In the end, everything will have to end as before… rewriting history, absolving the criminals, and imprisoning the victims.

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There are moments in History when the impression of déjà-vu is so strong that the smell of mothballs from stored uniforms and rotting combat rations comes to our nose, both waiting for better days when memory does not survive time or when, surviving, the induced oblivion is so overwhelming that whoever remembers risks seeming more insane than wise. Those who remember more than the obvious present are regularly treated as liars.

Some say history repeats itself; others say it doesn’t. Perhaps both are right, since it doesn’t repeat in the same way, but the fundamental variables of human history behave cyclically and, in that sense, operate a kind of repetition of material contexts, which results from the fact that, in each social context, in each historical epoch, the fundamental constituents of the movement are the same, identical, repeating, only incorporating different garments. The same body, different clothes.

That is precisely why this era seems so much like another from 100 years ago. The differences are more than many, as much has changed – and improved since then – but, 100 years later, with the civilizational leap intended by those who fought for the overthrow of capitalism in the West having failed, we are confronted, again and repeatedly, with the same type of problems.

100 years later, the same actors, the same traitors

A Germany in deep crisis, grappling with the results of a war that stripped it of the competitive advantages that its proximity to the Russian Federation – and before that to the USSR – presupposed, such as cheap energy, which moves everything; a centralized, centralizing, and monolithic party system, in deep ideological crisis and, therefore, incapable of proposing a development project that doesn’t involve more of the same; a social democracy (SPD) historically defeated, dragged into conservative immobilism and once again paving the way for the resurgence of reactionarism, chauvinism, and supremacism, just as it had done in the Weimar Republic; all the actors align and repeat with great chronological precision.

Just as yesterday, these same actors also remain incapable of rejecting a reality that, as over a century ago, is also moving at hypersonic speed towards some kind of fascism or dictatorship. All of this was possible to identify in German society at the beginning of the 20th century, as it is today. Also today, progressive movements are repressed, contained, and canceled, which recalls the time when the SPD chose to combat the revolutionary movement and, through the hand of Friedrich Ebert, then general secretary of the party, ordered the repression of the revolutionary uprising, resorting to the Army and the Freikorps (a far-right paramilitary force and, according to many, a precursor to the SS, like Azov in today’s Ukraine), who arrested, tortured, and murdered Rosa Luxemburg, the first general secretary of the Communist Party of Germany, and Karl Liebknecht (both from the Spartacus League).

Yesterday and today, the SPD, as well as the forces that call themselves “moderate,” a euphemism for “cowardly or more or less obscurely committed to class interests opposed to those of the majority,” had a choice to make: either reverse course, which requires a variation, in some cases of 180 degrees, in fundamental policies; or maintain the course of degradation, impoverishment, and dismantling of the social system born from the end of the second war and resulting from the balance of forces that was then established. Instead of opting to change the balance of forces and uniting with those trying to reverse the course of destruction of the social state and, with it, what remains of German democracy, the SPD, once again, 100 years later, opts to unite with what it calls the “center,” a “center” increasingly off-center and closer to the most reactionary right. Saying you defend democracy when you contribute to killing it is no longer enough.

Such behavior, in today’s Germany, will inevitably bring profound and damaging consequences. Peace, the pacifist discourse, once again constitutes the fundamental divisive element between those who fight for the development of living conditions, for progress, for democracy and freedom, and those who act to save the entrenched interests of the oligarchy and aristocracy. Just as Nazi-fascist Germany saw war as its salvation as a nation, the result of a growth logic in which large economic groups bet on the war economy and the arms industry to save their accumulation system, so too today, as 100 years ago, the main German economic groups are aligned with German rearmament, with the industrial reconversion to a war industry, with the end of the social state, freeing up funds for technological investment in a low value-added industry. 100 years ago, social democracy betrayed the German people and workers; today, the SPD historically confirms that betrayal, for those who had doubts about the first one, and does more: by virtue of the existence of a European Union, the SPD gives international effectiveness to its cowardice.

The arms industry is the salvation of the oligarchy

It is no surprise that the German, French, Italian, and Spanish oligarchy wants this path. Unlike an exported car, whose quality competes with the best in the world, in the case of armaments, it’s simple: the private sector makes it, expensive or cheap – especially very expensive – and the state buys it. Thus, the industrial reconversion taking place on European soil, and especially in Germany, is not just the easy way out; it also constitutes a reversal of the direction of the oligarchy’s tentacles: if the tentacles can no longer capture wealth abroad, then they turn inward and plunder the very European, German people. As they do with the North American one.

The rearmament of Germany is, above all, a concession to the oligarchy, a capitulation to its interests. But if the worsening of the exploitation of workers were the only contingency resulting from this process. On the contrary, just as with Nazi-fascist Germany, to rearm, to reconvert, fear is needed. For there to be fear, there must be war. In war, the worker no longer just loses a little of his life every day. Unlike work, with war, the worker loses his children, loses himself.

The numbers do not lie about the real situation in Germany: according to the Federal Statistical Office, the production of the entire industrial sector fell by 4.3% in August, compared to July 2025, and industrial production fell even more sharply, by 5.6%. The industrial decline is directly related, according to the bulletin, to the drop in the automotive sector (6.4%), but also in the computer sector (11.5%), pharmaceuticals (13.5%). Orders for consumer goods fell 10.3% in the same period. According to Allianz Trade and the BDI Industrial Association, the 25,000 insolvencies expected in 2025 make this crisis worse than that of 2008.

Component companies are closing down one after another and although the largest European countries show declines in industrial production, especially since the start of the “special military operation,” Germany is the worst, because, considering 2014 – remember Euromaidan and the start of sanctions against Russia – its industrial production is at 95% of what it was that year, still under the damage of the 2008 economic crisis. It is reason to ask, once again, where were, or are, these people’s heads to violate Minsk I and II, boycott Istanbul I and II, decide on the definitive end of cheap Russian energy, and, on top of that, confiscate electronic component companies from China, as happened with Nexperia, which led to factory stoppages in Germany?

The industrial contraction of Germany, with particular acceleration from February 2022, demonstrates that all those who said this was a U.S. war against Germany, by extension, against Europe, were right, and that, by letting itself be dragged into this situation, the EU would not only destroy its economy but also lose the war, the technological race, leaving the way clear for the USA and China. There is abundant literature that predicted everything that is happening, already at the time of the Maidan coup, which the establishment later baptized as a “revolution.” But that’s a different story. The fact is that the European “leadership” not only let us be dragged into this situation but continues to accelerate it. The crisis is so great that they are already considering destroying the entire European financial system, confiscating Russian reserves in Europe, just to have another oxygen balloon to continue sending young Ukrainians to certain death, which they call the “frozen front.”

Merz: a CEO in the service of the large economic groups of the USA and Germany

It is in this context of profound despair that Merz did not hide his intentions, just as Pistorius, Baerbock, or Scholz had barely hidden theirs, whose bellicose discourse had already embarked on assumptions that were unthinkable not long ago. What changed and when it changed, no one can explain very well, but we can all clearly identify that, somewhere during the first two decades of this 21st century, something happened for the Western financial, economic, oligarchic elite to have become frightened and, faced with the fear of losing its foothold, embarked the entire West on a militarist drift, which, being characteristic of the North American governance model, still found some traces of resistance in the EU.

Merz thus seeks the flight forward, an escape that not only responds to the deep German crisis, characterized by a profound impact of energy prices (in February 2022, energy stopped making a positive contribution to growth, starting to drag GDP to the bottom, by the loss of economic competitiveness worldwide, resulting from increased costs with factors of production like energy and the consequent weakening of internal consumption, already visible from mid-2022. The only thing that still drives and constitutes an advantage for German GDP is the supply chain. At the rate that “De-risking” from China is going, we will see how long the positive effect of this driver lasts.

The interesting, tragic, and profoundly enlightening fact hidden behind this process of German rearmament is that it is a direct result of the crisis of despair in which the United States itself finds itself. Strategically thinking and considering the discomfort, to say the least, caused by the existence of a Russian Federation with the contours we know, Washington would have every interest in keeping Germany under its military umbrella, using military dependence as a guarantee of the appropriate behavior of the German state and its political-military alignment. Through this dependence, the USA not only controls the entire EU but also contains France itself, from time to time governed by people jealous of their sovereignty and strategic autonomy.

On the other hand, in the absence of a USSR and having expelled the Russian Federation from any European security governance, the USA would remain as the nation responsible for guaranteeing to the world, at least that world which retains historical memory, that Germany would not again have the conditions to cause another world or large-scale war. The very unification of the two Germanies took place on terms where no security problems for Europe would result from that unification. Unified Germany would remain a peaceful country deeply committed to European construction, at the time, still sold as a project of peace, prosperity, and development.

The relative decline of the USA makes German rearmament attractive

The problem is that the degradation of North American hegemony, as a cause-consequence of the worsening of trade and budget deficits, the emergence of payment methods that challenge the dollar-based system, the growth of BRICS and the loss of economic, social, and political influence in the global south, forces the USA to intensify even more the exploitation of the economic sectors on which such hegemony is based: the military-industrial sector; energy, especially oil and gas; the digital economy and Artificial Intelligence. In these terms, the USA was forced to make Germany an avid buyer of gas and oil, even if, for that, the German economy had to sink.

To make Germany such a buyer, it would be necessary to end Russian supplies, making that country a vital, strategic, and inevitable enemy. Only through such a narrative would it be possible for the German people to consent to the exchange of cheap gas and oil and embark on the more expensive North American offer. Brussels ensured that the transition would not be made through an established exchange between Russian gas and options like nuclear and renewable energy. Instead, Germany destroys and deactivates perfectly functional nuclear power plants. It went so well that the USA even destroyed a German international infrastructure – Nord Stream – and nothing happened, also ensuring with the EU that, through the endless sanction packages, the German state would never again succumb to the temptation of cheap energy.

This exchange for North American hydrocarbons, founded on the Russian threat, sometimes immediate, other times only medium-term, led to the emergence of a bellicose, securitized narrative, which created the space for Germany (and Japan) to be allowed rearmament without limits other than those within the NATO framework. In this sense, the USA, which had previously played this game with tweezers, ended up playing it at high speed.

Although the strategic defense of Atlantic Europe remains entrusted to NATO and the USA, except England and France, the only holders of strategic weaponry like long-range nuclear weapons, the truth is that the USA is risking an equation here that history has already proven dangerous, even to itself. If the permissions granted to Germany, in terms of rearmament, lead to a vast potential for purchases from the USA, on the other hand, the acquisition of military force by the German state can serve as a catalyst for accelerating nationalist and imperialist pretensions, and even if framed in a supposed “Europeanism,” such pretensions may involve the iron domination of the EU itself, with claims of autonomy and independence from the USA itself.

It seems to me that Washington, and the entire structure of soft power at its disposal, is confident that it can control such impetus, contain it, condition it, mitigate it, and even nullify it. But isn’t this exactly what those who supported the Nazi-fascists thought? Aren’t the USA specialists in creating monsters that, later, they have to destroy? It’s true, but it’s also true that the USA always wins in that process. They win when they create the monster, and they win when they destroy it, that being precisely the advantage that keeps them in the game.

Erasing historical memory and affirming the continuity of Germanic identity

As Heinz Abosch said in his book “Where is Germany Going,” still in the 60s of the last century, regarding the intentions, especially, of politicians linked to the CDU “the leaders of the Federal Republic viewed the future according to concepts inherited from the past,” “they conceived the future as a step backward,” thanks to the magical operation of erasing the second world war and its memory “history was invited to start from zero,” skipping over the most uncomfortable pages, but maintaining a logic of continuity.

When we observe the failure of the entire denazification process – which practically only reached subordinate cadres –, of which Abosch also spoke, the subsequent and current whitewashing of Nazi-fascism, whether by its comparison to communism and denial of the USSR’s role in the defeat of Nazi Germany, whether by the historical revisionism operated by the EU and Von Der Leyen when she praises Nazi forces like the Forest Brothers in Lithuania, whether by the inversion of values and events, turning the biggest victim – Russia and the USSR – into an aggressor, whose violence was contained and combated by genocidaires like the 14th Galicia Division, which carried out the Volyn massacre in Poland, what is aimed at is precisely that historical continuity, in which Nazi-fascism was nothing more than a mere hiccup, in which Europe was, instead, assaulted by the forces of Joseph Stalin. Von Der Leyen’s last State of the Union speech does not deceive on this matter.

Under an economic situation that is close to horrendous and in which German dissatisfaction with the Merz government has reached a record disapproval of around 62% and only 28% are satisfied with his actions in which companies continue to cut production, trying to switch from car production to tanks, once again under the active support of the SPD, this is how the rearmament of the ones who caused the second world war becomes plausible. They pretend that the world wars were an accident, especially the Second one. To erase that history, they count on a special little help: that of Zionism. Germany lets the genocide in Gaza pass, swears eternal love to Israel, and Zionism lets pass the feeling of danger that the rearmament of a non-denazified nation could cause it.

After all, the largest country in the EU and one of the largest economies in the world still has enormous borrowing capacity, opening the door to trillion-dollar purchases of F35s, Patriots, and other weapons that the war on Ukrainian soil has continuously proven to be obsolete, but which constitute an important commercial bonus, whose dimension is apt to forgive all past, present, and future crimes. Israel will also come its share of orders. On the other hand, German factories will also not fail to send to Palestine the premium to be paid for this turning a blind eye to something so valuable to the Jewish people: historical memory.

Trillions of euros for the military-industrial complex

An increase in the defense budget to 82.7 billion euros in 2026, representing a 32.5% increase compared to the previous year (62.43 billion euros); the creation of a Special Fund for the Armed Forces of about 25.5 billion euros from the 100 billion euro Special Fund (created after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022) for the Armed Forces (Bundeswehr); adherence to the NATO target that raises Germany’s contribution share to 2.8% of GDP in 2026, with the aim of reaching 3.5% by 2029; a Constitutional Amendment (Relaxation of the Debt Brake to allow this massive increase in Defense spending; the reinforcement of Personnel with the initial creation of 10,000 new military posts and 2,000 civilian ones in 2026; the creation of a total of 20,000 military posts for volunteer soldiers with temporary contracts upon the entry into force of a new bill on military service; and investment in equipment and infrastructure; Merz, his CDU, and the aligned SPD, guarantee a huge bonus for the arms industry and will help appease the most concerned Zionist souls.

Thus, the return of the European sword of Damocles, which constitutes this German rearmament, is a spectacle of cynicism and historical amnesia, making it a complicated issue to face. Those who suffered most from the Holocaust sink into silence before the rearmament of the descendants of their tormentors, allowing everything, without scrutinizing, confirming, or guaranteeing.

A kind of collective Alzheimer’s, for some paid with endless remittances of financial support and armaments, for others caused by endless doses of Chat GPT, a lot of mainstream media, and many alumni projects to ensure that, even the most educated, after all, are nothing but duplicated men. Rheinmetall’s value increased by 1,000% and everyone rejoiced like madmen. Merz said “Germany is back,” but all those who still retain some historical memory could not help but ask, “back from where?” Some persisted, others remained silent, when it would be enough to look more closely at the family past of the main German leaders to question the effective depth of the denazification process.

The Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, the man who says “we will support Ukraine no matter how much it hurts the German people,” a staunch defender of the military upgrade, also announces the return of compulsory military service, if volunteers are few for the new “challenge”. Hearing him talk about Russia reminds one of the speeches of certain historical figures of very bad memory. Saying that he is from the SPD, the party that was that of Marx and Rosa Luxemburg, only confirms what it has become. I hope that 100 years from now, humanity will not be confronted with a “it’s the communists’ fault” again!

One does not need to be very intelligent to understand that Germany has everything it takes to transform into an expensive and wasteful war machine, a magnificent supplier of death and destruction: money to spend, accumulated capital to invest, almost unlimited credit in Wall Street, Frankfurt, and the City of London, qualified labor, installed industrial capacity, a population frightened by migrant invaders, it lacks nothing to start the third world war. The USA, for its part, hopes to emerge unscathed as in all other situations. They also hope, afterward, to announce themselves as winners, rewriting history. At the end of the chaos, they hope to pick up the pieces and reissue the hegemonic success of the last century. Those who cannot see this had better start waking up before the Orcs start raining on the roof.

The social state as an unnecessary cost

Someone has to pay for all this, and it will be all of us and in many ways. The rhetoric has already begun. Merz has already warned that the Social State “can no longer be financed with what we produce”. What Merz does not say is that the diversion of funds to war makes that financing even less possible and difficult. But there is no problem at all, because “defense” is now the “strategic interest”. One of his ministers comes to say that Germans work too little and have to retire later.

Such statements do not deceive! We are facing an overwhelming process of wealth transfer from labor to capital. After the war on terror, the subprime crisis, Covid, the energy transition, now another one of the endless made in EU crises joins them. And saying that they always result in the same way for the European peoples is also unnecessary. The worsening of our living conditions confirms the ultimate truth hidden behind all this: workers are financing with sacrificing their own death. They finance it through their taxes, the fall in wages, the degradation of public services, the worsening of repression and persecution of critical thought, in many and varied ways.

What the EU is doing to the European peoples is very simple: it condemns them to death, gives them a shovel, and tells them to dig their own grave, when they had already bought the shovel, the land, and made the coffin. All the endless funds that are made available to the oligarchy and big capital, resulting in a brutal worsening of inflation, which we all feel from housing to food, will be paid with our labor, will be guaranteed by our blood, sweat, and tears.

Nothing that worries them… In the end, everything will have to end as before… rewriting history, absolving the criminals, and imprisoning the victims!

It is up to us to prevent it!