Merkel: Ban Burqa, Blame Russia!

Wallowing in hypocrisy, Merkel is set to squeal 'fake news,' Hillary style.

After having arrogantly imported 1.2 million mostly male migrants into Germany in an effort to cosy up to Obama and appease big business, Merkel’s boundless duplicity has seen the beleaguered would be leader of the EU now incongruously calling for a ban on the Muslim face veil.   Clumsily trapped on a tightrope where she must play up to both Euroliberalism on the one hand and somehow stem rising traditionalist sentiment on the other, Merkel’s precarious balancing act has plumbed the depths of hypocrisy: With the German federal elections looming large at some point after August 2017, it is also sure to deliver a spectacular fall.

Ignoring the Ides of March: March’s 2016 state elections in three key German regions saw support for Merkel’s CDU disintegrate. Disgusted with Merkel’s pro-mass migration policies and with the German economy wounded by anti-Russian sanctions, voters fled Merkel’s CDU to deliver the Afd stunning electoral success.

And yet what ought to have proved an opportunity to reflect upon the growing chasm between Merkel and the German people has instead opened up an opportunity for Russophobes to insert their own slick narrative: On Dec 10th 2016, the Daily Express reported that an unnamed US official had claimed that, as in the recent American elections, ‘Moscow is launching a similar effort to influence the next German election.’ Farcically, whenever the now jittery liberal establishment reaps what is has sown in terms of alienating its own people- its go to option is to blame Russia.

Curiously, the report in the Daily Express comes just a day after the Washington Post claimed that the CIA had supposedly concluded that a motley crew of Russian hackers and deplorably useful idiots somehow managed to fiddle the US elections. The trend of blaming Russia, pioneered during Brexit, run rampant during the American election, now seems to have surfaced in Germany.

Fake news about fake news, however, is a losing game and should the CDU align itself with the CIA and the BND in this delusional charade of smoke and mirrors, as both Cameron and Hilary can amply testify- the results are unlikely to be to Merkel’s liking.

As her popularity crumbles to dust, Merkel’s media are eagerly burying anything that might cast an ill light upon the pugnacious German leader’s reckless migration policies that flung open Germany’s doors- no questions asked. With the 62-year-old Merkel’s public performance under increasing scrutiny, 64% of Germans — according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine- now want to give Mutti the boot.

With Merkel’s fate hanging in the balance, the horrific murder of Maria Ladenburger at the hands of an Afghan migrant-turned-thug saw the story cynically suppressed by Germany’s largest broadcaster, ARD.

Meanwhile, German authorities are busily monitoring migrant social media postings as fears of a new wave of sex assaults translating into Mama Merkel’s electoral oblivion when the polls finally open next year begin to grudgingly shape policy.

Embattled on all sides, the woman who has done more to undermine both the EU and German social cohesion than Moscow could have done in a century, had it ever wished to do so, seems all but predestined to blame Russia for the rise of her domestic political opponents in what is likely to prove one last, stupid miscalculation.

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