Analysts are watching developments in Germany with concern: this scenario would cause a lot of problems for Europe

So September 26 could be a fateful day not only for Germany itself, but also for the European Union. According to the daily Die Welt, “now a red-green-red warning signal has sounded in Washington and Paris, Warsaw and London.”

Since “Germany is the leading power in Europe, the elections will also indirectly determine the path to 450 million Europeans,” said Jeffrey Rathke, a US diplomat and president of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University.

“The red-green-red coalition would undoubtedly cause shock waves. “It is a response to the security of the European region, and at a time when the United States is becoming increasingly independent on foreign policy issues,” said Sophia Gaton, director of the British Foreign Policy Group, in Die Welt.

The Allies worry that left-wing Germany will become a less credible defense partner. After all, the Social Democrats (SPD), not to mention the left “left,” do not support Germany’s promise to spend two percent of its gross domestic product on defense, the newspaper’s foreign policy correspondents summarized in a collective article.

Paris is angered by German evasion of responsibility in the field of security, which continues to justify the moral burden of National Socialism. Given the “geopolitical situation and the indifference of Americans towards Europe, this is simply anachronism”, Die Welt conveys the French position.

The current frontrunner among the chancellor candidates, moderate Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, lost the election as party chairman two years ago precisely because the SPD’s center of gravity is “clearly to the left,” the French president’s adviser said.

The left coalition would change the coordinates of German-Russian politics

Mr Scholz is well aware of this: he is backed by a left-wing party with leaders like Saskia Esken, Walter Borrans, Kevin Kühnert and a large group of young Social Democrats running for the Bundestag, whose positions are very close to the A to the left on many strategic issues.

It should not be surprising, therefore, the perseverance with which Mr Scholz refuses to publicly renounce a possible coalition with the far-left party.

Finally, as the historian former director of the Stasi Victims’ Memorial in Berlin, Hubertus Knabe, reminded us these days, and Scholz himself was a passionate Marxist in his youth, and as one of the leaders of the Socialist Youth (Jusa ), fostered friendly ties with the Union of German Socialist Youth FDJ., whose officials are now part of the Left Party.

Even their attitude towards NATO at the time was very similar to the current attitudes of the Left Party, the historian notes.

The anxiety with which the Alliance members now look at Germany is quite understandable. After all, the Left Party website openly declares: “NATO is an anachronism for the Left Group. “The left wants NATO to repeal it and replace it with a pan-European collective security system that includes Russia.” “The first step in that direction would be the withdrawal of Germany from NATO military structures.” After all, in the understanding of this left-wing party, “The West is an imperialist project that embodies evil,” Die Welt notes.

The newspaper recalls that “among the most famous apologists for Putin in Germany are also prominent social democratic politicians.” After all, even the Social Democrats, who are critical of Putin, are in favor of a more lenient policy towards Russia. And that means that the Greens, who occupy strong positions in the Moscow discourse, would be in the minority in such a coalition.

“Then the left-wing coalition would significantly change the coordinates of German-Russian politics,” Die Welt concluded.

Instead of NATO, Putinism

The consequences of the left-wing coalition for European security policy are being evaluated even more strictly by Count Alexander Lambsdorff, former vice-president of the European Parliament, member of the Bundestag of Free Democrats (FDP).

“Germany needs a government that understands the complex challenges of the 21st century and has the ideas and determination to tackle them.” The left-red-green-red coalition, which is already being prepared behind the scenes by the SPD, the Greens and the Left , it is almost incompatible with all this “, writes the politician in Focus Online.

Dangerous ideas in the electoral program of the left, according to Lambsdorff, are pouring out: “Withdrawal of the German armed forces, withdrawal from North America, rejection of the European Lisbon Treaty are just some of the demands that this coalition government must negotiate with the SPD and the Greens. “

“How are we going to deal with authoritarian communist China, which is constantly expanding its military and economic influence? What about Russia, which continues to violate international law and threaten our eastern neighbors, and ultimately us in Germany?” , Asks the diplomat and politician A. Lambsdorff, and adds: and Putinism and China’s digital dictatorship are on the rise ”.

In the electoral field, foreign policy does not matter

It is regrettable that foreign policy plays almost no role in the television debates of the three chancellor candidates: the Social Democrat O. Scholz, the Christian Democrat Armin Laschet and the green Annalena Baerbock.

“Everything revolves around its own navel, from economic gifts to the electorate,” as if we were a country “where money is only redistributed, where everything is regulated by the state, money is printed in Europe, and we diligently distribute it to people hoping to find something good. ”Ulf Poscahrdt, editor-in-chief of Die Welt, could not be surprised after the trilogy of candidates in the television studio on Sunday.

What we see in these triathlon candidates, he said, is “on the one hand provincial, on the other hand Germany is saving the climate, hoping to save the world from rising temperatures by 2.7 degrees.”

“At a meeting of press directors, I spoke with colleagues from New York, Brussels. We are expected to be the locomotive of Germany. However, the way politics is talked about in this television debate is simply desperate,” admits Poscahrdt.

The topics and questions to be discussed are the responsibility of the television presenters and editors, and their sympathy for leftist political attitudes is not only visible to the naked eye, but has also been proven in research. It should not be surprising, therefore, that issues that are inconvenient for the Social Democrats and especially the Greens (eg European and internal security, migration, economic development) have been systematically avoided.

“It is not that the coalition can shake the entire continent in our country.”

The Social Democrats outperformed the Christian Democrats not without the active help of the media, especially public broadcasting. Some of the latter’s methods, such as the instrumentalization of children or listeners of a properly selected audience, specially trained activists who came up with the radical left slogan “defeat Laschetta,” received deserved criticism from political scientists and some media outlets.

“The positions of the middle class in all triathletes have been in the minority,” Democratic Chancellor Christian Laschett also complained this week. It is different in the country, “people do not want the left coalition to fundamentally change our country,” he told the daily Donaukurier.

In recent television debates, the Social Democrats have had “a heart and a soul” with the Greens. Neither the Social Democrats nor the Greens are intimidated by ideological positions on the left like state regulation, expropriation, social gifts, leveling. Therefore, it is natural that the social democrat O. Scholz and the green A. Baerbok, instead of distancing themselves from the extreme left, distanced themselves from the conservatives last Sunday by sending them unanimously to the opposition.

Mr. Laschet had that painful sensation. “Left” in the last triathlon on Sunday “I was already standing on the counter, it was a three-on-one fight,” he said in an interview with Focus Online.

“Many Europeans are now setting their eyes on these federal elections. They are concerned about whether Germany will remain a stable anchor, especially economically. That is not the coalition that can shake the entire continent in our country,” warned A. Laschet.