German Elites Lose UN Security Council Seat. Collapse of Europe's Leading Power (The Duran)

Germany has failed to secure a rotating UN Security Council seat for the first time in memory, losing to Austria and Portugal in a vote presided over by Annalena Baerbock herself, the former foreign minister widely blamed for accelerating Germany's diplomatic collapse through deindustrialization, the Nordstream silence, and an ideologically driven foreign policy that has made Berlin one of the least popular capitals in the Global South. Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris on The Duran argue the defeat is entirely self-inflicted, a reflection of a country that chose vassalage over sovereignty, and that Germany's humiliation at the UN is inseparable from the broader implosion of the European Union's ambitions as a global power. If Germany, once the engine of European diplomacy and the continent's most respected voice, can no longer win a basic UN vote, what does that tell us about where Europe is really headed?



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 9, 2026.]