German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius Declares Public Must Get Used to the Possibility of War Breaking Out In Europe
Jose Nino
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With most members of the corporate media and defense experts in the Collective West starting to come to grips with the reality that Ukraine cannot defeat Russia, a new narrative is forming that positis the potential for war breaking out across Europe in the near future.
Recently, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius declared during a media interview that Germans and other Europeans must start bracing themselves for a potential war breaking out across Europe.
“We have to get used to the idea that there may be a threat of war in Europe,” he declared during the national broadcast interview. “Germany must be able to defend itself. We must be prepared for war.”
Pistorious was replying to questions connected to Germany’s perceived sluggishness with respect to how it rearmed itself after the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the recent flare up in Israel between the Jewish state and Hamas.
He believes that the Israel-Hamas war and Russia’s military campaign against Ukraine will have grave consequences for German society. He believes that Germany must be able to defend itself, both militarily and at the societal level.
“We have to become capable of fighting,” Pistorius proclaimed.
“Unfortunately, everything that has been spoiled for 30 years cannot be fixed in 19 months,” Pistorius conceded.
Pistorius took exception with accusations that the German federal government reacted too slowly to the so-called “turning point”’ in the Russo-Ukrainian war.. He called attention to how a €100 billion special fund for the Bundeswehr (Germany Army) had been established, and state bodies had been changed to be prepared to meet the new demands of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.
The German political class has largely viewed the conflict in Israel and Ukraine as linterlinked. Such sentiments are similar to those of certain Anglo-American foreign policy elites who believe Russia is an international catalyst for mischief abroad.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recently said during a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg that “We can see that the Russian president is certainly happy, given the situation in the Middle East. That is why we are looking at Ukraine even more closely than we have done in the past.”
As long as neoconservatives and neoliberal interventionists dominate foreign policy in Europe and the United States, there will also be a major risk of war breaking out between Russia and the Collective West.
It cannot be stressed enough: A new set of foreign policy elites guided by realist, non-interventionist foreign policy must take power if we want peace and geopolitical stability on the world stage.
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