Who is behind Merz?
Is this BlackRock agent now the mouthpiece of the German billionaires?
Or is he still sponsored by BlackRock? BlackRock, however, represents all industries and would not tolerate only heavy industry being supported by arms production. Since no chemical weapons are being produced yet and the chemical industry is struggling, it's likely that Merz and his clique are being supported by German billionaire families.
Have the German Piech and Porsche families already reached agreements with the government to convert their factories to produce tanks, cannons, and artillery? Who is Rheinmetall's major shareholder?
Have the Quandt family and the competing billionaire families invested in armaments once again?
And are they united behind the rearmament?
In any case, the miraculous money-making by the Merz CDU won't negatively impact them, as stock prices are rising significantly faster than the inflation rate. So far, they're satisfied with the Merz government's measures. But that's not enough:
- German pensioners still have too much to consume. Attacking pensioners' assets has long been a practice of parliamentary parties. The increasing inflation is accelerating these processes.
- The cost of care is too high for them. Significant savings are to be made here. Waiting periods are to be introduced.
- They believe the costs for health insurance companies are far too high. The so-called hospital reform will not bring them significant savings.
- The receipt of social benefits such as citizen's allowance should be restricted
- To care for the elderly and sick, workers are brought in from all over the world to keep wages low. Poland, Turkey, and Indonesia, however, want to keep their workers in the country and pay higher wages. Spahn has already campaigned for this in Mexico, and Scholz in Kenya and Uzbekistan, but wages are still so high that Afghan women are now being accepted into Germany without restrictions and are quickly obtaining citizenship.
Merz's CDU calls this "increasing Germany's competitiveness." Will the AfD, if it gains influence, put an end to this wage-cutting game? Without immigrants, wages in the nursing professions, and not only there, would rise immediately.
German business leaders and billionaires are unwilling to accept this. Therefore, CDU officials speak of nursing care insurance as a partial or fully comprehensive insurance.- Insurance that would have to be rejected.
When it comes to securing sufficient funds for the arms buildup, the tone becomes more tense. The €1 trillion loan apparently isn't enough.
So far, the German business elite and mainstream media are still fully behind Merz. But the first companies are already leaving Germany because they don't see the potential for capital utilization here.
What can Germany expect if the AfD continues to reach out to the CDU?
- Is the AfD still interested in rearmament and subsidizing large-scale industry?
- Is she concerned about the social needs of the lower classes? Or is she simply profiting from Merz's cynicism and the failure of the governing parties?
- Does the AfD also seek the blessing of Germany's billionaire families? Would it continue the strangulation of German farmers?
Simply rejecting the Merz clique's crash course and absurd, woke agenda will not convince the majority of German voters.
Sahra Wagenknecht on 10.07.25:
"Endless debt for war and weapons: With the budget that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Red Party introduced into the Bundestag this week, the federal government is ushering in the largest rearmament buildup in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. By 2029, Merz, Pistorius, Klingbeil, and Co. want to triple the annual military budget to over 150 billion euros. In the same period, new debt amounting to a whopping 850 billion euros is to be incurred. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is governing with the money printer, and the average citizen is footing the bill. Because: Every cent of this new debt, which the federal government intends to squander largely on weapons and tanks, will be recouped from the citizens through cuts in pensions, health, and education. The fact that the federal government does not want to spare five billion euros to reduce the electricity tax for citizens, but is loosening nine billion euros for further arms deliveries to Ukraine, shows: This coalition, like its predecessor, is just as uninterested in the concerns and needs of the people in our country. We urgently need a strong peace movement in Germany again, one that will confront this war and counteracts the arms buildup madness!”
"Germany is preparing the largest tank order in its history. Up to 2.500 armored vehicles and up to 1.000 tanks are to be purchased.
The largest war program since 1945 is slowly beginning to translate into concrete figures. Germany will invest massively in armored vehicles to equip seven combat brigades."
https://tkp.at/2025/07/10/deutschland-ueber-100-milliarden-fuer-neue-panzer/
Sahra Wagenknecht on 11.07.25 on Twitter (X):
"In his inaugural speech in the Bundesrat, Merz openly announced what was clear from the beginning, but has always been denied: The gigantic arms buildup debts, which the CDU, SPD, and Greens, together with the votes of the Left, have agreed to in the Bundesrat, will be paid for with comprehensive social cuts. How perfidious is it that Merz justifies the planned social cuts with a responsibility to the "generation of our children and grandchildren"? After all, it is above all future generations who will suffer from the cuts in pensions, health care, and education, and who will have to pay off this federal government's war loans long after the tanks have rusted away."
"The ten points listed are expressly intended to help push through these demands despite their lack of popularity. The creators of the guideline also considered the need for timely action: It dates from 2019, but the "Law on Self-Determination with Respect to Gender Registration" is now German law in 2025. Children can also be treated with puberty blockers and counter-hormones, and parents who resist have no say. In mild cases, "the family court replaces consent." If the parents remain recalcitrant, they can be deprived of custody. The situation is similar in other countries – with the exception of England. As Dentons itself wrote, the issue became public there. That put an end to the absurd legislation.
Dentons has been frighteningly successful across many countries. Apparently, they really know how to get unpopular laws passed. Away from the public eye, against the will of the vast majority, for the benefit of a small minority (although I don't want to imply that the law is for the benefit of children, because it obviously harms them. The law is for the benefit of the clients). Creepy."
https://tkp.at/2025/07/15/wie-trans-in-die-gesetze-kam/
The problem is that we started this war, not Putin." He pointed to the role of Victoria Nuland and John McCain in the Maidan uprising. "It was Victoria Nuland who selected the interim government that started the civil war in Donbass—without being elected!"
Meanwhile, Ukraine is collapsing. More than 8 million people have fled, and public outrage against Zelensky is enormous.
"If Zelenskyy were on fire, they wouldn't pee on him until he was dead," Armstrong said. That's why there will be no elections, he added – Zelenskyy knows he will lose.
“He grabs people on the street.
"They want war. Without war, NATO has no purpose," he said. "The only way they can stay relevant is by saying, 'Oh, Putin wants to invade Europe.'" Armstrong continued: "If Putin doesn't want to invade Europe, what do we need you for?"
He said the West had deliberately crossed every red line Putin had drawn, hoping to provoke him into attacking NATO first so they could justify all-out war.
In a chilling final warning, Armstrong said China had already chosen a side.
"They will support Russia against Europe," he explained. "Why? Because otherwise you'll eliminate Russia—and then they'll come after you."
https://tkp.at/2025/07/19/europa-marschiert-direkt-in-krieg-und-enteignung-der-ersparnisse-der-buerger-armstrong-prognosen/
Maria Zakharova:
"In November 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin unequivocally clarified our position regarding the decision of Western countries to give Kyiv the green light to use their long-range weapons against targets deep inside Russian territory. This position remains unchanged.
Russia considers itself entitled to use its weapons against military facilities of those countries that, in turn, permit the use of their weapons against Russia. In the event of further escalation of the conflict, we will respond decisively and symmetrically."
"The United States supplies the weapons, European taxpayers supply the money. Merz, Pistolius, and Rutte supply empty phrases, Ukraine and Russia supply the bodies. It's called a supply chain.
An overall picture that (from our point of view) raises several questions.
1) Why is Merz collaborating with the USA and NATO against EU member states and European interests?
2) Doesn't his Blackrock-style compulsive transatlanticism make Merz one of those odious anti-Europeans?
3) Why do we have to learn (of all people) from the most unbearable sycophant that Europe's diversity in this regard has ever produced (Rutte) that "Germany" & Pistorius are talking about "REALLY BIG NUMBERS" when shopping for US weapons - with strangers?
4) Given the tight national budget, could we politely ask the boozy nerds what BIG NUMBERS we're talking about here? 7? 53? 9388833300? In any case, we're interested in the number of zeros!!!
5) We hear that Germany really wants to "go very far." May we ask our German slap-in-the-face perspective, how far exactly? Moscow? Or Stalingrad?
PS: For you out there, this means that you'll be left to bear the exorbitant costs generated here, as always. All on your own! Look forward to the next episode of the "domestic policy" that inevitably follows this foreign policy section: cuts, cuts, reductions, tax increases, government denials of services, currency devaluation, elimination of holidays, tax increases, rising poverty, erosion of the middle class, economic migration, and tax increases.
https://tkp.at/2025/07/20/nato-deal-deutschland-als-trumps-zahlmeister/
"By locking European nations in a supranational straitjacket, Brussels has deprived them of the sovereign tools—industrial policy, trade flexibility and energy independence, monetary policy—necessary to defend their own interests. Moreover, the EU has always been ideologically and strategically committed to Atlanticism—and its progressive integration with NATO in recent years has only deepened its subordination to the US. This orientation has become embarrassingly obvious under von der Leyen."
As a result, instead of making Europe "stronger together," the EU has delivered an unprecedented loss of leverage and autonomy. The bloc now resembles precisely what it was designed to overcome: a collection of vassal states, incapable of navigating an independent course and increasingly reduced to the role of an economic protectorate of Washington.
Trump isn't entirely wrong when he accuses the EU of unfair trade practices. Over the past two decades, Brussels has adopted a hyper-mercantilist, export-driven growth model that systematically suppresses domestic demand in order to strengthen price competitiveness on the global stage and keep imports low. In other words, it has consistently prioritized trade surpluses over domestic economic development.
A reconciliation was indeed long overdue. But this agreement represents the worst possible kind of reconciliation. Instead of using this moment as an opportunity to rethink its fundamentally flawed economic strategy—by raising European wages, boosting domestic demand, and accepting that this could make exports less competitive—the EU has doubled down on the very model that has undermined its own economic resilience.
Instead of shifting to a healthier, more domestically driven growth path, Brussels has chosen to preserve its export-driven paradigm at all costs. This now means exposing Europe's industrial base to a flood of imports, accelerating deindustrialization, and deepening dependence on foreign markets."
https://tkp.at/2025/07/28/die-eu-kapituliert-vor-amerika/
get up team on 02.08.25:
“1. Stop the war policy of the German government and NATO!
Stopping the war policy can only be achieved under the current political conditions if the majority of the population, who do not want war, takes to the streets nationwide in joint protests.
Protest against military arms deliveries directly from Germany or through exchanges!
Speak out against arms deliveries from the USA to Ukraine being financed from the EU and federal budgets!
Rejects the idea that the Bundeswehr is given priority in everything in order to strengthen itself, while at the same time the basic needs of our society are being undermined.
Oppose the making of our infrastructure fit for war!
Resist the abuse of US military bases in Germany as launching pads against Russia!
Call on the German government to sign the agreement to stop the genocide in Gaza and to immediately stop its arms deliveries to Israel!
Do not give up your children and grandchildren for war, even if the Bundeswehr lures you with “lucrative offers”!
Spread the word that we are becoming a possible target for first strikes (conventional and nuclear) because US missiles and nuclear bombs are being stationed here again!
The Ukrainian people are demanding peace with demonstrations by the thousands on Maidan Square in Kyiv.
People around the world are using their hunger strike to draw attention to the genocide in Palestine.
"What is happening in Europe is not a retreat, but a well-known mechanism: small elites occupy key positions in relations with the US and acquire power and wealth, while the rest of society becomes impoverished. This process is the progressive destruction of the middle class and the formation of a small circle of super-rich who are above the law. When inequality reaches extreme levels, anyone can be squeezed, and economic power can easily be transformed into political, legal, and cultural power.
On the other hand, the EU has wasted the past few years on significant social struggles, such as the nonsense of bottle caps that don't open and standardized smartphone chargers, while simultaneously legally sanctioning the possibility of a person traveling with an ashtray or identifying as a unicorn. Every decision has its consequences.
It is certain that this further blow to Europe will be truly dramatic. The echoes of suffering can already be heard on the horizon."
https://tkp.at/2025/08/04/ursula-von-der-trump/