The AfD politician Martin Reichardt has published an opinion article and talks about the case of “Anastasia Rose”. The Bundeswehr soldier was charged because she was a DJ on Twitch while she was on sick leave at the Bundeswehr.
A few days ago we reported on MeinMMO about an incident in which a Bundeswehr soldier was sued: The young woman appears under the stage name “Anastasia Rose”. She was sued because she continued to stream on Twitch and work as a DJane while she was on sick leave for the German armed forces and contrary to the requests of a supervisor.
You can read the full article here: Bundeswehr soldier is reported because she is a DJ on Twitch.
Now an AfD politician has commented on the subject (via tagesstimme.com). Martin Reichardt is, among other things, state chairman of the AfD Saxony-Anhalt and sits for his party in the German Bundestag.
“Who actually serves whom here?”
Reichardt paints a bleak picture of the state of the Bundeswehr and society. He sees the incident involving the twitch streamer as “symptomatic of the state of the Bundeswehr” and criticizes the decisions made by defense ministers in recent years:
In a country where, for years, defense ministers have preferred to deal with gender ideologization and LGBT niche politics than with a reasonable equipment of the troops, where the hunt for alleged right-wing extremists in the Bundeswehr is preferred instead of acknowledging that the military always does too necessarily reliant on conservative values - in such a country a case like this is anything but surprising.
Reichardt evokes a tension between conservative and liberal-individualistic values, which is particularly evident in military service: He says that a society that places so much value on individuality would lead to soldiers putting their own well-being above that of the Bundeswehr they had committed.
Our society is moving towards a “radical individualism”. This in turn means that people tend to put their own needs ahead of those of the community.
We are dealing with this field of tension here: A society that has shifted its value corridor so far in the direction of radical individualism that every self-definition, no matter how absurd it may be, has to be recognized as such by society almost automatically Individuals who place their own well-being above that of a community they are committed to serving.
Reichardt says that the acknowledgment of all self-definitions by individuals “in the long run insidiously sabotages our internal and external security, as it gradually undermines the values of discipline, sense of duty and community”.
Reichardt sees the social networks as the driving force behind this development. TikTok and Instagram in particular, with a focus on looks and followers, mean that military service becomes a kind of accessory – like a handbag or a new coat.
AfD politician accuses Twitch streamer of using the Bundeswehr as a “glamor factor”.
Reichardt again mentions Anastasia Rose as an example. On Instagram, she pinned a photo of herself posing with a flamethrower. “Military service as a glamor factor,” Reichardt calls it.
In addition, Reichardt has enough historical quote to underpin his message: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country” by John F. Kennedy.
His conclusion: “We need a very fundamental change in values in order to finally be able to protect our country effectively again and to strengthen social cohesion”.
In the end, a necessary upheaval in society is outlined here because a woman may have violated the rules of the Bundeswehr.
Anastasia Rose herself said to the indictment that she had never seen her appearances as a sideline (via nordkurier.de). She does not get any money for the performances and does not act as an organizer. She sees her work as purely artistic and would not have actually disclosed her job in the Bundeswehr to the public.