Germany Is Uniting ‘Middle Powers’ Against America

At the height of the Greenland crisis in January, days after several European nations sent a small contingent of troops to the island to deter a United States invasion, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a new global order at the World Economic Forum on January 20.

He suggested middle powers, nations that have large economies and respectable militaries yet are weak in comparison to superpowers such as the U.S. and China, unite and stand up against the hegemons.

He warned that the old, U.S.-led global order, marked by upholding international law and security guarantees, is going through a “rupture, not a transition.”

“When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself,” Carney said.

This was days after the Trump administration threatened to tariff several European nations for supporting Denmark’s stance on Greenland.

Carney told the middle powers they “must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” He essentially called the American rules-based order a lie that only works so long as middle powers go along with it.

While Carney is the most vocal proponent of this strategy, Europe has also been driving its realization.

In an October visit to build deeper alliances with Asian middle powers, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz echoed Carney’s speech, telling a Japanese audience: “If we move forward together, the question will no longer be whether we are ‘on the menu’ or ‘sitting at the table.’ Because in that case, the restaurant itself belongs to us.”

In other words, he wants to build a trade alliance that can call the shots in global trade.

Merz even echoed Carney’s comment on the old order suffering a rupture. “We are on the threshold of a new era,” he said. “We are witnessing how the major powers are pursuing a new policy and how international rules are eroding.”

In a speech delivered at the 30th Ibero-American Summit, an annual meeting between the leaders of Spain, Portugal and Latin America, in Madrid last week, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called on South America to deepen its relationship with the EU as the trade policies of superpowers become increasingly closed off and coercive. He cited Canada as an example for doing so.

Carney Bows Before the EU

When middle powers unite, they can stand against or even overthrow superpowers. Consider the EU’s power potential.

Carney knows that an alliance without the EU cannot succeed. That’s why he’s been cozying up to it.

From October 29 to 30, Carney hosted EU leaders at the 21st Canada-EU summit in Montreal. The summit led to announcements ranging from closer cooperation in space, specifically satellite constellations, to trade to critical minerals.

According to the prime minister’s office, the two launched the “alliance for the future,” which it defines as “a new partnership of nations that will leverage the strategic capabilities of Canada, the EU and a variable geometry of like-minded nations to address common issues.”

Carney stated that Canada is working with the EU to build “the deepest possible partnership.” He hopes that by June the terms of an “associate membership” will be determined.

This is a partnership born of anti-American sentiment.

To explain his reasoning for bolstering partnership with the EU on computing and artificial intelligence, Carney said he doesn’t want “the future of AI to be decided somewhere else by those we don’t know or by whom we don’t trust.”

The U.S. and China are currently the biggest leaders in AI. Carney is implying that he no longer trusts America. He is turning to the EU instead, which is where he expects the new global order to rise from. Carney was the first non-EU leader at the European Political Community Summit in May.

In many ways, the future of trade revolves around AI. And these middle powers are trying to block the U.S. out of it.

Germany, the main power behind the EU, is also taking action to build a new order by partnering with like-minded middle powers—united by a shared disdain for the U.S.

Germany Picks Up the Mantle

Armed with Carney’s middle power sentiment, Chancellor Merz has been busy reaching out for new middle power partners this year.

Most recently, at the end of October, Merz went on a five-day trip to Singapore, Japan and South Korea.

While in Singapore, he called for closer economic partnership between Europe and Asian middle powers. Specifically, he proposed deeper cooperation between the European Union and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (cptpp).

The cptpp is a trade agreement between Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom (the United States withdrew in 2017). Should Europe join this alliance, as Merz advocated for under the guise of allying with other middle powers, this non-American bloc would represent a third of global trade.

It’s a good start for a country aiming to lead global trade.

While in Singapore, Merz announced his country’s long-term goal was to sign a free-trade agreement between the EU and the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Europe and Asia can build a “new stable trade order,” he said, that is better equipped to “respond in a coordinated manner to violations of free and fair trade,” a slight against recent American trade policies.

If the EU, Japan and South Korea work together, Merz claims they could become comparable to the U.S. in “knowledge, capacities, capabilities.”

According to Politico, while visiting Japan and South Korea, Merz called for a “global political alliance for rules-based trade.”

In Japan, he called for the formation of an alliance of “like-minded partners” to ensure rules-based trade and to “present a united front” before any “economic coercion” from others.

He met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who referred to the nations as “premium partners.” In a joint statement, they “expressed their deep concern about the growing use of economic coercion, for example through arbitrary export restrictions,” and “retaliatory measures affecting critical raw materials,” most likely referring to China.

Tariffs, which the Trump administration has become known for, are a common form of economic coercion.

Such a comment, again, shows this alliance of middle powers has an opponent in mind.

Germany also deepened ties with middle powers in the Gulf states this year. On September 10, the United Arab Emirates committed to investing $47 billion in Germany over an unspecified period after a meeting between the nation’s leaders in Berlin as part of U.A.E. President Shiekh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan’s two-day visit.

They also noted that as the world becomes more volatile, the importance of “reliable, like-minded partners” is growing. They added that they are determined to “stand together in defense of the international order.”

In February, Merz also went on a three-day tour of the Gulf states, the first visit by a German chancellor since 2022.

Former German Defense Minister Karl Theodor zu-Guttenberg, whom the Trumpet watches closely, echoed Carney in an October 26 episode of his podcast Land in Sicht: “Perhaps new alliances need to take shape—alliances capable of leading the way and presenting solutions so compelling that others are willing to come along.”

He believes that although an alliance of middle powers might not be a good replacement for the old order, “it could serve as a springboard.”

A springboard to what?

A ‘Mart of Nations’

It’s not a big step from building alliances meant to protect against America and the postwar order it built to building an alliance that will be used against America.

These powers are aligning because of a shared disdain for the Trump administration—a shared disdain, ultimately, for the United States.

The Bible prophesied this would happen.

Isaiah 23 prophesies that a great assemblage of powers will besiege the end-time nations of Israel, which include the British Commonwealth (including Canada) and the United States. Verse 13 specifically mentions “the Chaldeans” and the “Assyrians,” prophetic names for Europe and Germany today, will play a role in that siege. Verse 1 mentions China by one of its ancient names: “Chittim.” The “ships of Tarshish” in verse 14 are a direct reference to Japan’s naval power that will be used to besiege the American superpower. It also suggests several other middle powers will play a role.

As the Bible prophesies in Ezekiel 5, once these nations mesh together to besiege the U.S., famine and violence will spread across the nation. The U.S. will finally be brought to its knees, completely impoverished. This siege will usher in the worst suffering ever upon the English-speaking countries and, eventually, the world.

The groundwork is being laid to usher in the horrifying events described in Ezekiel 5. For more information, read “Germany Unites the World Against America.“