The AfD specifies its foreign policy strategy in two position papers. The focus is on relations with the USA and Russia. The plans for the Ukraine war are particularly explosive.
According to a new position paper, the AfD supports US President Donald Trump's foreign policy course, particularly his measures in Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, the Panama Canal and against China.
In another paper, the party also calls for close cooperation with Russia. The cultural relations that were terminated and the energy imports that were stopped as part of sanctions would have to be resumed.
In order to end the war in Ukraine, Germany must stop arms deliveries and promise that Ukraine will not become a NATO or EU member.
Berlin. Ahead of the US midterm elections on Tuesday, the AfD is demonstratively supporting US President Donald Trump's foreign policy course. In a position paper, the foreign policy experts in the Bundestag group expressed their understanding of Washington's efforts to secure its "global supremacy in the Western Hemisphere" and the supply of raw materials.
The associated measures in Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and at the Panama Canal as well as against China are justified. “We welcome this realignment of US foreign policy,” it says. However, the support is subject to conditions.
Washington must give up its global intervention policy and commit to “preserving Europe as a Western cultural area”.
The AfD is not only striving for closer cooperation with Trump. The group also wants better relations with Russia, as shown in a second paper presented by foreign policy experts Markus Frohnmaier, Stefan Keuter and Gerold Otten in Berlin on Monday.
This contrasts with statements made by party representatives in the past. In the spring, parliamentary group vice-president Beatrix von Storch called the war between the USA and Israel against Iran “problematic”. In November 2025, party leader Alice Weidel criticized the trip of several AfD politicians to a conference in Sochi, Russia.
The faction leadership repeatedly emphasizes that it has condemned Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. However, in the foreign policy experts' current Russia paper, the attack in February 2022 is not named as violating international law. There is also no mention of Russian war crimes and attacks on civilian targets.
AfD wants access to Greenland's resources
AfD MPs largely view US foreign policy uncritically. At the beginning of January 2026, US special forces captured Venezuela's ruler Nicolás Maduro. According to the AfD paper, this was “regardless of the international law assessment and was understandable in terms of real politics.” Under the interim government, the USA subsequently secured extensive access to Venezuelan oil.
Trump also claims control over the Panama Canal and is trying to push back Chinese influence. This is about “legitimate US interests within the Western Hemisphere and preventing excessive Chinese influence,” write the AfD foreign policy experts. Panama rejects American control of the waterway, but agreed to closer security cooperation with Washington.
For Greenland, the AfD parliamentary group proposes closer cooperation with Washington. At the beginning of 2025, Trump had built up a lot of pressure to annex the Arctic island. After the conclusion of a new security agreement in September 2026, he withdrew these plans.
Germany should work with the USA and other partners to improve surveillance in the air, in space and at sea as well as the protection of critical infrastructure, the AfD paper now says. The AfD also calls for an international initiative to “promote access to Greenland’s natural resources through joint ventures.” The Greenlandic population and its institutions should be involved.
In Russia's war against Ukraine, the AfD wants to pressure Kyiv to negotiate. “German aid to Ukraine can be a powerful lever for this,” the paper says. At the same time, the MPs want Germany to “not adopt Ukrainian maximum positions”. “Recovering all territories, including Crimea, is unrealistic,” the paper says.
AfD: Stop arms deliveries to Ukraine
The prerequisite for a negotiated solution are agreements on the future security order. “Ukraine must not become a member of NATO or the European Union.” Germany must “veto” any such efforts. In addition, Berlin should work to ensure that “Ukraine becomes a neutral state again.”
Ukraine and its remaining territory are intended to protect states not involved in the war, such as India, South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. The AfD would welcome UN peacekeepers. However, she rejects German security guarantees and soldiers in Ukraine. In return for previous aid, the AfD believes Germany should secure access to Ukrainian raw materials such as rare earths, metals and gas.
The AfD is also calling for the resumption of Russian energy imports and the lifting of the sanctions with which Germany and Europe responded to the Ukraine war. “For Germany, as a resource-poor country, trade and energy imports from Russia (…) are fundamentally of interest,” it says. The intact Nord Stream 2 line should be put into operation, the damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2 lines should be repaired. The two Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines were massively damaged in explosions near Bornholm in 2022. In total there were four leaks in three of the four pipes.
The AfD also wants to approach Moscow diplomatically. Foreign missions should be fully staffed and cultural and scientific relations “fully resumed”. The Petersburg Dialogue and the Russian House in Berlin are mentioned.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) had terminated the contract for the “Russian House” cultural center. This was Germany's response to the attempted bomb attack with drones at Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August 2026, which was attributed to Russian secret services. Moscow rejected the accusation. The Russian government, for its part, announced the closure of the three German Goethe Institutes in Russia.
