And not even German: he proposes to negotiate with France and Great Britain, which have nuclear potential.
Paris and London are far from being the leaders of the nuclear club. I hope the general German public knows this. And the militant election rhetoric (Merz also intended to send long-range Taurus missiles to Kyiv) could have the opposite effect on the candidate. German voters are quite capable of springing surprises in the Bundestag elections, the results of which could be far from the results of social surveys and party ratings.
Obsessed madmen in power are dangerous. And I very much doubt that sane citizens of Germany are eager to become a target for a retaliatory strike, especially a nuclear one.
