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Civil protection agency chief says country is ill-prepared for conflict and calls for urgent upgrades to cold war shelters

Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said, warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.

Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict, and that in its current state Germany was inadequately prepared.

“For a long time, there was a widespread belief in Germany that war was not a scenario for which we needed to prepare. That has changed. We are concerned about the risk of a major war of aggression in Europe,” he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung news outlet.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone on the planet needs to send the same message to Russia: Your warm water ports in Crimea will be useless, drones would just sink your fleet each year.

Same for any mining minerals operations you managed to set up. The prize you're trying to capture is no longer worth keeping it. Go home.

The change in the nature of war has made the spoils into liabilities. Drones will keep the world's borders set for some time now.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 14 points 12 hours ago

Putin cannot keep the Russian economy going without spending a lot of money on weapons, he has no way back.