Ten or 15 years ago, Friedrich Mirz appeared to be an unlikely candidate for the loyal role of liberal democracy in Europe. The spoiler is alert: he still does.
However, the internal decay of the European policy reached a critical stage, its shares were clearly clarified through the ridiculous scene of Donald Trump and JD Vance Volodymyr Zelenskyy reprimand In the Oval Office, the lack of distress is sufficiently before the orange throne. This was not the historical moment that Mirz expected, and certainly it is not the one he wanted. But for the better or worse, he appears to be the last man in Europe to stand.
If we return to ancient days in the late first decade of the twentieth century, the future of Mirz appeared in the past: it was Angela Merkel The right -wing opponent of the Christian Democratic Union defeated the main conservative party that has controlled German electoral policy since the fall of the Nazi regime, first in former West Germany, then, less convincing, after 1990. Germany. Mirz left the policy and obtained millions in the private sector as a company lawyer, including a long period of Blackrock Germany, a major branch of the largest asset management company in the world.
He returned to CDU in 2018 as Merkel, pledging to spoil the usual party’s agenda of “financial austerity” supporting business and free trade with the pro -matters foreign policy and a force of the policy of combating solid immigration. Even amid political chaos at the continent level resulting from the crisis of Syrian immigrants and the rise of fascist flavor parties in a country after another, it did not take three attempts by Mars to obtain the party’s elected leader after Merkel’s retirement.
After “winning” in the recent federal elections in Germany, in what can be remembered as an example of the textbook on the wild victory-CDU first ended with 28.5 percent of the vote, a little better than its worst results ever in 2021-Merz will now be forced to give the new Nazi alternative to the Germany party, or AFD. If you want to find a silver lining for the German elections – frankly, this is not easy – it will be: While AFD ended in second place by 20.8 percent of the votes, which doubles its total in 2021, there is no evidence that Elon Musk’s enthusiastic coincidence (or fans support less explicit).
Mirz is a black box, a leader who has not been tested in the government. His entire professional life seems to be not identical to this risk -framed fork in the way of history. But at least it seems to realize the size of the current crisis.
On the international front, as he threw his path last Friday at the White House in sharp satisfaction, Mirz will become a leader in the largest and most important member of the European Union at the moment when he must “must” achieve independence from the United States “to use his words from a After the election press conference. On the one hand, MERZ is a bit of the Black Fund, a leader who has not been tested who has not occupied a position in the government and his entire career appears to be not identical to this risky thorn in the way of history. On the other hand, it appears that he is aware of the current crisis, and has not yet given any indication that he will seek to stay with the far right in Germany or Maga’s friends in Washington.
Mirz described MUSK attempts and various YANK’s various interventions to interfere in the German elections as “not less dramatic, severe, and eventually obscene than the interventions we saw from Moscow”, and suggested that under Trump, the United States looked “largely indifferent to the fate of Europe.” This is an amazing reflection of the man he described German journalist Juerg Lao As the most American political supporter in Germany and “a lifelong insured in the Tala’s Security Alliance” (i.e. in NATO, which Trump seems to be determined to demolish). This may also reflect a feeling of affected pride and betrayal: clearly returning to Konrad Adenauer in the 1950s, CDU has always presented itself as a strong American ally, largely in line with what we now have to call the Orthodox that disappeared in the Republican Party before Trump.
At the same time, Mirz described the amazing boom of AFD as “the last warning of the political parties at the Democratic Center” to reach a consensus on the policy of immigration, economic reforms, the European Joint Defense Strategy and many other thorny issues. He said that Germany found itself under “tremendous pressure on both sides”, which means that it means the United States and Russia – in addition to important internal divisions: AFD dominates the states that are fighting economically in former East Germany, while the Mirz party won the most prosperous West. (Social Democrats faded quickly in Berlin, and there is no other place.) Historically, Mirz concluded that it was “five minutes until midnight for Europe.”
So, curse! Will this 69-year-old millionaire a child from the Burjolic Catholic Catholic bourgeoisie-who grew up at the house in which his mother’s family was built in 1752-on all difficulties, to be the state of state that the world needs now, ideology and partisan affiliation aside? Is Churchill on the last day standing on the tide of the islands, ready to respond again Vladimir Putin On the one hand and Trump on the other hand?
Will this 69 -year -old, a child from the Catholic Catholic bourgeoisie, will turn to Churchill on the last day, standing on the tide of the islands of history? I mean, may not.
Of course, the real answer is that no one can see the future and it is likely to surprise us: Maybe! It is only about that Mirz, who is now released from his previous perspectives supporting the United States and in an enforced marriage with his local political opponents, will reveal this type of power. But frankly, this scenario requires a global historical level of thinking.
For one reason, as Lau notes in the article mentioned above, Mirz was actually for Donald Trump before he was against him. He ran as a Maga candidate publicly during his failed campaign to lead CDU in 2018, and just weeks ago, he paid a harsh decision that is not binding on immigrant policy through Bundestag with the support of AFD. Trump’s political maneuvering, which aims to shame, outgoing advisor, Olaf Schools by taking advantage of a series of violent attacks committed by immigrants, did not violate the “Wall of Protection”, which prohibits the main German parties to form alliances with the far right. But as Lau suggests, maybe voters Normie to ask whether it can be trusted whether Mirz is.
Merz is not the only European portfolio that turns the declining into skeptics in America; It began to look like a trend. Former French Prime Minister Dominic de Philipin is an old hand, as he put the headlines of international newspapers in 2003 by opposing the American war in Iraq in an eloquent United Nations speech. He is now considering a presidential campaign for the year 2027, in the hope that the right -wing extremist candidate Marine Le Pen will start. in A recent interview With the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, De Philippine Mirz outperformed, declaring that “America is no longer considered an ally of Europe” and that the world now finds itself divided between “three superpowers non -liberal: RussiaChina and the United States “
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Both Merz and De Villepin sees the opportunity, as the latter says, for the “European Awakening of Democracy”. This is an inspiring phrase, but it avoids the biggest historical question: Can the current European regime be that the elsey political leaders are like them keen to be rescued already, in anything like its current form? You do not have to be a pure or a lower degree to the note that the so -called Western alliance was decomposing for some time; One of Putin’s guidelines, which has not yet been falsified, is that if he raises it in the right place, it will completely collapse. It should not leave rethinking the relationship between Europe and America and the rest of the world to JD Vance and its comrades on the new national right.
It is difficult to imagine that MERZ – through all novels, a person with very traditional ideas, is at the top of a fragile alliance with a narrow political mandate – ready to seize this portfolio. Even the quick reading of German history indicates darker names: Mirz looks like many German conservatives in the early thirties of the twentieth century, who assumed that they could dominate radicalism with the drinker of drugs and its disgraceful followers. These men were present in the tide as well, but not in a good way.
Of course, the past does not predict the future; Forms it. This warning story still has a great resonance for German Jill Mirz, even if many people in that country and other places around the world are tired of hearing it. Those who fail to learn from history, as a contributor to a salon Mike Lovgrin He recently told me, who are convicted of repeating the famous quotes. Whatever Friedrich Mirz with his unlikely role on the world stage, let us hope that his lessons will be in good condition.
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