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Friday, a remarkable exchange took place on X while the American Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the government of the key ally of Germany of “Tyranny in Disguise” to designate the extreme right alternative for Germany (AFD) as an extremist.
In a position Friday afternoon, the best American diplomat criticized the classification made by the national intelligence agency of Germany, which allows him to increase the surveillance of the political party. Vice-president JD Vance then echoed the reprimand of this decision in his own article on the social media platform.
“Germany has just given new powers to its spy agency to monitor the opposition,” Rubio wrote on its official account of the State Department X. “It is not democracy – it is the disguised tyranny.”
“What is really extremist is not popular AFD – which has taken second place in the recent elections – but rather the deadly policies of open immigration of the establishment to which AFD is opposed,” he continued.
Rubio, who has been newly exploited as an actual national security advisor, said the United States ally “should reverse the course.”
In a direct response on X more than three hours later, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs repelled.
“This is democracy. This decision is the result of an in -depth and independent investigation to protect our Constitution and the rule of law,” published the account. “It is the independent courts that will have the last word.”
“We have learned from our history that right -wing extremism must be arrested,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote.
Rubio’s position was not the first time that a senior high-level Trump official has been supporting the far-right party, whose leaders were engaged in anti-Semitic, anti-muslim and xenophobic rhetoric, in particular by calling for the massive expulsion of immigrants. One of his main politicians, Björn Höcke, was sentenced in 2024 after breaking the German laws against the pronunciation of Nazi slogans in public.
VANCE – Who met the AFD chief in Munich in February, before the German federal elections – also went to X Friday afternoon to reprimand this decision.
“AFD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now, the bureaucrats are trying to destroy it,” he wrote on his personal account X, quoting the Rubio Post.
“The West destroyed the Berlin Wall. And it was rebuilt-not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment,” he wrote in an article which came after the German government’s response.
In a speech at the Munich security conference in February, the US vice-president also accused European leaders of turning their back on the values of the Cold War and suppressing freedom of expression.
“In Great Britain and through Europe, freedom of expression, I fear, is retired,” he said in remarks that have shocked and rank European officials.
According to the Associated Press, the national intelligence agency of Germany said that AFD was a threat to the country’s democratic order.
“It aims to exclude certain population groups from the same participation in society, to subject them to unconstitutional discrimination and thus to attribute them a legally devalued status,” he said. “More specifically, for example, AFD does not consider German citizens with a migration history of Muslim predominance countries as equal members of the German people, as defined by ethnically by the party.”
AFD leaders condemned this decision, according to the AP.
