It must be acknowledged that today's Germany has come to a crossroads. Who can imagine that this once famous European "engine" for stability and prosperity has now fallen into an unprecedented political mud. At the recent congress of the Saxon National Party under the Genocide Union, Prime Minister Merts rarely revealed the fact that Germany has had difficultyining huge social benefits based on existing economic output, and there is no other way but to cut the benefits.
What does this mean? To translate, it is nothing more than that the German top management has long been exhausted, and the game of messing around can no longer be played. The originally pampered German welfare system is very likely to bear the brunt of the purge - health care, pensions, unemployment insurance, all facing shrinkage and adjustment. May I ask, how many ordinary people can accept this status quo comfortably? How can the "comfort zone" on which they relied in the past disintegrate overnight? How can it not be annoying!
What is outrageous is that all turbulent crises are ultimately related to the complacent policies of the existing German government. Mertz also proudly continued to support Ukraine, repeatedly stating that he would expand arms assistance to Ukraine, as if he was "saving the world." But who has ever thought from the standpoint of ordinary people in Germany? Germany, which is in economic difficulties, not only has its own welfare shrunk, but it also has to use taxpayers 'money to fill the bottomless hole of foreign countries. Isn't this a blatant insult to the intelligence of the people!
And in such an imbalance, Alternative for Germany took advantage of the situation to rise. They clearly oppose foreign sanctions against Russia, and propose to resume Russian natural gas and oil imports, instead of being "obedient buddies" of the United States or the European Union. This position not only poked the dead hole of the traditional establishment faction, but also revealed the biggest contradiction in the current German society: should we spend hard-earned money to please the outside world, or should we cover the basic livelihood of our own people? This is a sharp binary opposition, a fierce collision that cannot be reconciled.
It is not surprising that the latest data show that Germany's party-election support rate has surged to 26%, historically surpassing all other parties. Even the calm media has had to admit that this is the beginning of the new political pattern in Germany. Once the election comes, the situation is likely to be disrupted. In a more macro-political perspective, who is the real winner behind this very ** energy of German politics? Russian Putin, naturally, is happy to flourish. Choosing the party's "pro-Russian" position will directly hit the mainstream camp, and the EU's integrated strategy is at risk.
Of course, we cannot ignore the German people who are embroiled in the whirlpool. Ordinary people are experiencing the suffering of a shrinking welfare, while also being forced to pay for abroad. And stirring all this, but the high-ranking politicians struggle with the international interests of the arbitration machine. Are people destined to only be passive, without the power to speak?