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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    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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      You unterstand what an actual world war wohl mean? I personaly do… and trust me, the western politicians do know also.

      So, even if the whole baltics go back to russia - it would be a small price compared to a full scale war (even if it would stay non nuclear)

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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.