meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Duran Podcast

Germany's Merz, debt brake gone and removing AfD

The Duran Podcast

The Duran

News

4.5738 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Germany's Merz, debt brake gone and removing AfD


Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

All right, Alexander. Let's talk about the situation in Germany. It looks like we're getting

0:05.6

a clear picture as to Mertz's administration, the people that will be in his administration.

0:13.5

Annalina will not be in the government. So I guess that's what positive, if you could take a positive away out of this.

0:22.8

Pistorius, I believe, is slated to become the defense minister.

0:26.9

And then you have a lot of loyalists, I guess, to Mertz and to the CETU who are going to fill out the important positions in his soon-to-be administration.

0:42.2

Mertz, the man that is positioning himself as a hardliner, as someone who is going to position

0:51.3

Germany to go to war with Russia, not to deter Russia, but to actually go to war with Russia.

0:55.1

Not to deter Russia, but to actually go to war with Russia.

0:58.5

That's what he's positioning Germany as.

1:01.1

And to lead Europe into a war with Russia, someone who has removed the debt break for infrastructure

1:10.5

spending and for military spending. This is the

1:14.1

Mertz Agenda. This is what he is preparing Germany for as the country, as the country

1:23.2

of Germany is de-industrialized and is now ready to refinancialize or to financialize, I guess,

1:33.1

in Black Rock tradition.

1:35.1

Is that even a word?

1:36.9

To refinancialize it to financialize?

1:39.8

That's the Mertz plan.

1:41.4

Your thoughts on Mertz and his new administration or his administration to be.

1:45.7

Has this been confirmed the positions that he's? No, I'm sure they will be. I mean, he's,

1:51.9

his coalition has a majority in the new Bundestag. So I'm sure it will be. He will be chancellor and he will get his government and it will be very much, as you say.

2:04.6

And of course, the thing to understand about this government is that a lot of it looks like the old government.

2:09.2

In the sense that though it's now being led by the CDU and the CSU and some of the prominent figures of the past, Robert Harbeck, Annalina Berbock,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Duran, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Duran and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.