The Forced Shuttering Of RT DE Productions Exposes The EU’s Fear Of Alternative Views

Neither RT DE Productions nor RT DE take partisan stances towards Germany’s domestic issues but simply inform their audience of alternative ways through which to analyze everything that’s going on. The German political establishment feels very uncomfortable with that though since it threatens the consolidation of their power and resultant efforts to evolve the EU into a liberal dictatorship, hence the need as they see it to suppress anything that stands in their way, ergo the latest development.

The EU’s ninth sanctions package against Russia created the conditions that forced RT DE Productions, the German-based company that supplies news for RT DE, to shutter its operations in the bloc’s de facto leader. This development deals a blow to German journalism by making it more difficult to produce content about that country. RT DE will presumably continue operating online from Moscow, but its lack of an on-the-ground presence in Germany will likely impede some of its work.

About that, observers should keep in mind that RT’s German-language channel complements its English and other counterparts by sharing alternative – specifically non-mainstream – content designed to get its audience to “question more” as its catchphrase goes. By forcing RT DE Productions to close, the EU is consolidating its control over narratives about sensitive subjects like the Ukrainian Conflict, which aligns with the trend of the US-led West’s Golden Billion turning into a liberal dictatorship.

The freedoms of speech and press, which are heralded as among the most cherished Western values ever, are only selectively protected within this de facto New Cold War bloc whenever it’s “politically convenient” to do so. In instances where those within it flex their right to those freedoms to share viewpoints that go against the “official narrative” on sensitive subjects, they more often than not find it extremely difficult to operate, have their content’s reach suppressed, and/or are forced to close.

Everyone in Germany who consumes RT DE’s content that was hitherto created by its eponymous production company did so voluntarily due to their desire to widen their range of sources for better understanding the Ukrainian Conflict and other sensitive subjects. Nobody coerced them to visit its website or stream its videos. That being the case, it can therefore be concluded that this soft power consequence of the EU’s ninth sanctions package is also a punishment against German free thinkers.

Being from the most powerful country in the EU by far, the German people have the potential to make meaningful changes across the continent via their democratic processes if they vote for candidates who embody the spirit of change that’s sweeping the world nowadays. Therein lies the unstated reason why their political establishment sought to shutter RT DE Productions since they fear that increased awareness of new paradigms for interpreting events might gradually lead to more far-reaching changes.

Neither RT DE Productions nor RT DE take partisan stances towards Germany’s domestic issues but simply inform their audience of alternative ways through which to analyze everything that’s going on. The German political establishment feels very uncomfortable with that though since it threatens the consolidation of their power and resultant efforts to evolve the EU into a liberal dictatorship, hence the need as they see it to suppress anything that stands in their way, ergo the latest development.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock vowed late last August that “If I give the promise to people in Ukraine – ‘We stand with you, as long as you need us’ – then I want to deliver. No matter what my German voters think, but I want to deliver to the people of Ukraine.” That declaration was the clearest evidence yet that her country is leading the EU’s evolution into a liberal dictatorship, which was followed a few months later by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unofficial manifesto in Foreign Affairs magazine.

In his article about “The Global Zeitenwende: How to Avoid a New Cold War in a Multipolar Era”, the German leader suggested removing the ability of individual countries to veto certain measures, among the multitude of other ideas that he proposed that are beyond the scope of the present piece. That one in particular, however, confirms that Germany envisages dominating the bloc by neutralizing all political resistance to it from countries like Hungary and Poland for instance.

Baerbock and Scholz’s remarks, which represent the domestic and international levels of Germany’s planned liberal dictatorship respectively, add crucial context to the ninth sanctions package’s soft power consequence connected to RT DE Productions’ forced shuttering. By making it impossible for that company to operate, the German political establishment hopes to curtail the organic rise of contrarian towards this disturbing trend that defies everything that the EU used to stand for.

The EU’s earlier form was imperfect and admittedly always had the trappings of a liberal dictatorship but it hadn’t so openly aspired to evolve in that direction until recently. The latest phase of the Ukrainian Conflict that began after the start of Russia’s special operation, which was commenced to defend the integrity of its national security red lines after NATO crossed them there, was opportunistically exploited to accelerate this scenario that some forces always fantasized about.

The faux national security pretexts that EU leaders artificially manufactured vis-à-vis their consequent fearmongering about Russia served to manipulate the masses into going along with that which they’d otherwise be loath to support due to how drastically it defies everything that the bloc used to stand for. Over the past year, however, a growing number of folks began to wise up and realize that they’d been hoodwinked by their leaders into going against their socio-political and economic interests.

The US successfully reasserted its previously declining unipolar hegemony over the EU at the bloc’s collective expense as proven by the economic crisis caused by its compliance with Washington’s anti-Russian sanctions, which the New York Times recently admitted had failed to stop that country’s growth. While US economic growth was higher than expected in the last three months of 2022 at 2.9%, the IMF’s Managing Director warned that “half of the European Union will be in a recession” this year.

These objectively existing facts, namely that the Russian and US economies are growing while half of the EU’s is expected to slip into a recession, could lead to more Europeans and in particular Germans supporting political forces during their next elections who promise to shake up the establishment. That scenario is obviously against the interests of those in power, which explains why they’re seeking to preempt it by forcing RT DE Productions to close since its content doesn’t hew to the establishment line.

Nevertheless, Pandora’s Box has already been opened by none other than that selfsame establishment after it inadvertently set these political trends in motion by complying with the US’ anti-Russian sanctions demands that counterproductively went against the EU establishment’s own interests. The shuttering of RT DE Productions might slow down the aforesaid trend but won’t stop it since the processes that they themselves unleashed are irreversible and will inevitably result in change.