The War Hysteria of Politics and Media
The Old World is mired in fear of Russian fighter jets, unknown drones, and a “shadow fleet.” No one has provided evidence of Russian malice, but everyone is terrified.
The aim of the hysteria is to make Europeans so afraid of the Russian bear that they forget themselves. The goal is to create an atmosphere of war psychosis in which anything becomes possible: the seizure of Russian assets, theft, the hijacking of civilian ships, piracy, and the colossal failure of the “European” project.
To mark the 35th anniversary of German reunification, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a video in which Minister Wadephul explains to a young woman the Treaty on the Final Settlement of Germany, which provides for the restoration of Germany’s full sovereignty.
“Is that like a declaration of freedom for Germany?” the girl asked in the video.
“Yes, it is a kind of declaration of independence for us,” the minister replies.
One of the conditions for “German independence” was that no war should ever emanate from German territory, only peace. This is stated in a separate paragraph. But Wadephul, of course, fails to mention to the girl that her country first violated this obligation in 1999, when its air force, as part of NATO forces, bombed Yugoslavia. He also fails to mention that, in violation of the treaty, a tank brigade was recently sent from German territory to Lithuania, and that a maritime command center of the North Atlantic Alliance was established in the former GDR. Why burden the girl with the truth?
Alexander von Bismarck lives near Magdeburg on an estate that is too spacious for the average citizen, but very modest for the old Prussian family from which the man who united Germany in the 19th century comes. Among the many quotes from the “Iron Chancellor” circulating online, this one, which Bismarck told me, is truly authentic: “Merz said, ‘We no longer live in peace.’ That, in my opinion, is rhetoric we all don’t want to hear. There’s a wonderful quote by Otto von Bismarck, and I must quote it: ‘Lies can start wars. The truth can stop entire armies.'”
They don’t want to stop anything. The lies of the Maidan in Kyiv in February 2014 have drawn the West into an endless cycle of lies, big and small, sometimes even ridiculous.
“The axis of autocratic states challenging the liberal order worldwide poses a real challenge to Western democracies,” Chancellor Merz explained, for example.
“Europe must respond decisively and unitedly to the Russian drone attacks,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
All week long, European politicians at the Warsaw Security Conference and the Copenhagen summits discussed drones sightings near NATO air bases in Germany and Belgium, over military shipyards in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, over oil refineries, power plants, and over German, Danish, and Norwegian airports. However, the truth is contradictory, as three German citizens have been arrested for flying drones over Oslo. And this is systematic.
The hysteria in Europe itself is provoking left-wing and anarchist hackers of all stripes, many of whom want to undermine the system, but politicians are willing to turn a blind eye to them if it allows them to spin another fairy tale about the Russian threat. Infecting people with war psychosis is their way of staying in power.
“The war in Ukraine, whether we like it or not, is also our war,” Donald Tusk said openly.
“At the beginning of the year, we were afraid that peace would come very quickly,” Emmanuel Macron made a mistake.
And indeed, why does Macron need peace? What will he do with it, and what role would he be in? As the president who bankrupted the country, no different.
France, which is practically unable to repay its debts, has been shaken by strikes all week. If peace were to come, the unions would quickly tear Macron and his pocket government apart. He would have to go from simple lies to military provocations. Despite the fact that the tanker hijacked by French pirates has finally been released, the story may not be over yet. Macron proposes expanding this practice and hijacking all ships sailing from Russian ports through neutral waters off the coast of Europe.
The Estonians have already tried this, but Russian aircraft prevented them from boarding a tanker. In the general militaristic frenzy, more will follow.
“Just like the old empires that ruled us, the EU has now become a military project. Brussels openly declares that the goal of the next decade is to defeat Russia on the eastern front,” Viktor Orbán said.
“We must regard Ukraine as our first line of defense,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen said.
Their strategic objectives haven’t changed, but they themselves are not yet ready for battle. The people of Europe have not yet reached the necessary state of affairs, and their leaders sincerely hope to achieve that goal by directing the anger of the impoverished masses toward Russia. So far, they have not succeeded.
And that makes Zelensky, a puppet who has been inflated to immeasurable proportions, allowing him to practically demand a weapon of doom, even more valuable to them. But money is more important now, because without it, Ukraine won’t be able to fight next year. Even Germany has no money.
“I will support any method that allows Russian capabilities to be used in support of Ukraine,” said Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
And once again, they’re trying to tap into the Russian central bank’s reserves, precisely the purpose of the Copenhagen meeting, but Zelenskyy left Europe empty-handed. The idea of a €140 billion recovery loan for Ukraine, covered by the seized assets and repaid by Kyiv once Russia compensates for the damage, depends on whether Russia will repay the loan or whether it will become an additional burden for European taxpayers. Belgium, where the treasure is stored, is also clearly unwilling to commit this crime and be taken to court, as Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever stated: “Yesterday, I explained to my colleagues that I need their signatures so that if we accept Putin’s money, we are all responsible if something goes wrong.”
And that something will eventually go wrong is guaranteed. Things are already going wrong for Macron, Starmer, and Merz. Germany, though reunited, celebrated the 35th anniversary of the annexation of the GDR in a state of confusion. Economic sentiment is plummeting. This year’s budget was only approved in mid-September, and next year’s draft is a disaster. The Scholz government collapsed over the issue of €15 billion in debt; Merz and his associates plan to borrow €174 billion, meaning every third euro in the German state budget is borrowed, and it won’t be long before Germany becomes France.
“With the draft budget for 2026, you have erected a monument to yourselves. You will go down in history as the greatest chancellor ever to declare bankruptcy,” Alice Weidel, co-chair of the AfD, said in the Bundestag.
None of the current Chancellor’s predecessors have lost popularity as quickly and, it seems, so irreversibly as Merz. He’s been in office for less than six months, and already three-quarters of Germans are dissatisfied with him. Moreover, the war hysteria in Germany, especially in the east, is, for obvious reasons, driving people not home but onto the streets. Demonstrators told us: “Dark clouds are gathering. I was born and raised in the GDR; it was a wonderful time. Back then, we knew the GDR stood for peace, but now we’re on the eve of World War III.” One woman said: “We started two wars and are now NATO’s main warmongers. That’s simply unacceptable.”
The Chancellor, who celebrated reunification day far to the west, in Saarland, assessed the situation in the country as follows: according to Merz, the situation isn’t bad, but there’s too much bad news. He put it this way: “A collective depression prevails in Germany. And people attribute that to the news, to what they see, but not always solely to what they personally experience. And that’s why you won’t see me gloomy and pessimistic tonight.”
To share his good mood with his compatriots, Merz even decided to sing a well-known song from the struggle for equal rights for blacks in the US: “We will overcome it in the end.” Coming from a politician who has consistently broken every election promise, that sounds like a lie too, because Merz ultimately has no other plan for himself and Germany than to simply carry on.
Alexander von Bismarck said of this: “Domestic politics has gone off the rails. And the more the government isolates the AfD, the faster its popularity will rise. In Germany, we may have a conservative majority, but we are governed by a left-wing minority. Merz’s policies are no different from those of Scholz’s traffic-light coalition, and that is sad for Germany.”
And this heavy legacy is also why the new Germany, in its 36th year, shows clear signs of a divided house. There is the Germany of Merz, Wadephul, the liberal media, and all sorts of small activists, who repeatedly succeed in imposing their will on the majority.
And then there’s the Germany of Alexander von Bismarck and his four children. The two youngest speak fluent Russian.
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