{"id":93275,"date":"2025-02-16T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=93275"},"modified":"2025-02-16T06:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T14:49:46","slug":"friedrich-merz-says-he-wants-germany-to-lead-all-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/friedrich-merz-says-he-wants-germany-to-lead-all-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedrich Merz says he wants Germany to lead all of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deutsche Welle<\/em> wrote that “Friedrich Merz is the frontrunner to become Germany\u2019s next leader after February\u2019s elections” (01\/24\/25 https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/friedrich-merz-what-to-expect-from-germanys-likely-next-leader\/audio-71403615<\/a>)<\/p>\n

EuroNews<\/em> reported the following related to him:<\/p>\n

16 February 2025<\/p>\n

”I’m hearing from the one-on-ones and the meetings here at the conference that there is a lack of German leadership within the European Union, and I fully agree with those who are demanding leadership from Germany, and frankly I’m willing to do that because I’m seeing that Germany is in a strategic position at the centre of Europe; that so many things in Europe depends on Germany,\u201d Friedrich Merz told a panel discussion on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Context: The leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is widely tipped to be the next German Chancellor following elections to be held on February 23. https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/02\/16\/munich-security-conference-here-are-the-7-quotes-you-need-to-remember<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that he wants Germany to lead Europe, he is expected to become Germany’s next chancellor, and he is pointing to himself to be the leader for Europe.<\/p>\n

Consider something that happened in Germany a while back:<\/p>\n

December 16, 2022<\/p>\n

Germany \u2014 is facing its own internal right-wing threat, as was made clear last week when German police arrested more than two dozen right-wing extremists plotting to violently overthrow the government. …<\/p>\n

In Germany, the plotters who were arrested belong to the Reich Citizens’ Movement (Reichsb\u00fcrgerbewegung), a loose-knit group of right-wing German radicals who believe the existing German government is illegitimate and needs to be replaced by a new and distinctly authoritarian “Reich.” Although details about the group’s plans are still emerging, press reports have breathlessly announced that Germany dodged a bullet and only just “averted … a Fourth Reich.” Others have noted with relief that plans to “reinstall a Fourth Reich” had been defeated with the arrest of the Reichsb\u00fcrger movement’s ringleader, the German aristocrat and “would-be leader of the Fourth Reich,” Prince Heinrich XIII from the House of Reuss in the state of Thuringia. …<\/p>\n

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The proliferation of references to a Fourth Reich is hardly new, though it is newly intense and widespread. Originally, the concept was coined by opponents of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, who sought to herald the vision of a fourth successor Reich as a democratic alternative to Nazism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After World War II, however, the concept was reappropriated by unrepentant Nazis who hoped to recreate the authoritarian spirit of the Third Reich. Simultaneously, Western democracies used the concept of a Fourth Reich in admonitory fashion to warn against the possible postwar resurgence of Nazism. This history shows why it is critical to take those actors who seek to bring about a Fourth Reich seriously. https:\/\/www.phillytrib.com\/commentary\/its-important-to-take-those-calling-for-a-fourth-reich-seriously\/article_cceb0f80-866f-54ba-aab1-aa2816658d23.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While many look at Europe as a democracy and do not see it as having much military clout, the reality is that things can change quickly.<\/p>\n

For one example, France called for an emergency meeting to take place tomorrow because of comments and positions from the Trump-Vance Administration, including because of comments made by JD Vance on Friday:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Updated 16 February 2025<\/p>\n