L’estrema destra tedesca è in guerra per la propria politica di difesa | Le lotte interne dell’AfD sulla politica di difesa mostrano quanto sia lontana dall’agire come una forza di governo.

When Nazis want to build up war-effective army alongside the necessary industry for the coming ’30s of our time but Putin paid traitors want us to continue to put head into the sand and let their Master do as he pleases.

Traitors to us Germans, the entire lot of them.

Good. Keep up being failures!

**BERLIN — The German far right wants to defend the homeland. It just can’t say how — or against whom.**

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is moving to overhaul Germany’s defense posture in response to the threat posed by Russia under Vladimir Putin and worry about the U.S. commitment to European security under Donald Trump. That’s pushing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s second-largest party, to try and stake out a clear position of its own. 

But the effort is splitting the nationalists, with its eastern pro-Russia wing in conflict with western pro-NATO traditionalists, just as the party hopes to gain credibility for an eventual push to take power, while dismaying Germany’s allies.

“A party on the right stands for the strength of the state,” Rüdiger Lucassen, an AfD lawmaker and spokesperson for defense policy, told POLITICO. “The armed forces are one of the essential pillars of that. Not just to fight wars, but to ensure the country can remain sovereign.”

Internal AfD divisions on how to approach a “sovereign” defense policy have become what Luccassen calls a “fundamental topic.” That split surfaced during the ongoing debate in Germany over whether the government’s military-service reform should rely on volunteers or bring back the draft — at one time a key AfD position.

“We were always in favor of bringing back conscription for all young men in this country,” AfD defense lawmaker Hannes Gnauck told POLITICO. “Since it was suspended in 2011, the Bundeswehr has lost not just personnel, but its connection to society,” a refrain the party long used to present a united front on military policy.

But when Merz’s coalition [became mired in its own dispute over the draft](https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-could-bring-back-conscription-by-lottery/), the AfD suddenly had to spell out what it would do differently. And behind closed doors, that unity cracked.