Germany, the second largest "donor" to Ukraine, will halve its military aid in 2025 from eight billion this year to four. The difference would have to be made up by drawing on interest earned on Russian bonds frozen in Europe, which is difficult to achieve. To this end, Germany is counting on the creation of a special financial instrument using frozen Russian assets.

The difficulty for German capitalism, its state, its bourgeoisie and its business committee that is the German government, to remain a loyal province of the empire to which it belongs is obvious.

Contrary to what some selfstyled antiimperialists believe, imperialism is not a moral category, caused by wickedness and thirst for conquest, but the supreme and terminal phase, in every sense, of capitalism; it is therefore inseparable from the conditions and needs of capitalism in the various states. The servility of various European countries, and not only to the larger U.S. imperialism, does not depend on the meanness and poor quality of the "political class", much to the chagrin of the various Mosca, Pareto, and modern epigones, but on the overall interests of the various national capitalists. The latter may sometimes also be harmed by the imperialist center to which they are linked, but overall so far the advantages have outweighed the disadvantages. If capital traces the furrow of its own reproduction and multiplication, it is the sword of imperialism that defends it and partly determines the conditions of its growth.

Moreover, individual states are always afraid that they lack the necessary force of repression against the proletariat: just as the ancient Greek poleis gave themselves spontaneously to Rome because the proprietary aristocracies that ruled them saw the empire as the guarantee of their power and property, so modern states see imperialism as the salvation of their bourgeoisie in the event of a powerful awakening of the class struggle.

If the German and European bourgeoisie in general has made its state a loyal vassal of North American imperialism, it is therefore not out of stupidity or servility, but in pursuit of its own interests.

Should these interests diverge there could be changes in alliances that are difficult to predict. Germany, as a vassal of U.S. imperialism, has had to participate in a war that is not only against Russia, but also against Europe’s interests and in particular its own: the sabotage of the gas pipeline in the Baltic was an act of war against Russia and against Germany, which now has to pay dearly for the methane, which is not least the cause of an economic crisis that is driving it toward recession.

The German bourgeoisie bears this very badly, but perhaps the advantages of the Western alliance still outweigh the disadvantages. The imposed break in relations with Russia can still be borne by the German economy, but if it were forced to break relations with China as well, which is not unlikely, it might not be able to bear it. It is difficult to predict the development of interimperialist relations: after two lost wars with the United States surely Germany will think a thousand times before breaking up, but the thing is by no means impossible.

However, it is not the German state and its bourgeoisie that will decide, but the survival and growth needs of its capitalism: as always, the big decision makers decide nothing but are merely the puppets of history, almost always unaware and moved by strings invisible to them.

In the major geopolitical scenarios painted in America, Germany is already considered an enemy country, despite being part of NATO. We still reiterate that we communists are not antiAmerican, just as, for example, we are not anti Israel: we are against all imperialism and against all states that are not in our hands. To be against only a few bourgeois states implies that there are "lesser" ones, with which we can always ally ourselves: this is the logic of antifascist and interclass alliances, it is the reneging of communism. Imperialism large and small, like states large and small, sends proletarians to slaughter each other in endless wars.

Proletarians must be very clear that when bourgeois class rule is in danger, all empires, all states will be ready to make a new "holy alliance", to throw themselves together against the proletarians, the "new barbarians" who are endangering "civilization", which, in their language, is their wallet. Communists have no allies in the bourgeois class, just as they have none in the bourgeois states and imperialist blocs, which are only mortal enemies of communists, proletarians and, more generally, the human species.