{"id":23061,"date":"2026-09-13T19:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23061"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:46:33","slug":"inside-the-far-right-blueprint-for-germanys-eurasian-future-dw-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23061","title":{"rendered":"Inside the far-right blueprint for Germany\u2019s Eurasian future | DW Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AfD wants Germany to distance relations with Europe and the United States while getting closer to Russia and China. This is weird for a party that claims to want Germany first&nbsp;and to focus on distinct German culture and values. Shouldn&#8217;t authoritarian Asiatic empires be the opposite of German values and culture? And don&#8217;t other European countries and the US have much closer values and culture? Long-term, and worst case scenarios, China and Russia are empires that would force the world under their authoritarian heel if they could. Despite America&#8217;s many flaws and self-interests, its goals are freedom, trade, and defense. True imperialism is antithetical to its ethos. When the AfD says German values, it seems to mean no immigrants and: imperial, anti-enlightenment, anti-Western, and fundamentally unChristian values.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside the far-right blueprint for Germany\u2019s Eurasian future | DW Analysis\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFmpxuNxycM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AfD wants Germany to distance relations with Europe and the United States while getting closer to Russia and China. This is weird for a party that claims to want Germany first and to focus on distinct German culture and values. Shouldn&#8217;t authoritarian Asiatic empires be the opposite of German values and culture? And don&#8217;t other European countries and the US have much closer values and culture? Long-term, and worst case scenarios, China and Russia are empires that would force the world under their authoritarian heel if they could. Despite America&#8217;s many flaws and self-interests, its goals are freedom, trade, and defense. True imperialism is antithetical to its ethos. When the AfD says German values, it seems to mean no immigrants and: imperial, anti-enlightenment, anti-Western, and fundamentally unChristian values. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZFmpxuNxycM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,60,202,728,272,355,727,25,314,1070,1146,315,1555,1554],"class_list":["post-23061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-christianity","tag-culture","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-international-relations","tag-nato","tag-right-wing","tag-russia","tag-values","tag-western-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23062,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061\/revisions\/23062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}