Hauke Ritz’s book, “Warum der Weltfrieden von Deutschland abhängt” (Why World Peace Depends on Germany), was referred to in Current Concerns No. 18 on 19 August. The thesis-like title of his book prompted me to consider the following:
Since the end of the First World War and its logical continuation through the Second World War to the present day, Anglo-American “elites” have turned European states, especially Germany, into vassals. Just as the Romans did with their provinces, the Americans brought German citizens to the United States, trained them in the spirit of American hegemony, and presented and implemented them to the guarantors in Germany as their new elite. The Romans did the same with the Germanic leader Hermann The Cheruscan, without realising that they had taken a step towards their own downfall.
If today the US military base in Ramstein is the actual capital of Germany1, military leadership is carried out from Wiesbaden and other US bases, if BlackRock provides the Chancellor and many officials in the Bundestag parties have attended the WEF seminars of Young Global Leadership, if Germany is not in charge, indeed, does not even have command over its entire territory because there are an incredible number of square kilometres of extraterritorial territory in Germany, what can we expect from such a formalistic government in Berlin?
Peace-loving politicians such as John F. Kennedy, Olof Palme, General Bastian and Petra Kelly were summarily liquidated. With the invention of the “delegitimization of the state”, with the elevation of “fake news” and “hate speech” to the rank of a punishable “crime”, and the introduction of AI-supported reports for insults against politicians (“idiot”), the climate in Germany with regard to freedom of expression guaranteed by the Basic Law has, unsurprisingly, changed radically. We are already living in a form of opinion dictatorship in Germany.
None of this exempt us from the duty of responsibility to which everyone is subject at all times and which must be fulfilled in the interests of the commonweal, both in the last century and in this one. The ethical obligation to work for peace, freedom and justice remains for each and every one of us. How we do this is left to our civic skills and creative ingenuity. And there are really no limits to that.
It goes without saying that we invoke Article 5 of the German Basic Law, which guarantees us freedom of opinion and speech. But let us not forget that those who hold completely different opinions are also entitled to claim this right. Keeping this in mind can make listening and exchange easier. That was also the intention of Article 5 of the German Basic Law.
Ewald Wetekamp, Stockach (Germany)
1 The fact that Germany has no sovereignty over legally important areas within its national borders can even be read on Wikipedia and at the Federal Administrative Court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_Air_Base accessed on 9 September 2025; https://www.bverwg.de/de/pm/2020/68
With respect to the article “Staying informed in the age of lies” by Eliane Perret (Current Concerns No. 19/20 from 23 September 2025): In the previously mentioned interview with the Norwegian peace researcher Glenn Diesen, the former Chief of Swiss Strategic Intelligence Agency, Jacques Baud reported about the “disinformation structure, with which Great Britain, the USA, NATO and the Ukraine are built upon.” These were the only sources available to our press. What do these constructors know of the “disinformation structure”? When one compares the statements of former generals such as Harald Kujat and Erich Vad with reference to Russia, with those of, for example, the currently presiding General Carsten Breuer, one actually encounters a diametrically opposed contradiction. For this I could only find two possible explanations: Either the first two generals left all their expertise behind when they resigned from service – which seems unlikely to me – or those still in service are not obligated to their expertise but to political leadership – which should actually offend their military honour.
Urs Graf, Sirnach (TG), Switzerland
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