Ahead of the next month’s parliamentary election, Germany’s anti-mass migration party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has called for reintroducing military conscription to help German armed forces secure the country’s borders against uncontrolled migrant inflow. The Merkel government had abolished conscription in 2011, citing budgetary constraints and the need for military reforms.
In the autumn of 2015, Europe was overwhelmed by a huge migrant wave that carries on to this day, after Merkel decided to open the EU’s outer borders by arbitrarily abolishing the law regulating the entry of asylum seekers into Europe, or the Dublin Regulations, that was in place for more than 25 years. Europe was subsequently swarmed by millions of new migrants, predominately young men from Arab and Muslim countries, looking for a comfortable life in European welfare states. Ever since Europe opened its borders two years, the continent has been struggling to cope with the heightened terror threat and imported crime wave.
A German intelligence report released earlier this month predicted another migrant tsunami heading towards Europe–comparable to the one that overwhelmed the continent in 2015.
Ahead of the next month’s Bundestag election, AfD is the only political party in the fray that calls out the insanity of Merkel’s ‘Refugees Welcome’ policy. In a poll published on Tuesday by Germany’s most-read newspaper Bild Zeitung, after trailing for a while behind the Greens and the Left Party, AfD has once again emerged as the third biggest party in the run-up to the September 24th vote. With 10 percentage points AfD has taken the third slot after Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), led by her left-wing rival, Martin Schulz.
The demand for reinstating the draft was made in the election manifesto recently released by the AfD ahead of the September 24 vote. “Compulsory military service had done a great deal of good to the Federal Republic of Germany for more than five decades, and had ensured a bond between the armed forces and the society. We, therefore, demand the reinstating of the military conscription,” the AfD manifesto said.
The party circulated an election graphic on social media with the caption: “Introduce conscription, secure borders.”
“[Conscription] will also create personnel capabilities to secure German borders,” AfD’s leading candidate, Alice Weidel, commented on her Facebook page today.
Meanwhile, Chancellor Merkel’s promised military reform is looking more and more like a social engineering program.
Merkel’s close confidant and the country’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen is implementing an ambitious plan to make Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, more "gender sensitive" and "family friendly." The plan is to make Germany’s top fighting force more "colorful," or "bunt" to use the politically correct German term, and welcoming to all "gender minorities." Earlier this year, Germany’s parliamentary commissioner for military affairs, Hans-Peter Bartels, told the German newspaper Die Welt that “Bundeswehr had a gender problem.”
Despite objections from the military leadership, the government opened the Bundeswehr to foreigners in 2016.
