Drudgereport ran a headline Germany Sliding Toward Civil War with a link to an RT.com article with some local politicians claiming that the migrant crisis will lead to civil war in Germany.  Nothing could be more absurd!

First, although Germany is a classic nation-state, a state whose borders are coterminal with the boundaries of a population sharing a common language, culture or ethnicity.  There has been a strong undercurrent of nationalism in Germany since at least Bismarck in the 1860s, who used nationalism as a tool to peel the members of the German confederation out of the orbit of Austria and unite the various German principates with Prussia.  Germany does have a very strict citizenship law.  Naturalization of migrants is possible but arduous.  Der Volkgeist (national spirit) is alive and well in Germany.

This does not mean that there will be civil war.  We have obviously seen a rise in violence against migrants and politicians supporting the open border policy in Germany, but that does not mean a civil war or revolution is coming.

Germany has a federal system and individual states have a lot of autonomy.  The current policy may be creating friction between the federal government and the states, but nobody is raising a militia to take up arms against the federal government.

Drudgereport should know better than to pick up a story from a propaganda arm of the Russian State.  RT is government owned and is the English language mouth piece of the Putin regime.  Russia’s current policy is to undermine NATO and the EU wherever and whenever the opportunity presents itself.  The linked article was typical of the propaganda war to break the Western powers’ multilateral institutions.