Did the Soviet Union punish antisemitism by death? Were Stalin or Lenin Jewish? Why were 80% of Ukrainian Cheka agents Jewish?

Nothing is off limits as I finish reviewing part one of Europa: The Last Battle

https://keithwoods.pub/p/europapart-part-four

Can't believe how quickly they're dropping Ukraine here

I said it yesterday, Zelensky badly miscalculated. Should have let his advisors be his mouthpiece or let the EU leadership attack Trump. Anything but a public confrontation.

Russia insisting on elections in Ukraine as a pre-requisite to a peace deal is a smart tactic. As Zelensky himself pointed out, elections mean canceling martial law.

When martial law is gone mobilized soldiers have no legal obligation to fight, and could trigger a cascade of desertions. Even if they find a way to keep the mobilization law, why would you stay in the trenches when your government will change in a few weeks?

He’s not a fan of multiculturalism.

Another one:

https://x.com/IrishTimes/status/1892978589856936263?t=5PLfY0VuIVFffjJxjMIbgw&s=19

An update from Orania on the ANC government's new land exploitation policies intended to target Whites

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🇩🇪🇩🇪 Is AfD based or cucked? As an expert in German politics, I've written an explainer...

What most people outside of Germany get wrong in their analysis because they don't understand the Federal Republic's domestic politics very well is that AfD isn't simply Alice Weidel. She is just the figurehead at the top of the ticket.

AfD can only be understood by the decentralised nature of its party structure which looks like this:

First level: 2 Co-leaders (Weidel & Chrupalla)
Second level: 3 Deputy co-leaders
Third level: Federal executive board (which is made up of a number of individuals)
Fourth level: State associations for Germany's 16 Bundesländer/states (these are largely autonomous)

Apart from the first tier, the leadership level, the hard-right völkisch and ethnonationalist faction known as 'Der Flügel' – which is led by a man named Björn Höcke (you've likely heard of him before) – has members in every single level of the party's governance.

For instance, one of the three deputy leaders is a man named Stephan Brander. He is a staunch adherent of Der Flügel and one of Höcke's biggest allies. His Wikipedia page is linked, go look at the 'controversies' section 🤣

As for the AfD's state associations, they are mostly radical in the former East Germany which, funnily enough, corresponds with the party's strongest bases of support.

In a number of these states, Der Flügel not only controls the AfD's state leadership but dominates much of the administrative board. Perfect examples of this (but not limited to) are Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony:

AfD Saxony-Anhalt Senior Management
Leader: Martin Reichardt (Flügel)
Co-deputy leader: Hans-Thomas Tillschneider (Flügel)
Co-deputy leader: Oliver Kirchner (Flügel)
Secretary general: Jan Wenzel Schmidt (Flügel)

AfD Thuringia Senior Management
Co-leader: Björn Höcke (Flügel)
Co-leader: Stefan Möller (Flügel)
Co-deputy leader: René Aust (Flügel)
Co-deputy leader: Torben Braga (Flügel)

AfD Saxony Senior Management
Leader: Jörg Urban (Flügel)
Co-deputy leader: Siegbert Droese (Flügel)
Co-deputy leader: Joachim Keiler (non-Flügel)
Co-deputy leader: Martina Jost (non-Flügel)
Secretary general: Jan-Oliver Zwerg (Flügel)

These three state associations of the AfD are classified by the German government as 'proven right-wing extremist organisations'. This is obviously a smear tactic to justify state persecution, but it's also true that these branches take hardline positions that are closer to our style of politics.

AfD state associations in Brandenburg and Bavaria (the latter played an important role in mainstreaming the term 'remigation' in Germany btw) are also predominantly Flügel-aligned, including their leaders. Other states like Baden-Württemberg, Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hesse are balanced between non-Flügel and Flügel, but as time increases the nationalist camp is winning out. AfD's youth wing is almost entirely made up of ethnic nationalists who openly associate and identify with the Identitarian movement and activists like Martin Sellner.

On the other hand, the AfD state branches that are considered more 'cucked' and part of Weidel's libertarian camp are:

— Schleswig-Holstein
— Rhineland Palatinate
— North Rhine-Westphalia
— Hamburg
— Saarland
— Berlin
— Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Even in these states there's some prominent Flügel members, but they don't hold significant positions in the leadership.

Overall Assessment
AfD began as a eurosceptic libertarian party in 2013 and first gained notoriety for its free market policies and criticism of the euro. With the advent of the 2015-16 migrant crisis, their focus shifted from economics to anti-refugee sentiment.

During the period 2016 through to 2022, the party underwent open infighting between the libertarian wing in the tradition of Bernd Lucke and the emerging nationalist faction in the east. AfD co-leader Jörg Meuthen's resignation and subsequent departure from the party in January 2022 – citing concerns with rising party 'extremism' – ended the open warfare. The politics of distancing had ended.

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Current co-leaders Weidel and Chrupalla are moderates, but they lead the party with Höcke's blessing and don't distance themselves from Der Flügel either, to their credit. They acknowledge the identitarian movement has complete control over right-wing metapolitics and alternative media in Germany; and that the party's youth are more radical than they are. They also realise they can only win power with AfD's eastern electoral strongholds - all of which are under the influence of Der Flügel.

This gives Höcke extreme leverage and why he's seen as an unofficial third co-leader both inside and outside AfD. At the same time, Höcke (correctly) realises he can't lead the party outright because his radical politics at the helm would probably result in the AfD being banned outright.

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