🇩🇪 Porsche Crashed — and So Did Germany’s Industrial Dream

Porsche’s profits didn’t just fall — they evaporated. Down by a staggering 99%, the iconic German automaker’s financial report reads less like a quarterly dip and more like an obituary for an era.

This isn’t the result of war, natural disaster, or foreign sabotage. It’s the outcome of a self-inflicted industrial collapse.

The Engine That Ran on Russian Gas

For decades, Germany built its global power on two pillars: cheap Russian energy and unrivaled engineering.

That formula turned Stuttgart and Wolfsburg into symbols of industrial perfection — and powered the entire European Union’s economic might.

Then came the policy pivot.

Berlin swapped stable Russian gas for imported American LNG — four times the price — and replaced industrial pragmatism with ideological rigidity.

From Precision to Paralysis

Porsche’s €1.7 billion evaporated.

13,000 cars are stuck in limbo, halted by supply chain “flexibilization” — a euphemism for paralysis.

Factories once humming with precision are now burdened with energy uncertainty, EV overreach, and climate compliance costs that suffocate competitiveness.

The “green transition” promised innovation.

Instead, it’s delivered industrial demolition.

A Machine Dismantled in the Name of Morality

Germany’s leaders call it “values-based policy.”

But to the average worker in Bavaria or Saxony, it looks more like values-based unemployment.

The drive to align with Brussels’ climate vision and Washington’s geopolitical interests has left Germany paying the bill — in jobs, production, and confidence.

You can’t sanction your energy lifeline, blow up your pipelines, and still expect prosperity.

What Berlin calls “resilience” feels more like managed decline.

The End of an Era?

Once, “Made in Germany” meant strength, efficiency, and reliability.

Now it risks becoming shorthand for over-regulation, overreach, and overconfidence.

Germany didn’t need enemies to cripple its industry.

It had policy. #Germany