Putin could attack NATO in ‘5 to 8 years,’ German defense minister warns
www.politico.eu
Europe sounds the alarm amid growing concern that the Russian president’s veiled threats against the military alliance could turn real.
  • GormadtEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    And the more authoritarians win in Europe and the US the faster that time line is accelerated

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    10 months ago

    That would be a big mistake by Putin. Could be his last. And it will take more than 8 years to even think about it. Ukraine has deflated the Russian military. It will take more than 10 years for them to rearm

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    So in Russian terms, that’s like 40-60 years right? We’re two years into a couple week special operation, so I doubt that they’ll be anywhere close to being able to take on an entire military alliance by 2030 when they can barely handle a single former client state.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Same story is being reposted multiple times from different sources, this one is first so keeping it and removing the others.

    • Hooverx@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      20·
      10 months ago

      They’re different stories about different statements from different countries. Estonia, Germany, and Poland all independently made statements, not as a single joint statement.

      If this is a policy going forward, it should be listed as a rule.

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      If nuclear powers went to war they would, together, hand in hand, wipe the floor with the human race. We’re talking about the potential for 9000 nukes to get launched in this hypothetical war.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    An increasingly belligerent Russian President Vladimir Putin could attack the NATO military alliance in less than a decade, Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius warned.

    Following the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has upped its aggressive rhetoric against some of its neighbors — including the Baltic countries and Poland, which are all members of NATO, and Moldova — prompting top European defense officials to warn of the risk of a major conflict.

    Earlier this month, Sweden’s commander-in-chief General Micael Bydén similarly called on Swedes to “prepare themselves mentally” for war.

    In his interview with Der Tagesspiegel, Pistorius said the Swedish warnings were “understandable from a Scandinavian perspective,” adding that Sweden faced “an even more serious situation,” given its proximity to Russia.

    Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, an outspoken Putin critic who has been one of the loudest voices in support of Ukraine in the EU, on Thursday called on Europe to speed up preparations for more Russian aggression.

    “There’s a chance that Russia might not be contained in Ukraine,” Landsbergis told French newswire AFP at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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  • Radicalized@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I can almost guarantee that NATO will do some tricky “in order to defend NATO countries we must attack Russia first” business.