The David Betz interview
Greetings from Erfurt, Germany!
Germany has much the same problem as America. People from other countries are fleeing to their country, millions of them. They arrived in one fell swoop during 2015 and 2016. Germany had not seen so many people arrive since 1945, when millions of German refugees fled the eastern regions of Germany, forced out by occupying Russians and Poles at the end of the War.
Approximately two million people fled the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, and North Africa, destined for Germany. They caused a social earthquake, because the German cities and towns where settled did not have the facilities to accomodate so many non-German speakers, who lacked modern labor skills, Western orientation, and did not have two cents to rub together.
Why did this migration have to happen? The migrants (also called "refugees", because so many of them had fled armed conflict) made the trek on foot, crossing Europe during the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter. Some of them died en route. That many more did not die was a miracle in itself! The migrants fled ethnic and religious conflict, transitioning governments in their home countries that left them vulnerable to reprisals, depleted cropland, scarce water, and last but not least over-population.
That the Western press does not harp on over-population amounts to an unspoken censorship of this important news. The home countries themselves resent Western efforts to alter official opinion on population growth; and German newspapers and magazines face restrictions on what they can say about people of other races.
But the average German cannot miss the troupes of children that trail behind heavy-bellied women in veils. The Muslim ethos of many children persists in spite of the instability of their transitioning governments, or the degraded home environment. German women with a nearly emaciated level of fitness, and no children, walk past at a near-sprint.
The Establishment in Germany is too out of touch to understand the average German's concerns for the future welfare of his country, or his support for the Alternative für Deutschland party, the AfD, Germany's controversial far-right party. The political Establishment in Germany, be it right-wing or left-wing, lives in sheltered, well-to-do enclaves, far from the noise of the evolving society. Add to that the continual threat of violence from disaffected immigrants.
German problems interest me because they parallel so often the problems in the U.S.—the surge of immigration by poor people from other countries, the clash of cultures, the administrative cost of caring for so many peasant indigents, and their influence on the possible transition of the nation and its future stability.
Likewise, the political Establishment in America worries over the disaffection of so many voters to Donald Trump. The rough-edged, pugalistic, outspoken Trump fuels Establishment concern that the voters do not display the usual ho-hum interest in their party's initiatives, that they think outside the box, as the Germans are increasingly doing—a departure from business as usual.
Enter Professor David Betz, a Professor of military studies and cyber-security at King's College in London, England. In an interview with Cicero magazine, a German news-magazine, Betz does not appear surprised by the emergence of support for extreme measures to defend Germany's cultural and political legacy.
In fact, he takes the social tension caused by the immigration to its next logical step, a civil war in Germany and other nations in Europe. Other experts in the field critiquing Betz's other writing say he exaggerates the level of risk that the immigrants represent, but maybe those experts live in the same sheltered, internal exile that German politicians inhabit, or they don't have children who face the cultural divide more directly in their schools.