Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this essay from Politically Incorrect:

Is there a risk of German mass suicide after Putin’s victory?

by Wolfgang Hübner

Petra Gerster was a presenter on the Böhmermann channel on ZDF for many years. She has been retired since 2021 and is now approaching her 70th year, as blonde as ever. Since there is a strange view in Germany that talking dolls who present the news also understand something about world politics, Gerster, who comes from a CDU political family, was recently able to make the following statement at the “Sunday regulars’ table” on BR (Bavarian Broadcast) television: “Personally, I am more afraid that Putin will win the war than detonating the atomic bomb.”

The Bambi award winner has not only proven that she is always available for the increasing war preparation activities of her regular station. With these words she also highly recommended herself for membership in the “Putin Bäh!” association of Strack-Zimmermann, Hofreiter, Kiesewetter and Baerbock.

So there are still real tasks and challenges waiting for the older ZDF lady. And if the detonation of an atomic bomb by Vladimir near Gerster were to actually prevent all of this, it no longer presents a frightening prospect for her at her advanced age.

But what will Gerster do if Putin wins the war? What then will all of those do who placed such expensive bets on his defeat at taxpayer expense?

Will there then be desperate mass suicides again in Germany, like in those unfortunate weeks and months of Nazi Armageddon in the spring of 1945? Will we then be robbed of valuable members of our Western elite and somehow have to deal with the Moscow beast on our own? Frightening questions!

Afterword from the translator:

Why does this statement sounds to my ears eerily like; “If things aren’t going my way, then I don’t give a damn what happens to others. After me the flood, and may the devil take all,” and not like the impending mass suicide of those who are hell bent on war, destruction and absolute power over others? These people will go out of their way, just like Hitler and his cronies did, to destroy everything if they can’t have it themselves. And frankly, when has it been different in our history? It’s always those who GAIN from war that will “patriotically” sacrifice everyone else who doesn’t belong to their clique of megalomaniacs and sycophants. The little people might be forced to start a rebellion, but as far as I can tell, they never started an actual shooting war with their neighbours.