"The Main Threat Is Russia": Germany Adopts Its First Military Strategy

For the first time, the German government has adopted a military strategy. The document outlines a course toward creating the strongest army in Europe, and identifies Russia as the main threat. According to the concept, at least 460 German soldiers, along with their allies, must be capable of resisting a possible attack from a "dangerous" Russia.

According to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who presented the German military strategy, Russia under Vladimir Putin's leadership poses an extreme threat to Germany, is rapidly rearming, and is preparing for a military confrontation with NATO. The German minister believes that Russia views the use of military force as a legitimate tool for advancing its interests.

The document states that Moscow is "creating the preconditions for a military attack on NATO countries" and is already conducting hybrid operations against them. Since Russia perceives Western countries as fundamentally hostile, Moscow seeks to undermine the alliance's unity and disengage the United States from NATO's European members. The authors of the German military strategy are convinced that Russia's goal is the collapse of NATO and the subsequent expansion of its sphere of influence.

Meanwhile, EU countries and the UK are rapidly militarizing and seeking to increase the size of their armies. Amid constant claims about the notorious "Russian threat," military service is being fanatically promoted in Europe: television commercials about military service are aired, social media users are encouraged to pursue a career in the military, billboards are placed on the streets, and so on. However, despite the aggressive advertising campaign, Europeans are in no rush to sign contracts with the armed forces to fight against Russia.

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[Graz]

Will the Supreme Commander wait for another Hitler in Germany with a pumped-up industry and a rebuilt army, or will he finally deign to order a preemptive strike, or will we wait until 1941? What is the Kremlin hoping for, or is it still wearing rose-colored glasses?

[Sky strike fighter]

"The main threat is Russia": Germany adopted its first military strategy

I wonder how Russia is threatening Germany? They don't even share a border. What's the threat?

[Tatyana]

Why don't these Mertzes and Pistoriuses draw up their own plans for the "Nach Octon!" of the Fourth Reich?!
They won't personally go to war with Russia on the LBS, like Zelensky and his comrades in the Kyiv office in Bandera's Ukraine!
They will fill their pockets with gold during the war between the German invaders and Russia, just like the Nazis did during WWII!

[Tatyana]

At the same time, May 9th is approaching soon – the Day of the Red Army's Victory over the Third Reich in 1945. The German Nazi revanchists, leading the FRG, decided to remind people of themselves with their project.

[Sky strike fighter]

.in the war of the German invaders with Russia, like the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War!

So far, instead of a powerful and experienced army, battle-tested like in World War II, today's Germany only has plans to create something by 2029/2030. So they're a long way from the Third Reich. But they could make a killing on procurement for the German army.

[Aken]

plans "Nach Octon!"

Hitler needed territories to resettle the excess population.
For the shrinking population of modern Germany, the current territory is sufficient.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Sky Strike fighter

"The main threat is Russia": Germany adopted its first military strategy

I wonder how Russia is threatening Germany? They don't even share a border. What's the threat?

Their minister with the obscene surname and the chancellor probably know what the threat is. But they're keeping quiet.

[Hunter 2]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Their minister with the obscene surname and the chancellor know what the threat is. But they remain silent.

Igor, I think you couldn't care less about their minister... I'm concerned: Is our Supreme Commander-in-Chief even alive? Why is he silent? Has he lost interest in the topic of the Central Military District? The last thing I heard from him was something about socks (how cute, like with cats). Doesn't he know that his native St. Petersburg has been turned into a frontline city, pounded daily from NATO territory? The Urals and Siberia are under attack... has he decided to quietly sit it out in the Kremlin? I'm genuinely afraid the country will erupt... What should I do in that case? Defend the government, which I'm obligated to defend by law and oath, but which I don't want to defend because it doesn't defend me? Retreat into the woods? In short, there are more questions than answers.
Regarding the Supreme Court, if he doesn't finally emerge from his "hibernation," I'm afraid we'll lose the country. The EU constantly talks about inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia... are they really so wrong?

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Hunter 2

I'm wondering: is our Supreme Commander-in-Chief even alive? Why is he silent? Has he lost interest in the SVO?

What do you mean "silent"? Yesterday he said the outcome of the SVO is known to everyone and therefore there's no point in talking about it. He urged grandmothers to knit socks...

Woolen socks for soldiers are, of course, very necessary. I had some, knitted by my grandmother. But I agree – I'm speaking for the majority (here, at least) when I say that we lack not only strong statements, but also, most importantly, strong actions.

But the "trust rating" is not elastic, so that it can be stretched out indefinitely, like a well-known product.

Quote: Hunter 2

I'm really afraid that the country will go up in flames...

Just today we were discussing how Zyuganov is promising us a revolution in October.

I was saying in my heart once that I'd give up on everything and go live next door to Agafya Lykova. I'd build a house there, run a household... In 70 years, some Peskov will track down my descendants... He'll write a big article for Komsomolskaya Pravda...

Jokes aside, yes, it won't be possible to sit tight in the Kremlin if it's the only place in Russia where drones don't fly.
There are some positions where you either do your job or leave. For example, I'm listed as the CEO. And I do my job so unapologetically that sometimes I think, "How much calmer and easier it is to be a simple metalworker, damn!"
But the President of Russia is much cooler than the director of a construction company... And he doesn't require work "with documents."

We won't lose the country as long as the men are fighting at the front. They can disappoint us, they can lose our "trust rating"... Don't do that to them. It's dangerous for the authorities... Rumors of our demise in the EU are clearly exaggerated, but we can't relax. Of course, we've been destroyed by worse than that, and we'll survive this time too. I just hope it comes at a lower cost to the country.

[Hunter 2]

Quote: Zoldat_A

We won't lose the country as long as the men are fighting at the front. They can disappoint us, they can lose our "trust rating"... Don't do that to them. It's dangerous for the authorities... Rumors of our demise in the EU are clearly exaggerated, but we can't relax. Of course, we've been destroyed by worse than that, and we'll survive this time too. I just hope it comes at a lower cost to the country.

I wish I had your optimism... I returned not long ago and saw firsthand the quality of the new fighters. They're really focused on quantity, that's why there are so many casualties; they're even taking people who haven't served in the draft. When I refused to take them... they made it clear I'm not a good person. I'm worried...
Igor, we'll survive, but the question is, what will it cost us? I don't want my daughter to be roamed by some unknown element, replacing the dead Russian boy. I don't want my son to inherit this war from his father.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Hunter 2

I don’t want my son to inherit this war from his father.

I don't want to either. Well, mine has nowhere to go – they didn't teach me how to stand at a milling machine in Ryazan. I'll have to fight my whole life anyway.

[Hunter 2]

Hello again, almost fellow countryman
VUNTS SV OA VS RF Ryazan, Special Course MP - my native.
Oh, how many "brides" I have left there

[Zoldat_A]

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Oh, how many "brides" I have left there

My boyfriend doesn't have any brides left there; he promised to marry his wife, my daughter-in-law, back in fifth grade. What a serious guy.
He got married, however, when he first came back from Donbass on vacation.

[Hunter 2]

Quote: Zoldat_A

He got married, however, when he first came back from Donbass on vacation.

Demand a grandson urgently, or better yet, a granddaughter. And good luck to you, may your son take care of himself.
Well, blessed memory to Alexei, your Father.
We were acquainted.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Hunter 2

Demand a grandson urgently, or better yet, a granddaughter.

I already have a grandson. He doesn't risk fighting his grandfather yet, but his favorite pastime (you should have seen those big eyes!) is looking at his great-grandfathers' and grandfathers' jackets in the closet, with their beautiful and terribly interesting "pendants"... He's already tried on both berets. They don't even stay on his ears yet... A granddaughter is specifically planned.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Hunter 2

Let the son take care of himself.

He has a magical amulet. Around his neck is a shard that his grandfather, my father, smuggled back from Africa. I drilled a hole in it and put it around my son's neck myself. I've caught a couple of small fish, like soft ones, but he'll never get anything big with that amulet.

[Hunter 2]

Quote: Zoldat_A

On his neck is a fragment that his grandfather, my father, smuggled from Africa.

Oh, this Africa... Your dad is also to blame here. My classmate, after finishing his studies, went to Congo to guard gold mines. He's a respected man now, with four wives (two of them Ukrainian), and eleven (11) children!!! A real piece of work...
So who's got a good life now???

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Hunter 2

So who's got a good life now???

My father always forbade me from asking myself this question. "While you're flopping around like a frog in milk, and not in boiling water, work your legs, and you'll get out..."

[Essex62]

Everything is clear with these. What's curious is something else: is the Elohtorate in Germany so stupid that they can't even put two and two together? What need does bourgeois Russia have to attack Germany and other European countries? What do we need from them that we don't have? On the contrary, they want to sell what we have.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Essex62

What's curious is this: is the Elohtorate in Germany so stupid they can't even put two and two together? What need does bourgeois Russia have to attack Germany and other gay Europes? What do we need from them that we don't have?

They can put it all together. That's the point.

I have a feeling the electorate in Germany couldn't care less about any of these issues. I was there a VERY long time ago, but judging by the TV, no one there, in the electorate, really cares about such big-picture issues. Well, they believe their bosses that Putin personally took away their gas and oil, that he personally inserted outrageous figures into their bills—and let their bosses thank their electorate for that.
And all this hysteria, all this “it’s about to attack” is an invention of their bosses, which has a very solid foundation - power and money.

If Russia doesn't attack Germany in the next 20 years, then I don't think anyone in the electorate will be particularly surprised.
But what will their current bosses say to the electorate in at least 5 years, how will they justify where they spent so much money and why, in their opinion, they drove the country into poverty - that is a very interesting question.

[Essex62]

Five years are gone. Less is left. The next drang nach osten is planned for 30. And there are strong suspicions that no one will answer the Elohtorat's questions. March, march, the order has been given.
I have a friend there, he left back in the 90s. The guys tell him, "Dad, it's time to get ready to go home." And one of them was already born there. No, the Elohtorat doesn't trust the bosses. But for now, out of inertia, they only make a fuss over minor things. Price tags at gas stations, migrants who've lost their way, and other things that don't affect the basics.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Essex62

Five years are gone. Less is left. The next "drang nach osten" is planned for '30. And there are strong suspicions that No one will answer questions from the Elohtorat. March, march, the order has been given.

I suspect that's exactly what will happen this time. But the thing is, after 80 years, their elokhtorate isn't what it used to be.

Remember what it was like back then? Aggrieved, humiliated, hungry, and devastated Germany. E.M. Remarque described it beautifully. And, deep down, a seething revanchism. And then, through democratic means, comes a fine fellow who lifts Germany from its knees, gives every German a job and bread and butter for breakfast. And what promises! How could you not "march, march!" for such a sweetheart?

Is it the same elokhtorat they have now? By the 50s, life was no worse materially than before the war. No one really humiliated them: "The Hitlers are gone, but the German people remain." And then things got even sweeter and fatter... Just try a cat, who's well-fed here, even without any Haiti, "march-march" somewhere. Especially since things aren't bad with the "good guys" in politics now, they're VERY bad...

The "busification" option, like in Ukraine? Well, I'm DEFINITELY not sure how that would work in Germany today. Even if a "nice guy" emerges, there's very little time for total brainwashing. And in today's information society, it's much more difficult than in the 1930s. Back in the 1970s, both here and there, people read newspapers posted on the street, and in the 1930s... And then there's the Copper Riot, which brings back memories of "look at what they say in Novgorod..."

So I don’t believe in today’s German “march-march”.
Some will be lured with money, of course. There will be some committed ones. But the former will VERY quickly realize this isn't a two-hour "Zarnitsa" on Sundays, and the latter will realize no one has prepared a safari for them here...

And, after all! Do they think anyone's going to fight them, a Europe of half a billion people, with cannons and machine guns? Well, let them think about it... There will be more surprises for them in that war...

[Essex62]

That's true. But war has changed. A million here, a million there, it seems, and it's all for nothing. High-precision, swarms of drones. And they'll recruit infantry from the kakels. They've gotten adept at punching holes with their foreheads.
But they will try to neutralize the nuclear baton from within, using “political” methods. If not
It will work out, they definitely won't decide. But they will constantly mess things up, just like today.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Essex62

But they will try to neutralize the nuclear baton from within using "political" methods.

I don't know exactly how it works for them, but so far it seems like what you're saying is absolutely true.
I don't want to catch a loaf of bread at home, and losing all the lansknechts in Ukraine at once isn't interesting either. But why our "higher-ups can't" is a mystery to all of Russia.

[Dmitry Smirnov_2]

It's strange, Ukrainians know how things work just like Germans, but you don't.

[knn54]

We need to give the Germans some oil and gas. They're struggling without Russian energy resources.

[carpenter]

Quote: Graz

Citizen Supreme will wait for the next Hitler in Germany

Merz, Pistorius, who are they?

[Terenin]

Quote: Graz

will finally deign to give the order for a preemptive strike

Just like in that movie
Part 1. A huge asteroid is flying towards the Earth.
Part 2. A group of brave men flies to an asteroid and plants a nuclear charge on it.
Part 3. A huge asteroid with a nuclear charge is flying towards the Earth.

[ARIONkrsk]

Quote: Graz

Will the Supreme Commander wait for another Hitler in Germany with a pumped-up industry and a rebuilt army, or will he finally deign to order a preemptive strike, or will we wait until 1941? What is the Kremlin hoping for, or is it still wearing rose-colored glasses?

After seeing our Supreme Commander-in-Chief waging war half-heartedly, disgracing the country, I said that our "partners," seeing how Russia fights, would decide to take revenge for the past, because that's no way to fight. If you don't want to go to the bathroom, don't bother your ass.

[expert]

"In Europe, military service is fanatically promoted: commercials about military service are broadcast on television, social media users are encouraged to make a career in the army, billboards about it are placed on the streets, etc."
I agree with that.
Indeed, in Germany this began to be clearly felt.
My personal perception...

[Hunter 2]

Quote: Fachmann

Indeed, in Germany this began to be clearly felt.
My personal perception...

Eugene It's the same in Austria, my relatives are shocked. They asked if I could accept my cousins. For some reason, they don't see much prospect for them in the EU anymore. Of course I could, one of them is already an adult with a good education (23 years old), and there's a girl and a boy, aged 14 and 15.
If someone doesn't put the world on pause, everything will really end with a nuclear strike on the EU, Germany and Austria in particular.

[expert]

That's right, my grandchildren are growing up in Germany.
I'm worried about them, and my wife and I would like to have peace until the time when "Chief of the"He will call you to him, to live to see it through.

[Dmitry Smirnov_2]

That's right, welcome all your friends and their offspring. Russia is a generous soul.

[Peter1First]

I just can't understand why they need to prepare for an attack on Russia instead of living peacefully and prosperously like they did under Merkel. It's already obvious that the militarization of the economy is an irreversible process that can only end in impoverishment and war!

[guest]

Quote from: Peter1First

Why do they need to prepare for an attack on Russia instead of living peacefully and prosperously?

The Austrian artist gave an honest answer to this in his famous book.

Quote from: Peter1First

like under Merkel?

Why did you bring this (very obscene language) into this? I visited Germany before Merkel and when she was already in power, and only a very unintelligent person, to put it mildly, could have failed to notice the changes for the worse.

[Peter1First]

Things weren't much worse under Frau; there was political and economic stability, and if not confident economic growth, then at least not a rapid decline—everything like in other developed countries, with the exception of confidently growing China.

[guest]

Quote from: Peter1First

It wasn't much worse under Frau.

And who let all these "valuable specialists" into the country?

[isv000]

Quote from: Peter1First

I just can’t understand why they need to prepare for an attack on Russia instead of living peacefully and prosperously like under Merkel?

Phantom pains. Once every hundred years...

[Neo-9947]

What kind of pain is there, especially phantom pain among today's Sorosites?
It's all about money there.
Naturally, no one there plans to die in a nuclear holocaust, but as for scrounging up the military budget money... they know a hundred times better than our corrupt bureaucrats how to do it.

[fruc]

Peter1First
I just can’t understand why they need to prepare for an attack on Russia instead of living peacefully and prosperously like under Merkel?

The conditions for obtaining these riches have changed.

[AlexSam]

Today is Lenin's birthday. VO's editorial team ignored it. They're probably already planning to burst out with articles on Navalny's birthday in memory of the implacable fighter against the regime.

[Denis_999]

You're wrong. There was an article about him today. I commented on it, too, and got a ton of downvotes. :)

[Denis_999]

They have the Pistoriuses and the Mertzes. We have the Solovyovs, the Satanovskys, and the Medvedevs. And everyone points to the other side and, foaming at the mouth (Solovyov, that's right), demands "a bang." Or they threaten with terrifying "wunderwaffe," even though NO ONE IS AFRAID OF IT anymore, only raising the stakes.

And all of the above, with such rhetoric, are clearly NOT working in the interests of their countries. They're networks of influence.

And somewhere in London, looking at all this, they just smirk contentedly...

[isv000]

"The Main Threat Is Russia": Germany Adopts Its First Military Strategy

The Germans simply can't comprehend that there will no longer be either the FRG or the GDR, or any occupation zones with the Berlin Wall. There won't even be Berlin. There will be Medvezhyegrad, the capital of the West Slavic region. Paris? Petukhogorsk. The rest will follow suit. The capital of the new Federal District will be in Kaliningrad.

[g_ae]

And the Kremlin will also sell them resources to build an army against Russia. "Reliable partners" will be bribed.

[fuel oil]

I wonder if the "spotted reptile" is turning over in its grave and squirming like a snake in a frying pan?

[8_-MistVieh-_8]

Der Großteil der Deutschen will keinen Krieg mit Russland, ganz im Gegenteil. Ich bin im Gebiet der ehemaligen DDR aufgewachsen und hatte da schon als Kind viel Kontakt mit Russen und Kasachen.

Man darf nicht vergessen, diese DrecksBRD ist kein souveräner Staat, sondern nach wie vor besetztes Gebiet.
Kein Friedensvertrag, Feindstaatenklausel immer noch aktiv und unsre Ostgebiete hätte man nach Völkerrecht auch nicht abtrennen dürfen.

Ich glaube, Präsident Putin hatte das auch mehrmals erwähnt.
Hier soll ein Keil zwischen Russen und Deutschen getrieben werden.

Letztlich würde so ein Krieg nur den Zionisten dienen, die die weiße Rasse ausrotten wollen!

[Livonetc]

Quote: Sky Strike fighter

.in the war of the German invaders with Russia, like the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War!

So far, instead of a powerful and experienced army, battle-tested like in World War II, today's Germany only has plans to create something by 2029/2030. So they're a long way from the Third Reich. But they could make a killing on procurement for the German army.

There may not be an army yet.
But there are plenty of industrial resources and funds.
Germany has the second largest trade surplus after China.
There are industrial capacities.
There are funds.
The population is growing
All that remains is to brainwash the population and put the economy on a war footing.
Here comes the Fourth Reich.

[poquello]

Quote: Livonetc

Germany has the second largest trade surplus after China.

and we are in third place (the US, by the way, is at the other end of the group of leaders), and in Germany this is, IMHO, a temporary situation because they have not yet been hit by the wave of cost prices, and it will hit them.

[north 2]

Strange things... The Prime Minister of Slovakia was planning to come to Moscow on May 9th, and today Slovakia gave the go-ahead for the EU to allocate 90 billion to Ukraine. And even a fool can see that the lion's share of this money will go toward purchasing weapons to kill Russian soldiers and civilians, and to strike Russian oil refineries and ports. And through the Druzhba agreement, Hungary, which has received oil from Russia, will produce gasoline and diesel fuel from this oil and sell some of it to Ukraine to fuel tanks and kill Russian soldiers. By the way, Ukraine will buy this for the same money that it received after the "go-ahead" from Slovakia and that same Hungary (it was precisely their "go-ahead" that was missing for the EU to give Ukraine money for a war against Russia. What I mean is that the EU, becoming the Fourth Reich led by Germany, will very quickly force all these EU countries to work for the military machine of the Fourth Reich. By the way, while finally creating the Fourth Reich under the rather innocent name of the EU, Germany can include Ukraine in it in just six months. Russia, in fact, doesn't seem to be against Ukraine joining the EU... You'll see, within six months to a year, hundreds of new and huge military-industrial complex factories will start working in all these current EU countries, hundreds of thousands of Europeans will get jobs, and in a year the EU won't need any US, so that the Fourth Reich would be stronger than today's NATO and the US. And if the Fourth Reich also promises those working for it, like and in the Third Reich, after Russia is destroyed, both the soldiers of the Fourth Reich and those who worked for it will receive estates in Russia with Russian slaves, so there will be plenty of people willing to fight and work for the Fourth Reich. And they will quickly whip up atomic weapons for themselves.
By the way, all of this could be mortally dangerous for Russia, but the US might not like it either. Incidentally, the Third Reich, having prepared for a campaign against the USSR and Russia, did not invite the US to join it in 1941. I wonder if the US would have joined the Third Reich in an attack on Russia if the Third Reich had invited the US to join it in 1941.

[Sebastian Aristarkhovich Pereira]

"Since Russians love to drink vodka, it means they dream that we get less of it... We declare Russia our main enemy!"
Since this is the case, Russia should assign its Strategic Missile Forces regiment to Germany and activate a computer program monitoring Germany's readiness for war with Russia. If the indicator reaches 35 points, launch a preemptive strike. First, inform the Germans that, before they adopted such a military strategy, they viewed them as a long-term partner and European neighbor.
And if so, then Amen Berlin!

[foxes]

No matter how much the oligarchs and bribed propagandists in the Russian Federation try to talk about the "friendship between the Russian Federation and Germany," a united Germany has been and remains one of Russia's existential enemies.

[Igor Belobrov]

Keep supplying them with oil, keep supplying them. Don't think about how to cool the Gulf Stream.

[Clear]

The main threat is Russia

And who was Germany planning to defend itself against before – Luxembourg?

[fsps]

Some murky story with Germany started a long time ago: https://www.warandpeace.ru/ru/news/view/207024/
So, is the ruin of the burghers a deliberate policy of the authorities? In advance?

[Normal]

At least once, don’t deny it, confirm and secure it at the highest level.

[Sergey1984]

I think Germany and NATO will focus primarily on disintegrating Russia from within. They will primarily attack its most vulnerable point – national relations. They will pit the peoples of Russia against each other, and especially against Russians. They succeeded in doing this with the USSR, and this is what they will be betting on against Russia, and will also use provocateurs and simple fools to exaggerate any negative developments in Russia. And this cannot be allowed. Difficult times lie ahead, but we have no choice; we didn't start this. Our strength lies in unity.

[igorra]

What's the problem with declaring Germany a threat to Russia and ripping apart Berlin, starting with the Reichstag? Remind them of the millions of victims of the USSR, and the West will wither a bit and go silent. Few people in Europe like the Germans.

[Roman_Vasilyevich]

"The main threat is Russia"

From the "notes" of MAYAKovsky:

Listen!
Look at the map of Europe,
where in the offices,
forgetting about comfort,
new Bismarcks,
sticking out their asses,
strategy of "force"
they are forging!

Berlin fidgeted.
The veins bulged.
In the paper jungle -
militaristic itch:
"We will be the first!
Let's become the strongest!
And they point their fingers towards the East,
they lie.

Is Russia a threat?
Old song!
He's playing a record
Bundeswehr gramophone.
Five hundred thousand bayonets
in a steel kneading
dream
throw us out
abroad.

Hey you,
Gentlemen in jackets and uniforms!
Your memory is -
shorter than the tail.
Or have you forgotten?
as in the roar of the world
yours was collapsing
armored platform?

Story -
not a cool lady with a pointer,
she hits with a backhand,
when they burrow to their heart's content.
Have you really missed me?
along birch crosses with a helmet,
to the Russian land
fall forever?

Germany,
remember:
iron rusts
ambitions -
drown in bloody dew.
Who is the sword against Russia?
dares to raise -
we will certainly remember
уроки
all!

Do you want the "strongest"?
Well,
That's your business.
But remember,
looking through the sights to the east:
we
for the likes
the porridge is cooked -
like this
what he can't digest
your block!

[Vasyan1971]

The document outlines a course for creating the strongest army in Europe, and names Russia as the main threat.

Well, there you go... And some people still consider them "partners"...

[enzelad]

Drang nach Osten. The Hans don't want a quiet life, after all. Not only are they ruining the economy, but they're also preparing for war with Russia. The events of 85 years ago, when they were defeated at the enormous cost of Soviet soldiers and civilians, haunt them. So they haven't learned that lesson.