Foolish Hetz-Tweet against Trump and AfD: Now Stegner goes completely crazy
July 21, 2019 focus, domestic 111 comments
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Kiel - Ralf "Pöbel-Ralle" Stegner, SPD party vice and among Germany's top politicians one of the most populist Twitter users ever, just seems to undergo a change: mere verbal low blows are no longer enough for him, now he is trying in flawless baiting. In a single tweet, he succeeded on Friday evening, not only to insult US President Trump the worst, but equal to call the entire AfD as "right-wing radical".
If there is a public figure who urgently needs to be examined for mental sanity, then it is undoubtedly the Schleswig-Holstein Social Democrat with grumpy, persistent facial expressions. Donald Trump is the president of Germany's most important economic and security partner, the US military whose military presence in the Federal Republic was not only a prerequisite for Klein-Stegner not having to grow up in the brown shirt, but also enabled Germany to pursue a completely democratizing demilitarization policy , which was mainly welcomed and operated by its SPD. This cheaply-comfortable German "antimilitarism", in the safe slipstream of American deterrence, seamlessly runs like a red thread through recent history, from the peace movement to the abolition of conscription to the continued breaking of NATO treaty obligations, an armaments budget of at least 2 Percent of GDP.
Anti-Americanism and trump-bashing
On the other hand, left-green contemporaries and resentful toddlers moan about the hated USA whenever they have a chance and try to gain cheap sympathy through clumsy anti-Americanism. Ever since Donald Trump took office, this scam has increased considerably. And the more objectively successful the policy of the president is, the more of his political goals are implemented and work, the more frothy his German "critics", better: Hater. Trump-bashing is acceptable, since Merkel's Harvard honorary doctorate and her derisive allusions in hardly a politician's speech are missing. And even for the once conservative or reputable media of the country, stupid jokes at Trump's expense and inappropriate, distorted messages are nothing out of the ordinary.
However, what Stegner writes in his tweeting yesterday really gets every barrel out of the woods. He calls Trump "racist," a "notorious liar," "boastful," and "intellectually deprived millionaire." In a half sentence, he leads then, completely confused, over to German domestic policy and babbles something of the "right-wing AfD" as "the largest opposition." These are serious, vicious and clearly justifiable calumnies, which are cut out quite nonchalantly here. And: It is flawless baiting, as baiting clear was rarely to read.
If only a few decades ago a German political leader had expressed his opinion about Germany's closest ally, not only would a huge diplomatic scandal have been the result, but the security and existence of the Federal Republic would probably have been jeopardized. Such an affront to the US during the Cold War may even have been considered as treason or high treason; In any case, the responsible person would have been politically settled for all time - and rightly so. Today, such as Stegner for his abusive Verbalinjurien tons of hearts and ecstatic likes of party friends, quite apart from the numerous approving comments of like-minded.
Formerly a Casus Belli
Going farther back, 120 years ago, such a remark about the leader of another state - even if it were not public - would undoubtedly provoke even a military reaction. Is Stegner in the end exactly why? Does he want to incite to a war with the USA? After the Mueller report and all the impeachment fantasies of Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez did not work out, was the German armed forces supposed to crash Trump in the end? Or does Stegner want to do his utmost to ensure that Trump finally realizes his threats and completely withdraws the US forces from Germany, so that the country will be a ripe fruit for its enemies in future conflicts - such as a not-to-be-missed renewed Russian expansion among future Kremlin rulers falls in the lap? In reality, Germany could not even protect itself against the army of a dwarf state todayPoland is more than grateful for every GI stationed there. And the SPD can well do without the votes of the 80,000 German civilian employees in the local US armed forces and their families, given their election results.
It's about time that his own party Stegner mutes - at least on Twitter. In the self-interest and in the unconditional interest of Germany. (DM)
