German CDU foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen, a notorious warmonger, lamented that the new foreign policy document of the U.S. was a “second turning point,” a profound change of international relations. The first turning point was proclaimed by then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when he announced a massive rearmament of the German armed forces. In an interview with the newspapers of the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland group, Röttgen said that for the first time since the end of World War II, the U.S. was no longer standing alongside the Europeans, nor alongside Ukraine, which was suffering under a brutal war of annihilation.
Röttgen said that a new foreign policy goal of the U.S. is to interfere in the internal affairs of European states. “The goal is to influence our internal constitution according to the current ideological guidelines of the MAGA movement and, to this end, to cooperate with the internal enemies of liberal democracy in Europe—in Germany, that is the AfD. This is a fundamental change in the political premises for Europe that have been in place for 80 years. If this strategy were to succeed, the EU would cease to exist.”
