All right, Alexander, let's talk about Germany.

Let's talk about Frederick Mertz.

And let's talk about the continuing rise of the IFD.

The IFD continues to gain momentum in Germany.

Mertz continues to talk about the militarization of Germany, which it seems the

UK media supports Mertz's militarization of Germany, which is a bit strange. But anyway,

what are your thoughts on what's going on in Germany? Well, you know, we've just had the election in

Germany. Mertz is not yet've just had the election in Germany.

Mertz is not yet, Chancellor.

I mean, this ought to be his honeymoon period.

He ought to be popular.

I mean, that's what usually happens when somebody's elected.

Of course, he was elected with, you know, on a very low percentage of the electorate was a 28% voted for the

CDU, CSU, which is really not at all impressive.

And what's happened is that since the election, his popularity and that of the CDU, CSU, has actually fallen, whereas that

as the IFDA has grown. I mean, they're now polling between 23 and 24 percent, according to the

official opinion polls. And the CDUCS, are sliding. So this program of militarization, doing

away with debt breaks, flooding Germany with money, is not popular in Germany. It may be

enthusiastically backed by the British media, which you were absolutely right about, by the way.

It may be, you know, sending all sorts of economists, you know, to ecstasies of joy because they assume that flooding Germany with money is going to somehow achieve an economic renaissance there in industrial

resurgence. But the German public doesn't believe it. And they're right. Their instinct

on this is absolutely, absolutely correct. Now, Meertz was never particularly popular with the German people. He was never a leader that, you know, people warned to very much. Shultz and the government that, you know, went into the election were deeply unpopular. people were still not prepared to vote for the

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