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Radio War Nerd EP #531 — What's The Matter With Germany? feat. James Jackson (Patreon)

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2025-06-20 15:29:39
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Guest: James Jackson, journalist

From National-Socialism to Psycho-Zionism, Germany's come a long way, baby. We talk to Berlin-based freelance journalist James Jackson, host of the Mad In Germany podcast, to help make sense of one of the ongoing mysteries we've been trying to make sense of on RWN: What happened to the German political-media establishment?

First - we talk about latest Israel/Trump-v.-Iran war developments...At 24:55 - our discussion with James Jackson on the question, Was ist los mit Deutschland?

Check out James' podcast Mad In Germany. For live updates on the German establishment's lunacy, follow James on twitter.

Total time: 1:41:04Direct link to this episode here

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NYCM&AHole

MEIN FUHRER! I CAN WALK!

etienne

finally: an ep that's going to make me want to dome myself 15% less than the previous ones

Mark Ames

Don’t be so sure

NYCM&AHole

They didn’t hit a hospital - they hit an IDF building next to a hospital used to treat IDF soldiers

Yairo Martis

That German freak on twitter wrote "Völkerrecht" which I initially interpreted as 'peoples right' (like, righ of peoples to exist) before I scrolled down and read the English translation (='international law').

Schaeffer Mallory

If we lived in a just world, the confederate states in America, Germany, and Israel would all not have the right to exist and would be in a state of permanent "peacekeeping occupation"

Schaeffer Mallory

Once you press the big red button labeled "EVIL" I'm pretty sure that should just forfeit any political rights of sovereignty

NYCM&AHole

Well the German Brezel Brigaden will be fine as long as the Ursula von der Leyen procurement model survived. She’s responsible for the HK36 - its barrel overheats in normal use and becomes useless due to inaccuracy.

NYCM&AHole

And you know they’ve been atlanticized because instead of political exile she repeated that process for the Covid 19 vaccines at the EU level

Studio Novaya by Fredrick Edward ; Spandau22 coming 2027

Here’s the thing about the stolperstein which means stumbling stones: it was ONE guy who made all of them out of grief and remorse for his ancestors. Not a cultural effort. ONE guy who was severely depressed when I heard him interviewed while I lived in Berlin in the early 2000’s — having grown up in L.A. and witnessed the carnage of the Clinton’s’ violent policies such as allowing shoot to kill militias at the border in AZ etc I’ve often thought about how to iterate the project here in the U.S. regarding “deportation,” and it is a hugely timely topic obviously.

Jason Thompson

It feels pretty clear to me that, even for USAan racists & conservatives, being aggressively ‘philosemitic’ (in a pro Israel sense) is their desperate way to convince themselves that they’re not racist (I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt here) despite being sorta obsessed with Nazis. I imagine Germany is even worse in this way. Of course I know there are also literally antisemitic neofascists out there but I think this kind of “we can’t be Nazis because we love Israel” stuff is much more common.

Nicholas Levis

Great stuff throughout, I speak as one who lived in Germany for 15 years and maintains connection. I had some minor adjustments, once of which is that Kohl was not Merkel's mentor so much as the big bird under whose wing she harbored, until the time came for her to - gently! low key! with regrets! - chop him up into cutlets.

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Germany remilitarizing should make people super nervous.

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Also the pic on this ep if you know who that is and you’re in the lgbtq community should make you want to vomit. Pink washing bullshit. Vast majority of lgbtq people reject Israel and this genocide. In the words of one of the most famous drag queens in America https://x.com/katya_zamo/status/1933636603773407554?s=46 Met her in Milwaukee. Amazing person.

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“Lenin in the streets, Dostoevsky in the sheets” fuckers.

JoR

Can we get one of the Cockburns back on the show? I know you two aren’t spring chickens (respectfully) but I think they’re both older then John

Ben

Germans are obsessed with being on the wrong end of every conflict

Norman

As a German who's been living abroad for a while, pretty much everything your guest said rings through. The German elite and a decent chunk of the population were always insane Zionists, but the Ukraine war seems to have completely broken their brains. A lot of people really believed the Russians would be in Berlin in a few months at the beginning of the war and now that Russia is doing better militarily, that narrative is resurfacing again.

Doug Cartel

'if a single bomb falls on Berlin then you can call me [Golda] Meir' I'll see myself out Dumb jokes aside it's shit like this that makes me appreciate internationalism over anti-nationalism An attempt to harmonize competing concepts

William

lol what are they going to do, invade Poland again?

Brandon

Germany’s hysteria is not surprising or weird in the least. All explained by holocaust guilt.

Brandon

Exactly.

William

I’m not sure why using a tactical nuke seems u trump’s alley- as much as I loathe the cringe adoption of TACO, it’s true in the sense that trump’s bark is almost always worse than his bite. He seems to love making big bold statements that gets everyone talking about him but he seems to shy away from doing stuff that actually causes major material damage (like dropping a nuke)

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Nothing good has ever come from a militarized Germany. Listening to this episode and what I personally know that country is deranged.

Pepipopa

A British guy saying how no one should feel ashamed about their nation past LMAO yeah I bet buddy

Sam

Just bought platform by houllebecq, excited to read

NYCM&AHole

Lol need a new episode! Where’s major Kong??!

a clash of purple

What part of Britain were they from? I don't hold the empire against anyone except the actual English, and not even all of them.

a clash of purple

A just world wouldn't have nation-states or nationalisms, period (apologies to the "civic nationalists" out there; I see you, but I disagree with you). Every nationalist project *wants* to be an evil empire, it's just that most of them never get the chance.

a clash of purple

Making "the state of Israel" synonymous with "Jews," or at least "the Jewish homeland," is a real slick piece of propaganda. There's plenty of examples throughout history of various nations branding themselves as representing this or that religion in order to fire up their supporters, and Israel has managed to do that. Ahhh, nationalism and religion: two of my favorite tastes that go even worse together.

Anton Pannekoek

I have no inclination to argue in favor for Ursula, but what you are saying here is not true - the HK G36 was procured under war minister Volker Rühe in the early 1990s, not Ursula.

Miko

You might as well hold off on your next emergency episode until the emergencies can start to wait their turn and queue in an orderly fashion.

Freddy K.

Where did you pick up this leftist Islam/Pal Trivializer? He's feeding you bullshit and you gobble it up - zero questions asked. There are so many Palestinians in Berlin that you see regular Al'Quds Marches etc. It's not as bad as in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt... yet, but we're getting there. There is a reason why Egypt has built a border wall and keeps the "Pals" out, because they got first-hand experience what happens if you let them in. Unsubscribed.

Jackson

Your presence will be deeply missed Freddy

GC

yeah bella ciao buddy 🇵🇸

Jason Thompson

Personally, I don’t care if there is a tradition of celebrating “Israel” in some abstract rosy mythical Bible sense, like Camelot. Everyone should be allowed to idealize one ancient safely dead empire. Recreating it in the present day is where the horror starts….

Jason Thompson

Have you not listened to a single War Nerd episode before this one? Get lost, racist

Jason Thompson

(Completely seriously I do think some leftists should try to make a carve out in their language where they are like “I’m dissing the modern colonial state of Israel, not the 3000 year old mytho-historical place of the same name that has religious importance” but it’s not like the other side is careful with how they talk)

Erik

What’s the name of the German writer that you compared to Celine? Always appreciate your book recs

gatito

holy fuck how are people like you real, i hope they are paying you, because if not that’s even worse

William

Nooo don’t go asshole

Hilary is Pant-suited Syphilis

Arguably the German antisemitism towards Jews has now been redirected towards Muslim migrants, Palestinians and other Third World migrants. “Palestinianism” and “anti semitism” being the replacement of “Judeo-Bolshevism.” Bad empanada on YouTube has an interesting video on such a phenomenon called “the new antisemitism”

Miko

An increasingly enraged Napoleon Bonaparte watching the Iranians way of "fighting" and screaming "this is not WAR". Breaks his riding crop over his knee.

Sam

heads up masha gessen uses they/them pronouns 💕

William

Nothing good has ever come from anyone militarizing

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Uh wrong. All western states should demilitarize. Imperial psychosis.

Rod Miller

C'mon, Sahra Wagenknecht is NOT "very anti-immigrant" or "Islamophobic". In fact she's gone out of her way to point out that immigration can be an enriching experience for a country. What she's against is the sort of massive, limitless immigration of the past decade, which has profoundly changed the face of Germany, & other countries. Wagenknecht's own father was an immigrant -- from Iran. She & others in her party such as Sevim Dağdelen simply point out that most people are socially conservative -- sorry, but that's an observable fact. They are hostile to radical, fast-paced change. This makes the party "controversial"? Well, big deal. Wagenknecht's party has been the only consistent voice in favour of the Palestinians since the genocide started. She doesn't get nearly enough credit in this interview.

LPO Crane Jefferson

I swear, when I get disheartened by the US' bullshit, I just remember...there is Germany.

JoR

Thank you for bringing this up. I love the show but there’s definitely a huge memory hole on how socially conservative so many people are lol

NYCM&AHole

I may forget the model number but she was the head of a disastrous weapons procurement for the next rifle from HK.