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One is left wondering for just how many members of his party does America and Israel have compromising pictures of them fucking children taken via operation's like Epstein's and similar.
Bet there's a lot of compromising evidence for corruption too (I mean, at one point selling yourself to Russian interests was THE thing to do for German politicians), but them being blackmailed with evidence of pedophilia more neatly explains the desperate subservience of this German government to America and Israel.
You know not every bad person is a pedophile, right? Merz can be a piece of shit without having to be into little kids.
In the end he's just unfit for his position. He's weak, opportunistic and rich. That's more than enough to think crawling up Trumps ass is a winning strategy
Never said it was Merz personally and very explicitly said "members of his party".
If you think German power elites are any less likely to have the kind of sociopath who looks at a child and sees a potential source of personal pleasure than unaccountable elites elsewhere, you might want the really ponder on your nationalist prejudices - no one nation is more or less likely to have such people, the only difference is how much accountability there is for those who do such things, especially when they're in positions of power and nations with widespread "our people are different" prejudices on such things tend to be worse in terms of accountability for it because suspicions are much more likely to be dismissed with "that doesn't happen here".
If there's one thing the Epstein revelations are showing is that people in positions of power with that very specific kind of thinking are spread all over in the West and were being activelly enticed to act on such fantasies with a honeypot controlled by at the very least Israeli intelligence and, quiet probably, also the American one and Germany, both due to its size and wealth and its links to Israel, is a prime candidate for such targetting.
There is no evidence for German politicians being pedophiles. Not every country is the US.
Search for Edathy.
That is straight up Q anon conspiracy nonsense. The reality is that geopolitics is complicated and interdependent. The US has sewn influence and is very powerful on the world stage. And, when push comes to shove, a lot of world leaders don't care about rule of law or norms as long as the bad things are being committed by an ally a long way from home.
Sure mate, Germans are a superior people with not a single sociopath attracted to both children and power amongst them (unlike lesser people such as Americans), Epstein was a fucking saint and if he wasn't it was only an "amazing coincidence" that there were several members of Israeli Security Services photographed with him and if they were actually using his child sex ring to gather blackmail material they would only ever target America and Americans in power circles and never Germany and Germans in power circles and, besides, the entire concept of pedophilia is a massive conspiracy.
It could never be the case that both Israeli and American (the latter actually caught eavesdropping on Merkel's mobile phone some years ago) espionage services would love to have blackmail material on the politicians of the largest and wealthiest country of Europe and that Epstein's organisation was designed exactly to acquire such material on people in positions of influence and power in Western nations, even if it's actually entirelly logical and well within the kind of thing the espionage agencies playing the Great Game do (the most well known being how Russia's security services used sex honeypots to gather Kompromat for decades).
Any such ideas of state actors using sex (involving chidren or otherwise) to blackmail people in power in wealthy and influent countries such as Germany can only ever be "conspiracy nonsense" (except if that country is the US)!!!
You are taking disconnected elements and spinning a huge narrative with big reaches which just isn't necessary to explain the actions of world leaders.
Unfortunately, I think for most of them, they're just feckless cowards