Why Germany Constantly Lies About Why It’s Declining

Jul 18, 2026

18 July 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Its imperial master, the U.S. regime, won’t allow Germany’s stooges and media to blame it, though the U.S. regime unquestionably caused it. On 27 September 2022, I headlined “How America Is Crushing Europe” and explained the economic decline in Europe and especially Germany by providing documentation mainly from U.S. and German mainstream media, which hadn’t yet gotten the kabosh from the CIA and BND on reporting such facts, because the empire hadn’t yet figured out what the acceptable cover-stories for the decline would be — such idiocies as that Russia had voluntarily cut Europe off from its gas and oil, and that Russia had blown up its NordStream oil and gas pipelines (instead of that the U.S. anti-Russia sanctions and adoption of them by the EU had caused the former, and that either the U.S. or Ukraine had caused the latter — the NordStream bombings). The official ‘explanations’ of those matters were insults to the public’s intelligence but continue even today because the reality of why Europe’s economies are declining cannot be told without quite possibly causing the overthrow of the existing Governments.

That article was republished in Swedish (along with a photo of me) but not, to my knowledge, translated anywhere else on the Continent.

The first of the news-reports that I cited there was the New York Times’s 19 September 2022 “‘Crippling’ Energy Bills Force Europe’s Factories to Go Dark: Manufacturers are furloughing workers and shutting down lines because they can’t pay the gas and electric charges.” Then came Handelsblatt’s 25 September 2022“Premium Economic Policy: In the wake of the USA: More and more German companies are expanding their locations in North America”. It was the first news-report to point out that though Germany was suffering from this, America was benefitting from it.

My article continued:

Also on the 25th, the Irish Examiner bannered “European industry buckles under weight of soaring energy prices: Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest carmaker, warned last week that it could reallocate production out of Germany and eastern Europe if energy prices don’t come down.”

Also on the 25th, Oil Price dot com headlined “Europe Faces An Exodus Of Energy-Intensive Industries”, and mentioned especially that “the U.S. Steel giant ArcelorMittal said earlier this month that it would slash by half production at a steel mill in Germany and a unit at another plant, also in Germany. The company said it had based the decision on high gas prices. … ArcelorMittal earlier this year announced it had plans to expand a Texas operation.”

On September 26th, the New York Times bannered “Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s: U.S. manufacturing is experiencing a rebound, with companies adding workers amid high consumer demand for products.” In total, “As of August this year, manufacturers had added back about 1.43 million jobs, a net gain of 67,000 workers above prepandemic levels.” And this is only the start of America’s re-industrialization and economic recovery, because the hemorrhaging of jobs from Europe has only just begun. These German firms are getting in on the ground floor in America, leaving Europe’s workers behind, to swim or sink on their own (the ones that can).

Also on September 26th, Thomas Fazi at unherd dot com headlined “The EU is sleepwalking into anarchy: Its sanctions are crippling the bloc’s working class”, and documented that this hollowing-out of Europe’s economies is being experienced the most by Europe’s lower economic classes, who are the least capable of dealing with it but are being abandoned by the higher-wealth group, the investors, who are sending their money abroad, like banana-republic oligarchs do, and who might easily relocate themselves there too.

Then on 24 June 2023, I headlined “Now the Pay-off Comes from Blowing Up the Nord Stream Pipeline” and opened

On June 23, Jamison Cocklin headlined at Natural Gas Intelligence, “Venture Global Set to Become Germany’s Biggest Long-Term LNG Supplier” and reported: “Venture Global LNG Inc. has agreed to supply a state-owned German company with the super-chilled fuel for two decades as European offtakers continue to line up deals to replace Russian natural gas imports.” Upstream Energy simply bannered “Venture Global set to become Germany’s largest LNG supplier”. It’s a very big deal.

I pointed out that the prices under the contract were being hidden, and then I cited experts in the topic, and they said that it would be at least double what Germany had been paying for Russia’s pipelined (not condensed, canned, trans-Atlantic-shipped, then trucked or trained) LNG from America.

Nw on 18 July 2026, Alexander Mercouris, who likewise has long been predicting Germany’s (and Europe’s) “deindustrialization” to result from what the U.S. regime is doing to Europe, headlined at The Duran, “Volkswagen Collapse. 100,000 Jobs Cut as Germany’s Deindustrialization Hits Home” and said: