Russia has capacity for a limited attack against NATO territory at any time but a decision to act would depend on the Western allies’ posture, a top German military official warned.

“If you look at Russia’s current capabilities and combat power, Russia could kick off a small-scale attack against NATO territory as early as tomorrow,” Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank told Reuters in an interview.

“Small, quick, regionally limited, nothing big - Russia is too tied down in Ukraine for that.”

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    6 days ago

    Woah woah woah. Let’s not start world war 3 here! Let’s just be sensible and appease Putin some more and activate article 4 and discuss what we should do instead 🙄

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        How about we volunteer YOU to Russia first? We’ve suffered enough under soviet rule. Putin isn’t any better. Germany seems very complacent though so idk, maybe make all of Germany an oblast like Königsberg?

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        The problem is that Russia will NOT stop. They might pause, but they can’t stop the expansion, they are culturally incapable of it.