Alternative für Deutschland Vows to Restart Nord Stream Gas Pipeline
BY ANDREW MIILLER
The two major natural gas pipelines connecting Germany to Russia have been out of commission since September 2022, when underwater explosions rendered them inoperable. Yet the co-chair of Germany’s second-largest political party wants to change this.
At a rally in Saxony on January 11, Alice Weidel unveiled a new manifesto for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), supported by 20 percent of the German electorate. Among other things, this manifesto pledges to seal Germany’s border, deport undocumented immigrants, take Germany out of the eurozone, and restart the Nord Stream pipeline.
The AfD refused to condemn Russia for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine in its manifesto, signaling that the party wishes to prioritize Germany’s economic relationship with Russia.
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany imported 55 percent of its natural gas from Russia. This flow of gas has been cut off due to the war, prompting Germany to turn to Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium for its natural gas needs. But many industrialists miss the days of cheap Russian gas, so the AfD is promising to restart Nord Stream if it is brought into Germany’s next coalition government.
During his first term in office, United States President Donald Trump adamantly opposed the Nord Stream pipeline, saying that Germany’s dependence on Russian gas created a condition where “Germany is totally controlled by Russia.”
Despite Trump’s repeated warnings, Germany did not stop buying gas from Russia until after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
The subsequent Russo-Ukraine War has halted plans to turn Germany into Europe’s gas station, and many in the AfD are upset by the delay.
Germany is the fourth-largest manufacturing power on Earth, but it is relatively poor in natural resources. This is the main reason why so many Germans want to overlook Russia’s human rights abuses. Combining German technology with Russian natural resources could create a Eurasian power bloc with the capability to challenge America’s position as the world’s lone superpower. Current geopolitical tensions over Ukraine are delaying the creation of such a superpower, but the AfD is working to change this.
Weidel probably will not be Germany’s next chancellor, but her popularity shows that Germans are looking for a dramatic change in the status quo. This should be deeply concerning: History shows that deepening cooperation between Germany and Russia is often a harbinger of dark times. The last time such an alliance occurred, it directly caused the Holodomor, the Holocaust, World War II and the deaths of 70 million people.
Consider this article raising concerns for future developments in diplomatic relations with Germany.
MORNING EDITION. 01/22/25
Donald Trump continued his flurry of activity,directing that all DEI staff be placed on paid leave, all DEI training cease by 5 p.m., and all DEI-focused government websites be shut down. His administration has also encouraged staff to report DEI initiatives being carried out by other names.
The pushback is also getting underway.
Democratic states and civil rights groups filed lawsuits challenging Mr. Trump’s executive order that prevents the children of illegal immigrants claiming U.S. citizenship. This claim is based on the 14th Amendment, which states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” It was introduced after the Civil War and established that slaves and their descendants were U.S. citizens.
In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that this amendment made children of legal, permanent immigrants into U.S. citizens. It is clear that the authors of the 14th Amendment did not intend to give blanket rights to illegal immigrants. What the courts will decide remains to be seen.
The AfD refused to condemn Russia for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine in its manifesto, signaling that the party wishes to prioritize Germany’s economic relationship with Russia.
Mariann Edgar Budde, an Episcopalian bishop at Washington National Cathedral, attacked Mr. Trump in a national prayer service yesterday.
“In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” she said. “There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families. Some who fear for their lives.” Calling for mercy sounds very Christian, but the immorality spread by the LGBT movement
destroys individuals, lives and society.
That is why God commanded ancient Israel not to allow this perversion in its territory. Budde also pleaded on behalf of migrants. God told the Israelites not to allow in migrants who refused to assimilate into their culture and religion
because of the damage it would do.
This supposed bishop should know these things.
Two people died in a stabbing in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg this morning. Bild reports that a 41-year-old man and a 2-year-old boy were killed. Others were wounded. German media report that the suspect is a 28-year-old Afghan—so this was another attack by a migrant. Watch for the understandable anger at these attacks to transform Germany. In a less man-made tragedy, Turkey declared a national day of mourning after 76 people died in a fire at a ski resort.
Britain has the solution to these kinds of stabbing attacks. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under fire for misleading the nation about the Southport stabbing and jailing those who told the truth, has found a new scapegoat. “The lessons of this case could not be clearer,” he wrote. “Time and again as a child, the Southport murderer carried knives.” Axel Rudakubana bought a knife from Amazon; now the British press is full of headlines blaming Amazon for the attacks. The government wants a new law where shoppers will have to upload their ID and record a video of themselves when buying a knife online—instead of merely showing ID to the delivery driver as is the current practice. How telling that the government would rather crack down on standard, everyday utilities than deal with the problem of radical Islam or imported terrorists.
“The Prophet Isaiah warned 2,700 years ago that Britain in the end time would lose its moral and intellectual compass, wrote
theTrumpet.com managing editor Brad Macdonald. “‘We grope for the wall like the blind,’ he wrote, ‘and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night …’ (Isaiah 59:10).
“This prophecy comes to mind every time I hear someone talk about the knife crime crisis currently plaguing Britain.
The conversation on this issue is a spaghetti bowl of ill-informed conclusions and assumptions, false hopes and ideology-driven solutions. Indeed, ‘we grope as if we had no eyes.’” His article aptly describes where we are now.
Richard Palmer
Assistant Managing Editor, theTrumpet.com
Welded pipe along the construction route of the Eugal gas pipeline on March 19, 2019, near Golssen, Germany (SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES)
Alternative für Deutschland Vows to Restart Nord Stream Gas Pipeline
BY ANDREW MIILLER
The two major natural gas pipelines connecting Germany to Russia have been out of commission since September 2022, when underwater explosions rendered them inoperable. Yet the co-chair of Germany’s second-largest political party wants to change this.
At a rally in Saxony on January 11, Alice Weidel unveiled a new manifesto for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), supported by 20 percent of the German electorate. Among other things, this manifesto pledges to seal Germany’s border, deport undocumented immigrants, take Germany out of the eurozone, and restart the Nord Stream pipeline.
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany imported 55 percent of its natural gas from Russia. This flow of gas has been cut off due to the war, prompting Germany to turn to Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium for its natural gas needs. But many industrialists miss the days of cheap Russian gas, so the AfD is promising to restart Nord Stream if it is brought into Germany’s next coalition government.
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Are foreign actors funding a wave of anti-Semitic attacks? Australian police investigate
Australian police are investigating whether foreign actors are paying local criminals to carry out a wave of anti-Semitic attacks, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday.
The wave: Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Sydney and Melbourne have had an onslaught of hate crimes targeting Jewish communities. These two cities are home to 84 percent of Australia’s Jewish population.
The hate crimes include:
- Synagogues being firebombed and defaced with graffitied swastikas
- Cars in majority Jewish neighborhoods being burned and vandalized with racial smears
On Tuesday, a child-care center near a synagogue in Sydney was set on fire and sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti. Thankfully no one was injured in the attack.
Paid crimes: On Wednesday, Albanese released a statement saying that some of these crimes “are being perpetrated by people who don’t have a particular issue, aren’t motivated by an ideology, but are paid actors.”
“It’s unclear who or where the payments are coming from,” he added.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said the police would investigate “whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs.”
Charges: Albanese said 36 people in New South Wales have been charged with “anti-Semitic related offenses.” In Victoria, 70 arrests have been made.
- On Tuesday, eight people were charged for a series of “hate crime-related incidents” that date back to November.
- On Wednesday, a 33-year-old man was charged with trying to set a Sydney synagogue on fire earlier this month.
Persecution: The attacks in Australia show an increase in persecution of the Jewish community. The evil force behind these attacks is a threat—not only to Jews but to the whole world.
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For the new Trump administration, the AfD represents Germany
By inviting select individuals from around the world to his inauguration, United States President Donald Trump revealed his international focus. Intriguingly, no one from the current German government received an invitation, but representatives of the opposition parties, the Christian Democrats and the Alternative für Deutschland, did, along with German Ambassador to the United States Andreas Michaelis.
The wrong guests?
- Just prior to Trump’s inauguration, a leaked diplomatic write-up from Michaelis warned that the new president will “largely sap” the U.S. of its democratic principles.
- The AfD, represented in Washington by cochair Tino Chrupalla, seeks closeness with Russia and to revive the Nord Stream 2 project that Trump opposed during his first administration.
- The CDU, represented by foreign affairs spokesman Jürgen Hardt, was long led by Angela Merkel, one of Trump’s biggest international critics.
Trump team endorses AfD: Various members of Trump’s new team have shown a particular closeness to Germany’s far-right AfD. Elon Musk, who heads Trump’s government efficiency program, interviewed AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel on his platform X and publicly endorsed the party. On Inauguration Day, other AfD representatives met with Trump confidants, such as Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Steve Bannon.
This closeness between America’s conservatives and Germany’s far right indicates that the new U.S. administration fails to understand Germany’s desire for independence from the U.S.
Watch independent Europe:
The Europeans are far more disturbed about their safety in relying on United States military power to protect them than Americans realize! … Europeans want their own united military power! They know that a political union of Europe would produce a third major world power, as strong as either the U.S. or the USSR—possibly stronger!
—Herbert W. Armstrong, Good News, August 1978
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