Thread by @AKaszon

@SeibtNaomi There are some things that the AfD doesn't understand. The claim that we have no interests in the Indo-Pacific is one of many excamples and i want to explain why👇! Maybe Mr. Musk should address this.

@SeibtNaomi Our model of prosperity is based on good education, cheap raw materials, secure trade routes and our good trade relations with rival powers, including the USA, China and Russia.

@SeibtNaomi The biggest threat to our prosperity currently does not come from Russia, but from China and i want to explain why.

@SeibtNaomi The Russians will most likely not want to provavte a war with NATO in the foreseeable future, as the Russians lack the manpower to do so since the conflict in Ukraine.

@SeibtNaomi The Russians converted their economy to a war economy and of course this needs to be monitored further, but the real danger comes from China, since in the event of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific not a single ship would sail

@SeibtNaomi and even trade with countries not involved in the war would come to an almost complete standstill.
German economy would be brought to its knees within weeks if the sea routes were blocked.

@SeibtNaomi This could trigger another global financial crisis, which would also drag the markets in the USA into the abyss. Our banks are too big to bail but not to fail. Even loan defaults of 5% can cause the markets to panic because the banks' equity is not particularly high.

@SeibtNaomi and Germany is not doing very well economically at the moment, after the destruction of the Pipelines. A chain is only as stable as its weakest link and that is currently Germany but now back to the foreign policy.

@SeibtNaomi Foreign policy is always a balancing of risks and that's why our government shouldn't invest all the Special Fund's money in tanks for an unlikely land war with Russia.

@SeibtNaomi but rather produce more anti-ship weapons and submarines that we could deliver to Taiwan in the case of an emergency.

@SeibtNaomi We are currently being watched like a hawk from China to see how many anti-ship weapons we could deliver to Taiwan in an emergency, and this includes the Taurus.

@SeibtNaomi I still believe in change through trade, but this can only happen if our trading partners respect us for our determination and military strength so that they don't get stupid ideas.

@SeibtNaomi Turkey is also a very important geopolitical partner, which is why leniency is being shown to Mr. Erdogan

@SeibtNaomi There are not very many democracies in our world. The democratic countries must stick together and we will have to continue trading with autocracies, otherwise sales would collapse.

@SeibtNaomi Sentences like that we are supposedly vasalls of the USA are triggering me. The USA is our partner and we must learn to define and communicate our interests. Here's an example 👇

@SeibtNaomi Libya was once our external border in Africa. Dictator Gaddafi was promised investments worth billions if he held back the refugees and agreed to a disarmament agreement.

@SeibtNaomi Shortly after Libya fulfilled its commitments and disarmed its military, a no-fly zone was imposed at the behest of France and Mr. Gaddafi was impaled on an iron rod.

@SeibtNaomi This was certainly not in Germany's interest and should have been communicated as such, since dictator Gaddafi could not be replaced by anyone and his death plunged the country into a never-ending civil war.

@SeibtNaomi Now our country is flooded with refugees. Without the help of the Democrats from the USA, France would not have been able to do this.

@SeibtNaomi So the entire trust of the Muslim world in the West was destroyed with the help of Mr. Obama

@SeibtNaomi The AfD may be right in calling for stricter Immigration laws, but on some points they are completely wrong and Mr. Musk should use the opportunity to talk to German politicians about such things.

@SeibtNaomi For example, development aid must be viewed as a matter of give and take. China takes over a large share of development aid in Africa and grants the loans on such unfair terms that Africans can never pay them back.

@SeibtNaomi After a few years, the built infrastructure falls back into the hands of the Chinese and so they secure the ports, their zones of influence and the raw materials that Europe and the West should try to get aswell.

@SeibtNaomi We have to give Africans a better deal. The AfD sees development aid as wasted money, but it is not, even if 80% of the aid is wasted and that should change.

@SeibtNaomi I am strictly against a government Crypro Currency but
a development currency would make a lot of sense.

@SeibtNaomi My suggestion would therefore be an open digital crypto development currency with which only development transactions can be made and with which only development goods can be purchased.

@SeibtNaomi So a system that acts like the payment card for refugees in Germany, with the aim of preventing the misuse of the money.

@SeibtNaomi The normally anonymous hashes of the blockchain could be fed with the names and telephone numbers of the project managers, the geographical data and the purpose of the development projects, so that every project can be completely traced even after years.

@SeibtNaomi Even with savings, four times more development projects could be realized and such efficiency models are conceivable for all areas of the budget.

@SeibtNaomi According to estimates, the population in Africa is expected to almost double in the next 20 years. If they all want to live like us and strive for prosperity at the expense of nature and working conditions, as the West did during industrialization, we would need 3 planets.

@SeibtNaomi Development projects in the field of renewable energies make the most sense where the sun shines hottest.

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