Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland has been soaring in popularity since the February 23 national election. The latest insa poll shows the AfD at a record high of 23.5 percent, only 3.5 percent behind the 27 percent support for the Christian Democratic Union (cdu) and Christian Social Union (csu).

Hermann Binkert, head of the opinion research institute, noted that the AfD has a voter potential of 30.5 percent and could easily become Germany’s strongest political party. If the government continues to disappoint the public over the next few months and years, disaster looms.

In a podcast published just one day after the election, former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg noted:

This federal government has exactly one opportunity. I think this opportunity is not even one that will last four years. We are talking about two years maximum if you want to prevent us from getting into a next wave of disappointment of many German voters who will then possibly lift the AfD to 30 to 35 percent.

It is indeed concerning to see such a large percentage of people vote for the AfD. As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explained in “Nazism Rises Again in Germany,” one of the AfD’s primary agendas is blaming Germany’s problems today on a wrong coping policy for its past evil.

But an equally concerning trend is the undemocratic nature of Germany’s democratic parties. Many Germans despise the deceitfulness of democracy. Few however realize that by rejecting the will of the people, the German elite are working out a dangerous agenda.

Where the AfD Is Right

Many of those who voted for the cdu/csu feel betrayed by its recent coalition negotiations with the Social Democrats, the biggest losers of the election. Many feel personally betrayed by cdu leader and chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz. While he promised spending cuts, he changed his tune after the election and is laying the groundwork for the exact opposite—astronomical debt. To this end, Merz rallied the old parliament that has been voted out but is still in session to vote for his bill. Even before taking office, Merz is breaking his promises in an undemocratic way and at record speed.

But it gets worse.

While the package is primarily intended to enable military and infrastructure spending, it indirectly funds left-leaning causes that would otherwise be cut from the budget. What’s more, the Greens party ensured that part of the debt can be spent on so-called green projects. Thus, though the overwhelming majorly rejected the Social Democrats’ and Greens’ policies, they are getting more of the same. The left-leaning policies that Germans rejected continue with an added debt possibly in the hundreds of billions.

This may allow Merz to rule without many quarrels over future budgets, but it will leave Germany’s children paying the bills. This is driving Germans, who struggle to budget their own finances, into madness. Additionally, it makes the nation susceptible for crisis.

AfD leader Alice Weidel called Merz a liar and the new debt a “death blow for the euro” and “the final destruction of Germany’s financial stability.”

The AfD is right in criticizing this. All of Europe is currently going into debt, increased military spending and democratic turmoil. This is a recipe for disaster. But the AfD does not seem to understand that the impending disaster is by design.

German Ambition

As we wrote in the May-June 2013 Trumpet issue: “It is now well known that the euro, Europe’s common currency, was, from the start, designed to fail. This failure would ultimately force reluctant European nations to relinquish power to a German-controlled central authority. A common currency creates economy-crashing imbalances—unless and until it is administered by a common government.”

Since then we have seen Germany gradually take over EU leadership. As Mr. Flurry wrote in our March 2020 Trumpet issue:

Germany’s clout means that many of Brussels’ top jobs are filled by Germans. The European Commission president—Brussels’ most powerful position—is German. In the European Parliament, the largest, most powerful party is led by a German. The Parliament’s secretary general is a German. So is the secretary general in the EU’s version of its foreign ministry. Other EU countries commonly complain that there are too many Germans in Brussels’ top jobs.

An EU-led military would bring this German dominance into the military sphere. Geopolitical Futures founder George Friedman wrote: “Collaborating on defense budgets, with each nation contributing based on economic size, would mean that Germany would be both the leading economic and military power in Europe.”

The EU’s whole system is designed to create a superstate dependent on and dominated by Germany. And Britain leaving the EU gives Germany even more power. Britain’s opposition is a major reason Brussels hasn’t been more powerful.

As Bernard Connolly wrote in his 1997 book, The Rotten Heart of Europe, the EU as a whole has been a “cloak for German ambition.”

In some ways Germany today has more control over Europe than it even had at its height in World War ii. This means that if a German leader were to rise and rally the whole continent in a crisis, he would be far more powerful that Adolf Hitler ever was.

But for other European nations to accept such an overarching leader would take a major crisis. In 2009, Mr. Flurry wrote: “European nations fear economic collapse. Now they are looking to Germany as their financial savior. But they are going to get a lot more than a financial savior!”

In a financial crisis, all of Europe will look to Germany, and Germany will look to a strong leader. “If a real crisis develops, will the Germans call for a new führer?” Mr. Flurry asked in the December 1991 issue. “Your Bible says that is going to happen! That crisis will probably be triggered by an economic collapse in the U.S.”

Both American and German financial markets are vulnerable to such a crisis.

The leader to rise out of this crisis is prophesied in Daniel 8, Daniel 11, Revelation 17 and many other passages. Daniel 8:23 reads: “And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.”

The democratic and financial turmoil in Europe, “the death of the euro,” the dissatisfaction with democracy—all are leading to the fulfillment of this prophecy and many more as explained in our free booklet A Strong German Leader Is Imminent.