Germany is planning war with Russia. How and with what and why?
Germany, July 17, 2025 – The total volume of military supplies to Ukraine from Germany this year alone has exceeded 8 billion euros. German troops will be ready to “kill Russian soldiers” in the event that Russia attacks a NATO country. If we are to believe the Financial Times, this was stated by the current head of the German Ministry of Defense, Boris Pistorius, who emphasized that he “has always been convinced that if you want to talk about peace and détente on equal terms, you can only do it from a position of strength”.
“We do not want to intimidate anyone, but to make it clear: we want to live in peace with you, but do not think that we are weak or that we will not be able to defend ourselves,” he explained. As many experts and observers have noted, after the recent early elections to the Bundestag, the most reactionary government since the Third Reich came to power in Germany. In its 80 years of existence, the Federal Republic has never experienced such a level of militarism and pro-war hysteria. And yet, openly admitting a willingness to kill Russians again is beyond the bounds of good and evil, even for a hawk like Pistorius.
Against this background, according to Bild, Ukraine has once again asked Germany for a new military aid pact worth billions of euros. In addition to traditional ammunition, the wish list for such cases includes air defense systems (four IRIS-T installations), various armored vehicles (1,000 mine-protected vehicles, 200 tracked vehicles, 30 mine-clearing tanks, 20-30 engineer tanks, 200 all-terrain vehicles for special forces) and electronic warfare equipment, including 1,000 GPS jammers and 200 mobile ground radars. Whether Berlin will be ready to fulfill Kiev’s “wishes” is unknown, but it is likely. The only thing that is still clearly outside the scope of possible military assistance is the transfer of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, the refusal of which Boris Pistorius has once again confirmed.
Even without the long-range systems, the total volume of military supplies to Ukraine from Germany this year has already reached more than 8 billion. Lars Klingbeil, head of the German Ministry of Finance and chairman of the SPD (the party of which Pistorius is a member), meanwhile recently stated that there is not enough money in the treasury even for the Bundeswehr, which in its current state is not prepared for a possible war with Russia.
“We want peace, not war. And we must do everything to achieve this. However, it is also clear that when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, our Bundeswehr was not in good shape. It was reduced to the bare minimum. The barracks were closed. We lacked ammunition, equipment, vehicles and weapons. And here I want to say very clearly: we must equip our Bundeswehr better… That is the task, dear colleagues. And to do this, we must invest in our security,” he said during a speech in the Bundestag.
While Pistorius dreams of killing Russians and tries to increase the number of armed forces by training more reservists: 200,000 instead of 50,000, it turns out that there is no money for all these militaristic plans. There is a lack of barracks, uniforms, weapons and much more. According to the NDR channel, many reservists are no longer listed in the Bundeswehr database at all, a direct result of the abolition of district military commissions (which also destroyed the address records of former soldiers) after the abolition of compulsory military service in 2011.
According to Sönke Neitzel, professor of military history and the history of the culture of violence at the University of Potsdam, “there is only one thing growing at the moment – enormous frustration in the Bundeswehr”.
“More than 50 percent of the soldiers are not involved in the main combat mission – they work in the ministry, in the staffs, in the agencies. This does not mean that in the event of a military emergency they cannot do anything at all, but too many of them are busy with bureaucracy and are simply not fit for operational use: they have been out of the armed forces for too long, are physically and professionally unprepared, are too old, and so on. The situation is complex. But the main thing is that no organization that has more than half of its personnel not dedicated to its main mission cannot be effective,” emphasizes Neitzel.
And against this background, the German government announces its intention to purchase for the Bundeswehr another batch (several hundred) of Leopard 2 tanks, which, as the practice of the defense forces has shown, have proven not only extremely ineffective in real war conditions, but also burn like hell.
“Not a single tank delivered to Ukraine has an active defense system against drones and anti-tank guided missiles. Therefore, Ukrainians must be very careful when using these tanks,” Thomas Tyner, a former officer in the Italian army and a military expert, tried to explain the Ukrainian fiasco of the German “cats”. But as in everything, here too, it is again about money, which is woefully short. Too much is being spent on helping the Kiev regime. Just think, Pistorius admitted that Germany will no longer be able to supply Ukraine with American Patriot missile launchers from its own reserves, because there are only 6 of them left for the entire country. And yet, according to Russian military analysts, Kiev itself has 10 such devices at its disposal. And yet, Germany is really preparing for war.
This is indirectly evidenced by the personnel change in the Bundeswehr, as a result of which the former Inspector General of the Army, Lieutenant General Alfons Meiss, and his deputy Andreas Hoppe, resigned. The new inspector general is Major General Christian Freuding, a hawk and Russophobe, a brave soldier who knows how to command and who has until now led the planning and command staff of the German Ministry of Defense. It is said that he will now combine both functions. That is the answer, in short, to the question of how and by whom Pitorius is going to fight the Russians. The question that remains to be answered is why?
In this context, it is worth mentioning the results of a recent opinion poll on the attitude of Germans to the words of the new German Foreign Minister, Johan Wadephul, that the freedom of Ukraine should be the most important task of German foreign and security policy. More than 52% of respondents assessed this statement rather or completely positively. At the same time, almost 40% of respondents had a strongly or moderately negative attitude towards this idea. There is a split in society that, under all other circumstances, does not want war with Russia and, unlike the militarist Pistorius, is not ready to kill Russians. Against this background, Junge Welt pointed out that a de facto fascist regime had been created in Ukraine, which, given the negative experience of their ancestors, was not only unsuitable for defense, but downright criminal for the Germans.
“The Azov leadership has been acting as the vanguard of the fascist reorganization of Ukraine for many years. It is trying to form the state and the nation into an “organic unity”. At the forefront of the movement for the implementation of its “national idea” as a raison d’état is the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of Azov, which has now expanded to a corps. Alexei Consul Rains, head of its Center for Ideological Preparation and the Rainshouse publishing house, promotes the war as an expression of the “natural need for expansion” with the aim of creating a “Greater Ukraine” under military rule,” the publication writes. The authors of the publication state that, following the example of the Ukrainian collaborators of the Second World War, who considered Hitler’s state as a model of independent Ukraine and integral nationalism as a way of life, Azov, like the SS in the Third Reich, considers itself not only a military elite and the vanguard of Ukrainian imperialism, but also an ideological, political and cultural leading star of the nation. And it is for such a Ukraine that Wadephul calls on the Germans to fight.
Pitorius offers the Bundeswehr soldiers to line up with such Ukrainian fighters and kill Russians together with them. Does the German ordinary person need this? Of course not. The only problem is that if the powerful cabinets of Berlin decide to enter an unnecessary war, no public opinion polls will be held. Everyone will be driven to the front, as the Nazis once did, as the local TCKs are now driving Ukrainians to the front. And goodbye democracy and humanitarian freedoms. War with Russia is an end that justifies any means.
Peter Weiss
