Self-destruction

Self-destruction
A war is raging on Earth against old industries, against private property, against individual self-determination, and against life itself. Part 3 of 3.

Right? Left? Only one direction has dominated political events for several years: downwards. Downwards with the industrial location, downwards with prosperity, downwards with the liberal constitutional state, downwards with the general satisfaction of the people and with the level of public discourse ... This observation applies to Germany, but by no means only to this country. The usual interpretation of this is that the ruling politicians have “failed.” But have they really? Were they not, in fact, extremely successful in their work, if one assumes that their intention was to destroy? A healthy mind finds it difficult to imagine that there could be such a thing as a destructive impulse. Even less so a collective death wish on the part of those who are victims of this process of decline. Every human being wants to increase joy and avoid suffering—so says the psychological truism. Why, then, do events on Earth give the impression that powerful destructive forces are gaining ground, forces that are directed against general well-being, indeed against life itself? The author's three-part article attempts to explore such questions and outlines a global “coup from above.”
by Simone Hörrlein

[This article posted on 12/13/2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, http://www.manova.news.]

The lie of prosperity in the AI nation
In June 2025, the website elektronik.net reported that the AI company Nvidia wanted to set up twenty AI factories in Europe, thereby providing the infrastructure to develop, train, and market AI models in Europe. Officially, this is being sold as a success, as Nvidia is now also investing in Germany. But, as is so often the case, this is only half the story. It is more likely that Germany and Europe are investing in Nvidia with their special funds, which is likely to drive up the company's market value even further. And who are Nvidia's largest shareholders? Institutional investors, and above all those whose assets are being multiplied by the big asset managers.
But let's get to the facts. In March 2025, the European Commission had already announced its intention to invest $20 billion in the construction of four AI factories. These investments are not to be paid for by tech companies, but by Germans and Europeans with their savings deposits. While Friedrich Merz proposes to lighten Germans' accounts by 10 percent, Ursula von der Leyen wants to see citizens' money in her new savings and investment union. There, citizens could invest in ecological change, digital change, and, not to forget, the war economy, euphemistically called defense.

In November 2025, Telekom officially announced the completion of the following project on its website:
“Telekom and Nvidia have jointly built the world's first industrial AI cloud — a partnership worth one billion euros.”

The Industrial AI Cloud will be available from the first quarter of 2026. Deutsche Telekom has already applied for a share of the EU's billion-euro subsidies with its Munich project.

The AI solutions we are talking about here do not, of course, come from Germany; they also come from the US. Specifically, they come from the “poster child” of AI development, Sam Altman, and his company OpenAI, which unfortunately has not yet generated any profits. However, OpenAI is planning to go public next year, and with investments from Germany and the EU, the IPO is sure to be a complete success, at least for the vultures on Wall Street. Together with the international corporation SAP, OpenAI wants to drive forward the digitization of German public administration. Exactly what this will look like is outlined in the German government's high-tech strategy.

The AI project is called OpenAI for Germany and is supported by SAP subsidiary Delos Cloud, which runs on Microsoft Azure technology. This is supposed to ensure sovereignty, they say. Data giants like Microsoft and OpenAI are supposed to ensure the sovereignty of our data? OpenAI has already opened a branch office in Munich for this purpose. The goal is “(...) to spread the benefits of AI across the entire country.” According to Münchner Merkur, this is Germany's most secret office.

Why is it necessary to keep something that is supposed to be so beneficial for Germany a secret? I wanted to know from Florian Druckenthaner, Federal Ministry for Digital and Governmental Modernization, what this cooperation is all about. His answer was short and sweet: the cooperation between SAP and OpenAI is a purely private-sector initiative and not a government initiative, which is why I should address my questions to the companies.

Unfortunately, my inquiry to SAP remained unanswered. This is what the future looks like: power is placed in the hands of an international corporatism that is transforming our country and simply ignoring inquiries.

And we now also know what “public-private partnership” means: debts are socialized and profits privatized. For while the demolition of old industries will impoverish a significant portion of the population and drive them into collectivism, international investors will feed like bloodsuckers on the debt binge of an irresponsible state.

“Made for Germany” or the conspiracy of the transatlanticists

Anyone who takes a look at the flagship project “Made for Germany” will immediately understand why there are no complaints from German industry, why it is not vociferously opposing this “turning point.” That's because it includes everyone of note in German industry. It looks as if the entire deindustrialization is taking place with the consent of these corporations, which are now either leaving the country with flying colors or, like Siemens “Global,” reinventing themselves. Finally, it is possible to get rid of expensive German workers without any moral qualms and blame it on the oppressive energy prices. Finally, it is possible to completely relocate to low-wage countries or countries with better tax conditions and even be pitied for the horrendous energy prices, because after all, it is the stupid politicians who are to blame for everything.

“Made in Germany” as we knew it is a thing of the past. Instead, American asset managers, tech companies, politicians hijacked by transatlanticists, and pseudo-German companies are now building their Industry 4.0. A total of 105 international corporations and investors are part of this initiative, which has set out to completely transform the German economy.

What countless international NGOs and think tanks have been devising for decades is now being implemented at breakneck speed by publicly traded companies, with the approval of the government and without the input of the population. According to its website, the initiative aims to bring together business, politics, and society.

Who commissioned these international corporations? Did you vote on it, were you informed about it by your representatives? If you take a look at the website of this flagship project, you will find names such as BlackRock, Blackstone, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Nvidia, Bain Capital, BASF, BMW, VW, Daimler, Siemens, Vodafone, Roche, Rheinmetall, Lufthansa, and even the locust KKR is represented there. All highly reputable companies, of course, whose sole aim is to share their profits with us in order to bring prosperity to Germany.

And anyone who understands that Germany has been a land of plunder since 1945, as Bruno Bandulet proves with facts and figures in his book of the same name, also understands why Anglo-Saxon-dominated NGOs such as the Forum for a New Economy are advocating that the German state should now get itself into debt up to its ears so that the party on Wall Street can continue a little longer.

Finally, a fool has been found who will burden his citizens with billions in debt and will probably not shy away from sending his own youth to their deaths in a senseless war, should it become necessary. Haven't we seen this before?

The war industry
A closer look at some of the companies that are already part of this new “sovereign” AI ecosystem makes it clear why we so urgently need conscription. In addition to Siemens, which will now focus on the metaverse, other companies include Agile Robots, Quantum Systems, and PhysicsX. All of these companies are involved in “dual-use” AI systems that can be used not only for civilian purposes, but also for military purposes if necessary. So this is to be the new Germany, this is to be the new industry. Instead of high-quality consumer products, Germany will export high-tech weapons in the future. It would fit in with the image that Germany was given after 1945.

To illustrate how far this militarization has already progressed and how dangerous the parallels to 1914 are, I will take a closer look at the start-up Quantum Systems. The start-up was founded in 2015 by former German army soldier Florian Seibel in cooperation with Michael Kriegel, Tobias Kloss, and Armin Busse. It has three branches in Germany: Berlin, Gilching, and Rheinberg; and one branch each in Australia, the US, the UK, Romania, and Ukraine.
In June 2022, the start-up raised €30 million in a Series A financing round. In October 2022, Palantir founder Peter Thiel and venture capitalist Project A joined with an additional $17.5 million. And in May 2025, investors invested another €160 million. There is talk that investments of up to one billion are planned.

Quantum Systems' drones are already being used in Ukraine as reconnaissance drones. There, they spy on Russian troop positions. The data is then used for targeted attacks. This is known as the hunter-killer concept: a reconnaissance drone (“hunter”) such as Quantum's Vector locates targets in enemy territory, while a kamikaze drone (“killer”) such as Stark Defense's Virtus destroys the target.

But Quantum Systems is also involved in other military projects. For example, in the British defense program (2023 to 2033) TIQUILA, for which Lockheed Martin is the main contractor. Through its subsidiary AirRobot, Quantum Systems is a direct supplier of its drone technology for tactical reconnaissance systems. The program aims to develop and integrate advanced drone systems for the British armed forces, particularly for use in complex military scenarios.
The company is also involved in KITU 2, a research project of the German Ministry of Defense. The goal here is to test AI for the use of drone swarms under real-world conditions. Quantum Systems is contributing its Vector drone with AI edge computing, which enables heterogeneous swarms as a “2-in-1” platform (eVTOL and multicopter).

KITU 2, in turn, provides important impetus for the development of AI and swarm technology within the framework of FCAS. FCAS stands for Future Combat Air System and is a major European project involving Germany, France, and Spain. The system is expected to replace the Eurofighter and Rafale around 2040. It consists of a manned combat aircraft, the Next Generation Fighter, unmanned escort drones (remote carriers), and an Air Combat Cloud for real-time data exchange and AI analysis.

The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) also aims to enhance Europe's strategic capabilities and technological sovereignty, not just its defense capabilities. It is intended to strengthen Europe's ability to intervene militarily on its own — for example, within the framework of the European Intervention Initiative (EII). The whole thing was initiated by France, whose army is overburdened, which is why France needs help for its interventions, especially in Africa. So the Germans are also to be used to secure French raw materials.

Merger between military and civilian resources
Quantum Systems is just one example of what Germany's new industry is supposed to look like. And in order for Germans to fit into their new industry, they must once again undergo re-education: from pacifists to warmongers. This is not a conspiracy theory, as confirmed by the appearance of Peter Leibinger, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), at the 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC). In his speech, Leibinger also quoted from Anne Applebaum's peace prize speech:

“Anyone who considers themselves too refined or too pacifist to approve of rearmament has learned nothing from the history of the 20th century.”

Yes, you heard right, Applebaum is talking about peace, which she wants to achieve through rearmament and militarism. Her numerous entanglements in ominous NGOs also make it clear why this is so. She is on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy, was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is an active member of the advisory board of the Center for European Policy Analysis. It also states that the war with Russia will never end, which is perfect for the war industry and its investors.

And the worst thing is that, according to the online magazine Multipolar, the amoral and greed-driven German industry sees militarization as a way out of the economic crisis. As in 1933, civilian industry is once again allowing itself to be turned into an extended workbench for the arms industry. And the Association for Critical Infrastructure (VST Kritis e.V.) shows how herd mentality works. It states:

“The term ‘war readiness’ was introduced into the security policy debate by German Defense Secretary Boris Pistorius. (...). The aim is to make society and its infrastructure resilient to current and future threats by closely interlinking military, civilian, and economic resources.”
Not a word of criticism, not the slightest hint of doubt.

Driven by greed
And while billions are being poured into armament, citizens are constantly bombarded with news of the struggling social security funds. While pensioners, who built up what is now being torn down, are being subjected to one imposition after another, Rheinmetall invested 284 million in its expansion in 2025 alone, according to its quarterly report. Thirteen new plants are currently being built or existing sites expanded in Europe. In August 2025, the “Lower Saxony Plant” was opened in Unterlüß. New plants are being built in Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, and Bulgaria. By 2027, the annual production of artillery shells is to be doubled to 1.5 million.
According to a report by Dealroom, “State of Defense Tech 2025,” European defense start-ups are expected to have raised around $13.7 billion in venture capital by 2025, which is almost twice as much as in 2024. Venture capitalists have nothing to give away; they only invest where they expect high returns. And returns only come when sales and profits are made, and how that works with military equipment should be clear to everyone.

The budget plan stipulates that Germany will reach NATO's newly set spending target of 3.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2029.
In 2025, €86 billion was allocated to the military, which corresponds to 2.4 percent of GDP — including aid to Ukraine, the figure is €95 billion. In 2029, the figure is expected to be €162 billion, including aid to Ukraine. Added to this is EU funding for this inhumane industry.
For example, the European Defense Fund (EDF) provided around €1 billion in 2025. The Palladion Defense Accelerator at the Bundeswehr University in Munich also provides financial support to dual-use start-ups. As a result, German engineers, once admired, are no longer building sustainable beauty, but killing machines. At some point, this could come back to haunt us like a boomerang.

Conclusion
What is happening in Germany is abhorrent, and it is abhorrent how this corrupt state and its self-appointed elites, devoid of any morality, are ruthlessly destroying this country. Germany is like an emaciated cow that hardly produces any milk anymore. So a new growth industry is needed, something that has already brought in huge profits while millions of innocent people have had to die. The EU, dominated by transatlanticists, has gone to bed with monopoly capitalism, which has nothing to do with a free market, in order to promote technologies with military potential at the expense of citizens. Basic industries are being neglected or scrapped altogether, and in their place a state-controlled communal economy is being created.
The population is being indebted and, if the degrowth disciples have their way, will have to eke out a living in a run-down eco-socialism with rationing and CO2 certificates.

And when the lights go out in Europe once again, when there is nothing left to take, the locusts will take what is left, the infrastructure, just as they have always done in South America and other poverty-stricken countries. Then what they had to give up for a certain period of time due to industrialization, serfdom, will probably return. This emerging new feudalism will not be identical to the old one, but it will be just as malicious. It is time to recognize this and put a stop to it.

I therefore call on you to fight, to fight with the sharpest sword: the word. Take up your keyboard or pen and tell these individuals what you think of their plundering. Tell them what you think about the destruction of our constitutional order, which is guaranteed by the Basic Law. Tell them that they have reckoned without their host. Because when a state eliminates the free democratic basic order through systematic deprivation of property, Article 20, paragraph 4 applies, and all Germans have the right to resist if no other remedy is possible. Let's finally get started; it is still possible to turn things around.

Simone Hörrlein is a food chemist and science journalist. After studying at the Technical University of Munich, she worked in medical research for several years and most recently worked in science communication at the Competence Center for Nutrition. In addition to the natural sciences, she is interested in finance and geopolitics. She currently lives in Canada.