I think we may be in trouble…and experiencing deja vu. Citation from a post on X points to pre WW2 Germany memes in speeches. Basic thrust is that Russia is going to expand and return to occupy within all the old Soviet Union borders
"Merz stood before his CDSU party and did two things in the same speech that should have stopped Europe cold.
He declared that “Pax Americana is over.” And he reached for Europe’s darkest memory… Munich, the Sudetenland, Hitler, to argue that Russia “won’t stop,” projecting expansionist intent onto Moscow while erasing the long trail of Western promises broken and red lines ignored.
Together, the lines function as one device: announce the old security arrangement is fading, then slam the door on compromise by turning diplomacy into a moral crime.
Of course it isn’t leadership. It’s a choreographed script, and everyone is expected to follow it.
“Pax Americana is over” is marketed as emancipation, Europe stepping out from under American guardianship, finally standing on its own feet. But the second half of Merz’s message tells you what this really is, not independence being offered to the public, but discipline demanded from it.
Because once Hitler is invoked, the field of legitimate diplomacy shrinks to a pinhole. Negotiation becomes appeasement. Restraint becomes cowardice. Doubt becomes disloyalty. History stops being a teacher and becomes a weapon, the kind you swing at your own citizens."
Mertz speech on YouTube unfortunately no translation came with the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjgMTV82m7Q
From the X account The Islander and part 1 or a two part post
https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2000071342117245168?s=20
From the X account The Islander and part 2 or a two part post
https://x.com/SchrodingrScrat/status/2000133559890399545?s=20