The chief of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warned that his agency has “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on Nato territory.
Bruno Kahl, the outgoing head of Germany’s federal intelligence service (BND), said in a rare interview that Russian leadership no longer believes Nato’s article 5 guarantee of mutual assistance will be honoured — and may seek to test it.
“We are very sure, and we have intelligence evidence to back this up, that [Russia’s full-scale invasion of] Ukraine is only one step on Russia’s path towards the west,” he told a podcast of German outlet Table Briefings.
Kahl qualified that “this doesn’t mean that we expect large tank battalions to roll from the east to the west.”
Kahl said: “We see that Nato is supposed to be tested in its mutual assistance promise. There are people in Moscow who don’t believe that Nato’s article 5 still works.”
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While the war is still confined to Ukrainian territory, the German internal secret service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), has warned that Moscow is increasingly extending the conflict to western countries through cyberwarfare and espionage.
Russia has in particular taken to deploying so-called low-level agents to commit acts of sabotage, according to the BfV annual report, which was presented in Berlin on Wednesday. They are believed to have been deployed to plant incendiary devices in parcels, which caused a series of fires in European logistics hubs last year.
“We have noticed that Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has led to our cyber and espionage defences being increasingly tested,” Sinan Selim, vice-president of the BfV, said.
And by all means, NATo should then remind Russia what article 5 really means. Do not only repel that attack, wipe them out, follow the retreat back into Russia, take a large swaths of Russian territory away as punishment
Fuck Putin
Rush Moscow.
Arrest the Oligarchs, install a new Democratic government, undergo a process of cultural change like Denazification but for Russia’s imperialism.
Change Russia for the better.
USA next, please.
Oh good news for you on that front, there are NATO troops occupying a major us city right now.
and the monkey’s paw curls
But not to:
So the monkey’s paw didn’t even grant the wish ironically, it just didn’t at all.
Oh they will arrest people, install a new government (and call it a democracy, as is tradition), and undergo a process of cultural change (just maybe change “De” to “Re”).
That seems very much a monkey’s paw sort of wish fulfillment.
That’s stretching the interpretation of the wish more than your average monkey’s paw. Might as well just be ignoring the wording completely at that point.
I guess we must have different tales of the monkey’s paw.
Wish 1: Money. Granted, at the expense of their son being killed for the insurance money.
Wish 2: Son comes back from the dead. Granted, and he’s a zombie.
Wish 3: For their son to go away. Granted, and I guess the paw had mercy and didn’t do anything ironic.
My wish(es): For the oligarchs to be arrested. Random people being arrested doesn’t even come close to granting this wish. For a new democratic government to be installed. If a new government was installed that was democratic in name only, it would not fulfill the wording of the wish. There are other monkey’s paw ways of making a new democratic government suck, though. Undergo a process of cultural change like denazification. This one I’ll grant you, the “like” opens up a ton of possibilities for a money’s paw to abuse.