ISRAEL, IRAN, GERMANY/ “Merz, how dangerous is a BlackRock ‘spokesman’ elected chancellor”
"Israel does our dirty work," German Chancellor Merz said the other day, referring to Iran. But indignation is growing in Germany
The latest from the Chancellor on behalf of BlackRock . “Israel does the dirty work for us.” Who knows what Merz means by “us,” even putting “all” in front of it. “All of us” who? Perhaps he is referring to the Bilderberg Club , which is meeting right now, behind closed doors, in Stockholm, to take stock of the future of the world?
The “we”, ordinary people here in the Federal Republic as well, certainly refers to his other statement: “We are considering participation in the military campaign against Iran ”. The decisions that matter are made by the exclusive club of neoliberal billionaires, but the cannon fodder is all of “us”, precisely.
Germany, like Italy, has “repudiated” war, at least in theory and until different orders arrive. The Federal Constitution, in art. 26, provides for war only in a defensive form and excludes any act that disturbs peace between nations.
The memory of the last two world wars is still very much alive and it is not clear why the Bundeswehr (the federal army, ed. ) should lend a hand in eliminating the Ayatollah regime, much less from the perspective of a "preventive war", a perspective contrary to every form of international law: I attack first because you could attack me.
Merz is scary, much more than the ultra-diplomatic Scholz , precisely because he acts as if war were a constant possibility to resolve international disputes. It is no coincidence that some members of the SPD have asked to return to dialogue with Russia. These are over one hundred members of the party – including leading figures such as Ralf Stegner , Rolf Mützenich , Norbert Walter Borjans and Hans Eichel – who have signed a manifesto calling for a radical change in German foreign and security policy.
The document denounces the growing militarization, the alarmist rhetoric as a source of destabilization between NATO and Russia and the increase in military spending, up to 5% of GDP . The signatories propose a resumption of diplomatic dialogue with Moscow, along the lines of the Ostpolitik of the SPD of the 1970s, in opposition to the hard line embodied by Merz. The SPD is a government ally of Merz's CDU-CSU , whose latest statements on Iran will certainly not facilitate the internal dialogue within the coalition.
Beyond the parliamentary debates, then, there are “us”, “all of us”, ordinary people, who sometimes still remember that Germany has had enough of war in the last century. There is no great desire to end up in ashes for the interests of “them”. We do not need a new “Operation Barbarossa”, neither in Ukraine nor in Iran .
As a child, at school, we read some verses by Brecht , always current: “Great Carthage waged three wars. After the first it was still a great power; after the second it was still habitable; after the third there was no longer any trace of it”. And Carthage is us.
Incidentally, Rome – that warmongering Rome – did not have a happy ending either: empires pass. There is a reason why “ Nothing is lost with peace . Everything can be lost with war” ( Pius XII , on the threshold of the Second World War) and it is a reason that is always relevant.
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