Whom the Gods Would Destroy … Germany Needs a Nuke and Other Follies

July 1—Forget Iran, what about Germany getting the nuclear bomb? That is what current parliamentary leader of the CDU-CSU faction, Jens Spahn, proposed in an interview yesterday with Welt am Sonntag…. “Europe must become capable of deterrence,” said Spahn. “We need to talk about German or European participation in the nuclear arsenals of France and Great Britain, and possibly also about our own participation with other European states,” he said.

Even if this quickly triggers “defensive reflexes,” there needs to be a debate about an “independent European nuclear umbrella,” Spahn insisted. “And that can only work with German leadership.” Russian aggression is creating a whole new threat situation. “Those who cannot deter with nuclear weapons become pawns in world politics.”

Spahn might be motivated by the need to distract public attention from a report, published in the latest days, on how money was spent procuring very expensive masks during Covid, when Spahn was Health Minister.

However, his Dr. Strangelove-like proposal has already spurred a polarized debate. While he was criticized by SPD coalition partners, he got approval from the AfD. In fact,the AfD Defense speaker Rüdiger Lucassen outdid Spahn. Nuclear sharing of American nuclear weapons is [now] in question, and there will be no participation in French or British nuclear weapons, he said. “A German nuclear weapons program is, therefore, the logical consequence.”

Meanwhile, the German government coalition keeps losing the moral fitness to survive. After having elected a lame-duck leader, in the person of Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil, with only 65% of the votes, as reported here yesterday, the SPD Party Congress voted a resolution to initiate legal procedures to ban the AfD, the main opposition party.

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt was in Israel June 29, to deepen cooperation with the Netanyahu government, while Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul was in Kiev June 30 accompanied by representatives of the military industrial complex war machine, to discuss joint ventures. Remember that in February 2025, Wadephul was contacted by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who pretended to be calling on behalf of Ukraine’s Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak. In the 20-minute call, Wadephul openly supported the idea of letting Kiev use Germany’s Taurus cruise missiles to strike Moscow, and said that “Russia is and will always be our enemy, no matter how the war in Ukraine ends.”

To conclude the picture of the day, it was announced that the new German ambassador to the Vatican is Bruno Kahl, currently head of the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency. Kahl is on record saying that if a peace treaty in Ukraine comes too early, that is bad because it gives Russia the possibility to attack the West earlier.