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Musk and Weidel: A dangerous duo for German politics?

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Elon Musk supports the AfD before the Bundestag election 2025, while Russia and the United States look at the party. What does that mean?

Elon Musk unterstützt die AfD vor der Bundestagswahl 2025, während Russland und die USA auf die Partei blicken. Was bedeutet das?
Elon Musk supports the AfD before the Bundestag election 2025, while Russia and the United States look at the party. What does that mean?

In a surprising political interaction, Elon Musk, consultant by Donald Trump, promotes the German right -wing extremist party AfD, while the environment of Vladimir Putin is also strong for the party. Both Musk and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lawrow praise the AfD as a potential defender of national interests. Lavrow described the AfD's statements as "very reasonable" during a press conference and mentioned that AfD representatives spoke out for better relationships between Moscow and Berlin. In this context, the AfD hopes for support from Russia in particular with regard to the resumption of gas deliveries that have been exposed to the Ukraine conflict. As Berlin Live , Putin has already praised the AfD as a possible partner for cooperation and explains that there are no signs of neo-Nazism in the actions of the party.

On Thursday, Musk presented the AfD as "savior in Germany" in an audio live stream with AfD-CO chairman Alice Weidel and asked the voters to vote for the party to bring about changes. "Only the AfD can save Germany is reality," said Musk and compared the dissatisfaction in Germany with the political situation in the United States, where people also voted for change. His praise for the AfD, which shows a direct connection between American and German political currents, met with mixed reactions in Germany. Critics such as the SPD-Co chairman Lars Klingbeil pulled parallels between Musk and Putin and warned to be caution of such foreign influence as cnn reported. These incidents raise questions about the integrity of the upcoming Bundestag election in February, whereby a possible interference by Musk is considered questionable.

Regardless of such controversial, Weidel emphasized the role of the AfD as the only “protective power of the Jewish people” in Germany during the live stream, and she expressed the desire that the Trump administration should quickly solve the Ukraine conflict. These statements emphasize the obvious field of tension between national identities, international politics and the influence of foreign personalities on the German electorate.

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