Big Blitz Posted yesterday at 10:46 PM Author Posted yesterday at 10:46 PM We have nothing in common with half the West. Unsustainable 1
Big Blitz Posted 14 hours ago Author Posted 14 hours ago (edited) We are not their friends. Slap a 200% tariff on them. AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country's federal office for the protection of the constitution. "The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order," the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement. The German foreign ministry defended the decision after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move "tyranny in disguise" and Vice-President JD Vance said the Berlin Wall was being rebuilt. The AfD came second in federal elections in February, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat parliament with 20.8% of the vote. Earlier this year Alice Weidel embraced the term "remigration", widely seen as meaning the mass deportation of people with a migrant background, although she rejected that definition. The AfD also attracted the support of leading figures in the Trump administration. Nine days before the election, US Vice-President JD Vance met Weidel in Munich and said there was no place for "firewalls", alleging that free speech was in retreat in Europe. Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave Weidel a long audience in a livestreamed chat on X and called on Germans to vote for the AfD. He then repeatedly posted his support for Weidel's party in the run-up to the election. On Friday JD Vance posted on X that "the AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it." He also accused the "German establishment" of rebuilding the Berlin Wall - a reference to the barrier built in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin during the Cold War. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the decision taken by the German intelligence agency meant it had been given "new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy - it's tyranny in disguise". This prompted a rare retort from the German Foreign Office. "This is democracy," it posted on X. "We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy6zk9wkrdo But Putin! Edited 14 hours ago by Big Blitz
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