Criticism of the AfD and the Left: MERS Supports Government Study – Under Conditions

Criticism of the AfD and the Left
MERS Government Supports Study – Under Conditions

02/27/2022, 2:43 pm

To implement ambitious security policy plans, traffic light parties need the votes of the opposition. Opposition leader Merse announces approval in principle, but warns of new debt. The sharpest criticism of the government comes from the AfD and the Left.

Union Secretary Friedrich Merz has vowed to support Chancellor Olaf Scholes’ federal government’s sanctions against Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. The CDU leader responded to the SPD president’s government statement by saying that the union would support comprehensive action and would not “complain about small things.” If Scholz wants a comprehensive upgrade of the Bundeswehr, he will go the way of the union president, even against the opposition, Merz said.

Although Scholes thinks it is necessary to restructure the government’s energy policy, Mers stressed with the union that “finally we can not do without any other energy production options, after which you will find our active support.”

At the same time, the union chief warned that the 100 100 billion special fund announced by Scholz for investments and arms projects through the Bundeswehr would initially represent new debt. How to take this new debt and include it in the constitution “can not be done only with the government statement on Sunday morning. Then we must talk quietly and in detail.”

“We will do it all areas together,” Mers said. “Not in the division of labor, we blame you for unpleasant things and then continue to distribute all the benefits in your alliance at the expense of the younger generation,” he warned Scholes. “Then we’ll not do it.”

MERS criticized Germany as “facing the erosion of German and European foreign and security policy in recent years and decades.” Some of the alleged assurances are from the past. Unilateral disarmament does not lead to greater security. Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible for Russia’s war of aggression. “This ‘flawless Democrat’, as he never was, has now become a war criminal who can be seen all over the world,” MERS said of former SPD president Heckhard Schrder. Schrder previously called Putin a “flawless democrat.”

Weidel: Western Russia has been hurt

Meanwhile, AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel blamed the West for Russia’s attack on Ukraine. At a special session of the Bundestag, Weidel said that Ukraine’s followers strongly opposed the prospect of joining NATO and arrogantly denied Russia’s superpower status. “This is a historic defeat for the West: an insult to Russia.”

Weidel said this would not change the “condemnation of the Russian invasion.” “At present, Germany has nothing to do with words and deeds,” said the AfD politician. Obstacles that are more harmful to their own citizens than they aim for will not end the war. They are ultimately token politics – “like illuminating the Brandenburg Gate in the colors of the Ukrainian nation”.

Germany has also become a “light weight” in terms of security policy. “A Fallen Army and a Marginalized Arms Industry, Angela Merkel’s 16 Years of Legacy.” Weidel said the challenge of creating a European defense framework beyond East-West Black thinking has become more difficult, but not off the table. “Germany can and should play an important role as an honest broker here.” The AfD politician warned that Germany “should not be allowed to be drawn into a war without thinking.”

Left: “does not support upgrading”

The Left in Bundestag is adamantly rejecting the massive increase in defense spending announced by President Scholes. “We on the left cannot and will not support this weapon, this militarization,” Left Party leader Amira Mohammed Ali said in a statement. “History teaches us that arms races do not create security.” Disarmament and diplomacy are needed.

At the same time, the leader of the Left Party in Puntestock made it clear that his parliamentary group shared the view that Russia was responsible for the war of aggression in violation of international law. “There is nothing to put forward this Russian attack and there is nothing to justify it.” Leftists often have pro-Russian attitudes.

Mohammed Ali admitted that “we have misjudged the intentions of the Russian government.” Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin’s great power fantasies – “they should not change into reality,” said the deputy. Mohammed Ali doubted that sanctions against Russia’s oligarchy would be sufficient. The rich and powerful have long had ways to avoid them.