The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party, which have significant support in eastern Germany, both share views that are critical of NATO and supportive of Russia. This can influence Germany attitude towards the war.

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The presence of political parties in Germany with pro-Russia and critical views of NATO can influence the country's stance towards Russia.

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"The Potsdam military historian Sonke Neitzel says that a considerable number of Germans “still consider the U.S. to be the real enemy.” Although deep-rooted anti-Americanism is an all-German phenomenon, as a long-term effect of German Democratic Republic propaganda it is much more pronounced in the east than in the west. Voters of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party, both of which have their greatest voter potential in the new federal states, are particularly susceptible to this. Die Linke, the Left Party, is the former East German governing one, the Socialist Union Party, which was not dissolved after the fall of the Berlin Wall,"

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Understanding Germany’s half-hearted support of Ukraine