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Wolfgang Munchau: Germany's politics will change Europe

295.1K views • 2mo ago
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@guycox159
@@guycox159Imported1mo ago
AfD is center Left. You have no conservatives.
@truthtalker3498
@@truthtalker3498Imported1mo ago
They said the industrial sector collapsed because "the educated people have left" and then said "we can't survive economically without migrants" without connecting those two facts, because anyone who doesn't want to live in a third world culture is considered "racist."
@truthtalker3498
@@truthtalker3498Imported1mo ago
AfD does not call itself "far right." It's only seen as "far" to the "right" because the left shifted way left.
@melinajmp
@@melinajmpImported1mo ago
I am surprised that the host kept this conversation within the unhelpful traditional left-right framework, and framing the AfD as a fascist threat. AfD is not a one-trick party, blaming, as Munchau claims, all of Germany's problems on immigrants. Germany's mainstream parties have simply opened the immigration door, meaning that many people who have entered the country are simply unvetted. The mainstream parties have run down nuclear power, and Mertz has offered to buy US weapons for Ukraine while telling Germans that the government cannot afford more on social welfare spending and that Germans need to work harder. The mainstream parties have also tried to use the undemocratic, technocratic trick of creating a "firewall" to keep their "fascist" opponents at bay. You don't have to be a Nazi to find such an outlook and the obsession with green politics outrageous. Indeed, the Nazis had no probllem at all with clamping down on democratic opposition.
@davidonly
@@davidonlyImported1mo ago
Who is this German moron? AFD is NOT far right. It is just not one of the retarded commie nutters that have been allowed to ruin Germany and most of Europe. Where do you dig up idiots like this?
@plantagenant
@@plantagenantImported1mo ago
Why do you peddle this nonsense the AFD are "far Right" . They are primarily conservatives who hold views that would be perfectly mainstream a few decades ago. The real extremists are the liberal Left who have decided to destroy a nation with a shared identity for multicultural , multiethnic BS and impoverishing Green policies. There is no real evidence that Germany would collapse without migrants...the reality is it will implode as it balkanises under the fragmentary stress of "diversity".
@GrigoreOchian
@@GrigoreOchianImported1mo ago
they filled Germany with millions of afghans and syrians,and the germans are supposed to suck it..those monsters that ruled Djermany..especially Mehrkill..Muslimamma
@GrigoreOchian
@@GrigoreOchianImported1mo ago
they will make no government.the others will make a front against them..
@kkkriv7407
@@kkkriv7407Imported1mo ago
OMG where&#39;d you get this guy LMAO???? The immigration is a false made up crisis-?!!!! What an idiot, then how does he explain afD massive popularity ... Because the people see the TRUTH! ??? duhhh <br><br>&quot;Summary<br>The claim that the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) has no statistical or economic basis is factually inaccurate. Official German government data, including police crime statistics and fiscal budget records, document substantial fiscal costs and disproportionate representation of non-German nationals and asylum seekers in violent crime categories. The central debate is not over the existence of these numbers, but over how to interpret causality—whether the drivers are cultural and religious (the AfD position) or structural, demographic, and socioeconomic (the position of mainstream criminologists and critics).<br>Crime Statistics (PKS / BKA)<br>Official Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt / PKS) reports provide the core data cited by the AfD:<br> * Suspect Disparity: Non-German nationals make up approximately 15% of the general population but account for roughly 40% of all registered criminal suspects (excluding immigration-specific violations like unlawful entry).<br> * Violent Crime: In categories such as assault, knife crime, robbery, and sexual offenses, asylum seekers and specific foreign national cohorts (predominantly from Syria, Afghanistan, and North Africa) appear at rates several times higher per capita than native Germans.<br> * The Counter-Argument / Context: Mainstream criminologists and critics note that this cohort is heavily skewed toward young males (the demographic most prone to crime globally, regardless of nationality), disproportionately urban, and residing in high-stress, low-income environments. Reporting bias also plays a role, as incidents involving foreign nationals are statistically more likely to be reported to police by victims and witnesses.<br>Fiscal and Economic Impact<br>Economic modeling differentiates between high-skilled labor immigration and humanitarian asylum migration:<br> * Fiscal Cost: Federal, state, and local governments spend tens of billions of euros annually on accommodation, administration, integration courses, and welfare transfers (Bürgergeld) for asylum seekers and refugees. Studies from institutions like the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and Ifo show that low-skilled humanitarian immigration is a net fiscal negative over the life cycle, as tax receipts fail to offset public transfer payments and infrastructure strain.<br> * Labor Integration Lag: While employment rates for refugees who arrived in 2015–2016 have risen past 50% over a decade, a large proportion remain in low-wage sectors or receive top-up welfare support, resulting in lower average tax contributions than the domestic median.&quot;
@TheSnapdad
@@TheSnapdadImported1mo ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZz0H8HtCw&amp;t=545">9:05</a>
<br>You know, Germany is a country that has for the last 9 years not produced any economic growth. Uh productivity is down. Industry is declining. And a place like Saxony, I&#39;ve you know I&#39;ve visited this place right after unification. This was the center of the East German industry. It it&#39;s gone. It&#39;s a wasteland. It&#39;s industrial wasteland. And you know there is no hope in that place. You know the you know the educated people left. It&#39;s and you know and they the vote is very much a reflection of a system that isn&#39;t working.
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<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZz0H8HtCw&amp;t=615">10:15</a>
<br>But they what they successfully do is blame the the uh the decline of the German economy on immigrants. That&#39;s completely that narrative is false. You know without immigrants the German economy would collapse.
@gokselkahraman2658
@@gokselkahraman2658Imported1mo ago
GERMANS OR SİCK JEWS...?????
@ys9205
@@ys9205Imported1mo ago
This guest is a fascist and a liar!🤬AFD’s ideology has nothing to do with Nazis. Leftists are nazis. This guy should be sued for defamation!🤬🤬🤬
@landoremick7422
@@landoremick7422Imported1mo ago
Bulkshit Munchau. The German economy would have had to find ways to operate without immigrants. The immigrants you have taken are from disorderly countries and mainly Mudlimd who have an ideology as unpleasant as nazi ideology
@landoremick7422
@@landoremick7422Imported1mo ago
Nazis were not far right. They were socialists. The clue is in the name national socialist
@coffeeinhk148
@@coffeeinhk148Imported1mo ago
This is true democracy unlike what happened in 1933+ !
@felixguerrero6062
@@felixguerrero6062Imported1mo ago
Pure centrist cope incredible, and reality denialism. Mass Immigration is very much a problem all across Europe (not the only one, energy costs, economic stagnation).
@andreaswinsnes6944
@@andreaswinsnes6944Imported1mo ago
Claiming that Germans need immigrants to run a good economy is so insane that one can’t take this dude seriously.
@JohnFrancisByrne
@@JohnFrancisByrneImported1mo ago
Expensive energy affect the economy, come on Professor 😂 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZz0H8HtCw&amp;t=960">16:00</a>
@Sirnkissako
@@SirnkissakoImported1mo ago
So-called representative democracy is failure, as pointed out by Muammar Gadaphy in his green book advocating real democracy from the bottom up.
@IrmgardBliss
@@IrmgardBlissImported1mo ago
The migrants are mainly unskilled, too many of them live on welfare without intention to work. Too many criminals have been imported and too many muslems make only unrealistic demands. Over 2750 mosques are in Germany. The AfD is the only party to make the necessary corrections.
@user-wp9oz9oi1f
@@user-wp9oz9oi1fImported1mo ago
The POS Merkel screwed Germany like Carter and Obama did to America!
@adamcrookedsmile
@@adamcrookedsmileImported1mo ago
Europe is already changed
@gravitaslost
@@gravitaslostImported1mo ago
The German economy will not collapse without unskilled immigration, which constitutes the majority of it, this talking point derived from grouping all types of immigrant together is pure sophistry.
@Coblerer
@@CoblererImported1mo ago
The more you call them hard right? The more followers they will get because you are stupid.
@Coblerer
@@CoblererImported1mo ago
Why did you call them hard? Right? Are you hard left?
@markbrock8662
@@markbrock8662Imported1mo ago
I understand that immigration is important in Europe and also probably in the US and many other countries. What I don&#39;t understand is why immigration can&#39;t be managed sanely so that murders and mayhem are kept to an absolute minimum, and surely as a bonus, folks should assimilate the culture they are moving into instead of hijacking it. I am speaking of course about how it may be done in a civilized way. If it is going to be an attack and a complete makeover of the destination culture, then it would seem all bets are off and mayhem would likely be the result if history is any guide.<br>Germany trying to go green seems to have been a seriously grave error. Less so in other places maybe, and I&#39;m being generous in that. But if you fear the coming winter then you have not managed the country&#39;s resources effectively. If the &#39;educated&#39; have failed so profoundly in their policies, can you really question the folks that are willing to come in and fix these horrendous policy mistakes?<br>And I don&#39;t get the argument at all that insists the constiuents who voted this in are uneducated. <br>Is one party educated and the other not? Here in the US you might say that the left could be more educated, but you could also easily conclude that these college educated folks are deranged at best, and psychotic at worse. And many of them lean heavily to the latter. So education is not the only and perhaps not the most important measure of merit in the vote. <br>Anyway, interesting interview. Thank you!
@juergenamft4857
@@juergenamft4857Imported1mo ago
It would be nice if you guys stopped repeating the old line about right wing party hating immigrant. Right wing parties hate uncontrolled “immigration” of people from incompatible cultures who have no intention of conforming to local norms of behaviour. Your kind peddles that exact propaganda of calling me every limitation as anti-immigrant. It’s so tiring. And a complete lie. And that is why right wing parties grow in popularity, because you guys can’t have an honest debate, without canceling culture and vilification of diverse opinions.
@user-rv4go7ry3v
@@user-rv4go7ry3vImported1mo ago
What&#39;s the predominant religion of the region and the religious position of the party? <br><br>Seems where leaders undermine the religious-cultural roots of a region they get these backlashes. And no one can explain because political media often avoid religion in their political analysis.
@gummibrot4948
@@gummibrot4948Imported1mo ago
Older German here. The narrative is false. Germany would not be viable without immigration. Today, two-thirds of all migrants in Germany receive social welfare benefits and free housing. Everything has to be funded by the work of taxpayers. The most serious crimes and murders could be cut by 50 percent immediately if these people had never set foot in our country (figures from the Interior Minister). It costs 60 billion euros a year—money that is missing from the pension funds. Add to that the left-green energy policy, which costs 130 billion a year. By contrast, the Bundeswehr has received only 48 billion annually over the last few decades.
@deroconnor4621
@@deroconnor4621Imported1mo ago
Ursula and Co are incapable of admitting error. To them native Europeans are just peasants to be manipulated and then attacked directly when the manipulation fails. They will simply start working to disrupt any state that rejects them.
@8507582
@@8507582Imported1mo ago
Great program But I can’t really believe Wolfgang said “the educated people left” … really? Uneducated Germans in a large percentage in any German state is probably impossible. I believe your choice of words shows your bias.
@cblahout
@@cblahoutImported1mo ago
Please DEFINE “the far-right” ? <br>Everyone who doesn’t go along with the media narrative is now called “far-right”. <br><br>This guest does not present any evidence that AFD “accepts Nazis” or that they “don’t have any economic plan” = He’s making lots of claims but no evidence of such nonsense. The co-leader is an economist … hmmm but don’t have an economic plan?? Sounds like this guy is simply biased against the AFD. His smear &amp; spin is typical of the mainstream media ‘so-called narrative’ = in my eyes 👀 he lost credibility the more he talked.<br><br>I like Freddy but his bias comes through every now and then… I guess it’s tough to remain neutral and objective on any political subject as an interviewer- commentator. 😢
@davidpaz9389
@@davidpaz9389Imported1mo ago
Hard right is anything on the other side of extreme far left.
@truthinlondon9121
@@truthinlondon9121Imported1mo ago
Bring it on.
@Basswurst
@@BasswurstImported1mo ago
And there it is again - the political lie that illegal mass migration is vital to the German economy. What utter nonsense! This mass migration has more to do with the elites&#39; paranoid fear of a strong, self-determined Germany than with the well-being of the country and its people; rather, they want to effectively breed out, dilute, and ultimately eradicate everything German! Beneficial, regulated immigration of skilled workers from abroad has absolutely nothing to do with invasive mass migration used as a weapon! Everyone should know that by now! 😐🇩🇪
@FreeStuf13
@@FreeStuf13Imported1mo ago
This is some of the same bullshit. I hear in the United States. Illegal immigration does not help your economy. It’s a drain on your economy. Sure you might get some cheap labor in Restaurants and farming and maybe some manufacturing but you’re also pushing out you’re lower educated population from getting jobs. The vast majority of people in countries are not against immigration. They’re against illegal immigration. Immigration that is controlled where people assimilate to the culture and are educated and work hard or net positive to our societies. We appreciate these people. We don’t like our legal immigrants who are here that aren’t contributing to society in our social welfare programs. We don’t want people that don’t want to assimilate into our community. We don’t want people that don’t want to accept our culture. They are not a net positive to our society. Get it straight.
@sj4632
@@sj4632Imported1mo ago
afd are 1990s centrists...no such thing as the far right.
@stevenhenryandresen
@@stevenhenryandresenImported1mo ago
Granted, I don&#39;t live in Germany. But this man has mischaracterized the views of the AfD. The concern about immigrants is about preserving the German character of Germany. The opposition to war with Russia has to do with the Globalist elites in the West manipulating Ukraine as a proxy against Russia. There is no more gas or oil in Germany because of the perfidity of Merkel, the American &quot;deep state&quot;, and the EU warmongers.
@mightoright
@@mightorightImported1mo ago
Munchau claims the right wing parties in Sweden and the Netherlands have failed. Nonsense. The reason the right wing won elections in these very left wing countries is because they ruined the economy with their overly generous welfare state and one terms of right wing government is not going to fix the systemic problems the left create over decades in power. <br><br>He also claims that immigrants are needed to sustain the economy and pay for pensions. First of all, the left&#39;s mass immigration policy has absolutely failed. The left elites such as Blair in England and his counterparts in the West of Europe flooded their countries with immigrants in the last several decades. How are their economies doing now? Immigration has failed economically - many of them are on welfare, defeating the purpose of adding to the economy, now housing is unaffordable because of the shortage due to migration. How are unskilled laborers in the west supposed to compete with immigrants who are being favored? <br><br>He doesn&#39;t mention Poland and Hungary (at least not 14 min into the interview) which are doing really well WITHOUT immigration. What these elites don&#39;t get is culture because they are multiculturalists - which is a euphemism for cultural wasteland. There is good reason to worry about the pensions because the boomers are retiring. But of course the left in charge for the last several decades did NOTHING about it, thinking mass immigration was the solution. Obviously wrong. Politicians on both sides - but especially the big government left - failed the citizens. The deomgraphics should have been addressed, policies created to encourage families, but the left has been on a cultural crusade focusing on feminism and anti-racism - and to prove how anti-racist they are, they brought in black and brown people from Islamic counties assuming this would not be either a cultural or economic problem. Typical of the left, completely untethered from reality. Now WE ARE PAYING for their playing out of Marxist fantasies.<br><br>At the very least, the public should have been told that they need immigrant labor (if that was determined by both sides to be true) and then asked the public if they wanted Islamists in their country - even temporarily - or would prefer to tighten their belts. The choice was made for them by those elites who consider themselves their &quot;betters&quot;.<br><br>Never trust leftist elites such as Munchau. These people created the problems and now want to tell us how to fix them. Liars. They should not be platformed and listened to unless you want to shame them for destroying the west.
@millie-j8n
@@millie-j8nImported1mo ago
Der kostbarste Besitz auf dieser Welt aber ist das eigene Volk! Und für dieses Volk und um dieses Volk wollen wir ringen und wollen wir kämpfen! Und niemals erlahmen, und niemals ermüden, und niemals verzagen, und niemals verzweifeln!<br><br>Ich liebe unsere Bewegung, ich liebe unser deutsches Volk!
@ElanMorin
@@ElanMorinImported1mo ago
afd is right about the immigrants.
@standTrueNorthStrongandFree
@@standTrueNorthStrongandFreeImported1mo ago
Thank you Freddie.
<br>These are the winds of change I&#39;ve longed for.. for years.
<br>I also have a comment regarding Wolfgang&#39;s early comment suggesting closing the border would starve any potential turn around of a labour force. I think that&#39;s myopic; shallow.
<br>First of all, my view is any promising grade 9 student presented with the policies that undermined Germany industry (jobs and careers) could stitch together a turn-around; essentially, get choking government and EU regulations (the ideologue parasitic class) out of the way.
<br>The fixes are as glaring as the misguided forces and crippling mistakes  (e.g. all things energy) that gutted German industry.
<br>Turn that around and young Germans will start reproducing again, because hope for decent futures for working families will rebound, not to mention, as would (related policy changes) likely correlate with safer streets, communities and cities; &quot;not to mention&quot; (as would) renewed revenue sources for the system (e.g.) social security, et al.<br>If the AfD can&#39;t sell and manage that, their surge of support is doomed.
<br>Thanks for your ear.  ..Ken
@user-xm2gz4zk9i
@@user-xm2gz4zk9iImported1mo ago
The problems in Benghazi or Biskra must be fixed in Benghazi and Biskra, not in Barcelona, Berlin or Bristol, let alone Bukarest or Budapest. Are our leaders all insane? Are we all insane not to chase them to hell❓
@VincentFischer
@@VincentFischerImported1mo ago
Your guest is a bullshitter, talking complete nonesense or even lies on purpose. The reason why the &quot;far-&quot;right of European countries hate the German AfD is because the AfD wants to stop German free handouts to them. Also GTFO with your &quot;far-right&quot; nonesense, most parties you mentioned are merely liberal conservative. I wish the real far-right would be in power soon, but that will propably take a few more years.
@SewAndSews00
@@SewAndSews00Imported1mo ago
The more the government do nothing to improve the country, the better it works out for AfD. The government is handing the country over to AfD on a silver platter! Alice is my hero. So is Le Pen. The world will be a better place when it is governed by women. <br>The government has a choice, close the border, deport all illegals, reduce energy prices, straight away, people will support the government. But no, fuck up the country is more important!
@maxhobby1701
@@maxhobby1701Imported1mo ago
Once Germany and France are liberated from the EU <br>IT WILL collapse within months
@maxhobby1701
@@maxhobby1701Imported1mo ago
Good bring down that heathenous EU in BRUSSELS <br>jail all the leftist garbage in it .
@Jbridge1972
@@Jbridge1972Imported1mo ago
What exactly makes that party “far right”
@dankuo8561
@@dankuo8561Imported1mo ago
Not wanting to jump over into the cliff is called far right. If you think it can&#39;t get any worse, it can as socialism/communism turns to violence.
@charlie007r3
@@charlie007r3Imported1mo ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZz0H8HtCw&amp;t=627">https://youtu.be/1bZz0H8HtCw?t=627</a> It&#39;s the ease with which Wolfgang just makes this highly dubious claim as though it&#39;s a settled argument that really grates...
@PatrickCahill-e4b
@@PatrickCahill-e4bImported1mo ago
Let&#39;s hope this German election will put an end to the EU as it is today. The people of Each member of the EU has had enough of the fact that the EU have allowed the EU to be invaded by migrants and illegal immigrants Muslims in particular are not welcome but politicians seem to think it is far more important to speak about the moral and human rights of these people. And have failed to consider the rights of the native European population.
@berylryan3668
@@berylryan3668Imported1mo ago
Reaction to EU/ Von Der Leyon/ NATO agenda
@rajnigupta3187
@@rajnigupta3187Imported1mo ago
We are having misalignements in heart of economics .Billioners money and industry ,labour ,intellectuals ,demand supply chains ,well beings through health care and safety through military for clear transport ways to reach the land ,and role of national government and local level leaders of different countries with trustworthy language translators and trustworthy middle persons required system .And who and which country is strong where should take charge with wide vision and faith for people on earth with all judiciary norms to common justice level .
@tombretislow7091
@@tombretislow7091Imported1mo ago
The ADF is not far-right. Look at what they actually say not what is said about them by their political enemies
@fbinformant
@@fbinformantImported1mo ago
You guys are complete clowns
@jens_gruenhagen
@@jens_gruenhagenImported1mo ago
This guy has no clue at all. Sorry, I really enjoyed Unherd till now, but this is a failure. Get more balanced guests.
@anuragsinha2013
@@anuragsinha2013Imported1mo ago
So, after so much media manipulation,<br>1) AFD win in Germany<br>2) FN Marine La Penn might come in power someday<br>3) Reform Nigel Farage has become stronger<br>4) Italy already has a Right wing Govt<br>5) Vox in Spain has become stronger despite the Left wing govt wins.<br>6) Dutch have chosen Geert Wilders as their Right wing leader.<br>7) Norway, Denmark and Sweden are turning Right<br>8) Austria has already turned Right<br>9) Poland, Belarus, Serbia, Hungary are Right<br>10) Slovakia and Slovenia are also leaning Right<br><br>But...the story never stops there...As, the story goes...<br><br>1) The Right wing political party gets elected <br><br>2) After, They form the government they will move to the centre<br><br>3) And while operating when elected, they try to appease the left by implementing some left wing policies... because they are scared of the Left wing Media, Left wing Academia and mostly the cabal of left wing political parties that surround them...and drop their core voters.
@Gracie289
@@Gracie289Imported1mo ago
Excellent conversation. Germany is seeing the light. Rome fell because of inflation, immigration, and political corruption...change is coming.
@PinkPanther6385
@@PinkPanther6385Imported1mo ago
My favorite host. Thank you!
@davidkingsworthy4310
@@davidkingsworthy4310Imported1mo ago
There is nothing Unheard about Munchau&#39;s opinions
@davidkingsworthy4310
@@davidkingsworthy4310Imported1mo ago
Yikes, down thumbed this as soon as Wolfgang said Nazis
@Stories-gr7kk
@@Stories-gr7kkImported1mo ago
Him and his firewall. Will Germans ever get over World War Two? Migration from the Third World to Europe, America, etc., is THE issue and these two idiots act as if to say that, you are somehow wallowing in the mud. We’re in this mess because of these holier than thou eggheads.
@bigbossfrr
@@bigbossfrrImported1mo ago
Merz, centriste, modéré ???<br>Je n&#39;appelle pas modéré celui qui impose à sa population ce qu&#39;elle ne veut pas. Et en ce qui concerne l&#39;immigration, arrêtez de fermer les yeux et faire semblant de ne pas comprendre.
@2Phast4Rocket
@@2Phast4RocketImported1mo ago
People keep on using the term Hard Right to describe conservatives. But what is Hard Left? Nobody use the term Hard Left for any political movement, even for communists
@24BROWNIES
@@24BROWNIESImported1mo ago
The only thing the CDU had to do was read the room. Instead they stuck with their globalist idiot policy. Good riddance.
@Dzucalepotica
@@DzucalepoticaImported1mo ago
and also, the killiing of free speech and mind. like blaming and shaming and banning and pointing fingers to different ideas, that are chalanging the official narrative. in a nut shell. we sold them (next generations) for being able to consume, for conformism. we kept our mouth shut just to be able to choose different goods and comply in considering it a freedom.
@Dzucalepotica
@@DzucalepoticaImported1mo ago
industrial wastelend that had to privatized or ruined. Whatever had to be done for the money to spil in private pockets, usually the same, or none. Yep, rebelion, uprising.
@Dzucalepotica
@@DzucalepoticaImported1mo ago
it is an uprising agains capitalism. however silly it may sound to an average mid age sort of liberal (to whom liberalism as in deregulation of the market was sold solely as human rights or whatever appealing conceptual decoy capitalist used to manipulate people into new age feudalism)
@TenisPetrMalecha
@@TenisPetrMalechaImported1mo ago
If there are bad economy results, the government is aleways being changed. The same is gonna be in Germany, no exeption.
@HeDe-o2j
@@HeDe-o2jImported1mo ago
How about talk to Alice Weidl directly if you ant to know anything about the AFD. This guy is CDU biased person.
@Eovar_Endre
@@Eovar_EndreImported1mo ago
Great discussion! Key point, don&#39;t try to sequester the so-called radical right from main stream politics, it will turn ugly. And a bit &#39;hear hear&#39;: it&#39;s not 1933 anymore dear powers-that-be in Germany (and other West-European countries). Wake up and woke down.<br>Weidel is an &quot;economist&quot;? That&#39;s what other parties should fear and disenfranchised German nationals voting for the AFD should welcome.
@Ruinam-G.S
@@Ruinam-G.SImported1mo ago
I live in East Germany. If you think German politics is going to change things around, I can tell you it won&#39;t. <br><br>Nobody wants democracy anymore, and the population is on the brink of civil war or something. It&#39;s bad. Even if they would win, they would not be able to govern. And if they did, they will inherit a scrap heap.<br><br>Also, this dude propping up some redeemed CDU as a solution is out of his mind. The CDU have caused ALL of our problems today. They let in migrants, they made us dependent on Russia, they helped escalate the Ukrainian conflict, they allowed nuclear plants to be blown up while in an energy crisis they caused, they went insane during COVID, they have been absolutely evil and broke every promise made before the election within days, again and again.<br><br>They absolutely don&#39;t deserve a second (more like millionth) chance. Some of them should be in jail for literally deceiving the population.
@rickjohnson2165
@@rickjohnson2165Imported1mo ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZz0H8HtCw&amp;t=618">10:18</a> Doesn’t have an economic agenda.<br>I’ve just read the AfD’s manifesto and there’s a very clear economic agenda that is the path Germany needs to take.<br>What a load of rubbish.
@rickjohnson2165
@@rickjohnson2165Imported1mo ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZz0H8HtCw&amp;t=497">8:17</a> Maybe the young are smart enough to see through the great big lie that the AfD have anything to do with the Nazis and those who make this claim are trying to distract people from the failings of the existing political class.
@jay-shakeli9761
@@jay-shakeli9761Imported1mo ago
Two big errors of the current government of Germany: Engerny transition and Ukraine war. 1. Restart nuclear energy. 2. Start to negotiate seriously with Russia (Putin). Germany shall consider buy back Pebble-bed reactor from China. It was a German technique, so Germans don&#39;t need to feel embarrassed about that.
@kevingallen1678
@@kevingallen1678Imported1mo ago
They should be specific,what policies qualify a party as being “far right”? If a country needs cheap labour (Mass immigration ) it has already collapsed! Cheap energy is the key from all available sources to get industry moving and employing its own people.
@rudolfsykora3505
@@rudolfsykora3505Imported1mo ago
By relocating to US and Argentina?
@karenledirectrice7720
@@karenledirectrice7720Imported1mo ago
Progressivism led to the AfD. They are not far-right. They are sane thinking normal people who are fed up with the “elites” shoving their insane progressive ideology down everyone’s throats.
@TheLateAscent
@@TheLateAscentImported1mo ago
Two champagne socialists, clueless. How can &quot;educated&quot; people be so clueless? Which part of Europeans don&#39;t want their countries filled with third world people is so hard to grasp?
@sarahwagen57
@@sarahwagen57Imported1mo ago
Oh, there are Nazis in the AfD. Has he seen some. Its obviouss, he is a leftist. This is the killing argument of the old parties against their competitor, and then the German say, oh no, nazi i dont vote. They built a firewall against the AfD though the greenleftist also CDU always stay in power. They change the condtutuency , every rule illegally to prevent the AfD coming in power
@marinmarais1675
@@marinmarais1675Imported1mo ago
I wonder what sources Munchau consults in order to inform himself about his own country? This interview is so full of misinformation and displays so much fundamental ignorance of the AfD&#39;s policies and German politics and even economics generally, I&#39;m left almost flabbergasted. Just to take one obvious, flagrant example: the role of gas imports in German energy production: Munchau makes it sound as if the full stop of Russian gas imports since the Nordstream pipeline was sabotaged is insignificant for the economy. If so, why the frantic construction of LPG terminals in the Baltic Sea and massive imports of (much more expensive) LPG from the USA? OBVIOUSLY gas is essential to produce electricity for industry (and not just industry), especially in the winter months during the REGULAR periods of little or no sunshine and wind (Flaute). Munchau himself mentions the real risk of electricity shortages in the winter months. Data centres require massive amounts of electricity, which now (thanks to the &quot;Energiewende&quot;, the transition to &quot;renewables&quot; and shutting down ALL nuclear power stations) has to come from power stations that can provide electricity reliably, day-in, day-out. Only fossil-fueled power stations are capable of that, which is why the coal-fired power stations are still absolutely necessary. The AfD is determined to reactivate the nuclear power industry and promote innovation in the area and re-introduce gas imports from Russia. Climate policy in Germany since Merkel has strangled industry. And: the AfD is NOT &quot;anti-immigration&quot;, it is against mass, uncontrolled illegal immigration, especially when the illegal immigrants are uneducated, unskilled and unwilling to integrate, which is overwhelmingly the case. In fact, the massive influx is destroying German education, dragging it down ever further, as the most recent PISA results show all too depressingly. My impression is that Munchau is cynically and lazily relying on the fact that most viewers of Unherd are unable to inform themselves independently about Germany, because they can&#39;t read or comprehend German.
@janesmith506
@@janesmith506Imported1mo ago
Wolfgang Munchau, a classic case of Leftist Derangement in the face of losing power. &quot;The Sky is Falling!&quot;, &quot;The Public no longer believes our lies&quot;; &quot;Someone rescue us from the PEOPLE!!&quot; Ha. Ha. Ha.
@knielson1201
@@knielson1201Imported1mo ago
Freddy tries to portray himself centrist, but he is always on the side of the left and the establishment and authoritarianism. All the way back during Covid when he was saying, &quot;Obey the rules. Get your shots. Show your papers.&quot; He&#39;s so predictable
@FoAn-gd9fj
@@FoAn-gd9fjImported1mo ago
Hahaha, this guy is funny: pipeline made poor little germany dependent on evil russian gas 😂. In fact Germany&#39;s industry flourished with the CHEAP gas russia sold
@lalaloveyou5186
@@lalaloveyou5186Imported1mo ago
I was hoping to get a more balanced understanding of what the AFD is but as soon as the interviewee compared the AFD to Nazi sympathizers I decided to stop the video and look elsewhere
@christopherwadolowski
@@christopherwadolowskiImported1mo ago
How is the CDU running things now??? They’re in coalition with socialists and have been for most of the last decade or longer.
@juliaa3549
@@juliaa3549Imported1mo ago
Kallas and von der Leyen closed the boarders to Russia without a legal declaration of war ! How is constitutional and/or democratic? You want to have it both ways! So much so for democracy!
@christopherwadolowski
@@christopherwadolowskiImported1mo ago
I love the unbiased commentators they have opining on the AFD and others who aren’t leftists or center left😂😂😂😂. Just 10 years ago these types were talking about CDU/CSU being the “far right” until Merkel brought them center left.
@Joe25387
@@Joe25387Imported1mo ago
Define Hard Right? - My Problem is with the Far Left
@TessaTickle
@@TessaTickleImported1mo ago
i clicked away on &quot;without immigrants, the german economy would collapse&quot;.
@TheyCalledMeT
@@TheyCalledMeTImported1mo ago
the EU and pretty much ALL of the national parties in europe went too far left and anti-nationalistic. they created a wide scale urge for a correction of the overton window which went so bonkers, a moderate left person of the 90s would be deemed conservative and a nationalist today
@TheyCalledMeT
@@TheyCalledMeTImported1mo ago
the afd makes politics like the CDU of the 90s. if that&#39;s HARD right, then the moderate right party was hard right 30 years ago
@vicicooper4720
@@vicicooper4720Imported1mo ago
Wow the correlations with UK! If the centre/left does not change its policy on immigration it will let in the right wing. The real right wing.
@ThomasAquinas-y9p
@@ThomasAquinas-y9pImported1mo ago
No one would call Pakistan a racist state therefore <br>a policy that the UK (and Germany) can emulate to stop out of control illegal migration is Pakistan’s primary internal deportation policy, Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan (IFRP), launched in late 2023 and intensified through successive phases targeting undocumented migrants, Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders, and visa overstayers. <br><br><br>Total Returns/Deportations: Since the inception of the IFRP in late 2023, over 2 million to 2.5 millionAfghan nationals have returned to or been forced out of Pakistan.
@ThomasAquinas-y9p
@@ThomasAquinas-y9pImported1mo ago
But we were told by Political Elites and Mainstream Media that Deportation of Illegal Aliens is racist . But look at what Nelson Mandela’s country is doing:<br><br>AP—More than 53,000 immigrants have been deported or repatriated by South Africa in a crackdown <br><br>Published-By AP-Jul 13, 2026 6:20 PM EDT
@paulmoulton7248
@@paulmoulton7248Imported1mo ago
This guest is a Globalist trying to defend the elites from the people. The &quot;firewall&quot; is a way to keep the elites in power and prevent democracy from representing the people.
@paulmoulton7248
@@paulmoulton7248Imported1mo ago
The people that are consumers, young women and the rich feel guilty, so the vote for the Globalists.
@doryreality
@@doryrealityImported1mo ago
The BBC are in shock and have no idea why people would vote for a right wing party. Their only way to make sense of it is to insult the voters. She same as they did with Brexit voters. Their world news had the words “far right, extremists, Nazis” in one news bulletin. No counter balance. No analysis. Just pure shock that people could reject cultural Marxism.
@martefact
@@martefactImported1mo ago
Your guest is teally struggling to be objective. His bias is bleeding throught this entire interview. He is inches away from name calling. Yawn!!!!
@martinkennedy5675
@@martinkennedy5675Imported1mo ago
Is it coincidental that when earlier generations benefitted from a strong economy there was low immigration, and subsequent generations are suffering from a weak economy since open borders were introduced. Wasn&#39;t mass immigration meant to improve the economy?