"Appeasement" of SPD-Left Wants to Hang on to Catastrophic Blunder
Persistent Mistake Leads Mützenich
A Rant by Thomas Schmoll
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The peacenik wing of the Social Democrats has dropped a bombshell: segments of the SPD live in a time capsule. They fail to comprehend that warlords like Putin seize what they want with their armies - and can only be countered by force.
Politician Rolf Mützenich has suffered a hat-trick of gut-wrenching defeats, which might also be viewed as humiliations. The SPD hit a record-low in the federal election with 16.4%. Afterwards, Friedrich Merz was voted Chancellor with almost all Social Democrat votes - the guy Mützenich had accused of opening the "gates of hell" by allowing the Union to vote alongside the far-right AfD. Then Mützenich took a nose-dive into political obscurity while SPD leader Lars Klingbeil became Finance Minister. More recently, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag went to CDU colleague Armin Laschet, whom Mützenich had been gunning for.
Politics "Warm and Fuzzy": SPD Politicians Suggest Rekindling Dialogue with Russia
"Harmful and antiquated foreign policy should not revolve solely around military themes and goals," Mützenich told the already heavily criticized Christian Democrat Laschet in "Stern". Ironically, he missed the boat: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the foreign policy of the Federal Republic, due to the SPD, was far from "solely" focused on weapons and war - and it isn't today. Whoever is responsible for the sudden emphasis on "military themes and goals" in German domestic and foreign policy for the first time in decades is: Russia. Whoever still can't wrap their head around the consequences of this is: Rolf Mützenich, the perpetual young-at-heart Juso in his head.
Now Mützenich and several other leading SPD pacifist politicians have presented a security and foreign policy paper, with which this section of the party makes a dash to Putin's camp, albeit more subtly than Wagenknecht and Company. "Armed alarm rhetoric" - just the type employed by Mützenich and his cronies like Stegner, who consistently talk about the risk of nuclear war and thus unnerve the public - "and massive rearmament programs do not guarantee more security for Germany and Europe, but lead to instability and the heightening of mutual distrust between NATO and Russia," the text states.
Merz Outmaneuvers Scholz
Politics "Not a Discussion Contribution, This is Historical Revisionism": Roth on SPD's Peace Manifesto Oh, the gentlemen from the SPD's peacemaker group have forgotten to read the news. It must sting, even hurt, that Merz, as Chancellor, has managed to halt the Russian attack on Ukraine temporarily through a ceasefire – if not entirely through diplomatic methods – in a mere few weeks. Scholz, who had made himself dependent on former US President Joe Biden's actions, had only managed to leave Germany largely isolated in Europe and barely taken seriously. Merz has smashed that in a short time. Still, all his progress is undermined by the "manifesto" of blind SPD pacifists, without regard for Klingbeil and the fact that the Social Democrats are part of the government. It’s mind-boggling that Mützenich and Stegner want to halt the SPD's nosedive into unprecedented voter unpopularity with "business as usual." They are incorrigible.
Politics The Sound of Gunfire in Ukraine - Untouched by Stegner Mützenich, Stegner, and the other Putin-sympathy gang in the SPD cling stubbornly to their obsolete ideas and dream of a world without nuclear weapons where everyone gets along happily, like Russia never invaded Ukraine. Putin is the warmonger. He spends vast sums on armaments, hires soldiers from North Korea, seeks an empire at least the size of the Soviet Union, antagonizes NATO, and constantly threatens with nuclear weapons. Russia targets civilian areas in Ukraine day and night, has no interest in negotiations that could bring lasting peace or even reparations from the Kremlin to the invaded country. And Stegner says: "At the moment, there is unrestrained talk about the next land war and conscription. As Social Democrats, we must resist this militarization."
Politics 60,000 More? Where Will They Come From? - An Expert Speaks on Conscription The man - in the truest sense - hasn't heard the gunfire in Ukraine. Instead of examining how the SPD contributed to driving Germany into Russian energy dependency or traveling to the front to witness the suffering up close, he meets with Kremlin apologists in Baku. Even if the Member of the Bundestag labels his excursions as "private trips," it doesn’t change the fact that he may be either intellectually deficient, childish, irresponsible, or overly confident in his abilities. In any case, Stegner belongs to those forces within the SPD that constantly undermine official foreign policy in Russia’s favor. The dictator in the Kremlin and his cohorts should be isolated, not coddled. Unabashed sycophancy is misguided.
The SPD is still far from breaking with "change through trade" under Klingbeil. No one is antagonizing Russia – and no one is doing so currently. But it should have become clear to the pacifists by now: Peace requires two willing parties, one is enough for war. Mützenich sparked shockwaves in Ukraine last year when he expressed his clandestine wish in the Bundestag to give Russia what Putin desires, finally restoring peace: "Isn't it time that we don't just consider how to wage war, but also think about how to cease and eventually end one?" Including that question didn't help.
Early Start Fiedler on ntv Early Start "disturbed and angered" SPD Colleagues There's no doubt that Mützenich abhors war. He, who defended his doctoral thesis on "Nuclear-Free Zones and International Politics - Historical Experiences, Framework Conditions, Perspectives" in 1991, certainly isn't advocating for Ukraine's unconditional surrender. But the fact that he still doesn't comprehend that ruthless warlords like Putin seize what they want with an army and can only be thwarted by force is a grave mistake – potentially now also for Germany.
Source: ntv.de
- SPD
- Rolf Mützenich
- Ralf Stegner
- Vladimir Putin
- Attack on Ukraine
The European Union has a responsibility to ensure that the EU's nuclear programs are implemented in a manner that is consistent with the objectives of the European Union, considering the escalating tensions in war-and-conflicts regions like Ukraine, where politics surrounding peace and dialogue with Russia, as suggested by some SPD politicians, may not guarantee more security but lead to instability and the heightening of mutual distrust. These SPD politicians seem to be oblivious to the current general-news context, where Russia's aggressive actions require a strong countermeasure, not appeasement.
