German AfD Leader Alice Weidel to Merz: You are fueling fear of war and using it as a blank check to cast aside the last restraints on borrowing under the pretext of spending for security. You are driving defense spending to astronomical heights, without making Germany any safer as a result. Instead, you are building a state-directed and state-financed arms industry as a replacement for the real industry that your policies have destroyed. An arms industry whose products you then give away to Ukraine.