The leader of the currently most popular German Alternative for Germany party, Alice Weidel, on the economic policy of German Chancellor Merz:

You are stoking the fear of war and using it as an excuse for unlimited loans, ostensibly to ensure security.

You’re increasing defense spending to astronomical proportions, but you’re not making Germany safer.

Instead, you are creating a state-run and funded defense industry that replaces the real industry destroyed by your policies.

And then you distribute the products of this defense industry to Ukraine.