20260711 Deutschland neutral!

11.07.2026 Deutschland neutral!

Germany neutral!

This spring, the book “Deutschand neutral” by Uli Gellermann, Arnulf Rating, Jens Fischer Rodrian, and others was published. We’ve now read it, and it has provided us with some new insights, as it approaches the topic not only from a political perspective but — thanks to its many authors — also from economic, historical, psychological, and human angles. We can only touch on a few key topics here without going into depth. It’s definitely worth reading for yourself if we don’t want to keep letting ourselves be steered further and further toward a Third World War.

political (I)

According to prevailing opinion, the Federal Republic of Germany reportedly regained its sovereignty with the Two Plus Four Treaty of September 12, 1990. However, its NATO membership and ongoing structured cooperation within the EU (PESCO) contradict this. Can a country with eleven massive U.S. military bases, more than 35,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany at any given time, and U.S. nuclear weapons deployed there really be considered sovereign?
political (II)
Germany, from which war should never again originate, participated in the bombing of Yugoslavia alongside NATO in 1999, even though there was no case for collective defense under the NATO Treaty.
In Afghanistan, the Federal Republic of Germany participated for 20 years — at a cost of about 50 billion euros — in the U.S. war that violated international law, only to then simply withdraw and leave the country to its fate.
political (III)
The examples of Austria (neutral since 1955) and Switzerland (for 500 years) as neutral states show that there is another way.
economic (I)
The “unlimited” incurring of debt for the Bundeswehr contradicts Article 115a of the Basic Law.
Economy (II)
The U.S. president is dictating German foreign policy by announcing that Nord Stream II will not go into operation. Europe must not bow to U.S. pressure https://www.a-fsa.de/de/articles/7919-20220208-europa-darf-sich-us-druck-nicht-beugen.html
When alleged Ukrainian terrorists blow up the pipeline, inflicting severe damage on the European economy, politicians and the media barely react. Instead, we are now clinging even more tightly to the coattails of the U.S. and buying expensive, dirty fracking gas. An attack on the EU https://www.a-fsa.de/de/articles/8163-20221001-anschlag-auf-die-eu.html
historical (I)
The Heartland Theory of 1904 calls on U.S. policy to prevent a Eurasian alliance — that is, to prevent close ties between European states (the Central Powers) and Russia. After 1945, Germany was required to integrate itself into the U.S. alliance system. Current examples include Operation Plan Germany (OPLAN), the pressure to engage in disproportionate rearmament (a fourfold increase in the defense budget compared to 2020), and the deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles, or, more recently, Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Historical (II)
Before the treaties establishing a European Defense Community (EDC) were to be signed in May 1952, on March 10, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko presented the Western powers with a paper proposing a solution to the German question. In it, Stalin offered the Western powers the reunification of Germany through free elections, provided the state committed to neutrality. Soviet troops were to be withdrawn from the GDR. The CDU refused to discuss the matter, while Jakob Kaiser, Minister for Pan-German Affairs, and Paul Seether, editor of the *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*, recommended that it be given serious consideration.
Human Rights
We are currently witnessing serious infringements on personal freedom and violations of freedom of expression in Germany and other EU states, even though these freedoms are expressly guaranteed in both the European Convention on Human Rights and the German Basic Law.
e.g., Can the Federal Constitutional Court save Maja T.? https://www.a-fsa.de/de/articles/9078-20250302-kann-bverfg-maja-t-retten.html
Sanctions Against People https://www.a-fsa.de/de/ articles/9500-20260414-sanctions-against-people.html
Rapprochement
While the CDU ran the campaign slogan “All roads of Marxism lead to Moscow” during the 1953 election campaign, Brandt successfully pursued a policy of “change through rapprochement” and “we want to be a nation of good neighbors” in 1963. This approach still worked in 1969 after the Warsaw Pact’s invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Uwe Soukop cites another example in the book: Neutrality means peaceful coexistence, exchange, and trade. The Federal Republic of Germany put this into practice by supplying the pipes for the Druzhba gas pipeline — a win-win situation for both sides.

Many other points are addressed in the book, ranging from anecdotes — such as Werner Rügemer’s essay “When Jack McCloy Founded the Federal Republic of Germany with Adenauer” — to psychological questions, such as the three psychological stages of human development from child to adolescent to adult, and whether violence between people is a normal state of affairs or is generated by economic dependence. The “Bathrobe Conference” leading up to the signing of the 2+4 Treaty is also a topic, but we have already covered it in detail in our review of the book “Not One Step Further East” Not One Step to the East.

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