Export Commodity Common Sense: In Weidel's World Long Out of Stock

Alice Weidel suggests that one should "send back" Ukrainians of military age before Germany even talks about its own soldiers. A sentence delivered with such thoughtlessness, as if she were talking about shipments that were misdelivered. No trace of doubt, no sense that behind each of these men stands a destroyed home, a loss, a trauma that cannot be turned into a duty at the snap of a finger.

Weidel speaks about people whose lives have been torn apart by bombs from a war criminal, Putin, who is highly regarded within the AfD, as if they were figures in an accounting department. That many of them were discharged, are injured, care for relatives, or simply do not fit into her simple black and white scheme – she ignores all of that because it would interfere with her sentence. What remains is a demand that does not help Ukraine but only shows how easily one can simulate toughness when one never has to bear it oneself. Ukraine needs allies, not return labels. Those who treat refugees like ballast do not show determination but an inner abyss that disguises itself as down-to-earth politics. Weidel's misjudgment reveals how little respect she has for those affected – and how quickly she turns people into material when it benefits her politically.

Sometimes a single sentence is enough to show how far someone has drifted from reality. This one belongs to them.