Allegations of espionage against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have been raised by the interior minister of the state of Thuringia. In an interview with Handelsblatt, Social Democrat (SPD) Georg Maier expressed concern that the AfD is abusing its parliamentary powers to gather information about Germany’s transport infrastructure, water supply, digital infrastructure and energy supply.
There are multiple well-documented cases of AfD politicians colluding with Russian state actors (Petr Bystron, Maximilian Krah), and the same is true for many other figures in the European extreme right. Even if these people weren’t actively passing on information, which they probably are doing, they are far too stupid to not accidentally leak information to the Russian secret service.
At this point, I assume everyone on the far right has some ties to Russia.
Quite obviously and shamelessly. It’s crazy we allow this.
YES! They’re all nazis. Get the nazis out of your government! Immediately!
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Followed by machste nix.
tja
Yes of course
There have been already many inquiries and some trials, like the one with Krah But Afd’s behavior continues to be suspicious considering:
"He pointed out that the Thuringian branch of the AfD had submitted 47 such inquiries to the state parliament in the past 12 months alone — and with "increasing intensity and depth of detail.
The AfD is particularly interested in IT and equipment used by the police, for example in the area of drone detection and defense," Maier said. Equipment used in civil protection, health care and Bundeswehr activities are also the subject of inquiries.:
Do bears shit in the woods?
Yes
If you want to know how that looks like, here they are asking about military transports to Ukraine and their security measures:
Tnx! This Mühlmann has like 1.5 A4 pages of 12 very specific questions relating to military transport and security . How obvious can you be?! Fucking idiot.
That’s much worse than I imagined. I would hope the MAD is taking a very close look into him, but somehow I doubt it.
Yes, for Russia and China …
Maybe but Libs really have to stop blaming their home grown far right as nothing but a proxy for the scary official foreign enemy nation.
Yes, many political parties need to reinvent themselves and regain trust and democratic legitimacy with voters.
Many critique the Afd for the obvious right winged (fascist) connotations, but apart from their populist rhetoric, which is bad enough, they are traitors to Germany, Europe and democracy in general. It doesn’t compare at all.
