🇩🇪❌🇷🇺 German ministry of foreign affairs on X/Twitter:

Putin eyes the EU and NATO. Our intelligence services are issuing urgent warnings: at the very least, Russia is creating the option for itself to wage war against NATO by 2029. We have to deter further Russian aggression, together with our partners and allies.

📝RWA Podcast: The big problem with all this stuff is that Russia sees, "Germany wants to be ready for NATO war against Russia in 2029", then Russia thinks "hm, we have no plans whatsoever of attacking NATO. That means NATO wants to attack us in 2029" and proceeds from there.

Even if just Germany is drawing plans to attack Russia with no other country planning to join this war, Russia will act as if the entirety of NATO is preparing for this possibility, simply because the West doesn’t give it a choice.

🔗 Auswärtiges Amt

🇪🇺⚔️🇷🇺 POLITICO: Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia

Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies.

Ideas range from joint offensive cyber operations against Russia, and faster and more coordinated attribution of hybrid attacks by quickly pointing the finger at Moscow, to surprise NATO-led military exercises, according to two senior European government officials and three EU diplomats

“The Russians are constantly testing the limits — what is the response, how far can we go?” Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže noted in an interview. A more “proactive response is needed,” she told POLITICO. “And it’s not talking that sends a signal — it’s doing.”

“Overall, Europe and the alliance must ask themselves how long we are willing to tolerate this type of hybrid warfare ... [and] whether we should consider becoming more active ourselves in this area,” German State Secretary for Defense Florian Hahn said last week.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-thinks-the-unthinkable-retaliating-against-russia-nato-cyber-hybrid/

The fuck is going on here lol 🤣