If it is confirmed that the bridge in Russia was hit by a missile then it would appear that the NATO war against Russia has reached a new threshold.
By Finian Cunningham
German military leaders may have bungled foolishly over their private discussions regarding operational plans against Russia. However, the security of their incompetent communication – while laughable – does not lessen the seriousness of what was being discussed.
Lt. General Ingo Gerhartz and his aides were earnestly weighing up the technical and propaganda means by which to strike Russia with long-range ballistic missiles. In short, a NATO member was caught red-handed hatching an act of war against Russia.
After Russian media published the audio of the conversation, the German reaction has been to dismiss it as a cerebral war-gaming exercise and as an attempt by Russian disinformation to undermine the government of Olaf Scholz.
This obfuscation by Berlin will not wash. The incontrovertible fact is that the German commanders were deliberating on how to “optimize” the Ukrainian offensive capability to hit Russian targets with the long-range German Taurus cruise missile. The weapon has supposedly not yet been supplied to the Ukrainian regime due to concerns among some German politicians that doing so would escalate the war with Russia. It is clear from the audio tape that the German military chiefs are frustrated by the politicians not ordering the supply of the Taurus.
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Gerhartz, the head of the German air force, tells his subordinates in no uncertain terms: “We are now fighting a war that uses much more modern technology than our good old Luftwaffe.”
There you have it: the top German commander says unequivocally, “We are now fighting a war”.
He also goes on to disclose that the American, British, and French militaries are deeply involved in the logistics and planning of attacks by the Ukrainian forces.
We know from numerous other sources that the NATO militaries are involved on the ground in Ukraine fighting against Russian forces. American HIMARS and Patriot missile systems, and the British Storm Shadow and the French Scalp cruise missiles are operated with military expertise from these NATO members.
Still, what is highly damaging from the German military leak is the extent to which the commanders endeavor to conceal the involvement of Germany in a war with Russia. The tortuous conversation about how to avoid the imputation of the German military makes it clear that the German high command knows full well the gravity of what they are organizing. They are discussing the conduct of a covert war against Russia. This is tantamount to the crime of aggression and it runs the risk of starting a full-on war which would no doubt escalate into a nuclear conflagration.
At one point in the discussion with his interlocutors, Lt Gen. Gerhartz talks about the need to conceal direct military involvement by Germany in supplying the Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
He says: “I understand what you are talking about. Politicians may be concerned about the direct, closed connection between Büchel [German air base] and Ukraine, which could become direct participation in the Ukrainian conflict. But in this case, we can say that the exchange of information will take place through MBDA [the German manufacturer of Taurus], and we will send one or two of our specialists to Schrobenhausen. Of course, this is a trick, but from a political point of view, it may look different. If information is exchanged through the manufacturer, then this is not associated with us.”
This is self-incriminating evidence that the German high command is participating in a conspiracy to expand the war against Russia. The only reservation is not to be identified publicly in waging war acts. With utmost cynicism, the German military leaders are looking for a way to claim plausible denial after the crime.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the National Security Council, called it correctly when he said of the leaked audio tapes that they show Germany is planning war against Russia.
Berlin dismissed Medvedev’s claim as “absurd”. Berlin is the one being absurd if it thinks that the conversation of its military leaders can be palmed off as simply idle banter and theoretical war gaming.
In the 38-minute discussion, the Luftwaffe commander and his underlings explicitly talk about supplying up to 100 Taurus missiles for Ukrainian regime forces to strike deep into Russia. The German top brass refer to the Taurus as a “super tool” and they specifically identify the destruction of an important bridge in the east, which is presumably the Kerch Bridge linking the Russian mainland to Crimea.
The German missile has a range of over 500 kilometers which is twice that of the British or French weapons.
It looks like the German military is taking on the task of leading deep strikes into Russia. London is reportedly urging Berlin to supply the Taurus missiles despite the embarrassment of the leaked private conversation.
This week it is reported that a railway bridge was destroyed in Russia’s southwest Samara province near the city of Chapaevsk. The location is further east than Moscow and is around 1,000 km from the NATO-backed Kiev regime’s front lines in Ukraine. The attack appears to have been a precision strike.
As the German commanders noted in their discussions, collapsing a bridge is one of the most difficult aerial operations that requires precision capability and sophisticated radar evasion. Their conversation took place on February 19. The leak was published last weekend. Media reports say the German government is opposed to signing off on supplying the missiles. But with so much going on behind the public’s back who knows if and when these weapons are released? Have they been already?
If it is confirmed that the bridge near Chapaevsk was hit by a missile then it would appear that the NATO war against Russia has reached a new ominous threshold.
Some Western media outlets commented that the Russian publication of the Luftwaffe audio tape last weekend was aimed at embarrassing the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz into definitely ruling out any supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine. However, such speculation assumes that Scholz is in control of his military commanders. Most likely they don’t answer to him; they answer to the occupying power in Germany – the United States.
Finian Cunningham, former editor and writer for major news media organizations. Via SCF
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21 responses to “Germany and NATO Caught Red-Handed in War Planning”
I think General Gerhartz is right – he and his soldiers should try it one more time – after all Wilhelm and Adolf had a great success attacking Russia – it was a lot of fun and clearly the memory lingers. What a bunch of fools those Germans are – mind you still make good cars….
Sarcasm aside, wasn’t Gerhartz taking orders from the Pentagon (i.e. the USA)? Considering how the USA has not experienced war on its own soil within living memory, how does one expect the vassal states it controls, like Germany, to learn from these historical experiences? Is it not the modus operandi for the CIA (?) to replace any recalcitrant members of government with more compliant ones?
Sorry, Mr. Cunningham, you didn’t understand why this conversation was held. It was preparation for a briefing that MOD Pistorius had ordered, not planning. He wanted to be prepared for the debate in the German Bundestag on 26 February
Typical of Finiann actually, He has his agenda and sticks to it, come what may.
Given that Russia took an active part in the fighting in both Korea and Vietnam, they cannot complain if the West sends advisers, or helps the Ukraine with intelligence.
And nether North Korea nor Vietnam would have lasted long without massive shipments of arms from Russia. You would think that Russia could not complain – but it does, and useful idiots like Finian pick up the ball for them and run with it.
The German bootlickers, punks of The Empire that blew up their economy with the Nordstream pipeline caper, are apparently looking forward with relish to have their asses well and truly kicked by the Russia they plot against.
Thank you, Paul. You took the bad taste out of my mouth from the comment above. Annoyed guest = Paid Troll. Why must they always be so obvious? They’ve got all the subtlety of a ton of cow manure dumped in one’s driveway except that manure is useful.
Always glad to debunk trolls and the aggressively stupid, Susan. Welcome.
One thing is absolutely certain: The world’s peace activism community has an immense challenge now facing it, – the likes of which hasn’t been seen since World War II.
I do believe that Finian knows a thing or two about the game at play .I don’t think that the Russians are amused other than to let the West know that they know .
I wonder why the Russians did not keep silent about it until the German posse was well within Ukraine borders before they hit them hard.
The West’s hitting Russia with missiles, an critical escalation of the war in Ukraine is perhaps the most foolhardy thing that Western Europe in collaboration with the U.S. has done since the end of World War Two. It is extremely dangerous and could become the basis for a Third World War, which will inevitably go nuclear and end civilization as we know it..
Indeed – and the constant bombardment of the Ukraine, also of civilian targets there, by Russia is perfectly acceptable to you, Mr Berk?
The West is not firing missiles at Russia. The issue now is whether Germany will supply longer-range missiles that the Ukrainians can use to hit targets deeper in Russia. Your apocalyptic assessment is completely unjustified.
The Brutish Vampire drew up the maps to split Russia in a 5-way divvy up (just as they mapped and carved Africa in 1884 at Berlin) under Lord Palmerston in the 1840s, before they got their arse kicked with the 1850s Crimea Valley of Death fiasco.
They then stepped back and changed strategy, sponsoring proxies such as Adolf’s abortive Operation Barbarossa, along with their Wa££ $t off$hoot.
Churchill wanted to follow up Hiroshima with 200+ mushrooms over 66 Russian cities…but apparently was talked in off his £edge.
The beat goes on…Ze£€n$KKKy and his Band€ri$tas are this season’s proxy fodder.
You must live in a parallel universe. None of that happened here.
This conversation being held on an insecure channel knowing that it could be overheard by the Russians might have been deliberate with the aim of exerting some kind of pressure on the Russians to which they have to respond; it seems a little too convenient and incompetent to be anything less. But deliberate or accidental, it is still highly irresponsible on the part of the Germans to increase political tensions at this time and risk further military escalation.
The U.K. needs to get out of the Russophobia business led by the war mongering neocons. We don’t have any reason to go to war with Russia over Ukraine. The only reason Putin sent troops into Ukraine is because the West, led by the U.S. (CIA, National Endowment for Democracy) conducted a coup there that made Ukraine over as a U.S. puppet. This highly provocative act was in a country on the Russian border in which they began installing missiles aimed at Russia. What if Russia did this in the Western Hemisphere near the U.S. border? Russia in fact did send missiles to its ally, Cuba, in 1962. The U.S. response was a naval blockade of Cuba that took us close to WW3. So now the U.S., led by the neocon lunatics, tries the same thing in Ukraine on the Russian border. We need to get all the crazy neocons out of the U.S. government. They are the biggest threat to peace and the potential cause for world war today.
The Soviet missiles in Cuba were the USSR’s response to the U.S. putting missiles in Turkey. This whole idiocy is so bloody obvious. I live in a country with a debt load of $34 trillion. We are going down the drain and someone somewhere thinks we can climb back out if we get hold of Russia’s fabulous resources. Not gonna happen, war criminals.
WHO Started this??? Who had invaded and destroyed other cities and States before? Do you not remember?? Is not Putin Hitler?? How many opposition leaders have been killed by Putin?? It seems the opposition in the US and the other NATO countries are all healthy and some are a pain it the ### because they continue to LIE . The PATH to PEACE is through the TRUTH. Funny how 200+ years ago the TRUTH was seen as critical and yet how we have allowed the TRUTH to be ignored.
The question in 1938 was what to do with a murderer Hitler That same question is what to do with any country that uses weapons of war on civilian populations? Who is responsible Is it Putin Is it the Generals Is it those who kill and if you are being shot at what is the proper response? These two Wars should be the END OF ALL WAR – for the demonstrate the folly of WAR!
========= “WHO Started this???” ==========
Who was it who drew up plans in 2008 to overthrow the Ukraine in order to overthrow Russia?
Who was it overthrew the democratically elected government in 2014 and installed a puppet government with the intention to use that puppet government to overthrow Russia.
Who was it who boasted of spending US $B to install an vicious NAZI minority in the Ukraine and imposed these extremists on the Ukrainian people, banning opposition parties, opposition leaders and opposition media.
Who was it that banned trade between the Ukraine and their largest trading partner, trashing the Ukrainian economy and making the Ukraine economically dependent on handouts from the USA.
Who was it that then pushed the Ukraine to make war on the parts of the Ukraine that did not go along with the USA.
“Do you not remember??”
Who was it that allowed the Ukraine to make peace agreements with Russia in Minsk Belarus in 2015 order to let the Russians back off and then immediately violated these agreements when Russia did?
Who was it that trashed the peace treaty drawn up between Russia and the Zelensky the president of the Ukraine and threatened economic abandonment of the Ukraine if they did not continue to make war, but promised victory if they kept on doing the USA’s bidding.
Who sacrificed approx 500,000 Ukranian soldiers on this proxy war.
“Do you not remember??”
Or did you get all your information from our media and were thus totally ignorant of what actually happened.
Oh I guess Trumen, Bushes, Clinton, Obama and their European puppies did not use weapons of war on civilian populations. Millions dead and counting but hey you know what ignorance is bliss. The murdered millions were people of color, no need to keep a tab.
They most certainly did. The U.S.’s history since the country was formed has been one of genocide, slavery, and war, not a pretty picture.