Green hypocrisy? Nuclear power plants are unacceptable, but the atomic bomb is necessary.

In an unprecedented display of political hypocrisy, the former German foreign minister from the Greens, Joschka Fischer, stated to Tagesspiegel that Europe must develop its own atomic bomb. While the German Greens celebrated the shutdown of the last nuclear power plants in the country as a victory for security and ecology, their most prominent veteran now claims that nuclear weapons are the key to sovereignty, according to the German Welt

Fischer's argument is that the American "nuclear umbrella" is no longer secure and that Germany, together with its European partners, must take the lead in nuclear armament.

Thus, chemist Rainer Moormann notes that Germany is capable of producing an atomic bomb within just three years.

Thus, the icon of the German Greens calls for Europe to arm itself with atomic bombs, and the man whose party for decades waged war against peacetime nuclear energy now sees "salvation" in nuclear weapons.

This raises a painful question for the German public: how is it possible that a country that claims it has no technical, ecological, or economic conditions to keep civilian power reactors running suddenly has all the necessary know-how and resources to rapidly produce weapons of mass destruction?

This turn of Joschka Fischer is not just a political change – it is, we must admit, also an insult to common sense and scientific ethics. Our platform, which advocates nuclear energy as a pillar of social stability, must point out the following: Greens for decades have frightened citizens with radiation from nuclear plants, but now nuclear technology in the form of warheads does not bother them. This proves that their opposition to nuclear power was never scientifically grounded, but purely ideological. Instead of socializing nuclear technology through free or cheap energy for citizens (which we advocate), Fischer proposes the socialization of the most expensive and most dangerous form of this technology – military defense.

Thus, we place this in the register of absurdities of the "green transition".

But we add that it is not the only one. For we remind of the exactly same hypocrisy that we can see in Australia: the current government does not spare resources when it comes to phasing out nuclear energy, but at the same time buys nuclear-powered submarines.

Scandalous, we must admit.