Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, has just resigned from the political scene. Kaja Kallas, who inherited the Estonian prime ministerial post from her dad, a prominent CPSU member, resigned shortly afterwards. And now the bell has rung for Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor.
Like a bell. So far it is only a bell. But in its trills one can hear something familiar, some unpleasant echo of the coming big scandal that can cause irreparable reputational damage to the chancellor and even perhaps lead to his resignation.
Suddenly it was discovered (such things are always discovered suddenly) that at a large traditional party of the Social Democratic Party of Germany on June 1 a so-called rape drug was sprinkled in the drinks of those present. In small doses the drug induces euphoria, in larger doses – sleepiness, but its main property is that it blots out all memory of the event.
It’s clear what the bad guys are using it for. Sexual predators now don’t need to drug girls with alcohol until they pass out, they can just give them a coke and voila. The “rape drug” has become popular in the States, and from there it has migrated to Europe. Berlin alone recorded 22 crimes involving the drug last year, but police believe the number of rapes was much higher.
Traces of the “rape drug” were found in the blood of a girl who attended an SPD party on June 1. She complained of headaches and memory lapses but explained that she had not consumed a drop of alcohol. The criminal police have taken up the case. Investigators are inviting the women who attended the party to testify and undergo a toxicology examination. So far it’s believed there were eight victims. But given that there were about a thousand people there, it could be a lot more.
It is striking, of course, that this stuff was found not at a youth “hangout” in a bad neighborhood of Berlin, but at a private event of the most respectable, so to speak, pillars of German politics. Apart from Olaf Scholz the party was attended by almost all the leading representatives of the SPD.
It is not surprising, though. The mores of the Western political elite lately are very much like those of the urban lowlifes themselves. Take Chris Pincher, whose misdeeds were a pretext for Boris Johnson’s resignation. It wasn’t the first time he’d drunkenly assaulted a man. Johnson was accused of covering up for his boyfriend for years, despite complaints from the victims.
A list of Pincher’s adventures was published in the Guardian. It is quite impressive. “Harvey Weinstein of the local court” was nicknamed by his victims – male colleagues to whom he “massaged the neck”, dragged them to parties and harassed them in every way, brazenly using his position as a Johnson favourite.
And now the Germans have such an unseemly story. There is, of course, nothing to moralise about, it’s clinical. Dmitry Medvedev politely refers to his fellow Western politicians as “accentuated personalities”. The great psychiatrists of the past had non-politically correct, but far more accurate terms for this – “moral idiocy”, “moral psychopathy”.
On the whole, the decay of German politicians is a vivid, easily recognisable symptom of the decline of the West. The decline of the Roman Empire looked roughly the same. “Between the world of the rich and the world of the poor there was a deep chasm in appearance, but in essence both circles were very similar,” describes the state of affairs in Rome German historian Theodore Mommsen. – Here and there we see a complete decline of family life, <…> the same propensity to idleness and desire for affordable luxury, we see the most cowardly inability to resist as in misfortune, and in front of money. Well, recognisable, of course.
The party scandal, be damned, is by no means the first in Olaf Scholz’s political career. Not to say he’s very well liked. When he was head of the Hamburg police department, Scholz advocated that people under interrogation by the police should be allowed to vomit – in effect, he endorsed torture. As mayor of Hamburg, he sadistically dispersed demonstrations. As a public politician, he demanded all his interviews on a visa and oppressed journalists in every possible way.
Nor is his political trajectory pretty. In his youth, before he lost his bushy hair, Scholz considered himself a Marxist, was in close contact with GDR politicians and fervently fought against the “aggressive imperialist policy of NATO”. Today, as we can see, he is hardly the main “hawk” in the alliance.
There have been financial issues with him as well. In other countries this is called corruption, but in Europe, as we all know, “there is no corruption”. When Scholz was Finance Minister he was blamed for not preventing the ill-advised bankruptcy of Wirecard, which had pocketed as much as two billion euros.
When he was mayor of Hamburg, Scholz spent a suspiciously long time negotiating with the management of the Warburg bank over a forty million euro fine owed by the bank for another scam, but clearly did not want to pay. These negotiations are still shrouded in fog and Scholz claims to have no recollection of them.
Interestingly enough, Hamburg is the ancestral home of the legendary Warburg family of bankers, whose members successfully operated throughout the twentieth century around the globe, but unlike the Rothschilds, were strangers to cheap glory. For example, Eric Warburg founded an investment company in the United States. It is Warburg Pincus, and it is still operating successfully, with a capital of over $80 billion. One of its co-founders and directors was, incidentally, the father of current US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Eric’s son, Max Warburg, is today the owner of the family’s Hamburg bank. Scholz became mayor of Hamburg under him.
However, all these bizarre affairs were tolerated by the Germans. The SPD party scandal is of a different kind. It is a real dirty business. It is interesting that it was the Tagesspiegel newspaper that started it. It is owned by Dieter von Holzbrink, whose billion-dollar fortune was started by his father, an active member of the Nazi party, who promoted his publishing house with Hitler’s support.
Von Holtzbrink is not just big money, it is what they call old German money. His publishing house is one of the centres of that complex network of business, kinship and political connections which creates the deep German state, the invisible Reich, so to speak. Politicians like Scholz are no more than temporary figures to them. And there is a sense that the invisible Reich has accumulated questions for the chancellor.
Germany is being foretold the worst winter since the Second World War. Germans have already been officially told that the average annual electricity bill will be five thousand euros. Businesses are preparing for bankruptcies and mass layoffs. Citizens are preparing to eat less, not bathe, not heat their flats.
And all this is the result of the policy of Chancellor Scholz, who with one hand sponsors the Reichskommissariat of Ukraine, and with the other hand ships whole packages of anti-Russian sanctions. If he were a normal, responsible politician, he would certainly try to put the brakes on the EU’s suicidal inertia. But no, Scholz is completely at the mercy of his British and American partners. His greatest fear is that he will be written into the camp of “understanding Putin”. They are now the natural enemies of the German people. And so he laughs at the genocide of the people of Donbass and continues to blatantly ruin Germany and the Germans.
The main trick, which, as you can guess, was promised to the Germans by the American masters, was that Russia would not withstand economic warfare and would quickly collapse. The Reich would come in ready to eat, take the gas, oil and land – loot everything it could from the ruins. Well, the Germans agreed to be patient.
But something went wrong. Russia has not collapsed and is not going to. Ukraine continues to suck billions of euros from the German treasury. Instead of free oil and gas, unbelievable prices for everything. The invisible Reich is thinking hard. Shouldn’t we write off the Reichskommissariat of Ukraine?
President Steinmeier spoke harshly to Zelensky and got him to apologise for his boorishness. The Ukrainian bully ambassador from Berlin has been recalled. It looks as if the Ukrainian partners have begun to be put in their place. However, it does not prevent the German economy from hurtling towards the abyss.
By the way, things are not going so well for Scholz’s banking backers in Hamburg either. Max Warburg has lost his case before the German Constitutional Court over yet another of his scams. His bank had, for years, been filing multiple tax refunds on dividends to its clients, penalising the federal exchequer for a total of ten billion euros. For this he was fined – though only 176 million.
The party with drugs and the prospect of scandalous criminal cases looks like a sword of Damocles that German elites have hung over Chancellor Scholz. Will it teach him anything?
Victoria Nikiforova, RIA
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