Politico reports Germany has begun a secret five-step NATO war plan, becoming a key transit hub and potential long-range target in a conflict with Russia.
According to journalists from Politico, Germany’s military leadership has drawn up a secret five-point action plan within the NATO framework for a potential armed conflict — and, they report, Berlin has already begun putting it into practice.
The newspaper notes that the document lays out a step-by-step model of military escalation: from early detection of a potential threat to the activation of the alliance’s collective defense mechanisms and the subsequent post-conflict recovery phase. Germany, according to the report, is already working through the first stage of this escalation ladder. Politico writes that Berlin is assessing risks and preparing both its logistical infrastructure and its defense sector.
The plan, the journalists stress, assigns the Federal Republic of Germany the role of the main transit corridor for NATO troops and a central logistics hub for the alliance’s forces. Because of this function, Germany, they point out, could be viewed as one of the priority targets for strikes using long-range weapons.
The article recalls that in November The Wall Street Journal reported: the German authorities had spent more than two years developing a secret plan for a possible conflict with Russia. One of its provisions envisages moving around 800,000 NATO troops across German territory to the alliance’s eastern flank.
It was also reported that the Bundeswehr had been quietly preparing hospitals, police, emergency services and motorway operators for a potential military scenario. In addition, on 15 November, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that a war between Russia and NATO could, in his view, begin before 2029.