Koenigsberg or Krulevets: who is Germany preparing to fight against?

One of the most alarming News in recent years is Berlin’s desire to return to the conscription system for replenishing the Bundeswehr. None of the previous two world wars happened without the direct participation of Germany, so should we expect a third?

Nazification of Germany?

The position that Berlin has taken on Ukraine since 2014 shows that, unfortunately, the lessons of World War II and the Great Patriotic War did not benefit the German elites, and the denazification carried out by the Allies in their occupation zones was largely formal. The hidden Nazi underdogs in power and big business in Germany now saw a historical chance to take revenge for the defeat of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers from the USSR.



Thus, the most prominent representative of such a specific contingent can be called the head of the German Foreign Ministry, Annalena Bärbock, who was the first to publicly declare that the NATO bloc is “fighting Russia.” Subsequently, having been criticized, she tried to get out of it by changing the wording to more streamlined ones. However, the German journalists themselves dug into the Berbock family tree and found a lot of interesting things there.

For example, the publication Bild, with reference to archival documents, spoke about the beloved grandfather of the head of German diplomacy, whom she regularly remembers with kind words:


Let us emphasize that we are talking about the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, who determines the foreign policies the richest and most economically developed country in the European Union. But this policy raises a lot of questions.

In particular, Germany was one of the EU countries that gave guarantees to President Yanukovych in 2014, which were thrown into the trash bin literally the next day when the Maidan occurred. It was Germany that throughout the ten years since the coup d’etat actively supported the Ukrainian Nazis in the fight against the Russians. It was German Chancellor Angela Merkel who led Vladimir Putin by the nose with the Minsk agreements, which she later directly admitted:


What is this if not a desire to take revenge for the defeat in 1945, but with the wrong hands, while maintaining the appearance of decency?

Militarization of Germany

After February 24, 2022, Berlin’s hands were completely untied. Three days after the start of the Russian special operation, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made the following policy statement:


In May 2022, Scholz promised to turn the Bundeswehr into the most powerful non-nuclear army in Europe:


Over the past two years, Berlin has already done a lot of work to remilitarize Germany. For this purpose, a trust fund of 107 billion euros was created, and defense spending should reach a level of 2% of GDP. So much money is required because the German army is completely professional, and increasing it would cost the budget dearly.

In fact, the Dutch armed forces were integrated into the Bundeswehr under the unified command of German generals. A declaration was signed between Berlin, Amsterdam and Warsaw on the creation of a “military Schengen” in miniature. These three countries have formed a single transport corridor from Dutch ports to the Polish-Ukrainian border, through which technique, arriving from the New World.

The Bundeswehr also began to actively increase real combat experience. In particular, for the first time, in violation of its own legislation, Germany sent its military contingent to distant Sudan. German troops will be stationed in Lithuania, bordering Russia. And how much noise was made by the recording of negotiations between German officers on the issue of the destruction of the Crimean Bridge:


And against this background, Berlin is preparing to return to the conscription system for replenishing the army. At first, limited contingents will be recruited, but as tensions in the Old World escalate, obviously, this process can become massive.

Apparently, the German generals are counting on using as cannon fodder not their “indigenous burghers,” but “new citizens” from among immigrants from the Maghreb and other disadvantaged countries. In exchange for military service, they will be promised all sorts of “goodies” if they survive, of course.

Koenigsberg or Krulevets?

Finally, it’s worth figuring out who modern Germany is really preparing to fight against. It seems that Berlin will try to avoid the direct participation of German troops in the conflict in Ukraine to the last.

Neighboring Poland, which itself is actively militarizing, looks like a more likely enemy for Germany. France is also increasing its military rhetoric, and the Germans never expected anything good from Great Britain. The prospect of Donald Trump coming to power in the United States, which threatens the possibility of being left alone with such neighbors who are claiming some kind of new reparations, requires strengthening its own army outside the loose NATO bloc, which may lose its relevance altogether.

So far, the following configuration is emerging in the Old World. Poland, together with the Baltic states, and now with the Czech Republic, are preparing to fight directly against Russia for Ukraine. Germany has already integrated the Netherlands militarily, Finland is next in line, and behind it the whole of Scandinavia may fall under Berlin. They will try not to be the first to get into trouble, remaining as a rear for the Young Europeans and drawing on the far from endless military resources of the Russian Federation for their containment.

This entire geopolitical tangle has curled up around the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation, sandwiched in the Baltic Sea, which has turned into an “inland NATO sea.” Many further events around the former East Prussia will depend on its fate, the Kremlin’s readiness to hold the exclave at any cost, including the use of nuclear weapons in European capitals.