Herr Münchau must have been living in the UK for quite a while as there was no mention of the rampant clan crime here in ze Fatherland. Astonishing! Inner security is a massive issue amongst voters over here.
Its a symptom of poverty/lack of perspective really. Sure theres are bit too many migrants from non compatible cultures here and there, but the main problem remains the bureaucracy and the high taxes. If taxes drop to 10% then things would finally move forward. The now "criminals" would be incentivesed to work because work would actually pay... Until that happens its only downhill.
Poverty isnt rampant at all amongst migrants. A friend of mine works at the Sparkasse, which is kinda a state bank and he told me when mostly people who dont speak a word of german go get some money from there, they have bank teansfers about 2400€ in average in Bürgergeld (which is social money kind of).
Mr. Munchau is making the classic mistake of believing that economic issues determine whether a country will be open or closed towards immigration. I do respect his analysis. However, on this I believe he is wrong. Many of the people whom I know in Erfurt who are against mass immigration, are people who do not like seeing their communities change the way they have. Whether the times have been good or bad, the people have not been very enthusiastic about letting millions of people into the country who have in many ways nothing in common with a large part of the ethnic German population. I wouldn't want my neighbourhood to be changed beyond recognition, so long as I have a good job. Reducing everything to a an economic argument isn't sensible.
Interesting; thanks. As long as the financial barons and rentier overlords get a skim off every transaction they will promote growth from any quarter regardless of consequences, native population be damned..
@@markwarning7305 In Germany it's very difficult to get renters out of properties as long as they abide by their contracts and pay on time. And the German pension system makes home ownership less crucial than in countries such as the UK.
and we still tip toe around the real issues, if detract the ukrainian refugees, criminal statitics prove that around 40% of illegal migrants will commit a crime.
Yes, especially from someone who completely ignores the damage Die Grünen did to Germany - like ecologists always do everywhere they thrive mind you - transforming a down to earth country to an ideologic disaster. Not going to complain that Germany is falling apart though, they've mainly brought pain and destruction to their neighbours for over two millenia, especially since 1870 but Europe was a nice project to gather everybody. Too bad.
I am a medium-sized entrepreneur, used to be a member of the CDU and now vote for the AfD. Some of my reasons: Germany has moved away from everything that made our economy successful. We waste taxpayer‘s money, have built up an intolerable bureaucracy, hinder entrepreneurial initiative, have abandoned the principle of meritocracy and are currently destroying small and medium-sized enterprises while our political elite is living in a different world, entangled in power struggles without offering solutions.
Germany sanctioned Russia to buy russian energy at higher prices from India !! Democracy - US vassals are becoming synonyms day by day ! US get 100 billion contract , EU get democracy certificate become more dependent on US 😂
He had no valid arguments to defend his characterization of them: Some individual member having been convicted by political kangaroo courts manned by their most fervent political opponents, for 'offenses' which are made-up and not offenses at all in other countries is not valid grounds.
I understand that this man sees everything in economic terms, but afd enjoys current support because of the mass immigration. The management of the process is irrelevant when the result is extreme supplantation of people and culture. Then you hear him talk about afd, say Germany doesnt have many illegals, and calling reemigration far right, saying the economy is just in a slump, and it's clear that he doesn't realize he is just like political he criticize for not perceiving the future accurately.
Start making babies then and stop whining. Soon 20% of boomers will leave the workforce and then I want to see how you want to pay for the pension system without immigration. Your position about immigration is far right even if you just adopted it from the fear mongers, because you focus on alienating people instead of focussing on solutions. I have clear positions on that, citizens have to learn the language, learn the constitution, obligated taxes for citizen no matter where they live or what kind of secondary passport they have (mainly because of tax evasion of all kinds of rich people), clear deportation laws for foreign criminals, higher minimum wages, no rescue packages for banks but investments in startups and tech and infrastructure. Again, there is no reason to fallout over the influx of foreign culture if we get our regulations right. The AfD just plays with your anger and will in the end ruin our economy that depends on the relations with other countries. To be friend with Russia means to be isolated from the rest of the world and depend on their good will, is that what you want? Germany has 9 neighboring countries, we should thrive on immigration not be mad about it. The AfD rides on identity politics, ironically a critique the left often gets. Then there is a difference between the usual immigration and refugee problems. Merkel's CDU has done a terrible job (Wir schaffen das) and now they basically claim its all the fault of the left. First the US with its middle east adventures and now Russia drive the conflict spiral and so they drive the refugee crisis and we should get our foreign policy straight about that. The US should not be supported with any interference if there is no clear UN mandate and Russia has to be defeated. We have now North Korean soldiers fighting on European soil but you are more worried about people seeking a better live for themselves? You missed the core of the problems and supporting the AfD drives us just deeper into the shit.
Have you ever met ANYONE who a took course in "gender studies"?? I was a graduate school professor for 12 years and never saw a single "gender studies" course offered on any curriculum. The existence of such students and explanations like yours for our current situation sounds like a W E F and blackrock crafted psyop, which the peasants eagerly fell for. It's so much more fun to hate your neighbor and the young than confront the billionaires that you worship, isn't it? All of our present dystopia traces directly back to Reagan/ Thatcher trickle-down Neoliberalism. Own it.
@@GingerPeacenik what field did you teach? Did you retire over ten years ago? There is a deluge of useless humanities courses in school now. The humanities have all become corrupted from the rotten core of modern sociology. Apart from the very real gender and race classes, there is a demand to include this ideology across all fields, even the hard sciences.
Our former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker told me over 20 years ago: The parties are only working in their own interests and no longer in the interests of the country. This statement changed my view of what is going on.
And to think the AfD will change this for the better while also resorting to the most disgusting right-wing ideas and rhetoric is sheer fantasy. They have poor ideas, demonstrated once again when Alice Weidel was exposed by Sarah Wagenknecht.
Bingo. Worse, they are no longer interested in their own citizens as well. What most Western European governments are doing is replacing their citizens with outsiders who have no loyalty or interest to the country.
@@silkekoehlmann4188 You decided via Angela Merkel to flood Europe (and not just Germany) with immigrants, who trampled over the very countries your Wehrmacht pillaged in WWII. You might want to blame Obama/H. Clinton, but you continued to pursue then after Trump became President.
As a Swede I must say that the slogan used by Höcke całled nazi slogan was not very embarrassing. He used the saying "Alles für Deutschland". The current defense minister from SPD said that the Germans must be "kriegstüchtig" which is more embarrasing Goebbels speech.
Regarding historical policy of Citizenship of Germany: I was born in Germany in 1968, lived there for 13 years, then moved to Switzerland and am here since 45 years. My roots are in Germany, all my relatives are still in Germany. In the early 2000er years, I decided to become Swiss citizen. In the process, I lost my German Citizenship as the policy at the time was, that German citizens had to choose, while foreigners could claim German Citizenship without revoking their born citizenship. So, I could not keep my German passport, when acquiring the Swiss citizenship. This is one of the ways, the German Government has destroyed trust and attitude of the German people. And it is not a matter of political parties, it goes deeper.
Immigration plays the major role and on votes coming from industrial towns for the AFD party does not mean the voters concern is the economic decline: it is because the vast majority of illegal migrants come to these major economic hubs and all the aggressive and deadly incidents are happening there, also the day to day change in the society is mostly seen in the bigger cities. It is not an economical cousality, but also the structural change in the societal picture.
The German car industry's problem is not that they invested too little in electric cars. They are not first movers, but they invested a lot. The consumers simply don't want them. Not without substantial subsidies.
The real question is: why are electric cars preferable in the first place? The CO2 climate change story is obviously a fairy tale. Whose interest is it to turn cars electric? Is it because they can surveil them, or turn off the central electricity "account" that will be linked to social credit score and central bank digital currency?
They don't want the german cars VW/BMW. Tesla y on 1. , Volvo ex 30 on 2., Tesla 3 on 3. Yes the EV demand is also not growing as fast without subsidies anymore but it is their market. The German cars had 60-70% marketshare before, in EV's they are the underdogs. and that is without the Chinese which they slowed down for now. In Norway which don't have tariffs on Cars China has already 20% marketshare.
Yes: they are going down the same road as Merkel's old nation East Germany. Top-down political dictation to the industry means it loses touch with reality and then reality will inevitably crush the whole impossible house of cards. They end up with Trabants again.
@@Patrick-ep4sf People can't reply to you. The European and US governments have allowed, and also paid to have us censored and manipulated by these platforms. Only a small percentage of comments critical of EVs get through.
@@ShakibAhmedMagurmach They are losing that market while at the same time the costs of development and production far exceeds any quick return on investment. EV returns are a big problem in many places around the world. Without government (i.e. taxpayer funded) support most of those companies are operating at a loss. Even Tesla's success was and is highly attached to government money.
@@theronwolf3296 but in the long term, EV is the thing that they have to figure out. China and US were the big market for German cars and they are losing in both where EV market is expanding.
The whole of Elon Musk’s success is attached to government subsidies and contracts including SpaceX and Tesla. The irony is missed on our debaters here who praise Musk’s chainsaw attitude to government but do not mention or indeed realise his business model would not exist without public money.
People should be very careful with the likes of the AFD. They will be a lot further right than they say and if they have the power to do so, they will abuse it. Trump will be the same if he's allowed. Hopefully germany's democratic system is strong enough...
I live near the German border, and go there a lot to shop and get gasoline, because it is cheaper than in Holland, but I can see the country fall apart, day by day. Shops are closing, depressive streets and buildings, roads and bridges are falling apart or are closed for repear that takes years to finish. And the german people are still the same towards authorities: if the government says jump, the germans say: how high. It is very sad.
I still remember when Trump was addressing the UN in NY and the German delegation began to laugh out loud at him. Trump told them "you'll see who will have the last laugh". I wonder if Merkel fired them when they returned to Berlin.
What?! Germany is suffering because it didnt properly invest into electric cars?!! Its exatly the opposite, ffs. And this is very easy to look up.. Who is this guy?!
what is the point that is being missed? the lack of industrial strategy fit for the 21st century is the point, EVs (+smart car stuff) where china dominate is just an obvious representation of this - have you any idea how dependant germany is on the auto industry? how on earth is it the opposite? EVs arent wind farms - sheesh
I think the bigger point is the whole set up is so entrenched with the status quo it couldn't look ahead It's a case of things work until they don't and then you have the rug pulled from under you
@@fatfrreddy1414 USA because they blew up the Nordstream pipelines, ensuring sky high gas, therefore electricity, prices and runaway inflation without end.
One correction: The position of remigration and citizenship was not correctly stated by Munchau. First of, remigration is primarily about illegal immigrants and asylum seekers whose reason for asylum was invalid or has expired (because their country of origin can now be considered as safe). Now, there is indeed a side discussion which concerns citizens. But this is solely saying that criminal law should be applied forcefully enough against criminal elements among the citizens that these would be encouraged to leave on their own accord. The idea behind this stems from the problem of foreign clan structures that play a significant role in Germany's organized crime sector but which cannot be expelled because of citizenship. In other words, the position is to encourage some criminal citizens to leave voluntarily by making it harder to operate their 'business' in Germany. This position is not really far off from other parties (who doesn't want laws to be applied forcefully against organized crime?). SPD minister Faeser has lately talked even about removal of citizenship of certain criminals which goes far beyond that position. But the whole subject has become exaggerated by media as a weapon against AfD members.
I don't think it is exergerated by the Media, when the leader of AfD said they will deport Immigrants no regardless of their criminal record as long as they became citizen through the asylum path in a debate with FDP on welt.
Germany could have avoided the gas issue with Russia by not allowing NATO to expand into the former GDR and thence to countries that border on or are proximate to Russia. Also, if Germans are such good engineers, how did these people not point out that Germany was careening towards an engineer’s nightmare scenario: designing system(s) with single points of failure, ie energy?
You know what, Germany could have avoided the gas issue with Russia if they went nuclear energy and not depend on Russia for oil and gas. Germany has no right to block Eastern European countries from joining NATO on their on free will just because it will make Russia uncomfortable. 2) They believe in the Greens that giving up their manufacturing, industries and power generation will make a better and healthier Germany.
@@willcruz943 Of course they can block them. Every country has their own interests, the us would not allow a country into an alliance that is close to it without making all kinds of moves to block it or create severe repercussions on the country. Not that any or even most of the blame should be put on Germany, but they are the most powerful country in Europe.
I feel very sad that it has come to this in Germany. German companies were once the hallmark of premium brand, solid quality: Audi - Vorsprung durch Technik (a German phrase that almost everybody knew in the UK) Siemens/Bosch - all kitchen appliances. Such a shame.
Haha, you picked the worst example with Audi! They never developed any tech, they (Volkswagen) just used their state-connected political connections to first of all get tailor-made state policies to suit their strategy perfectly and with the massive unfair advantage of knowledge of them before others. Then secondly they could once again thanks to their state-connections build themselves into a finance-behemoth, thus buying in stuff (from Italians and other companies) and churning out simple, mediocre cars but with enough capital to push them onto enough customers with massive marketing. I mean Audi got people to believe such fairytales as legendary rally success...wow!
INCORRECT, WOLFGANG! The guy is not trustworthy, pushing AFD in the right corner. Speak TO AFD members, rather than about them. I'm disappointed, Freddy, please make sure you have a el balanced presentation of things.
Too narrowly focussing on economy and failing to see the massive impact of migration in areas of concentration impacting housing, schooling and safety in inner cities
Some good points here, but some major misperceptions and a lot of obvious holes in the argument.. overall too superficial. Specifically: A misperception: A major reason why the German car industry is collapsing are insane European policies accelerated by Germany that are pure destruction. The previous massive destruction of industries was the chemical/pharmaceutical industry destroyed by anti-gene technology policies. A hole in the argument: Through the roof social transfer payments that create a huge section of the population that is not working, many of the immigrants. That is the real problem in failure to invest, not the fiscal prudence. A blind spot: The decay of educational levels due to the failure to address the challenges that follow from massive immigration over decades, not only since 2015. A blind spot: The absence of real political competition due to the total control of the establishment parties over media, public communication. The parties now consist of party soldiers whose entire life is inside their organizations, made possible by the tens of thousands of jobs for party apparatchiks in the media, in the parliaments of the 16 states, the publicly funded party foundations. The decoupling of the elites from reality follows. All this is well documented (e.g. von Arnim's books), but lacking in this conversation...
maybe they are ok, when the infrastructure is given, the power comes from nuclear and so on. but today the are BS an part of the luxury beliefs pf the greens.
As someone who grew up hearing Terminators speak with a German accent, I'm frankly relived to hear that Germany is behind the curve with regards to AI. 😁
Europe has been resting on its laurels for way too long. The general atmosphere in big cities is pretty dire - in the last 2 years i've been to London, Paris and Berlin and theres just trash everywhere, shady looking people everywhere, its expensive. Its no wonder why the AFD is popular - all that needs to happen is for things to get worse and you'll see the popularity grow further, I wouldn't underestimate it. As for the free market approach? Doing business in countries like Germany is suicidal - the business laws are completely unreadable, the bureaucracy is crippling and frankly demented. I hope to see the axe of deregulation come down in the USA and that to follow on in the rest of the world.
This is what happens when politicians detach from reality, people are rising against it, so much damage has been and is still being done. We in the UK have to get rid of Labour asap.
Quite easy "a complete 180 degree change when it comes to looking at the WWII", everything concerning the word "remigration" (to specify: only "ethnic" germans get to keep their citizenship)
I m german. His statements regarding the legal conviction is not true. He knows the truth and ... We say if someone tells only have of the relevant truth this one betrays.
Nobody in Germany talks about Nuclear Power and AI? The AfD proposed getting back into Nuclear Power this week! And when asked about the demographic shift, they often answer that this won't require many immigrants / additional workers because of AI. Once again, this guy is very ill-informed.
This has huge ramifications for other countries too. Germany was economic engine of the EU and Euro Area and now that it isn't anymore, it brings down almost the whole continent.
Funny how this conversation sounds so quaint, as if the two were doing this 20 years ago, relying on assumptions no longer valid. In a way, comedic actually
This guy is a political gossip artist. He shows you some things, but tells you nothing of casual importance. And, Freddie, you say nothing to stop the foolish crap. I love how you both dance around the pipeline terrorism. Freddie, in case your in a bubble , we (the American s) blew up pipeline. Shame indeed. Freddie are you pretending, or do you secretly serve power?
Freddie is lowering his standards. This guy is what the Germans call "ein Schaumschlaeger" ... in more vulgar terms a BS artist. The German car industry also made Trabis ...
Ms.Silke, really ? Multiple problems in Germany (immigration, politics, crime , etc.) are because of the U S. and Israel? It is always easy to blame somebody else...
That's bull about electric cars, if anything they overestimated their popularity. And the biggest problen Germany faces with energy is blindly following the US in its russophobia.
What I find shocking about Wolfgang is the perceived level of complacency. It may be something to do with English not being his first language but I fear the challenges facing Germany are much greater than Wolfgang believes. Time will tell, but the political elite need to get real and stop messing around with hair brained policies that sound good but do not work. If not, then Germany runs the risk of moving significantly to the right.
@ Hi Sensibar007, Thank you for your reply. My comment was not intended to say such a move to the right was good or bad (although I can see how it could be read that way - my apologies). I do think we use the terms far right/left too easily today and they have lost their true meaning. Personally, I advocate for common sense, pragmatic and practical politics that put the wellbeing of the people first and secures the long term future of the country.
Nothing will change in Germany, nothing. Fresh paint same effect. Yet another groko... Glad I no longer live in germany glad to be a fachkraft elsewhere making 3x the money than in germany for the same job.
Well, Wolfgang is right in a lot of what he says, such as the delay of Germany and the whole of Europe in digitalization or the setback of the German automotive industry in the transition to electric cars. And now also in the absurd way in which Germany and France managed the financial or banking crisis generated by the subprime crash in the US, to protect the large German and French banks. The European sovereign debt crisis was generated in Germany and France, which paralyzed the ECB and destroyed many European economies that were also markets for Germany and France. But on the topic of Russian gas Wollfgang is wrong. It was the US that destroyed Nord Stream and the supply of Russian gas to Germany. Okay, with the complicity of the coward Sholz. But the war in Ukraine was completely provoked by the US to cripple the economies of Germany and Russia and weaken China. And it was also the US that kept Germany away from China. And Russian gas and trade with China were the two main pillars of the German and European economy. And I honestly don't understand why Wolfgang criticizes Russian gas. It's like the US moving away from Texas oil. Russia is part of Europe and there is no reason why Europe should not have good relations with Russia and China. The only reason is Russophobic propaganda to distance Germany from Russia. Like the British did in WWI and WWII. The main objective of UK and US foreign policy is to distance Germany from Russia to avoid a strong Europe! It was the US and the UK that provoked the war in Ukraine with the enlargement of NATO, which France and Germany never agreed to in the past. Until they were completely subjugated and corrupted by the CIA and the US. NATO is the US military arm to control and dominate Europe. And in Germany alone, almost 100 years after WWII, there are still almost 100 US military bases. It seems that the US is finally implementing the Morgenthau plan in Germany. That is, the destruction of the German economy. Which Russia prevented after WWII.
Munchau’s perspective is about 10 years out of date. It’s not 2014. The rise of the AfD is a response to such a perspective. Germany is headed for serious trouble.
If Germany still had cheap Russian gas and commodities and the massive Chinese market nobody would be having these conversations. The United States military policy in Europe destroyed any scenario of German growth.
You’re right!!! Unfortunately Germans seem to have been intoxicated with US propaganda, and only accept what is good for America and suicidal for Europe…
The interviewer is so so “British”, in the bad sense… I can clearly see him imposing China to buy British drugs to sustain the bloody “British empire” has they did on the 19th century. Please, grow up, the colonialism mindset is so outdated…😂😂😂
@@MepzWorld if only that was true. What I find is the United States foreign policy like Western Europe are paying the price for subserving their own respective national interest to unelected elites who have more money than brains.
Germany had her own foreign policy. Why do you think they wanted Nordstream? They wanted to avoid gas transiting through Ukraine and Poland, which both collected "transit fees" from and they got tired of Polish politicians demanding more WWII reparations (or the gas gets cut off!).
Wir Menschen tun uns immer schwer, Ausländer zu akzeptieren. Wenn wir irgendwo Urlaub machen, dann finden wir die Menschen nett und gastfreundlich. Wenn sie jedoch unsere Nachbarn werden, dann lehnen wir sie ab. So sind wir. Wir wollen tolerant rüber kommen, sind es aber nicht. Die Menschen, die in einem fremden Land ein neues Leben anfangen müssen, fühlen sich unter sich, auch wohler. Sie tun sich zusammen und helfen einander. Daher wäre es viel besser, wenn Länder, die Ausländer aufnehmen, ein separates Wohngebiet errichten . Die Idee der 15 Minuten Städte ist daher genial. Im Abstand von 15 Minuten findet man alles, was man braucht, und muss sein Gebiet nicht erst verlassen. Jetzt kombiniert man das noch mit Online arbeiten oder mit Heimarbeit für Fabriken. Ich könnte mir sogar ein eigenes Zahlungssystem für jedes Gebiet vorstellen. Denn Geld ist lediglich ein einfacheres Tauschmittel als die Bezahlung durch Austausch vom Materialien. Wir haben immer wieder die Chance, neue Lösungen zu finden. Wir können umdenken. Sicher ist, dass der globale Osten und Süden jetzt am Zug ist. Der Westen wird sehr viel Macht und Einfluss verlieren. Das ist nur dann schlimm, wenn wir nicht bereit sind, uns zu ändern.
Munchau adapts to the current consensus and even represses the fact that without the US proxy war in Ukraine, cheap Russian gas would still be available. Moreover, gas power plants were taken with good reason as perfect complements of renewables in case of lack of sunshine and little wind.
EU/NATO wanted that war in Ukraine also. For decades both sides of the Atlantic sought to either freeze Russia into a "gas station masquerading as a country" model or to actually breakup Russia so they could rush in and "colonize" the natural resources
Yes, he just pretends to be less like the other lefty-journos because he's so low in the hierarchy that he wasn't employed by the big companies which are owned by certain parties).
All this talk about missing the electric car train, yet the only factories they want to close are EV plants, which are incurring huge losses because sales are virtually nonexistent. The problem is that they panicked and tried to play catch-up with Tesla and the Chinese. By the time they did, they spent incredible ammount of money and EV sales had fallen far below expectations. I certainly won’t buy an EV until we have much better battery technology.
A great sign of unintelligence and grifters is them claiming to be experts in fields in which they have no expertise or credentials whatsoever. This guy talked himself into being outed as such when he went right into 'analysis' of the auto industry. In reality he has absolutely no clue what he's talking about.
George Friedman, "Europe: Destined for Conflict?" Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2015. “The primordial interest of the United States, over which for a century we have fought wars the First, Second, and Cold War - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united, they are the only force that could threaten us - and to make sure that that doesn’t happen.” "As to the relationship to the United States we no longer have a relationship with Europe we have relationship with Romania we have a relationship with France there is no Europe to have a relationship with."
@@petestobbs5844 I watched the video in 2016. It helped me to understand the rules of the game. The game‘s name is not „peacefully living together“ but „never ending conflict to make some people filthy rich“.
So Russian cheap gas was not a reliable source of energy? I wonder why... Maybe it's because the US bombed the Nordstream and Germany said 'how high, sir?' Stop blaming others, look at yourself.
@@RalfStephan80 million people in a country the size of Oregon and Washington combined will have to import huge amounts of raw material. Economic autarky is out of the question. Remember the blockade after WW1 when the allies starved over a million people to death? You had fewer people and more territory and still could not feed yourselves. Perhaps if you continue on your path to self-implementation of the Morgenthau Plan, you will have enough land to feed your population of 20-30 million and enough space for wind turbines and solar.
It is their inner nerd longing to live in the egalitarian Star Trek cocoon of their childhood. They are intellectually incapable of accepting people are fundamentally unequal and are not interchangeable cogs in the serve of the GDP. Coming to that conclusion would force them to face their over inflated status in a hierarchy
This biased, untruthful guest had no valid arguments to defend his characterization of that political party: Some individual member having been convicted by political kangaroo courts manned by their most fervent political opponents, for 'offenses' which are made-up and not offenses at all in other countries is not valid. He also could not verbalize how and why those 'offenses' are actually bad, how they affect the party and its policies. He has as much integrity and he has as much self-control intellectually as he does in taking care of himself.
Typical boomer nonsense. This man views Germany as a shopping mall. All that matters is the economy. I spit on his ideas. Germany is a nation state with a history and a people. The AfD is the only party that sees Germany as more than an economic zone.
Germany bet on cheap oil, no nuclear power, and an ever-rising Chinese consumer and industrial clientele. Both failed, which hollows out Germany's economic base to an alarming degree.
Even Unheard finds it hard to tell the whole story. Saying that Russian gas was unreliable is the height of blindness. It’s Germany that stopped imports of gas, and not Russia that stopped it. Talking about a mistaken national consensus 😂
When you cut down competition between businesses, you reduce opportunities for the working class. You increase competition between workers for the posts in businesses that have a larger pool of workers when their competitors are eliminated.
@grannyannie2948 Very true. But the solution to both problems is more, not less businesses. Regulations that stifle competition between businesses hurts all workers, including minimum wage, which leaves the most unskilled unemployed.
Personnaly I keep "far right" for antidemocratic parties, i.e. opposed to free speach and to the separation of powers. Being against immigration is not antidemocratic per se. Japan is not a dictature.
To be honest, I understand only one German word. And that word is Kaputt. So even knowing one single German word is enough to understand what is happening in Germany. Macedonian
Indeed. He ought to listen to Mark P Mills presentation 'There is no energy transition' - Mills is a far better informed and experienced commentator on this and related aspects, like the delusion of 'transition to net zero', per his Skagen Fondene presentation.
Herr Münchau must have been living in the UK for quite a while as there was no mention of the rampant clan crime here in ze Fatherland. Astonishing! Inner security is a massive issue amongst voters over here.
He writes for the Financial Times, one of the most globalist and propagandist organs.
Its a symptom of poverty/lack of perspective really. Sure theres are bit too many migrants from non compatible cultures here and there, but the main problem remains the bureaucracy and the high taxes. If taxes drop to 10% then things would finally move forward. The now "criminals" would be incentivesed to work because work would actually pay... Until that happens its only downhill.
@@uxel-g9y*illegal migration
Fixed it for you. Time to mass deport and get rid of our very own deep state.
Poverty isnt rampant at all amongst migrants. A friend of mine works at the Sparkasse, which is kinda a state bank and he told me when mostly people who dont speak a word of german go get some money from there, they have bank teansfers about 2400€ in average in Bürgergeld (which is social money kind of).
@@dank_stogie_yoooooyou mean an average of six people in one household? Bürgergeld is only 400 Euros
Mr. Munchau is making the classic mistake of believing that economic issues determine whether a country will be open or closed towards immigration. I do respect his analysis. However, on this I believe he is wrong. Many of the people whom I know in Erfurt who are against mass immigration, are people who do not like seeing their communities change the way they have. Whether the times have been good or bad, the people have not been very enthusiastic about letting millions of people into the country who have in many ways nothing in common with a large part of the ethnic German population.
I wouldn't want my neighbourhood to be changed beyond recognition, so long as I have a good job. Reducing everything to a an economic argument isn't sensible.
Interesting; thanks. As long as the financial barons and rentier overlords get a skim off every transaction they will promote growth from any quarter regardless of consequences, native population be damned..
@@markwarning7305 In Germany it's very difficult to get renters out of properties as long as they abide by their contracts and pay on time. And the German pension system makes home ownership less crucial than in countries such as the UK.
and we still tip toe around the real issues, if detract the ukrainian refugees, criminal statitics prove that around 40% of illegal migrants will commit a crime.
when someone uses the term ‘far right’, I think propagandist and I can no longer hear them. Their mouth moves but I can't hear what they are saying.
So true. Far right now means centre right as described by the ultra left elitists.
Do you stamp your feet and hold your hands over your ears anytime things do not go your way? Poor baby! _Lollipop?_
I feel the same way about the term 'far-left' in UK papers. They always mean anyone left of them and their donors, which is everyone.
Yes, especially from someone who completely ignores the damage Die Grünen did to Germany - like ecologists always do everywhere they thrive mind you - transforming a down to earth country to an ideologic disaster. Not going to complain that Germany is falling apart though, they've mainly brought pain and destruction to their neighbours for over two millenia, especially since 1870 but Europe was a nice project to gather everybody. Too bad.
@@pseudonayme7717You read papers? Can you tell us about your life during WWI?
No mention of the US destruction of Nord Stream
Russian troll identified.
Because he believes the gas pipeline was part of the old unsustainable economic model.
Why do people ignore this .only when we speak the truth can we fix our problems
Oh - so you think Biden ordered it? Did he use space lasers?
Because it was the USA that destroyed and you cannot critisize the USA unless you want to have a coloured revolution or invasion of your country.
Very weak interview.
This was "Germany for (very dumb) Dummies".
UnHerd has just disappointed, hugely.
its like this with anything you have passing knowledge of
I am a medium-sized entrepreneur, used to be a member of the CDU and now vote for the AfD. Some of my reasons: Germany has moved away from everything that made our economy successful. We waste taxpayer‘s money, have built up an intolerable bureaucracy, hinder entrepreneurial initiative, have abandoned the principle of meritocracy and are currently destroying small and medium-sized enterprises while our political elite is living in a different world, entangled in power struggles without offering solutions.
This is also the case in the UK, sadly.
All the best from London.
Why vote fot the afd? Are they more socialists than the cdu? Why not the FDP?
And you think AFD will do differently? Wait until they cling to power
Germany sanctioned Russia to buy russian energy at higher prices from India !!
Democracy - US vassals are becoming synonyms day by day ! US get 100 billion contract , EU get democracy certificate become more dependent on US 😂
He had no valid arguments to defend his characterization of them: Some individual member having been convicted by political kangaroo courts manned by their most fervent political opponents, for 'offenses' which are made-up and not offenses at all in other countries is not valid grounds.
Sorry, he is completely wrong about immigration. Definitly the most important thing for voters at the moment. Every poll backs that.
I understand that this man sees everything in economic terms, but afd enjoys current support because of the mass immigration. The management of the process is irrelevant when the result is extreme supplantation of people and culture. Then you hear him talk about afd, say Germany doesnt have many illegals, and calling reemigration far right, saying the economy is just in a slump, and it's clear that he doesn't realize he is just like political he criticize for not perceiving the future accurately.
Münchau is a new Münchhausen 😂😂😂.
It’s still far too taboo to discuss the average IQ of the new arrivals. An 85 IQ individual won’t be starting a chemical company.
He is just being German.
"they came here in 2015 it's impossible to make them leave because of an arbitrary piece of paper". Boomers... smh
Start making babies then and stop whining. Soon 20% of boomers will leave the workforce and then I want to see how you want to pay for the pension system without immigration. Your position about immigration is far right even if you just adopted it from the fear mongers, because you focus on alienating people instead of focussing on solutions.
I have clear positions on that, citizens have to learn the language, learn the constitution, obligated taxes for citizen no matter where they live or what kind of secondary passport they have (mainly because of tax evasion of all kinds of rich people), clear deportation laws for foreign criminals, higher minimum wages, no rescue packages for banks but investments in startups and tech and infrastructure.
Again, there is no reason to fallout over the influx of foreign culture if we get our regulations right. The AfD just plays with your anger and will in the end ruin our economy that depends on the relations with other countries. To be friend with Russia means to be isolated from the rest of the world and depend on their good will, is that what you want? Germany has 9 neighboring countries, we should thrive on immigration not be mad about it. The AfD rides on identity politics, ironically a critique the left often gets. Then there is a difference between the usual immigration and refugee problems. Merkel's CDU has done a terrible job (Wir schaffen das) and now they basically claim its all the fault of the left. First the US with its middle east adventures and now Russia drive the conflict spiral and so they drive the refugee crisis and we should get our foreign policy straight about that. The US should not be supported with any interference if there is no clear UN mandate and Russia has to be defeated. We have now North Korean soldiers fighting on European soil but you are more worried about people seeking a better live for themselves? You missed the core of the problems and supporting the AfD drives us just deeper into the shit.
It is amazing how they do not notice they are destroying themselves.
They know...
They do. They’ve been taught generational guilt and self hatred. Let it go Germany. 🇩🇪 Islam does not love you. It is not your answer.
@@patricklarsen8078 The leaders know. The population is largely very slow.
It's a very common human condition.
They do notice. Most of them are afraid to connect the dots to a coherent picture, because that would make them Nazis and conspiracy theorists.
We used to specialize in industry. Now we specialize in gender studies. Hence the book title "kaput".
Have you ever met ANYONE who a took course in "gender studies"?? I was a graduate school professor for 12 years and never saw a single "gender studies" course offered on any curriculum. The existence of such students and explanations like yours for our current situation sounds like a W E F and blackrock crafted psyop, which the peasants eagerly fell for. It's so much more fun to hate your neighbor and the young than confront the billionaires that you worship, isn't it?
All of our present dystopia traces directly back to Reagan/ Thatcher trickle-down Neoliberalism. Own it.
WHO tf is "we"???
@@GingerPeacenik what field did you teach? Did you retire over ten years ago? There is a deluge of useless humanities courses in school now. The humanities have all become corrupted from the rotten core of modern sociology. Apart from the very real gender and race classes, there is a demand to include this ideology across all fields, even the hard sciences.
It is astonishing that the author puts an orthographic mistake onto his title page. It should be 'Kaputt' if anything.
@@GingerPeacenik Was the woke ideology a strategy for the elites to weaken society and the left and then take control with the masses support ?
Our former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker told me over 20 years ago: The parties are only working in their own interests and no longer in the interests of the country. This statement changed my view of what is going on.
Most parties in every country. Yes.
And to think the AfD will change this for the better while also resorting to the most disgusting right-wing ideas and rhetoric is sheer fantasy. They have poor ideas, demonstrated once again when Alice Weidel was exposed by Sarah Wagenknecht.
Bingo. Worse, they are no longer interested in their own citizens as well. What most Western European governments are doing is replacing their citizens with outsiders who have no loyalty or interest to the country.
The enemy sit inside !
Parteien-Diktatur Buntesrepublik Doitschland
Germany is a perfect example of how whole nations can go mad and destroy themselves.
No there is no destroy of our selve!
We lost the last wars and since that time we a vasall from USA and hade nothing to decide!
The enemi sit inside !
@@silkekoehlmann4188 You decided via Angela Merkel to flood Europe (and not just Germany) with immigrants, who trampled over the very countries your Wehrmacht pillaged in WWII.
You might want to blame Obama/H. Clinton, but you continued to pursue then after Trump became President.
Germany, like Japan is still an occupied country and does as told. Russia did not destroy Nord Stream.
@@silkekoehlmann4188 what do you mean? Everyone says you are a democracy? Are there any resources you would recommend?
Germany goes mad every 100 years
As a Swede I must say that the slogan used by Höcke całled nazi slogan was not very embarrassing. He used the saying "Alles für Deutschland". The current defense minister from SPD said that the Germans must be "kriegstüchtig" which is more embarrasing Goebbels speech.
Germany is 10 years behind Sweden in political maturity. What happened in Sweden will happen in Germany
he is just a liar, and is brainwashed as the germans, that aare responsible for the demise
Regarding historical policy of Citizenship of Germany: I was born in Germany in 1968, lived there for 13 years, then moved to Switzerland and am here since 45 years. My roots are in Germany, all my relatives are still in Germany. In the early 2000er years, I decided to become Swiss citizen. In the process, I lost my German Citizenship as the policy at the time was, that German citizens had to choose, while foreigners could claim German Citizenship without revoking their born citizenship. So, I could not keep my German passport, when acquiring the Swiss citizenship.
This is one of the ways, the German Government has destroyed trust and attitude of the German people. And it is not a matter of political parties, it goes deeper.
Bla bla bla. You are own by isreal. You nazi
But who is behind these policies ?
@@CoinShow
You could always remigrate, burn your swiss passport and identify as a muslim transwoman. They'll welcome you with bells on.
What is it like in 2026?
Will you lend me your time machine?
@@CoinShow
You could always burn your passport, remigrate and identify as a transwoman from North Africa. They'll welcome you with bells on.
And then they got rid of cheap oil….
Immigration plays the major role and on votes coming from industrial towns for the AFD party does not mean the voters concern is the economic decline: it is because the vast majority of illegal migrants come to these major economic hubs and all the aggressive and deadly incidents are happening there, also the day to day change in the society is mostly seen in the bigger cities. It is not an economical cousality, but also the structural change in the societal picture.
The German car industry's problem is not that they invested too little in electric cars. They are not first movers, but they invested a lot.
The consumers simply don't want them. Not without substantial subsidies.
The real question is: why are electric cars preferable in the first place? The CO2 climate change story is obviously a fairy tale. Whose interest is it to turn cars electric? Is it because they can surveil them, or turn off the central electricity "account" that will be linked to social credit score and central bank digital currency?
They don't want the german cars VW/BMW. Tesla y on 1. , Volvo ex 30 on 2., Tesla 3 on 3. Yes the EV demand is also not growing as fast without subsidies anymore but it is their market. The German cars had 60-70% marketshare before, in EV's they are the underdogs.
and that is without the Chinese which they slowed down for now. In Norway which don't have tariffs on Cars China has already 20% marketshare.
If it were subsidies they would buy Chinese cars, but they don't because energy costs are too high. Nuclear is too expensive too, don't be delusional.
Yes: they are going down the same road as Merkel's old nation East Germany. Top-down political dictation to the industry means it loses touch with reality and then reality will inevitably crush the whole impossible house of cards. They end up with Trabants again.
@@Patrick-ep4sf People can't reply to you. The European and US governments have allowed, and also paid to have us censored and manipulated by these platforms. Only a small percentage of comments critical of EVs get through.
Illegal immigrants out of Germany would be better, than this chaos.
legal ones too.
One of Germany's mistakes is trying to force EVs and other trendy 'green' projects which are not supported by the market.
Well, given the major crisis of VW is they are losing in EV game in all markets including China, I will say the problem is definitely different.
Their Green Party has been trying to bring down Germany for years with their bullying & unicorn thinking ....lost tbat Gernan discipline.
@@ShakibAhmedMagurmach They are losing that market while at the same time the costs of development and production far exceeds any quick return on investment.
EV returns are a big problem in many places around the world. Without government (i.e. taxpayer funded) support most of those companies are operating at a loss. Even Tesla's success was and is highly attached to government money.
@@theronwolf3296 but in the long term, EV is the thing that they have to figure out. China and US were the big market for German cars and they are losing in both where EV market is expanding.
The whole of Elon Musk’s success is attached to government subsidies and contracts including SpaceX and Tesla. The irony is missed on our debaters here who praise Musk’s chainsaw attitude to government but do not mention or indeed realise his business model would not exist without public money.
I live in Germany and can say Munchau is misrepresenting and lying about the AfD.
People should be very careful with the likes of the AFD. They will be a lot further right than they say and if they have the power to do so, they will abuse it. Trump will be the same if he's allowed. Hopefully germany's democratic system is strong enough...
Yeah, just because they have a guy there whose book sounds a lot like Hitlers book to members of his own party it doesn't mean they'll cause issues
I live near the German border, and go there a lot to shop and get gasoline, because it is cheaper than in Holland, but I can see the country fall apart, day by day. Shops are closing, depressive streets and buildings, roads and bridges are falling apart or are closed for repear that takes years to finish. And the german people are still the same towards authorities: if the government says jump, the germans say: how high.
It is very sad.
Do these gents live in some kind of bubble? Playing their pianos whilst their ships sink.
I still remember when Trump was addressing the UN in NY and the German delegation began to laugh out loud at him. Trump told them "you'll see who will have the last laugh". I wonder if Merkel fired them when they returned to Berlin.
She probably threw them a party.
It's ordinary German arrogance.
they are certainly no longer laughing.
im no fan of trump but yes this is emblematic and looks like trump as right .
This guy is brain-dead on what the term ''far right '' means ..
People don't want electric cars.
Yea, but the politicians decided they must be forced into them...just like they did earlier with Trabants. Same phenomenon.
Especially not when electricity is unrelated and super expensive.
Exactly. They are the toys of the inner city elites, who are disengaged from the people.
I have hybrid car and absolutely love how quiet it is in electric mode. But I can't ignore it consumes as much energy to build as gas engine vehicle.
@@carlhammill5774Plus, the issue of additional complexity.
What?! Germany is suffering because it didnt properly invest into electric cars?!!
Its exatly the opposite, ffs. And this is very easy to look up..
Who is this guy?!
here`s the point: germany can`t even build decent electric cars, even though they massively invested
in EV research and development.
what is the point that is being missed? the lack of industrial strategy fit for the 21st century is the point, EVs (+smart car stuff) where china dominate is just an obvious representation of this - have you any idea how dependant germany is on the auto industry? how on earth is it the opposite? EVs arent wind farms - sheesh
I think the bigger point is the whole set up is so entrenched with the status quo it couldn't look ahead
It's a case of things work until they don't and then you have the rug pulled from under you
They don't have batteries and they don't have software. Why then buy a German EV???
it is not complicated. it is the cost of energy, stupid.
Planned by WHO? Cui Bono?
Energy was always expensive in Germany, nuclear too. The country has no resources like others
Now that the pipeline is gone, they're purchasing oil from the US at a much higher price.
@@fatfrreddy1414 USA because they blew up the Nordstream pipelines, ensuring sky high gas, therefore electricity, prices and runaway inflation without end.
One correction: The position of remigration and citizenship was not correctly stated by Munchau. First of, remigration is primarily about illegal immigrants and asylum seekers whose reason for asylum was invalid or has expired (because their country of origin can now be considered as safe). Now, there is indeed a side discussion which concerns citizens. But this is solely saying that criminal law should be applied forcefully enough against criminal elements among the citizens that these would be encouraged to leave on their own accord. The idea behind this stems from the problem of foreign clan structures that play a significant role in Germany's organized crime sector but which cannot be expelled because of citizenship. In other words, the position is to encourage some criminal citizens to leave voluntarily by making it harder to operate their 'business' in Germany. This position is not really far off from other parties (who doesn't want laws to be applied forcefully against organized crime?). SPD minister Faeser has lately talked even about removal of citizenship of certain criminals which goes far beyond that position. But the whole subject has become exaggerated by media as a weapon against AfD members.
You are lying.
I don't think it is exergerated by the Media, when the leader of AfD said they will deport Immigrants no regardless of their criminal record as long as they became citizen through the asylum path in a debate with FDP on welt.
😂😂 this guy brings a nice outside view on Germany but he gets some things completely wrong due to his consumption of mainstream media it seems 🙈
Shows the wurst in him..
random youtube guy brings the insights apparently - cant actually see a point alas...
I would pay to be a fly on the wall when the European NATO members meet with Trump.
Germany could have avoided the gas issue with Russia by not allowing NATO to expand into the former GDR and thence to countries that border on or are proximate to Russia.
Also, if Germans are such good engineers, how did these people not point out that Germany was careening towards an engineer’s nightmare scenario: designing system(s) with single points of failure, ie energy?
They seem to have dodged this point.
You know what, Germany could have avoided the gas issue with Russia if they went nuclear energy and not depend on Russia for oil and gas. Germany has no right to block Eastern European countries from joining NATO on their on free will just because it will make Russia uncomfortable.
2) They believe in the Greens that giving up their manufacturing, industries and power generation will make a better and healthier Germany.
arrogance
NATO literally never expanded into the GDR , lol. To this day, NATO has not expanded into the former GDR. lmao
@@willcruz943 Of course they can block them. Every country has their own interests, the us would not allow a country into an alliance that is close to it without making all kinds of moves to block it or create severe repercussions on the country. Not that any or even most of the blame should be put on Germany, but they are the most powerful country in Europe.
I feel very sad that it has come to this in Germany. German companies were once the hallmark of premium brand, solid quality:
Audi - Vorsprung durch Technik (a German phrase that almost everybody knew in the UK)
Siemens/Bosch - all kitchen appliances.
Such a shame.
Haha, you picked the worst example with Audi!
They never developed any tech, they (Volkswagen) just used their state-connected political connections to first of all get tailor-made state policies to suit their strategy perfectly and with the massive unfair advantage of knowledge of them before others. Then secondly they could once again thanks to their state-connections build themselves into a finance-behemoth, thus buying in stuff (from Italians and other companies) and churning out simple, mediocre cars but with enough capital to push them onto enough customers with massive marketing.
I mean Audi got people to believe such fairytales as legendary rally success...wow!
I don't.
INCORRECT, WOLFGANG!
The guy is not trustworthy, pushing AFD in the right corner. Speak TO AFD members, rather than about them.
I'm disappointed, Freddy, please make sure you have a el balanced presentation of things.
Munchau is not sincere.
Germany now buys the gas from the world market instead of cheaper supply from Russia. Von der Layen said the latter is cheaper. Is she lying?
Why wasn't she jailed for her collusion with Bourla?
Too narrowly focussing on economy and failing to see the massive impact of migration in areas of concentration impacting housing, schooling and safety in inner cities
Some good points here, but some major misperceptions and a lot of obvious holes in the argument.. overall too superficial. Specifically: A misperception: A major reason why the German car industry is collapsing are insane European policies accelerated by Germany that are pure destruction. The previous massive destruction of industries was the chemical/pharmaceutical industry destroyed by anti-gene technology policies. A hole in the argument: Through the roof social transfer payments that create a huge section of the population that is not working, many of the immigrants. That is the real problem in failure to invest, not the fiscal prudence. A blind spot: The decay of educational levels due to the failure to address the challenges that follow from massive immigration over decades, not only since 2015. A blind spot: The absence of real political competition due to the total control of the establishment parties over media, public communication. The parties now consist of party soldiers whose entire life is inside their organizations, made possible by the tens of thousands of jobs for party apparatchiks in the media, in the parliaments of the 16 states, the publicly funded party foundations. The decoupling of the elites from reality follows. All this is well documented (e.g. von Arnim's books), but lacking in this conversation...
I aslo find Wolfgang’s view lacking in real life facts.
This guy is slightly of message, renewable energy is not supplying constant energy and never will. Not even 10%.
Energiewende? Not so fast..
Germany has been occupied since 1945.
How is it possible that such an informed and clever man is stuck in this anti-AfD hole? "Characters"?
bc he is not clever. he just sounds so
Electric cars are shit and demand is dropping.
maybe they are ok, when the infrastructure is given, the power comes from nuclear and so on. but today the are BS an part of the luxury beliefs pf the greens.
As someone who grew up hearing Terminators speak with a German accent, I'm frankly relived to hear that Germany is behind the curve with regards to AI. 😁
amazingly this is one of the more logical points on this dumpster fire of a comments section.
Europe has been resting on its laurels for way too long. The general atmosphere in big cities is pretty dire - in the last 2 years i've been to London, Paris and Berlin and theres just trash everywhere, shady looking people everywhere, its expensive. Its no wonder why the AFD is popular - all that needs to happen is for things to get worse and you'll see the popularity grow further, I wouldn't underestimate it.
As for the free market approach? Doing business in countries like Germany is suicidal - the business laws are completely unreadable, the bureaucracy is crippling and frankly demented. I hope to see the axe of deregulation come down in the USA and that to follow on in the rest of the world.
Not resting on its laurels but deliberately destroyed by its politicians.
This is what happens when politicians detach from reality, people are rising against it, so much damage has been and is still being done. We in the UK have to get rid of Labour asap.
Why? They have exactly the same political agenda as the tories almost to the letter. You should love them, no? 🤷♂
Afd is very plausible. If the left of Sarah Wagenknecht and the afd can agree to make support and supply agreements Germany might wake up.
Please name me the 'extreme positions' in the 'far right' AfD party's political program! It's online and public.
Quite easy "a complete 180 degree change when it comes to looking at the WWII", everything concerning the word "remigration" (to specify: only "ethnic" germans get to keep their citizenship)
Utter BS. "Far right" label is so inneffective now.
They’ve done this to themselves though. They didn’t have to push green agenda so hard.
Germany needs a trump
Completely different societies and political cultures
I m german. His statements regarding the legal conviction is not true. He knows the truth and ... We say if someone tells only have of the relevant truth this one betrays.
Nobody in Germany talks about Nuclear Power and AI? The AfD proposed getting back into Nuclear Power this week! And when asked about the demographic shift, they often answer that this won't require many immigrants / additional workers because of AI. Once again, this guy is very ill-informed.
I thought that the AFD was against nuclear?
Ask chrupalla to explain what a LLM is - then we'll talk
This has huge ramifications for other countries too. Germany was economic engine of the EU and Euro Area and now that it isn't anymore, it brings down almost the whole continent.
I am from Germany. BSW and AfD will win a lot of seats in the parlament. At the end no major party can form a coalition without any of them.
Bin mir nicht so sicher. Der letzten Umfrage nach wird die nächste Regierung Schwarz-Rot oder Schwarz-Grün sein.
There are marxists, stalinists and maoists of every level (in terms of fundamentalism and absolutism) in every left wing party in europe, too.
ask 1000 people in Germany who Mao was - no one will be able to answer
Is Wolfgang Munchau a distant relative of Baron von Munchausen?
😂
Funny how this conversation sounds so quaint, as if the two were doing this 20 years ago, relying on assumptions no longer valid. In a way, comedic actually
The CSU used to be more rightside than the AFD.
Germany is facing the blackberry phone moment.
Oh no! Not a populist government.
Deutsche Volk, please vote AfD!
Bitte.
P.S. F die Linke
This guy is a political gossip artist. He shows you some things, but tells you nothing of casual importance. And, Freddie, you say nothing to stop the foolish crap. I love how you both dance around the pipeline terrorism. Freddie, in case your in a bubble , we (the American s) blew up pipeline. Shame indeed. Freddie are you pretending, or do you secretly serve power?
Thank you !
Germany is the 51 Staat of USrael and his goverment is not for the peopel !
Yeah, he does follow the Establishment narrative where Russia is concerned
Freddie is lowering his standards. This guy is what the Germans call "ein Schaumschlaeger" ... in more vulgar terms a BS artist. The German car industry also made Trabis ...
Ms.Silke, really ? Multiple problems in Germany (immigration, politics, crime , etc.) are because of the U S. and Israel? It is always easy to blame somebody else...
He is controlled opposition
All I can say is go go Trump, so funny how he is the key these days unlike the last 8 years. Go the Donald .
That's bull about electric cars, if anything they overestimated their popularity. And the biggest problen Germany faces with energy is blindly following the US in its russophobia.
🎯💯🎯
They didn't blindly follow the US they had no choice
@@DavidMotherland why not? What’s the mechanism forcing Germany to comply?
BINGO
Germany is not a sovereign country.
What I find shocking about Wolfgang is the perceived level of complacency. It may be something to do with English not being his first language but I fear the challenges facing Germany are much greater than Wolfgang believes. Time will tell, but the political elite need to get real and stop messing around with hair brained policies that sound good but do not work. If not, then Germany runs the risk of moving significantly to the right.
What’s wrong with moving to the right for a country that’s moved extremely far to the left?
@ Hi Sensibar007, Thank you for your reply. My comment was not intended to say such a move to the right was good or bad (although I can see how it could be read that way - my apologies). I do think we use the terms far right/left too easily today and they have lost their true meaning. Personally, I advocate for common sense, pragmatic and practical politics that put the wellbeing of the people first and secures the long term future of the country.
Nothing will change in Germany, nothing. Fresh paint same effect. Yet another groko...
Glad I no longer live in germany glad to be a fachkraft elsewhere making 3x the money than in germany for the same job.
Well, Wolfgang is right in a lot of what he says, such as the delay of Germany and the whole of Europe in digitalization or the setback of the German automotive industry in the transition to electric cars. And now also in the absurd way in which Germany and France managed the financial or banking crisis generated by the subprime crash in the US, to protect the large German and French banks. The European sovereign debt crisis was generated in Germany and France, which paralyzed the ECB and destroyed many European economies that were also markets for Germany and France.
But on the topic of Russian gas Wollfgang is wrong. It was the US that destroyed Nord Stream and the supply of Russian gas to Germany. Okay, with the complicity of the coward Sholz. But the war in Ukraine was completely provoked by the US to cripple the economies of Germany and Russia and weaken China. And it was also the US that kept Germany away from China. And Russian gas and trade with China were the two main pillars of the German and European economy.
And I honestly don't understand why Wolfgang criticizes Russian gas. It's like the US moving away from Texas oil. Russia is part of Europe and there is no reason why Europe should not have good relations with Russia and China. The only reason is Russophobic propaganda to distance Germany from Russia. Like the British did in WWI and WWII. The main objective of UK and US foreign policy is to distance Germany from Russia to avoid a strong Europe! It was the US and the UK that provoked the war in Ukraine with the enlargement of NATO, which France and Germany never agreed to in the past. Until they were completely subjugated and corrupted by the CIA and the US. NATO is the US military arm to control and dominate Europe.
And in Germany alone, almost 100 years after WWII, there are still almost 100 US military bases. It seems that the US is finally implementing the Morgenthau plan in Germany. That is, the destruction of the German economy. Which Russia prevented after WWII.
I really hope not, please try to save yourself
And in Sweden its the same ..
Munchau’s perspective is about 10 years out of date. It’s not 2014. The rise of the AfD is a response to such a perspective. Germany is headed for serious trouble.
If Germany still had cheap Russian gas and commodities and the massive Chinese market nobody would be having these conversations. The United States military policy in Europe destroyed any scenario of German growth.
No, Germany still has massive demographic issues.
You’re right!!! Unfortunately Germans seem to have been intoxicated with US propaganda, and only accept what is good for America and suicidal for Europe…
The interviewer is so so “British”, in the bad sense… I can clearly see him imposing China to buy British drugs to sustain the bloody “British empire” has they did on the 19th century. Please, grow up, the colonialism mindset is so outdated…😂😂😂
@@Stoddardian Like everyone else.. And soon there is one thing they won't have: industry.
Nonsense. You sanctioned yourself and caused your own downfall.
Germany is paying the price for subserving their national interest to American foreign policy.
BINGO
@@MepzWorld if only that was true. What I find is the United States foreign policy like Western Europe are paying the price for subserving their own respective national interest to unelected elites who have more money than brains.
So many russian farmers here...
Spot on but they are now so Russophobic they cannot see how they committed harakiri.
Germany had her own foreign policy. Why do you think they wanted Nordstream?
They wanted to avoid gas transiting through Ukraine and Poland, which both collected "transit fees" from and they got tired of Polish politicians demanding more WWII reparations (or the gas gets cut off!).
"The battery problem will be solved". This man will be a billionaire in a couple of years. Why is he wasting his time writing books?
bc he is a shill
Wir Menschen tun uns immer schwer, Ausländer zu akzeptieren. Wenn wir irgendwo Urlaub machen, dann finden wir die Menschen nett und gastfreundlich. Wenn sie jedoch unsere Nachbarn werden, dann lehnen wir sie ab. So sind wir. Wir wollen tolerant rüber kommen, sind es aber nicht.
Die Menschen, die in einem fremden Land ein neues Leben anfangen müssen, fühlen sich unter sich, auch wohler. Sie tun sich zusammen und helfen einander. Daher wäre es viel besser, wenn Länder, die Ausländer aufnehmen, ein separates Wohngebiet errichten . Die Idee der 15 Minuten Städte ist daher genial. Im Abstand von 15 Minuten findet man alles, was man braucht, und muss sein Gebiet nicht erst verlassen. Jetzt kombiniert man das noch mit Online arbeiten oder mit Heimarbeit für Fabriken. Ich könnte mir sogar ein eigenes Zahlungssystem für jedes Gebiet vorstellen. Denn Geld ist lediglich ein einfacheres Tauschmittel als die Bezahlung durch Austausch vom Materialien.
Wir haben immer wieder die Chance, neue Lösungen zu finden. Wir können umdenken. Sicher ist, dass der globale Osten und Süden jetzt am Zug ist. Der Westen wird sehr viel Macht und Einfluss verlieren. Das ist nur dann schlimm, wenn wir nicht bereit sind, uns zu ändern.
Munchau adapts to the current consensus and even represses the fact that without the US proxy war in Ukraine, cheap Russian gas would still be available. Moreover, gas power plants were taken with good reason as perfect complements of renewables in case of lack of sunshine and little wind.
EU/NATO wanted that war in Ukraine also.
For decades both sides of the Atlantic sought to either freeze Russia into a "gas station masquerading as a country" model or to actually breakup Russia so they could rush in and "colonize" the natural resources
One word…corruption
Go AfD!
This Wolfgang's a bit of a nut job isn't he?
I don’t think so… he’s just describing the lay of the land.
Mass migration is OK, Afd is "right-right"...yeah, he's nuts.
@@sandymilne224 not this land.
Yes, he just pretends to be less like the other lefty-journos because he's so low in the hierarchy that he wasn't employed by the big companies which are owned by certain parties).
Care to elaborate?
All this talk about missing the electric car train, yet the only factories they want to close are EV plants, which are incurring huge losses because sales are virtually nonexistent. The problem is that they panicked and tried to play catch-up with Tesla and the Chinese. By the time they did, they spent incredible ammount of money and EV sales had fallen far below expectations. I certainly won’t buy an EV until we have much better battery technology.
Why not buy Chinese? Ah, the cost of electricity...
A great sign of unintelligence and grifters is them claiming to be experts in fields in which they have no expertise or credentials whatsoever.
This guy talked himself into being outed as such when he went right into 'analysis' of the auto industry. In reality he has absolutely no clue what he's talking about.
it is is hard to listen to him. but his awakening will be gruesome. for him.
George Friedman, "Europe: Destined for Conflict?"
Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2015.
“The primordial interest of the United States, over which for a century we have fought wars the First, Second, and Cold War - has been the relationship between
Germany and Russia, because united, they are the only force that could threaten us - and to make sure that that doesn’t happen.”
"As to the relationship to the United States we no longer have a relationship with
Europe we have relationship with Romania we have a relationship with France there is no Europe to have a relationship with."
@@petestobbs5844 I watched the video in 2016. It helped me to understand the rules of the game. The game‘s name is not „peacefully living together“ but „never ending conflict to make some people filthy rich“.
So Russian cheap gas was not a reliable source of energy? I wonder why... Maybe it's because the US bombed the Nordstream and Germany said 'how high, sir?' Stop blaming others, look at yourself.
I’m with Porsche and am astounded by the Left’s fascination with electric cars.
How can one be against becoming autonomous from imports? Do you think oil will stay as cheap as it is now?
@@RalfStephan80 million people in a country the size of Oregon and Washington combined will have to import huge amounts of raw material. Economic autarky is out of the question.
Remember the blockade after WW1 when the allies starved over a million people to death? You had fewer people and more territory and still could not feed yourselves.
Perhaps if you continue on your path to self-implementation of the Morgenthau Plan, you will have enough land to feed your population of 20-30 million and enough space for wind turbines and solar.
It is their inner nerd longing to live in the egalitarian Star Trek cocoon of their childhood. They are intellectually incapable of accepting people are fundamentally unequal and are not interchangeable cogs in the serve of the GDP. Coming to that conclusion would force them to face their over inflated status in a hierarchy
I don't even own a car, but if I would it would be fully electric, obviously. Perhaps a Porsche.
I voted left (Die Linke) all my life (35yo).
Last election I voted afd.
This biased, untruthful guest had no valid arguments to defend his characterization of that political party: Some individual member having been convicted by political kangaroo courts manned by their most fervent political opponents, for 'offenses' which are made-up and not offenses at all in other countries is not valid.
He also could not verbalize how and why those 'offenses' are actually bad, how they affect the party and its policies.
He has as much integrity and he has as much self-control intellectually as he does in taking care of himself.
Typical boomer nonsense. This man views Germany as a shopping mall. All that matters is the economy. I spit on his ideas. Germany is a nation state with a history and a people. The AfD is the only party that sees Germany as more than an economic zone.
Germany bet on cheap oil, no nuclear power, and an ever-rising Chinese consumer and industrial clientele. Both failed, which hollows out Germany's economic base to an alarming degree.
How about a welfare state on steroids, Green Deal, mass immigration into the social system, green party ideologues destroying the car industry …?
Even Unheard finds it hard to tell the whole story. Saying that Russian gas was unreliable is the height of blindness. It’s Germany that stopped imports of gas, and not Russia that stopped it. Talking about a mistaken national consensus 😂
Wolfgang cant see his blindness like all liberals
If you ask me Germany should import a lot of foreign labor and run their economy on green energy. That ought to turn things around.
I so much prefer these studio discussions over the live events.
When the lights go out and production stops the 15 year timeline for power will miraculously become greatly truncated.
When you cut down competition between businesses, you reduce opportunities for the working class. You increase competition between workers for the posts in businesses that have a larger pool of workers when their competitors are eliminated.
Immigration also increases the supply of workers which suppresses wages.
@grannyannie2948 Very true. But the solution to both problems is more, not less businesses. Regulations that stifle competition between businesses hurts all workers, including minimum wage, which leaves the most unskilled unemployed.
@@karenness5588 In my country during covid I saw many rules which negatively impacted small businesses, but enriched large chain businesses
@grannyannie2948 And it was wrong.
AFD
Germany is a sad example of what comes after hubris.
I’d say an excess of humility and self loathing personally
He doesn't mention Germany's focus on exports and not competitive in domestic services as it protects incumbents from new foreign entrants.
Personnaly I keep "far right" for antidemocratic parties, i.e. opposed to free speach and to the separation of powers. Being against immigration is not antidemocratic per se. Japan is not a dictature.
Exactly. If Japan doesn’t need constant population growth through immigration, than neither does the rest of the world
To be honest, I understand only one German word.
And that word is Kaputt. So even knowing one single German word is enough to understand what is happening in Germany.
Macedonian
AI needs a lot of energy irregardless of its cost.
Indeed. He ought to listen to Mark P Mills presentation 'There is no energy transition' - Mills is a far better informed and experienced commentator on this and related aspects, like the delusion of 'transition to net zero', per his Skagen Fondene presentation.
It isn’t just germany in a long slow slump, most of Europe is going down the same path.
Spain is booming
I don’t believe he understands Musk at all, and that’s a major factor.
Yiu were wrong when you saud Trump was elected twice; he was actually elected three times.