Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Sept 9, 2026
The shockwave reaction to the Alternative für Deutschland landslide election victory in Germany is absurdly out of proportion. It also defies any easy categorization of conventional right, left, or centrist politics.
What it does signify is a massive popular protest against the warmongering political establishment in Europe and the United States. The Western establishment has right, left, and liberal adherents, so it is confounding to interpret the AfD election win as reflecting a precise position on the political spectrum.
Western establishment politics and media have labelled AfD as a “far-right party,” a label which the party rejects. It claims to be conservative, nationalist, Eurosceptic, anti-immigration, and seeking more reasoned foreign relations.
The far-right epithet seems to be a more politicized term that the establishment uses to demonize opponents, as it does in France and elsewhere. “Far left” is also used as a term of abuse to marginalize opponents. But what does it mean when those in the “liberal center” are more often the ones who are more warmongering and supportive of censorship, repression and anti-democratic powers?
The AfD’s historic victory at the weekend in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which could see it taking regional governance for the first time, is certainly a watershed event. The party was only formed in 2013 and is now tipped to win national elections in 2029. That’s pretty “seismic.”
Its populist politics are gaining support among German voters. AfD is the biggest opposition party in the Bundestag, the federal parliament. It has made major gains in other state elections across Germany, although its stronghold is in the east of the country.
The AfD’s success is as much about the collapse of the establishment parties. The Christian Democrats of Chancellor Friedrich Merz have seen their electoral support crash, as have the Social Democrats.
However, it seems a wild overreaction to portray the electoral rise of AfD as a rerun of the Nazi Party’s takeover in the 1930s. European media headlines are screaming about the first time a “far-right party” in Germany has been elected since Hitler’s National Socialists won a majority in 1932 and went on to form a fascist dictatorship.
The AfD leadership under Alice Weidel maintains that it does not deny the crimes of Nazi Germany. Rather, the party says it wants to emphasize other facets of rich German culture and history and not dwell on wartime guilt of the 12-year Third Reich.
Here’s where contradictions complicate the international reaction to the AfD’s victory.
The party is highly critical of Merz’s government and other establishment parties for what it decries as reckless support for Ukraine and the war against Russia. The AfD is campaigning on ending the massive financial and military aid to Ukraine. It wants to restore normal relations with Moscow and resume the traditional energy trade that had been crucial to Germany’s economy.
If the AfD were following in Hitler’s footsteps, it wouldn’t be seeking to end support for the NeoNazi regime in Kiev and to restore friendly relations with Moscow. It would be gung-ho for more war.
The shrill denunciations and pearl-clutching over the AfD are ironically coming from parties that are supposedly “centrist” and “liberal”.
Chancellor Merz said he was “shocked” by the AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt.
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said it was a “very, very worrying signal to Europe.”
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski condemned the result as “alarming,” while Prime Minister Donald Tusk said only “idiots would celebrate” the AfD’s victory.
These politicians and media outlets like Britain’s Guardian and BBC, which are supposedly “liberal” are posing as defenders of democracy and opponents of fascism. Yet, it is these same parties that are backing the NeoNazi regime in Kiev in fighting a catastrophic NATO proxy war against Russia, with endless supplies of weapons and the expenditure of public money destroying European societies.
The AfD’s nationalist politics and “Germany First” platform are hardly a cause for hysterical alarm, if we are objective about who is really driving war in Europe.
The real culprits for war are found among those liberal, centrist political parties who use a veneer of bourgeois politeness to hide what is imperialist warmongering.
The likes of Britain’s Andy Burnham is another case in point. He is supposed to be a leftwing democrat and says he wants to relieve cost of living crisis for ordinary people, yet Burnham, like Merz, Macron, Tusk and others, wants to throw billions of public money at fueling a war in Europe against Russia. These “liberals” have no problem aligning with a regime in Kiev that glorifies World War Two collaborators with Nazi Germany. So who are the fascists? The AfD or the alternative liberal führers of Europe?
There’s no easy positioning of the AfD and international reaction. The party’s win was congratulated by right-wing parties in Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland, parties which are also ardent supporters of NATO and the proxy war with Russia.
Trump and his MAGA advocates, like Elon Musk, welcomed the AfD victory, yet this U.S. president is arguably a war criminal for his aggression against Iran and support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
The so-called establishment reaction to the AfD is absurd and hypocritical. This is not an “alternative führer” that is suddenly threatening moral decent Western democracy. The West’s sponsoring of war in Ukraine and the Middle East – and the media’s role in covering it up – would tend to show that fascism and imperialist war are already alive and well within the ruling establishment.
Rather than raising the alarm over the AfD, it is possible to view its growing support among voters as a healthy sign of protest and rejection of “mainstream” propaganda. Trump’s election and other populist parties can also be seen in the same way, only Trump has ended up betraying his supporters. Will the AfD go the same way? Maybe.
But the positive takeaway from the recent German election is that the Western public wants radical change from the moribund mainstream political class. Change is possible. A different political and economic order is possible, one that delivers genuine democracy and peaceful international relations.
the westgermans always were corrupted
Russia haters by their exNazi party CDU/CSU .
the eastgerman saxons had more relations with
Russia . both sides all brainwashed by their press .
Saxons understand the warmongers in west + want
AFD because they know AFD wants peaceful
relationship with Russia as once happened under
chancler Bismark who was fired from hotheat
kaiser wilhelm . but AFD is also infiltrated by jews .
so I think if Satanjahu + jew zentralrataccepts
accepts AFD it could come outlike this :
with accord of Putin,Zelensky,Trump war will
be stoped . Zelensky + Satanjahu get their
second israel/Chsaristan . how MI6, Natod
would fit in this I dont know .
A German friend of mine told me 20 years ago – yes 20 years ago – the AfD are controlled opposition. Proof? Here it is:
Alice Weidel is against homosexuality – yet she is a lesbian.
She is against immigration – yet her “wife” ( lol ) is from Shri Lanka.
She is against adoption of children by homosexuals – yet she has two adopted “daughters” (lol ).
She pretends to be a German patriot – yet she lives in Switzerland.
Tell me again how the AfD is going to “save Germany”. If they ever won power this ((( Weidel ))) creature would do a Giorgia Meloni and forget all about her election “promises”. There is NO politico out there to “save” us. We must do that for ourselves.
Oh yes, I almost forgot, Weidel held a senior position is guess where: Goldman Sacks of all places !!!!
> and so the MSM is now trying to smear the AfD as “far-right”.
And you’re trying to push them as the “solution”. All liars together.
If only we’d had “voting” when the vikings were doing their thing. We could’ve “voted” for “tougher border controls” and “greater protection from double bladed axes”.
Gay nigger rapist invader lives matter.
“far-right” = “extreamly-correct”
: )
Might they, however, look again at “the Jewish Problem”, or “Question”, without becoming Nazis, or becoming a National Socialist Party. Surely, even to cast their eyes at the international money power and Rothschild bankster tentacles in their own nation would brand them as “antisemitic”. With Israel, and many other nations firmly under the control of that very “money power”, such as in the US, and with Germany being such a lacky to the US, it would appear that the problem does remain, and that without naming that “problem” directly, the Germans will deal with it more indirectly and hopefully go back to rebuilding their nation for the German people.
In calling the USrael rape of the Ukraine an “unjust war” and wanting reproachment with Russia for cheaper natural gas to stoke the German economy, no doubt the Jews are doing all they can to ensure the AfD does not gain any real power. However, this is a much different world than 1945, All of the cards are now on the table. There is now no question that Jews have been running the US ever since they took over the US levers of power with their international money reserves by the end of the 19th century, and for anyone to deny that the US is now completely a Jewish shill nation, they are either complete imbeciles or liars. Thus any effort for Germany to throw off US controls will be characterized as “antisemitic”. Nevertheless, if they want to be a nation for German people they have no other choice but to assert their independence from the US, and to free their economy from the globalist financial controls.
There certainly is a problem with Jewish ownership and control of the US, and most likely it is the same for the UK and the London Square Mile. If any ethnic group made huge advances to own and control so much in the 20th century it was the Jews. From their perspective there is nothing wrong with that. The tradition of international financial networking goes back to the millennium before Christianity, which revolution did away with the exclusivity of the historical vine for the converts, as well as challenged the Jewish entitlement complex which had no limits over those deemed as goyim or outsiders.
In all of that time and in being expelled from so many nations mainly because the people could not compete with Jewish international money-power reserves in commerce, such that the Jews in many cases ended up owning virtually everything, to the Jews such exiles were just part of the historical process they were used to in setting up exclusive communities virtually anywhere in the world mainly for lucrative prospects. They would just move on and come back at a later date to carry on business as usual. You could disperse Jews from Palestine, but the organization was ubiquitous, and because of a unity mainly based on an exclusive tribal faith, with exclusive tribal favors and rewards, based on a networked international money power, we can say that the removal of the Jews in the “Diaspora” by the Romans from their sectarian homeland was not the first, but it served to serve the solidarity cause in the greater international business. Ironically, we see with the the return of a medley mixed geology far removed from their ancient ancestors some 2000 years ago, but calling themselves the rightful owners of the entire Levant, while regarding all of those living there from time immemorial as “squatters”, such has finally exposed international Jewry for what it is, and as a result it has caused great harm to their solidarity, not just in Israel but in all of their communities around the world.
As for the word ‘nationalism’, look at the way that entire concept was completely abused ever since WWII by the powers running the West which were mainly under the Jewish money power control. The globalist efforts to replace nations with a centralized currency and financial system, is entirely a Rothschild project, and therefore a Jewish project. They would have us see it differently as being more of a “universal” project. However, without the off-shore money power making even the US government beholden to it, there would be NO globalist movement, and our deliberately-dept-rigged nations would not be now be in the process of globalist deconstructionism for the sake of that thing they call the “New World Order”.
I was once taught at a university level that “nationalism” was selfish and is the main cause of our wars. Okay, what then of Israel using the US to conquer for their exclusive ends all neighboring nations in the Levant, is it “nationalism” which is the source of that evil, or is the idea that money makes might and “might makes right” which is the real source? Is not the problem with that kind of abuse of wealth and power essentially the Jewish problem in full bloom, exposing their methods at work in our own nations?
Certainly, the abuse of wealth and power is not exclusively held by one people or nation. It is the history of all unjust wars, and also is the very history of globalism.
Certainly, the nationalism of the Danes or the Norwegians when invaded by the Germans in WWII was noble and good, and a far cry from the way the globalists have characterized all “nationalism” as verboten, while they systematically have gone about dept-rigging our nations in order to collapse them totally into their clutches, and to cancel entirely our own rule over them.
The same powers who have denuded us of the integrity of our own nations give a pass for the Nazi-like nationalism of Israel actually exterminating those they deem as “unwanted”, and the fingerprints in the crimes show very clearly that they have all been spawned and fertilized by the same money power, which is a power which has no real national borders or moral limits when it comes to the use of its powers.
As they have abused and twisted the ideal of a healthy and balanced “nationalism” into something evil they have also abused the traditional balanced and shared meanings of concepts such as “diversity”, “equity”, and “inclusion”. All “exclusiveness” based on the new-normal meaning of “inclusiveness” is considered as some kind of an evil, except of course for the Jews, as to say that about them would be “antisemitic”, “hateful”, and “evil”.
What is at stake with the way the top-down brainwashing has gone is not that weak idea they are promoting called “dignity”, but rather a decency based on the idea of “INTEGRITY”, which quality is not so relativistic but has more to do with an intrinsic or internal STRENGTH, and which is connected to the more traditional and universal norms of what is really “good”.
The word ‘dignity’ is defined as “the quality or state of being worthy of honor, respect, or high estimation”, and its recognition is largely dependent the person or power having the position to bestow it.
Whereas the word ‘integrity’ means “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change”. It is something more intrinsic and the word is often used to describe something which can stand on its own roots like a robust tree in a wind storm.
The enemies of Western Civilization want to break it down and they have done a pretty good job of it over the past 125 years.
By making human life subject to the wishes of the more powerful they have done great harm to the integrity of the human person.
By doing all they can to break down family values they have done great harm to the integrity of the family systems which is the source of well-adjusted people and a productive society.
By doing all they can to cut people off from the roots of the Christian faith they done great harm to the integrity of Western civilization.
By establishing corrupt governments out of the reach and controls of the people to establish globalist governments they are in the process of effectively destroying the INTEGRITY of OUR nations.
Let us hope and pray that AfD in Germany sweeps that nation, and is able to rule with decency and integrity free of all of the bribes and threats of the corrupt and criminal establishment powers which are running and ruining our own nations.
Maybe the afd is an organic renewal of what it means to for ethnic whites to be a people again. Maybe not…
Fast forward to the year 2525. Nazi, nazi, nazi, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, nazi, nazi, Hitler, Hitler,
nazo, Hitler, nazi, Hitler, nazi, Hitler, nazi, nazi, nazi, nazi, nazi. ad infinitum……………
Significantly, the AfD has two key policy attitudes that differentiate it from other so-called ‘far right’ parties in the EU.
The ‘Populist’ parties in Sweden and Finland- Sverigedemokraterna, Perus Suomailaiset- are in govt. The ‘populist’ Meloni is PM in Italy, Wilders in the Netherlands hovers over govt, the National Rally in France might capture the presidency next year. All of these movements are fervently pro War, Russophobic and the litmus test, Jizzrael adoring indeed. The 2 in Sweden and Finland are in government posts in coalition and have done NOTHING to rein in EU diktats, oppose continuing mass infiltration of quota immigration,. They call for yet more money to be squandered on darling Zelensky and are virulently Russophobic and sycophantic to Amerika. They just want govt posts and ministries and they are another face of the EU monster.
Firstly, the AfD has aroused the ire of the EU despots by calling for normalisation of relations with Russia, the end to total censorship about all things from and about Russia (the banning of journalists and petty spite against dual national Russians.) Sanity and normalisation of energy policy and breaking away from American occupation. These are the cardinal errors. As the AfD point out, the vile hypocrisy of the German system is breathtaking. Whipping up spy hysteria, faux drone and terrorist attacks -all and everything bad attributed to Russia by default,plus endless war whoring. Yet they won’t hold an independent enquiry into the Nordstream sabotage as they well know it was America and Mi6 that did it, their supposed allies. An attack on a hugely expensive investment and life blood for Germany! They don’t even prosecute the alleged Ukrainian suspects- no evidence at all.
Second point. Nor does the AfD adopt the supine, grovelling approach to Jizzrael and this is the greatest taboo of all, not its immigration strategy. A strategy shared by the vast majority of EU citizens both native and immigrant in the face of endlessly expanding no skill immigration, de-Europeanization and weakening economies.
Merz is on the brink of being driven from office, like his repulsive bedfellows Starmer and Macron, one down two to go- but will be replaced by a clone- unless the AfD really break through. However, Merz or his follow up, long to follow Hitler’s example and outlaw and ban all opposition parties due to ‘national safety’. They might well do this but the gulf between EU plutocrats and the people they lord over is getting bigger and bigger by the day, their grip is getting tenuous- hence their lust for war at all costs.
Inevitably, there will be some posters here (provided there are any on topic and not some irrelevant drivel about Britain ) who will start foaming at the mouth about Alice Weidel being lesbian. So what? If she wants to silence the war drums, stop the insane Green policies, grovelling to Amerika and its mentor, halt the eradication of European identity- then her private-life is of no concern either way. She doesn’t deny it but she makes no virtue of it either unlike most gay agitators and their media paymasters.
The final reason the AfD is so loathed is that it is an Alternativ not just for Germany, but for Europe as a whole. This terrifies the autocrats in the EU Bloc and is unwelcome in Washington despite Trump’s bloviation, grinning congratulations and utterly phoney behaviour.
Fred B keep it short mate
“A landslide election victory” and Jermany can not come up with a Govermin? That’s strange innit?
And now to something more important than some Jerman puppets on $trings playing democratism: The honorable leader and $tatesman of Jewkraine flew to Norway to pay his respect to the stone dead King Harry the fifth (and while being there it felt very urgent to squeeze a little more than usual out of ALL the Jewropeans present) and Volodymyr even while being in severe danger to be suicided by the Russian bear – he went along anyway and an “Russian” drone targeted his plane and nearly “nicked the ear” of his aeroplane and in storytelling theory was splashing blood all over his office window, but due to the greatness of his patriotic Uky pilots he landed safely in Oslo and was greeted by high ranking Norwegian officials to which he replied instantly: “ Ukraine needs your help and financial $upport to keep your kingdom and Jewrope safe – here is our offshore account”.
Now that’s Diplomacy and Politics the AFD can learn from!
Can we vote on the comments like YouTube? Tony O’Neil gets my vote on this article.
dictatorial leftistintelectual jew media servants
here in BRD still spreading the old moslem
hijacker lies + [exCIA agent] Osama Bin Laden
from Bush seniors arab oilfriends from his
afgan hide out to be the 9.11. master from hi
D Khalezov, Bollyn, Gordon Duff + hundreds
of others . but they dont read investigators since
all Whitehouse news are truth like lone gun
Oswald + all others are conspiration theorists lies .
are antijudas + theorists terrorists ?
As “alternatives” that you hear about usually are, afd does seem to be controlled opposition. Rather like Elon Musk throwing a Roman salute, or Tucker Carson. Let’s have the NSDAP!
@ Tony O’Neill .. Excellent comment, nailed it!