A major political upheaval is taking place in Germany. As readers know, President Trump has been strongly urging (or demanding) the European NATO allies increase their military spending to increase their abilities to defeat a Russian attack into NATO European nations’ territories. He has been doing this since his first term in office. It appears that Europe’s NATO nations are finally responding to that demand and they can now see Russia as a true danger to their independence and national sovereignty. Poland, the Baltic nations and Greece are devoting large shares of their national GDP to building military weaponry to prepare for a Russian invasion.
Not all European nations have taken the Russian threat seriously. Spain, Germany the United Kingdom and other nations have lagged in rebuilding their militaries to significant sizes. Germany has now “seen the light” and is going to spend a much higher percentage of GDP on military spending. Germany now plans to spend $189 billion per year on defense by 2029 and it is significantly increasing across-the-board military spending already (first link). German war equipment manufacturers are forming partnerships with US defense contractors. In a particularly significant move, Germany will be permanently stationing German troops in Lithuania to help confront Russian threats vs. Baltic nations. This will be the first “permanent” foreign deployment of German troops into a foreign nation since World War II ended.
It is also worthy of note that Israel took delivery of its sixth modern submarine manufactured in Germany. The second link is remarkably frank about Israel’s navy being able to launch missiles with nuclear warheads and that it may buy a seventh German-made submarine. The third link also comments on the Israeli plans to buy additional German-made submarines. The second link also mentions another very strategic partnership between Germany and Israel: Germany is buying the Israeli Iron-Dome air defense system. Clearly that is a move to counter Russian air attacks. With Germany spending much more on defense, it will surely build modern submarines and deploy them into the world’s oceans. When that happens it will be the first time modern German U-boats will be deployed in the world’s oceans since World War II. Since German U-boats were primary Axis weapon systems in World War II, we can welcome the fact that the German U-boats to be deployed today will all be on our side this time.
There is another factor in Germany which needs to be mentioned. It is a political upheaval. Many readers will already know that in recent elections the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has steadily gained strength and in recent elections it made its best showing ever. In recent German state elections, the AfD decisively won both elections. In Saxony-Anhalt the AfD won 44% of the vote, far more than any other party. Ordinarily, the AfD, as the winning party, would form a coalition government with other parties to govern that state until the next election. However, all other parties brand the AfD as being “ultra right” and they have pledged not to sit in a coalition government with the AfD. In the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the AfD won the most votes with 38.2% of the vote. The far-Left party, Die Linke, won the most votes in the city-state of Berlin. This round of voting likely means that the primary party of Germany, the Christian Democrats (CDU) may have no representatives from some German states in the next German parliament (fourth and fifth links). Clearly, the AfD is on a steady rise in German elections and will likely form its own government in a future election.
This begs the question: What does the AfD stand for in its political platform? The sixth link is an examination of the AfD’s main political tenets. The source is Wikipedia so that should qualify as a mainstream source of information. It lists some of the AfD’s central positions as being anti-illegal immigration, pro-German nationalism and protection of German culture, supporting German sovereignty instead of subordination of German sovereignty to EU bureaucrats, and opposition to the Islamification of Germany. Personally, I see nothing “far-right” about any of those positions. A number of European nations are becoming more “Euroskeptic” and opposed to illegal immigration. Indeed, these positions could get the AfD labeled as a German MAGA-type of party. However, the AfD does want to de-emphasize Germany’s Nazi period and the evil that happened during Hitler’s reign from 1932 to 1945. Depending on how this theme gets expressed, this could be more of a far-right position, and it worries some observers about whether the AfD would become a resurgent National Socialist (Nazi) party if it ever came to power. I have seen some articles noting that Elon Musk endorsed the AfD in Germany’s most recent election, so Mr. Musk was obviously not worried about such a development.
It is my personal opinion that the political parties in Germany should re-think their policy of refusing to join the AfD in a coalition government at the state or national level. This kind of ostracism of the AfD makes it more attractive to all people disaffected with the status quo in any way. If the AfD was in a coalition with other parties, they would be compelled to learn how to make compromises with other parties in order to conduct the business of governance. This would tend to moderate their views and make them another rightist political party. But as I said, that is just my opinion.
Those who have read my books know that they identify many of the peoples of Europe as the modern members of the so-called “lost” ten tribes of Israel. The ten tribes of Israel were the people of the ancient northern kingdom of Israel in the Holy Land and the Jews were the people (along with the tribe of Benjamin and much of Levi) of the southern kingdom of Judah. After these tribes split into two kingdoms soon after the death of King Solomon, they went separate ways in their religion, culture, etc. The northern kingdom of Israel was allied with the Phoenicians in their city-states of Tyre, Sidon, etc. and they discarded almost all typically “Jewish” practices. Therefore, when they went into exile they could not be traced or identified by people who thought of them as “Jewish” people. The Israelites of the northern kingdom and the Jews of the southern kingdom were actually often at war with each other. Any effort to find the ten tribes of Israel which attempts to locate them via “Jewish” customs is doomed to failure. They were not Jewish when they went into exile and they did not become “Jews” afterward either.
God has given us clues in Genesis 48-49 about who the ten tribes of Israel are in the modern world, and my books examine modern nations in light of those clues. Genesis 48-49 identifies them as all being present on earth in the “latter days” (Genesis 49:1). Revelation 7:1-8 affirms that viewpoint. Everyone knows who the Jews are today and where they live. The ten tribes are “hidden in plain sight,” and the biblical clues agree with the secular, historical records about them. The seventh link offers some of the main points about one of the tribes of Israel (Gad), examining both biblical and secular sources. In my books, I link the Israelite tribe of Gad primarily with the Germanic peoples of Europe. Modern geopolitics become more understandable when one realizes which modern nations are identifiable as being linked to the various tribes of Israel. For example, NATO is identifiable as an alliance dominated by modern nations descended from the ancient ten tribes of Israel. My books address this subject in great detail, but discussions of some of the other tribes of Israel in the modern world are available in the “Articles” tab at my website’s home page.
- https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2026/08/31/germany-is-stepping-up-on-defense-and-washington-should-celebrate/
- https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-909248
- https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-909248?utm_source=vj_newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2026-09-22&utm_content=things-to-know
- https://www.axios.com/2026/09/21/germany-election-results-afd-merz
- https://www.npr.org/2026/09/21/g-s1-144231/germany-state-elections-merz
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
- https://stevenmcollins.com/my-viewpoints-on-the-modern-day-location-of-the-tribe-of-gad/
