at first glance. Let's look have a quick look back over the past thirty years of German “unification”. To call this a wunderbar unification is of course absurd, it was more akin to a hostile corporate take over, when the owners of the raided entity sell out without bothering to inform their middle managers and employees. Even if the top executives sometimes selects a few token managers who get to keep their jobs or—if they happen to be a woman—get fast-tracked for promotion (as was the case with the East German pastor's daughter, Angela Merkel); the employees of the victim company rarely benefit from such private equity leveraged buyout deals. And the East Germans were no exception.

Just as Russia has a gradient divide between the ancient Northern Eurasian/Karelian origin Russians and the Southern Russians, who are for all practical purposes the same Slavic and Don Cossack people as the true Zaporizhian Host Ukrainians, there have always been cultural differences running in a gradient across Germany. That is, between the Prussians, the Hessians (who sent a large number of mercenaries to fight for England against the Americans during the Revolutionary War) as well as the historically war-like Saxons, whose shared ancestors with the Celts populated Denmark, Ireland and England via the North Sea-submerged Doggerland, and their burgher class cousins to the West. That is, between the tribal and war-like Germany first encountered by the Romans, and the late-modern era emergent shopkeeper, mercantile and industrialist Germans of the Ruhr, the Rhineland, the Saarland, and Franconia (a name derived from Charlemagne's Franks).

German-Russians Like the Ossis, Are Second or Even Third Class Germans

This to barely mention the Bavarians, many of whom do not even consider themselves Germans, but Highlanders more like their Austrian relatives across a mostly artificial border drawn through the bucolic Alps. While from 1871 to 1945, the Prussian Junker warrior/diplomat mentality dominated Germany, since 1990 it has been the western capitalist and its related komprador mentality that's been foisted on the East Germans.

To say that the East Germans have prospered is also a lie. Sure they have Apple desktops and smartphones at design firms in Dresden, plus less smoggy air as the Trabants and lignite burning plants are gone. But their major manufacturers were gutted and closed, and few of their scientists, intellectuals or managers were given any chances or places in the west dominated power structure. Effectively, the Ossis and their-now thirty or fortysomething Millennial children were disenfranchised in the workplace. To compound this effect, many of the Russian Germans who immigrated to Germany in the 1990s and 2000s have found that the system in the now fully liberalized Berlin has made them and their fellow second class Germans the Ossis inferior to both the smug Wessis who still have jobs, and the waves of non-European immigrants that Berlin subsequently flooded the country with after unification. This was especially the case after Merkel opened the borders to Middle Easterners and Africans, resulting in a crime wave of rapes, muggings and knifings across previously docile German towns and villages deliberately settled with non-white migrant males of military age.

The True Overseers of a Still-Occupied Germany Are Not Sitting in the White House or State Department, but in Davos and London

The one-two punch of the accelerating Great Replacement and warmongering against Russia has created a lot of friction between the two sides of this equation, exposing Germany for the absolutely divided and unequal society, evident to the Germans themselves, that it is. The One Big Happy German Family propaganda dating from the Nineties is a lie, a dystopian deception based on censorship and a parliamentary republican system that guarantees that elections have minimal results in upsetting the grip Atlanticist/globalist elites have over the country. A rusting but still-iron deathgrip which is evident to all dissenting Germans with eyes to see and continues even as the nominal Great Father(s) in Washington, President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance loudly criticize political correctness in Germany and together with their billionaire ally Elon Musk, vocally back the AfD.

The true globalist masters who continue the 80-year-old occupation of Germany do not sit in the White House or the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), nor even in Foggy Bottom. Those were merely places where their minions worked. The real masters are instead found on Wall Street, and above all, in the City of London and in Davos.

Speedrunning Weimar to Arrive at the Intended 4th (EUro)Reich Station

We know in our bones what the deliberate features not the bugs of the globalist run-up to WW3 agenda are, we saw this movie before a century ago, from the mid-1920s on, even if Donald Trump is promising a new Kellogg Briand Pact for collective disarmament between the USA, Russia and China. The globalists are speed-running the middle-class beggaring and degeneracy of Weimar Germany, so that only a reconstituted army of the Reich with its armament plants will be left as a place for the German men to go. The Ossis as well as deplorable working class Wessis who vote AfD have seen shuttering factories, skyrocketing energy prices for electricity and winter heat as well as food, fuel, toilet paper and every other necessity. Combined with crushing taxes and the earlier wave of deindustrialization, these have all hit the old east Germany disproportionally hard.

Watching their needs ignored and the result that the second largest votes-winner in Germany, an AfD that disproportionally represents them, is defamed as Nazis and permanently barred from governing, will only frustrate and anger Ossi Germans even more. Merz almost instantly rejecting any closure of German borders and restarting of import of Afghan “refugees” by the planeloads to replace the natives is but one more slap in the collective faces of its own CDU/CSU voters. The fact that these newcomers from Muslim lands won't ever fight for Germany let alone die by the thousands in a war with the Russians that the native born German men are expected to dutifully march toward (like their Wehrmacht grandfathers) is part of the planned Great Replacement.

Considering that Merz and his defense minister Boris Pistorius are both chickenhawks hellbent on escalating tensions with Russia up to and including war, and that the east Germans will be expected to fight in that said war, regardless of their warm feelings and often familial ties to German Russians, may prove a bitter pill far too large for millions to swallow. For the last 2 1/2 years as the Bundeswehr's arsenals have been drained for the Ukrainians, there have been low-level acts of sabotage of NATO munitions trucks and warehouses across Germany, most of which never made the newspapers.

The Merz CDU-Green Coalition Will Move Berlin Closer to the End of Germany As We've Known It Since 1990

That the Berlin globalist elites, representing Blackrock vulture capitalism, Gaia worship, and paving the way for Antichrist warfare and other ideologies of national suicide, are absolutely tone-deaf to the eastern Germans is a given. They only seem to fear a 'Trumpist' America finally withdrawing the current 4th generation of American occupation troops who've long acted as a brake on a genuinely awakening of independence for Germany.

If and or when Berlin begins a draft and a full drive to a Woke Barbarossa and Germans suddenly remember their late grandparents' stories about the horrors of 1944-45, they may quickly find themselves in a total national crisis boiling toward mass draft resistance and internal civil unrest. Well before that point, the CDU doubling down on a coalition with the Greens promoting a festung Europa result from these elections will prove accelerationist for the Eastern Germans and Russian Germans (who should in my opinion make for the exit to their Motherland), as well as for Europe as a whole.