A reader sent me a link to the following:
All or nothing
German foreign policy advisors and experts urge massive rearmament and much higher troop numbers. They warn: Germany will otherwise lose influence and the EU will disintegrate.
04 Mar 2025
BERLIN (own report) – In Berlin, government advisors and foreign policy experts are calling for a massive increase in the military budget, drastic cuts in social spending and the vigorous indoctrination (“change of mentality”) of the population. Rapid militarisation is, they argue, the task of the next German government. …
Failure to significantly upgrade the Bundeswehr would, he warns, mean that “Germany’s influence” in international affairs will “permanently wane”. Another author warns that the disintegration of the European Union is a “realistic scenario” for the first time since the 1950s.
‘Creeping decay’
According to the current issue of IP, the European Union has, for some time now, been characterised by “creeping decay”. …
Last but not least, the United States has, under Trump, lost interest in a “stable, prosperous and cooperative Europe”. …
Annoying fear
Ulrike Esther Franke, from the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), … Franke criticises the fact that the German debate on “military matters” is “morally charged”. … She writes that, in Germany, the debate on war is “driven by fear”. … However, Franke believes that thanks to the war in Ukraine Germany “has a window of opportunity in terms of public attention and willingness to deal with defence and the military.” She insists that the next government “use this to lay important foundations before the mood shifts” and concludes, “Now is the time for political leadership.” https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9895
The same reader also sent me a link to the following:
Merz Plots To Bypass German Parliament In 1 Trillion Rearmament Scheme
March 5, 2025
The two parties likely to form Germany’s next government have agreed to borrow hundreds of billions of euros to boost defence and infrastructure. Their plan involves bypassing the incoming Bundestag by pushing through the deal before the new parliament takes shape.
The ambitious plan of investing up to €1 trillion in the country’s defence capabilities over the next decade—half of it directly in the armed forces and the other half in wider defence infrastructural development—hinges on the incoming CDU-SPD grand coalition’s ability to convince the Greens to support a constitutional change that would enable them to circumvent budget deficit rules and rack up national debt. …
The decision to circumvent the debt brake and borrow heavily once again highlights how the centre-right is hoping to appease the Left in order to gain power.
“Friedrich Merz is using the opportunity to buy his way to power,” conservative media outlet Apollo News said, criticising the CDU leader for conceding to the Left, breaking his campaign promise of maintaining the debt brake, and putting “an enormous additional burden” on the taxpayers. https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/cdu-spd-constitutional-amendment-defence-infrastructure-spending-bypassing-new-bundestag/
Notice also:
EU summit on Ukraine: Europe seems ready to spend on defense
7 March 2025
EU leaders hunkered down on Thursday night to discuss how to massively boost their defense spending and how to help Ukraine after the US suspended military and financial aid, alarming developments from the outside world continued to pile up. …
European leaders are still publicly appealing for trans-Atlantic cooperation and working to turn things around. …
Nonetheless, EU countries are also seriously considering how they would cope without the US underwriting their security for the first time in decades. …
On Thursday, the 27 leaders gave the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, the green light to move ahead with a plan to drum up close to €800 billion ($870 billion) of additional defense investment in the EU in the coming years.
Earlier this week, von der Leyen proposed suspending part of the EU’s strict fiscal rules to give national governments more space to spend on defense, …
In light of the shift in the White House, several member states have indicated they will significantly increase defense spending.
The most dramatic turnaround came from Germany, with the country’s likely next chancellor, conservative Friedrich Merz, indicating willingness to rewrite the German constitution to loosen debt rules to spend more on the military. …
“There are no frugals anymore when it comes to defense,” one senior EU diplomat told DW on the condition of anonymity on the sidelines of the EU talks, using the Brussels’ jargon to denote countries most cautious to take on debt to finance public spending. https://www.dw.com/en/eu-summit-on-ukraine-europe-seems-ready-to-spend-on-defense/a-71853358
Europe will support “trans-Atlantic cooperation” as long as it feels that it needs to–but its goal is military independence from the USA.
There is a shift going on in Europe. Notice also:
Germans no longer see US as trustworthy partner
7 March 2025
The conservative CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD, the parties most likely to form the next government after the recent German election, have already agreed on massive investments into Germany’s ailing infrastructure and the military.
A credit-financed special fund is to be set up for this purpose. In order to be able to incur debt for higher defense spending, the debt brake enshrined in in the Basic Law, Germany’s constitution, is to be relaxed.
These plans generally meet with broad public approval, according to Infratest-dimap’s monthly representative survey of 1,325 eligible voters conducted from March 4 to March 5. …
US no longer reliable
Trump has been back in office for only six weeks and has already been calling into question core policies, which is having a massive impact on how Germans view Trump and the United States.
One in two respondents to the infratest poll say their opinion of Trump has worsened since he took office. Just one in seven expresses a favorable opinion of the US president. The United States’ reputation is plummeting to new lows.
This month only one in six voters described the US as a partner who Germany can trust. Three quarters believe that NATO members cannot currently rely on the United States for protection.
The Germans polled are not skeptical of NATO itself: 84% said that the North Atlantic defense alliance is important for securing peace in Europe. Nevertheless, there is growing support for greater European independence. One in two said they favor establishing a European military alliance. https://www.dw.com/en/germans-no-longer-see-us-as-trustworthy-partner/a-71858094
It has long been my view that Europe will likely attack the USA and/or the UK under the guise of a NATO (or some other defense treaty) military exercise and that is consistent with the following prophecy about the coming European King of the North Beast:
23 And after the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people. 24 He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time. (Daniel 11:23-24, NKJV)
Notice that he pretends peace then devises a plan against the strongholds. This looks to be a reference to the nation with the strongest military, the “strongest fortresses,” that Daniel 11:39 shows he will conquer–that is the USA and its British-descended allies (see also USA in Prophecy: The Strongest Fortresses).
While now is not the time–“the end it not yet” (Matthew 24:6; see also When Will the Great Tribulation Begin?)–many in Europe are unwittingly taking military steps that will allow this come to pass.
Notice also:
A Brussels Reich? Van der Leyen’s ‘ReArm Europe’ Plan
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has introduced the “ReArm Europe” initiative. The ReArm Initiative represents an extensive €800 billion strategy designed to enhance Europe’s defense capabilities and a strategic response to increasing global uncertainties …
She warns about the “dangerous times” that characterize the present and, even more likely, the future. “I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face. Or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those threats would come to pass” because, she points out, “we are in an era of rearmament,” and at this stage, the EU intends to respond with a five-point European rearmament plan, the name of which — Rearm Europe — already suggests much. https://21stcenturywire.com/2025/03/04/brussels-reich-van-der-leyens-rearm-europe-plan/
Let me add Ursula von der Leyen is also German.
Notice also:
7 March 2025
Germans in favour of more defence spending
According to a Forsa survey commissioned by RTL and n-tv, 71% of Germans believe increasing defence spending is the right thing to do, while about a quarter are against it.
The highest levels of approval are among supporters of the CDU, SPD and Greens.
Katharina Dröge, chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag, said she regretted that the CDU is only now beginning to act.
“It remains to be seen whether we will ultimately agree to these amendments,” she said in a statement. “The CDU/CSU and the SPD are perforating the debt brake a bit like a Swiss cheese, which raises the question of whether it would not ultimately be more orderly, more transparent and wiser to tackle a fundamental reform of the debt brake.” https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/07/special-funds-for-defence-legislative-change-in-the-fast-lane
That being said, could fear, pandemics, migrants, economic issues, or other ‘crises’ lead to a ‘fourth reich’?
Notice something about Germany’s history published decades ago by the old Worldwide Church of God:
In 1933 Adolf Hitler, using Germany’s growing economic crisis as a stepping-stone to power, gained control of Germany, inaugurating the Third Reich of German history.
It quickly became clear that Hitler’s geopolitical aims far transcended his own country’s borders. Hitler held an unshakable conviction that his German Reich would one day rule all of Europe — and from there seize the leadership of the world! He dreamed of a “new world order” that would remake the political face of the earth, with himself at its helm.
In 1939 Hitler began in earnest his struggle for the mastery of the world. (Stump K. Coming Soon – A New World Order. Good News, 1985)
Adolf Hitler used an economic crisis to rise up and form his so-called third reich.
Could there be some type of a ‘fourth reich’ this century to follow the ‘third reich’ of last century?
The old Radio Church of God thought so, even decades earlier:
The “German Problem” is not dead. Germans are thinking more than ever of an undivided Reich – and of an undivided Europe! … On the 17th of June, Germans celebrated a national holiday a day dedicated to AN UNDIVIDED GERMANY. Stores closed. No one worked. The striking thing is that this day signifies something that has not happened yet! Most holidays commemorate an event – something that has already taken place. Not this one – it looks forward to an event which all Germans hope for and even pray for – AN UNDIVIDED GERMANY! (Kelly R. The March for an Undivided Germany. Plain Truth, September 1964)
Well, since that came out, East and West Germany united, the European Union formed, and a European currency has been implemented.
So, is a ‘fourth reich’ in the process of forming? Some in Germany and elsewhere seem to think so.
Now this does not mean that everyone in Germany wants it to militarily dominate the world, but Bible prophecy shows that deep down, those there do want to dominate.
Notice the following prophecy:
5 “Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6 I will send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.
8 For he says,
‘Are not my princes altogether kings? (Isaiah 10:6-8)
Notice that the leader of the final empire will not think that he wants to destroy nations, but he really does, and really will.
Notice that Isaiah tells of a time when the end time Assyrian power will be sent against an ungodly nation (NKJV), translated as “an hypocritical nation in the KJV. The Hebrew word used signifies being “soiled” or impious, and certainly that is now the case for the nation known as the United States.
What exactly is the ‘fourth reich’? Notice one interpretation:
The Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is a theoretical future German empire, following the First Reich (the Holy Roman Empire, 962–1806), the Second Reich (Imperial Germany, 1871–1918) and the Third Reich (Nazi Germany, 1933–1945). (Wikipedia, accessed 04/03/15)
Some believe that Germany already has had a type of fourth reich as it has been able to dominate European matters at least for the past decade or so.
Biblically, the final European King of the North will lead a revived ‘Holy Roman Empire.’ This will be the empire of the Beast power of Revelation 13. This new world order, which will have German dominance, will in a sense be its fourth militaristic reich (reich means reign).
The Bible prophesies that Europe will have a “great army” (Daniel 11:25), various weapons, and “many ships” (Daniel 11:40).
Furthermore, technology will, in my view, be key in the establishment of a militaristic fourth reich, consistent with scriptures such as Revelation 13:4. And yes, Europe is working on military-related technologies.
A Beast power is prophesied to arise from Europe after various crises (cf. Revelation 6:1-8; 13:1-4).
Furthermore, the Bible tells of a time when that European leader will defeat many (Daniel 11:39-43) and also dominate the world economically (Revelation 18). Germany will be a major factor in this although there will be problems in Europe (Daniel 2:41-43). Yet, after some reorganizations it will arise (Revelation 17:12-13).
A ‘fourth reich’ is in the process of being made, but it is not here yet.
But something that can be called that will arrive.
There will be many unintended consequences of the Trump-Vance Administration.
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