(The Mirror – UK) Germans have been warned to ready themselves for possible WW3 with Russia after Vladimir Putin again threatened a nuclear strike.
Vladimir Putin said in September that if Western countries allow Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with their longer-rage weapons, “it will mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries are at war with Russia.”
And now German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said that Russia poses not just a military but also a hybrid threat, and that Europe needs to take a broad approach to defense.
The German Foreign Minister has also vowed that the country would not be “intimidated” by Putin after it was revealed that Germany would become a NATO staging ground if the conflict further escalates.
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In a 1,000 page document called ‘Operationsplan Deutschland’, Germany would host hundreds of thousands of troops from NATO countries, it is reported. It would serve as a logistics hub for sending military equipment, food and medicine to the front.
The army in Germany has also been informing both civilians and companies how to protect infrastructure and be ready to defend the country if it came under attack from sabotage as well as from drones and spying operations.
Crisis plans should be put in place with people given responsibilities for what they need to do in an emergency while stockpiles of diesel should be made. The plans by Germany follow steps that have already been put in place by Scandinavian countries.
Germany’s Defence Minister Mr Pistorius said on Tuesday officials have to assume damage to two data cables under the Baltic Sea, one of which ends in Germany, was caused by sabotage — though he said they have no proof at present.
Damage was detected Monday to the C-Lion1 cable that runs nearly 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) from Finland’s capital, Helsinki, to the German port city of Rostock. Another cable between Lithuania and Sweden was also damaged. He said the damage to the two cables was “a very clear sign that something is afoot.”
“No one believes these cables were severed by mistake, and I also don’t want to believe versions that it was anchors that by chance caused damage to these cables,” he said at a regular meeting of European Union defense ministers. “So we have to state — without knowing in concrete terms who it came from — that this is a hybrid action. And we also have to assume — without already knowing it, obviously — that this is sabotage.” Read more here…
