Although the rightwing AfD party had its best voting outcome in history, doubling the last election results, the fact remains that Germany voted for things to remain basically the same.
The man expected to be the next Chancellor after failed Olaf Scholz, CDU’s leader Friedrich Merz adopted a clearly confrontational stance against the Donald J. Trump administration, going as far as warning that NATO may be finished and that Europe must have an alliance that is ‘independent’ from the US.
Merz added that Europe will have to have to build an ‘independent defense capability’ – regardless of the fact that Germany doesn’t have a single combat-ready division in its armed forces.
US President Trump described the German election result as a ‘great day for Germany and for the United States of America’ – but Merz is unmoved and believes Trump is ‘indifferent’ about…
