In the CDU, women are disappearing.

And in Germany, in the face of war, feminism is declared expendable.

First from the big world stage to the small Saarland: Anke Rehlinger has advanced to the ranks of the SPD prime ministers.

But where the CDU and CSU rule, only men rule.

With Julia Klöckner, the last woman has just handed over the leadership of a CDU state association.

For months, the party has been reassured: We've had Angela Merkel for so long that one man can easily lead the party again.

The man's name is Merz, and his general secretary is also one.

After 16 years, it only took six months to turn back the clocks.

Men's parties are missing something essential: a corrective.

You saw that last week in the Bundestag.

Friedrich Merz and Alexander Dobrindt mocked Baerbock's "feminist foreign policy".

The government could do this nonsense, they said, but the special fund should only be used for serious armaments projects.

A symbol of how Merz ironically led his hands to his heart

It was emblematic how Merz wryly raised his hands to his heart when Baerbock replied that it broke her heart to see women's rights being played off against military spending in this way.

Merz was obviously not prepared for what followed.

Because Baerbock now told about the mothers of Srebrenica, who were raped in rows in the Bosnian war and have not forgotten how the International Criminal Court looked the other way because sexual violence was not recognized as a war crime at the time.

For centuries, laws were written and passed by men, always blind to the specific crimes against women.

Today, women are again telling how soldiers rape them.

The soldiers come from Russia, the women from Kyiv, Irpin and Cherson.

Feminism is not a luxury, it is the only answer to this violence.

Women's rights are always and everywhere an indicator of civilisation.

The more equality, the more stable the country.

And the more rebellious the women, the more panicky the dictator.

Putin is trying to quell his fears with terror.

But the Ukrainians don't stop blocking his tanks.

Belarusians are still forming hearts with their hands behind bars.

And the Russian women carry the truth on signs all the way to state television.

First Putin fantasized about rape, then he invaded the country

"Like it or not, my beauty, you must endure it," Putin threatened Ukraine.

First he fantasized about rape, then he invaded the country.

In this country, some are reacting paradoxically: not with hatred of Putin's destructive masculinity mania, but with their own, supposedly effeminate society.

They regard “feminist foreign policy” together with unisex toilets as the pinnacle of western decadence.

They watch impotently at the war in Ukraine while tweeting at minorities and women.

Do you want an anti-feminist foreign policy à la Putin, in which violence breaks the law?

Do you admire politicians who put women in their place, like Turkish President Ursula von der Leyen?

Do you crave Trump's tantrums?

Feminist foreign policy is a ridiculous self-realization project by the Greens, so the accusation;

a naive idea of ​​the traffic light, which became superfluous with Putin's first bomb.

In fact, Annalena Baerbock was one of the few who clearly saw Putin at all times.

The Russian President will not follow the rules, she exclaimed as a candidate for chancellor in one of the many television trills, while Scholz seemed to smile at her indignation.

In a tone of cool superiority, he announced: "They will dance with those who are in the hall."

Scholz, who still wanted to dance with Putin in the summer, claims that he saw everything coming the same way

While she wasn't naïve, Baerbock was caught off guard by Putin's war lies.

That's what she said on the day of the attack, visibly shocked.

She quickly reversed her no to arms deliveries.

Scholz, on the other hand, who still wanted to dance with Putin in the summer, now stated that he saw everything coming the same way.

That doesn't add up;

not with the reluctant farewell to Nord Stream 2, not with the cumbersome decision to impose sanctions, and certainly not with the historic claim of a turning point.

Maybe that's also feminist foreign policy: recognizing misjudgments, admitting them and learning from them.

In any case, it is a policy that sees women.

“Mia” is the name of the child Baerbock told the United Nations about, born in a Kyiv subway station to live.

Apparently it took a woman as Secretary of State to call this girl by her name.