Germany’s political establishment just received the electoral equivalent of a brick through the window, and responding with another lecture about the neighborhood’s declining manners probably won’t repair the glass. The Alternative for Germany, commonly known as AfD, won a commanding 43.8 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt’s state election, more than doubling its previous showing.…
What the Pentagon’s Europe Deployment Pause Means
The Pentagon has reportedly halted troop deployments to Poland and Germany as part of President Trump’s broader order to reduce the U.S. military presence in Europe by about 5,000 troops. According to AP, roughly 4,000 troops from the Army’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, were no longer heading to Poland, and a…
Trump, Germany, and the Cost of a Feud
When foreign policy starts to look less like long-range strategy and more like a high-stakes personality clash, it’s worth pausing and asking whether the adults are still in the room. That’s the uncomfortable backdrop to President Trump’s reported order to withdraw roughly 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, a move unfolding amid a heated dispute with…
Germany’s AfD Under Fire: Extremism or Censorship?
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, or BfV), recently dropped a political hammer on the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) by officially designating the entire party as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” group. This dramatic move now allows German authorities to increase surveillance on the AfD—phone tapping,…
Germany’s Election: A Wake-Up Call for Conservatives—and the West
Germany’s latest election results weren’t just a routine political shake-up. They were a warning shot, not just for the country’s ruling leftist coalition, but for establishment conservatives who have lost their backbone. Friedrich Merz’s CDU managed to scrape out a weak victory, but the real story is the meteoric rise of Alternative for Germany (AfD),…
