The Daily Signal, 2/12/25
At the height of World War II, Henry Morgenthau, treasury secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, proposed a plan to deliberately deindustrialization, depopulate, and disarm postwar Germany. The Morgenthau Plan, as it was known, would transition Germany back to an agrarian society, making the prospect of future war unimaginable. Although Morgenthau’s ideas would never see the light of day, now, more than 80 years later, Europe’s powerhouse is poised to embrace this grim reality. “Germany represents the powerhouse, traditionally, of the European economy, and even culture, and it’s starting to implode,” warns Victor Davis Hanson in this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “They only have about 125 attack aircraft. They have very few armored vehicles. Their active military is only about 180,000 soldiers. They have 84 million people in the country. The fertility rate is getting very close to 1.4. … “They have had a million to 2 million illegal aliens just prance into Germany, especially during the last years of the Merkel chancellorship. In terms of percentage of foreign-born, Germany has more foreign-born than does the United States, which doesn’t have a border in the south, at least until Donald Trump comes in.”
Morgenthau had a very strong point in thinking that a strong Germany would always pose a danger to the rest of the world. The Germans had a talent for innovation and technical expertise with which many Germans believed they could rule the world. Unfortunately that belief arose from their past social dysfunctions: from the aggressions of Frederick the Great to Kaiser Wilhelm and then to Hitler, who would glorify Germany above all the rest, a past they couldn’t leave behind. Even their present attempt to democratize Germany has failed, which resulted in another central power group in power.
Their present social milieu has been to avoid their past by endorsing Green movements, movements which of themselves seek to break up and disempower nations and subject them to a One World government.
If Germany had a Christian foundation, only then would they succeed in casting off their violent past and also cast off the One World government that’s presently strangling them, just as it strangles all nations. Without such a correction, Germany will likely suffocate itself. I see no other viable solutions. That goes for other EU nations as well.
The USA is one of those nations being strangled and is attempting to cast that off as well.