Following the victory of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, United States President Donald Trump posted the results on Truth Social. Like Trump, many conservatives in America celebrated the victory without understanding the anti-American spirit of the party.

PJ Media published an article belittling the mainstream media’s denunciation of the AfD as far-right and its comparisons with the Nazis. Elon Musk welcomed the results in a post on X writing, “Gut gemacht!” (“Well done!”). The Conservative Tree House celebrated the AfD victory on September 6:

The AfD platform nationally is very simple: Normalization of German-Russian relations, a halt to all immigration, the recommissioning of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines and an exit from the European Union. In short, a return to sovereignty and economic common sense.

One of the AfD’s core stances is for Germany to become sovereign. But what does that mean? Germany lost its sovereignty after World War ii and regained it as a whole after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Yet many in the AfD claim Germany still lacks sovereignty. They blame Germany’s problems on the fact that Germany cannot decide its own policies and is beholden to foreign forces.

Perhaps conservatives think the AfD wants sovereignty from the EU. But Germany virtually controls the EU. If anything, it has been forcing its will on the EU. So what foreign forces allegedly control Germany? The AfD’s answer may shock some Americans.

Germany a ‘Slave’ to the U.S.?

On September 3, in the election campaign for the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Thuringia’s AfD leader Björn Höcke said:

These are people who get their orders and, like puppets on a stage, carry out whatever the people behind the scenes tell them to do—that’s how it is, isn’t it? … That’s [German Chancellor] Friedrich Merz—this man is quite obviously being controlled from afar and acting as a puppet. Friedrich Merz has made millions by plundering the German economy for [American asset management company] Blackrock. …

We have a chancellor who does not prioritize the interests of his own people, but rather the interests of some behind-the-scenes powers, of some economic forces, of trans-Atlantic networks in which he was socialized. That is the fundamental problem of the Federal Republic of Germany, friends: We are governed by politicians controlled by outside forces, who were socialized within trans-Atlantic networks against Germany’s interests, who were then ‘cast’—like Annalena Baerbock, Macron, Trudeau and Kurz—only to be thrust in front of the peoples of Europe. And in the end, politics always ends up aligning with the military-industrial complex—and that has to stop! We want popular sovereignty, not the sovereignty of some super-rich elite!

Saying that trans-Atlantic networks control Germany’s leaders is another way of saying that the Americans who defeated Nazi Germany still rule over it.

In 2024, Germany’s Welt interviewed Tobias Jaecker, a communications scholar and journalist who earned his doctorate with a dissertation on anti-Americanism in the German Media:

Welt: In 2022, Björn Höcke claimed that Russia was defending itself in Ukraine against U.S. ambitions for power. Using the terminology of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, the AfD politician referred to the U.S. as a “foreign power.” How widespread is this view within the AfD?

Jaecker: The AfD is an anti-American party. AfD Honorary Chairman Alexander Gauland described Americans years ago as a motley crew whose “egalitarian-multicultural” and “traditionless” policies do not fit with Europe. The AfD advocates protectionism and opposition to globalization—and for them, globalization is synonymous with “Americanization.” The party’s lead candidate for the European Parliament, Maximilian Krah, argues that the EU must no longer be a “vassal of the Americans.” Behind this lies an illiberal notion: Russia as a bulwark against the “woke West.”

Welt: Petr Bystron, the foreign policy spokesperson for the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, called for a “sovereign Germany” that would assert German interests against the U.S. Is this about nationalism?

Jaecker: That plays a major role in right-wing extremism. Jürgen Elsässer, editor of the far-right magazine Compact, claims that the U.S. is occupying Germany: He considers the U.S. Air Force base at Ramstein to be “the most brazen symbol of U.S. foreign rule over Germany.” The goal is to break free from U.S. influence and bring an end to the postwar era, which began with the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany.

The top leaders of the AfD share this sentiment.

Just before President Trump’s inauguration, the American Conservative pointed to AfD coleader Tino Chrupalla’s claim that Germany is being forced to do “America’s bidding” and that the nato alliance is not in Europe’s interest.

The paper confronted party chair Alice Weidel with the following facts: “In reality though, we have seen, on one hand, that most Americans are unwilling to further involve the U.S. or to fund the war in Ukraine, and on the other, that most Europeans, from the Baltics to Poland to Britain and France, as well as the EU superstructure, want more support for Ukraine.” Since then, this has proven even more true. The U.S. administration has gradually withdrawn support for Ukraine, while Germany pressed every effort to prolong the war and test its weaponry.

In the interview, Weidel admitted that “the eternal battle between expansionists and isolationists” inside America makes it hard to comprehend the U.S. strategy and what it expects of Germany. But she pointed to one example to prove that Germany remains “a slave” to America: Germany’s energy policy. Both Republicans and Democrats in America have criticized its relations with Russia and the Nord Stream gas pipelines in particular. Weidel said:

What kind of wild anger did the construction of Nord Stream ignite on the American side? How dare we. We all still have the images in our minds of President Joe Biden publicly humiliating Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an unspeakable way over Nord Stream.

Well, then Nord Stream was eliminated in an act of war. The current German federal government’s fear of not pointing the finger at the attacker under any circumstances says it all. Is this what the U.S. wants? Germany as a colony? A colony that doesn’t have the right to decide about its own energy policy? A nation that does not have the right to follow its own path, wherever it may lead? The U.S. can do all this as the shining winner of history. But then they have to want it too, they have to say it too, so that we can adapt to it.

The AfD has spread the allegation that the U.S. destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline that connected Germany directly to Russian gas supplies. But Weidel took it a step further and portrayed it as evidence that the U.S. treats Germany as a slave or a colony.

The AfD has a clear stance here. A sovereign Germany needs to be able to make its own policies—and if these policies favor Russia over the U.S. so be it. But right now, she claimed, Germany is not free:

Because we Germans are a defeated people. “Anything that has lost its independence has at the same time lost the ability to intervene in the flow of time and to freely determine its content,” describes the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Such people “from now on no longer have any time of their own, but count their years according to the events and periods of foreign nations and empires.” We Germans have lived in this situation for a long time, definitely to the advantage of the U.S. But we as individuals also benefited from it, I won’t deny that.

Being a slave also has advantages. It is the noblest right of a servant not to take part in his master’s battles, but to enjoy peace. But the U.S. leadership doesn’t like that either. The many wars of the last 30 years, in Europe, in the Middle East, we were expected to participate in all of them at the request of the U.S. But why should we? We no longer have to fight wars, we already said goodbye to history. Due to that, we have disfigured our military beyond recognition.

That’s an audacious claim. This presents America as the number one warmonger of the world. But it was actually Germany that pulled the U.S. into bombing Germany’s World War ii enemy Serbia in the 1990s, as Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explains in Germany’s Conquest of the Balkans.

Germany’s involvement in that war is one of the strongest proofs of Germany’s independence and sway over America—not vice versa. The AfD does not understand this history or purposely misrepresents it.

Weidel continued:

[T]he U.S. has to know what world they want to live in. Because if it has to be an empire, then you need to fight for it yourself, sacrifice your blood and goods. Don’t expect the unfree to take over this fight for you. This is impossible. There will be no such thing. A slave who fights will invariably demand freedom as a reward. But freedom also means that people will go their own way and seek their own happiness. If they don’t, they are slaves. And slaves don’t fight. Don’t accuse them of that.

Therefore, when President Donald Trump demands that Germany must take responsibility for its own security in the future, he should also be clear about the full consequences. That we will listen kindly to his concerns about Nord Stream and our energy supply, but that we will make our own decisions and he must accept them, whether he likes them or not. We Germans have lost this spirit of freedom … .

Many in the Trump administration see the AfD as their only partner inside Germany—but they are far from friends. They hate American foreign policy. They demand American isolationism.

In January, the AfD criticized Trump’s foreign policy regarding Venezuela and Greenland. Weidel said at the time: “Donald Trump has broken a fundamental campaign promise—namely, not to interfere in other countries.” Chrupalla added: “It is clear that Wild West methods must be rejected.”

The Trump administration seems unconcerned about this rising anti-Americanism. Many of them also want isolationism.

It seems the European establishment is more alert to the danger posed by this party than American conservatives are. At least they condemn the AfD and have so far ruled out cooperation with it.

But these established parties aren’t the angels of light that they appear to be. They operate with a level of deceit that even the far-right parties do not seem to understand.

A Hidden Agenda

In “The EU’s Hidden Agenda” in the May 2000 Trumpet, Mr. Flurry wrote about the EU’s opposition to Austria’s far right:

Jörg Haider’s political party recently became the second-most powerful party in Europe. They comprise one half of the Austrian cabinet. Mr. Haider has openly expressed his Nazi and fascist views to the world. Now he has been forced from office by the EU, and his country has no political power as a member.

On the surface, his being ousted looks good. It appears that the EU will not support anybody with Nazi or fascist views. And that is a dangerous deceit!

Mr. Haider’s problem is, he doesn’t understand that the war of treaties has replaced the bombs and bullets warfare—for the present time!

The Holy Roman Empire is winning today with deceitful treaties. But when treaties are no longer necessary, then they will use their bombs and bullets. Their policy of extreme deceit will remain the same. This is what they have routinely done for almost 2,000 years! They just do it better today.

Germany isn’t beholden to the U.S. It only pretends to be to betray its supposed friends in the future. This betrayal is prophesied in Ezekiel 23 and other biblical passages. If American conservatives can not even see the blatant anti-Americanism in the AfD, how can they detect this deeper deceit?

The best example of Germany’s sovereignty and secret actions against America is its operation in the Balkans, as Mr. Flurry explains in Germany’s Conquest of the Balkans (free upon request).

The time will come when the open hatred toward America and the deadly deceit of Europe’s elite will merge. That’s why the AfD’s rising popularity should serve as a warning to America today.