20260620 "Lieber 1000 Stunden verhandeln als 1 Stunde Krieg führen"

20.06.2026 "Lieber 1000 Stunden verhandeln als 1 Stunde Krieg führen"

Air Force's Highest-Ranking Officer Ready to Fight Against Russia

We haven’t heard anything like this in 60 years. Lieutenant General Neumann, Germany’s top Air Force officer, told the British Telegraph that the German Air Force could respond to a Russian attack “as early as tonight” and named specific Russian targets, such as the Kola Peninsula, Kaliningrad, the region around St. Petersburg, and the Russian fleet off the Crimean Peninsula. The Air Force already possesses these capabilities, and all the more so now that the Bundeswehr has become the “strongest conventional army” in Europe, as Chancellor Merz intends.

Since when are German officials allowed to trumpet political intentions on a whim? One might have expected this from former Nazi generals in the 1960s, but after Annalena Baerbock’s gaffe (“We are at war with Russia”), it really shouldn’t be happening anymore. Let us recall Helmut Schmidt’s statement: “Better to negotiate for 1,000 hours than to wage war for 1 hour.”

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