Schoolchildren and students across Germany took to the streets in early December 2025 to protest against compulsory military service for young men.
Here’s what a viral X post by Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian journalist and a veteran from the Russo-Ukrainian war who spent 2.5 years in a Russian torture camp, had to say about it:
The posters have slogans like:
– “Not our war”
– “Ecology, not guns”
– “Money for education, not weapons”
– “I don’t want to die”
– “Can you see how stupid violence is?”
– “Make vodka, not war”
And my favorite:
– “I’d rather live in Putin’s Germany than go to war”
Now, young Germans are often left-leaning and don’t see Putin as a personal threat.
But the point is, they won’t encounter Putin with his Italian suit and sparkling smile, accompanied by Orwellian phrases like “We didn’t start the war, we’re ending it.”
No. You’ll encounter Vanya from a Novgorod village and a Buryat sniper who finds your very existence unacceptable.
“Great” LGBT badges, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Greta Thunberg, and the Arafatka scarf won’t help when meeting Russian tanks. You won’t be asked about your views, just as the children the Russians dumped in the mass graves in Bucha, Izium, Mariupol, and hundreds of other places weren’t asked.
“I’d rather live in Putin’s Germany than go to war”. Have you considered that they mean it? These are not confused youngsters, they’re a fifth column. All that political imagery suggests they are a bunch of tankies who would greet the Russian army, so they can join them in pillaging and killing, all the while telling themselves how they are brave rebels against The System. As for stuff like LGBT, well, that’s only illegal in Russia – the world’s premier producer of gay and bi porn – if you are against the Kremlin, otherwise any sex goes, even the sex that is illegal in civilized societies, as evidenced by Russian atrocities committed in Ukraine and elsewhere. It is not like quislings are not a thing. Wearing a keffiyeh (an arafatka) is not in opposition to the Kremlin – there is no difference between Arab ethno-religious revanchism and the Russian ethno-religious revanchism.
This “hybrid warfare,” as our continental media dubbed it, that we are witnessing across Europe (in Serbia as well), and we all know that Russia & Co. are orchestrating it, is not being countered by kinetic measures because…why exactly, I wonder? As a side note, and I am aware it a heresy to say such a thing nowadays, if I had participated in a demonstration supporting a dictatorship, foreign or domestic, at that age, my parents would have a word with me.
The poll by Ipsos shows that well over two-thirds of Germans (62%) support the reintroduction of military service. There are, however, significant generational differences regarding attitudes towards conscription. While 72 percent of those over 60 are relatively united in their support for its reintroduction, the proportion of supporters is somewhat lower at 63 percent among 40- to 59-year-olds. Among 18- to 39-year-olds, who would likely be most affected by its reintroduction, almost half (52 percent) are in favor of conscription, while 40 percent clearly oppose it.
But how to deal with openly pro-Russian political organizations in Europe, such as the AfD and their Querfront frenemies from Die Linke and BSW?
Pointing out the self-destructive and duplicituos attitudes seems to be the common wisdom. Well, guess what? That’s useless and ineffective.
One of the leaders of AfD, Alice Weidel, the party co-chair, is a lesbian who is in a same-sex marriage with an immigrant, the adopted two sons – everyone, clutch your pearls and shout “Hypocrite!”
Sorry, but you’ll be wasting your breath. Pointing out the hypocrisy in AfD’s behavior is pointless, because there isn’t any hypocrisy to point out. These are alt-right parties, not your “normal” conservatives of the days of yore. They are there to troll you, not uphold values. They stir unrest and feed outrage to their followers, instead of preserving the status quo or making incremental gains in society like a typical center-right party would.
No, Louis Boyard’s electorate will not care about his $50,000 Rolex he’s hiding. Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Leonid Brezhnev were also known to be fans of Rolex watches. They couldn’t care less about the working class.
The extremists are there to chew bubblegum and own the libs.
Like comrade Michael Gloss, the son of the senior CIA official Juliane Gallina, who died fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine in April 2024. 21 years old when he died, the same age group as those young German people asking to live under Putin’s rule. He even got a very flattering monument in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk.


Russian World is their goal in life, even if it costs them a premature death, which is obviously something they factored into their decisions. High risk, high reward.
So, what future do the Russian Lord of Sortirs and his European puppets have in store for your children?
And that’s exactly what they want when they say that they would rather live in Putin’s Europe than go to war. In war, people tend to shoot back if you come for their children. But under a Russian “peaceful” occupation, that may come not in the form of tanks and drones, but at a ballot, no resistance is possible against Michael Glosses of this world. Their intentions are not innocent and pure.
The protagonist of the German tragicomedy movie “Goodbye, Lenin!” Alex Kerner tries to hide the fact that the Berlin Wall has fallen from his ailing mother, a devout East German communist. He ultimately fails in his loving but misguided endeavor.
Don’t be Alex, and waste your life on pandering to the acolytes of evil. They have no sympathy for you, show them none.
There is no talking to them. Vote carefully, as if your lives depend on it.
