In the 2021 federal election the AfD lost 2.2% compared to the 2017 election. That was under Merkel. Given Covid the economy was not doing amazing either. The big difference was that climate change was a huge issue, with is something the AfD does not serve well.

The simple truth is the next election is likely in three years. The left-wing parties are reorganising and some big things might very well happen in the meantime. An end of the war in Ukraine might happen. That might well remove Russian money for the AfD. Also US sentiment tends to flow towards Germany. So a big left wing victory might very well help the left here. You also have the very simple fact that in the last election the left party came back from near death and the Greens managed their second best result ever, while part of a deeply unpopular government.

Germany is not lost and it is foolish to pretend it is. The next elections are certain to be democratic and banning the AfD remains an option.

So do teachers, secretaries, cafeteria workers and ground keepers in schools.

or some foreign government, most of which suck very badly.

It is the Middle East. They all suck. But just to be clear. Israel has propped up Hamas for years, to legitimize their anti Palestinian actions. Indeed they asked Muslim nations to donate to Hamas and allowed funding through, so Hamas could buy weapons.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html

Nope, this would recognize the Palestinian Authority, which is run by Fatah, which somehat controls the West Bank. Fatah are a socalist group and nearly as radical as Hamas. They are certainly willing to tollerate Israel, if they leave them alone, which is really all that can be reasonably asked for given the situation.

Nicaragua is suing Germany over weapons deliveries. However the ICJ has ruled that Germany does not have to stop arms exports to Israel in an emergency order, but the main trial is still ongoing.

German politicians really do not like to be called antisemitic for obvious reasons.

A lot of Germans wanted Merkel’s stability and strong economy back.

No software like Palantir should be used in the EU. No matter if it is open source, European or whatever. This software is meant for total surveillance and that is incompatible with democracy.

That would have been an actually smart thing to buy for Volkswagen or another European car maker. Volkswagen used to own 23.6% of Northvolt, so they should know the business.

Not paying any taxes is usually a sign of being very rich.

The entire deal the EU signed was not legally binding or enforceable either. Seems like Rump has realized that.

No, this is just print. However even when you add subscribers of the digital version of BILD, they went from over a million subscribers end of 2022 to 650k today.

However obviously Immowelt, Idealo, Stepstone, Autohaus24 and so forth are also part of the company and are very profitable. But they can not influence politics nearly as easily.

That is honestly giving the CIA way too much credit. The NGVD one of the predecessors of the the KGB was responsible for massive ethnic cleansing operation within the Soviet Union. They stayed around and always were very close to power. Under Putin they took over. Organized crime was always going to happen, when you have a collapse of central authority combined with a huge economic crisis. The 90s in Russia were worse then the Great Depression was for the US. Far right groups are mostly powerful in Russia, because they have no ideological problem with a strong leader like Putin, so Putin did not actively fight them.

BILD circulation is down 80% since 1998. Obviously all print media has lost readership, but for example Spiegel is only down by 38% since then. Most other newspapers do a lot better then BILD in retaining readership, but BILD is so massive that they remain a power.

Biden won the election.

Austria was split up similar to Germany after WW2. The Austrians managed through some god tier diplomacy to convince all four occupying forces to allow them to be a united properly independent country in 1955. However the cost for that was that they were neutral.

The US is the biggest source of oil for the EU, but only has 15% market share in Q1 this year. However Russia was at 25% in Q1 of 2022. So it is certainly possible to replace it. Especially by driving less and going for EVs.

But also the EU basically not charging tariffs on US exports to the EU. This is insanely one sided and should be shut down.

I thought this might help:

So basically no fossil fuels and do not get sick. Things you want to do anyway, but the later is unfortunatly kind of hard.

Hungary…