Alice Weidel calls Germans “slaves of the USA” in an interview

The AfD has long been known for its critical stance towards the EU, NATO and the USA. In the federal election campaign, Alice Weidel emphasized these positions again – and chose drastic words in an interview with a US magazine.

In the conversation with the right-wing publication The American Conservative, Weidel suggests that Germans are “slaves” of US politics. “We Germans are a defeated people,” the 45-year-old repeats a popular AfD slogan in reference to the Second World War. “Slaves don’t fight,” she clarified in response to a question about NATO and support for Ukraine.

If Trump demands that Germany take more responsibility for its own security in the future, “he should also make the consequences clear,” said Weidel: “We will make our own decisions and he has to accept them, whether he likes them or not.”

After his election, Trump indicated that he was not prepared to protect another NATO country if it had not paid its defense spending. This has amounted to two percent of economic output since 2014. Contributions to NATO had already been a point of contention during Trump’s first term in office.

Weidel accused the United States of indecision. The USA is “an empire that rules the world from Monday to Wednesday and doesn’t want to do that from Thursday to Sunday.” “Is that what the United States wants? Germany as a colony? A colony that doesn’t have the right to decide its own energy policy?” Weidel asked in the interview.

Weidel’s AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla recently questioned Germany’s NATO membership. The transatlantic alliance must also respect Russian interests: “If NATO cannot ensure this, Germany will have to consider to what extent this alliance is still useful for us,” Chrupalla told “Welt”.

From the USA, Alice Weidel and the AfD recently received loud support from Elon Musk. After the billionaire had already advertised for the party on his platform X, he published an election call for the AfD in the daily newspaper “Die Welt”. Weidel also raves about Musk and described him in an interview with “The American Conservative” as an “entrepreneurial genius with a burning love for free expression.”

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