{ "name": "(2) Victor Davis Hanson: Germany’s Descent From ‘Europe’s Powerhouse’ to ‘National Suicide’ - YouTube", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZoRLmcbnQ", "youtube": { "title": "Victor Davis Hanson: Germany’s Descent From ‘Europe’s Powerhouse’ to ‘National Suicide’", "description": "Last week, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency classified the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), which came in second in the recent federal elections, as ...", "subtitles": "Recently, the German government announced that is going to label the alternative for Deutseland as a dangerous far-right organization that will cement that no government will ask them to join to form a majority government. For years, Germany was the powerhouse, the cohesive economic power that kept the EU together. If you look at what has become of Germany, it has had 2 years of essentially no growth or negative growth. that the reaction to needed reform, economic, political, social, cultural, military, diplomatic, is not to ban a political party's freedom of expression. When one party is advocating much of what I just talked about, they demonize it because it's out of the norm. And the norm, unfortunately, in Germany today is national suicide. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. Recently uh the German government announced that is going to label or maybe relabel the alternative for Deutseland the alternative for Ger Germany the conservative party that has a antithetical agenda both to the German government of both liberal and conservative factions but also to the EU in general. Anyway, it is announced that it will classify it as a dangerous far-right organization and that will cement this or aura that no government under their parliamentary democracy system will ask them to join to form a majority government. So the process of ostri ostracism and demonization of this party continues. And what is the party advocating? The party is advocating an alternative for the way that Germany is going. And very briefly, we've talked about this, but if you look at what has become of Germany, it has had 2 years of essentially no growth or negative growth. Only recently, last year, did it finally, after 30 years, invest a measly 2% of its GDP as it had promised in 2014. It had not met that goal. It just barely did it. It's had uh a systematic decommission of its nuclear power plants and how anybody could rely on solar power in Germany. But yet the German government invested heavily in it. And the result is that German power electricity is about heating, cooling, uh and industrial uses about four times what the average power cost is in the United States. You can see what that's going to do to German investment. They had been also sort of non-committal about Chinese mercantileism because Germany remember 10 years ago, 8 years ago started to get uh massive exportation to China for things like cars, especially EVs and uh solar panels and industrial equipment. And they didn't quite think that China was going to do to them what China had done to us a decade earlier. is invite in a c a country to supply them with quality goods and plants in China and be very profitable. As the Chinese mastered that craft, mastered that industry, both this material side of production and the bureaucratic and corporate management. And when China did that, they began to create German-like EVs, German-like solar panels at a much less cost. and then started to export it and ruin much of Germany's export market. What am I getting at? Germany in terms of power, in terms of a border that has been open, in terms of about 16 to 18% of the population that was not born in Germany and is not fully assimilated. These are refugees or I don't think they're refugees. They're illegal immigrants from the volatile Middle East. Most of them are Muslim. Most of them do not have an intention of assimilating, intermaring, and integrating fully in German society. You add all this up, and I'm not being critical. It's very tragic because for years, Germany was the powerhouse, the cohesive economic power that kept the EU together. And during the Cold War, it fielded one of the best NATO armies, West Germany, well over 400,000 troops. It's almost literally disarmed. it cannot fulfill even its meager commitments to help Ukraine. And out of this tension, if it was a normal democratic society, you would have a variety of vocal opponents, proponents, give and take, ying and yang, and there would be a lively mixup and they would come to a consensus that these were the masters of nuclear power. 20 years ago, German physicists were the top in the world, nuclear physicists. They would start investing again in nuclear power. They would start up natural gas uh generation. Wind and solar would be integral but a small part because they would need reliable cheap energy to compete on the world market. They would join the United States and look at China and say this is intolerable this system of mercantileism. They would close their borders. They would go to an assimilationist model and require immigrants that came legally to fully become Germans. They would do all of that. But instead, when one party is advocating much of what I just talked about, they demonize it because it's out of the norm. And the norm, unfortunately, to German uh in Germany today is national suicide. Unfortunately, this is not going to end well for Germany and it's not going to end well for us. We need a powerful, friendly Germany and we wish it well. But the reaction to needed reform, economic, political, social, cultural, military, diplomatic, is not to ban essentially ban a political party's freedom of expression. That shows weakness and fear rather than confidence in the future. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victoransson.com and subscribe for exclusive features. 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