[[CDU]] leader [[Friedrich Merz]] declared on February 23, 2025 as the snap election results started streaming in that he envisages helping his country "achieve [[independence]]" from the [[US]].
[[CDU]] leader [[Friedrich Merz]] declared on February 23, 2025 as the snap election results started streaming in that he envisages helping his country "achieve [[independence]]" from the [[US]].
{{Cquote|The interventions from [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately outrageous than the interventions we have seen from [[Moscow]]. We are under such massive pressure from two sides that my top priority is to create unity in [[Europe]].<br>My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the [[USA]].<br>I would never have believed that I would have to say something like that on [[television]]. But at the very least, after [[Donald Trump]]'s statements last week, it is clear that the [[American]]s - at least this part of the Americans in this administration - are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe."<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/23/europe/german-election-results-cdu-afd-intl/index.html</ref>}}
{{Cquote|The interventions from [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately outrageous than the interventions we have seen from [[Moscow]]. We are under such massive pressure from two sides that my top priority is to create unity in [[Europe]].<br>My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the [[USA]].<br>I would never have believed that I would have to say something like that on [[television]]. But at the very least, after [[Donald Trump]]'s statements last week, it is clear that the [[American]]s - at least this part of the Americans in this administration - are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe."<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/23/europe/german-election-results-cdu-afd-intl/index.html</ref>}}
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=====What happens if the US provokes war with China?=====
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Will German soldiers then be deployed as a [[proxy]] force in a war with China under the NATO mutual defense clause?<ref>[https://voicefromrussia.ch/en/the-world-and-society-divided-into-good-and-evil/#_edn1 The world and society divided into good and evil], Wolfgang Bittner</ref>