This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm Gaius. Germanicus is here.

We're looking at the European war underway. The escalation is recognizable. We've been through this

sequence many times over the last hundred years. Escalation has its own logic, and part of it is you've got to turn it off. You've got to actively turn it off. You've got to reach in and do it. It doesn't stop by itself. Now, there are voices in Europe who are ready to turn it off. They're not going to sit back and say, Trump will do it. They're going to move on their own. One such group is called Alternative for Deutschland, AFD, it's called for short. It's a small party that started in formerly East Germany.

It's now got sympathetic voices all across the German Republic.

They're facing a no-confidence vote in Olaf Schultz in the Bundestag in these next days,

middle of December, I'm told.

That'll call for a new election, which is

scheduled now for February 23rd. Alternative for Deutschland is bullying very well. What does it represent?

Germany for Germany. Make Germany great again. Sound familiar? The immigrants out. The federal government out of our lives.

Make friends with Russia. Bring the energy back. No more Ukraine war. No more Americans. No more

NATO. Sound familiar? This is what is called in America, a populist rising.

It started in East, in small states. It's spreading very quickly. And there recently was an election

in Saxony, lower Saxony, doing very well in the place that is now closing plants for Volkswagen,

the first time since before the Second War.

You are foolish in politics if you underestimate a populist movement,

because it's way ahead of where you think it is.

It moves very quickly.

And there is an anti-incumbent mood all over the world,

and Olaf Schultz will fall.

The Coalition, the Traffic Light Coalition will fall.

I tell this story in detail because I want it to be possible for you to recognize this is Maga.

This is Maga in Deutschland.

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