Though they ARE long reads - it took me a lot of fits and starts to get through them. They are incredibly detailed and expansive.
Posted on 11/27/2025 3:23:12 PM PST by Reverend Wright
The blueprint details how as many as 800,000 German, U.S. and other NATO troops would be ferried eastward toward the front line. It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would travel, and how they would be supplied and protected on the way.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
I thought they would attack Russia for “Lebensraum”.
Will the Wehrmacht be reconstituted to it’s former glory?
VTenigma - “Germany has a small army of unwilling troops, soy boys of draft age and they are broke.”
have you ever spoken to any American troops who have worked alongside German troops?
Or are you just spouting this from your “knowledge”?
US troops stationed in Germany often express appreciation for the Bundeswehr’s professionalism, cultural similarities, and collaborative exercises, viewing them as “just like us” in discipline and work ethic.
American troops consider the German soldiers to be FAR from “soyboys” like you think, but they DO express frustration over perceived gaps in equipment, troop numbers, and operational readiness
The article is about how Germany would defend itself from an attack by the Russian federation.
do read the article
The article, published on MSN (sourced from The Telegraph), reveals details of a classified 1,500-page German military document titled “Operational Plan for Escalation – Defence Case Germany,”
Note: “DEFENCE”
The document assumes Russia, after consolidating control over Ukraine, would rebuild its forces and launch a surprise invasion of NATO territory—specifically the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—within 24-48 hours, and it stresses the need for deterrence to prevent escalation.
This is unequivocally a defensive plan by Germany. The document is explicitly framed as a response to an anticipated Russian invasion of NATO allies, with all strategies focused on territorial defense, alliance reinforcement, and survival measures rather than any proactive strikes or territorial expansion.
There is always a plan. That’s what the military is for.
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia was for utterly different reasons than Moustache man’s.
Napoleon was initially allied with Tsar Alexander, but then the Russian economy started hurting due to Napoleon’s economic blockade of Britain —> Napoleon’s grand strategy to defeat Britain was to strangle its trade via the “Continental System” (no trade with Britain). Russia was openly violating it after 1810, allowing British ships into its ports and imposing tariffs on French goods.
Russia had, pre-1805 been part of the Russo-Austrian-Prussian coalition against France. Tsar Alexander I withdrew from his alliance with the french after teh 1807 rteaties of Tilsit.
Most importantly - imho - Napoleon just got bored. This was a guy who brought himself up from a poor Corsican (he initially didn’t speak French and Corsica had been added to France just a few decades earlier) up to Emperor, but he was noted by all his biographers as hyperactive and restless, always dreaming up some new plans.
He could not settle down into being emperor of a huge chunk of western europe.
And......oh yes
The Russian Federation corrupt to the bone military, had a plan for the capture of Ukraine.
Being corrupt and inept, Mother Russia’s military had no plan for what to do if the armies met defeat in the field Rui
Though they ARE long reads - it took me a lot of fits and starts to get through them. They are incredibly detailed and expansive.
i’ve never finished that.
I finally made it through Anna Karenina via an audiobook.
There goes the WSJ - prognosticating again...
With regard to finishing War and Peace.
You posted about the devastating Napoleonic retreat from Moscow. Tolstoy wrote about is in excruciating detail near the end of War and Peace.
You might enjoy reading the final chapters describing the end of the Napoleonic endeavor. That is, skip the tons of pages that precede it.
The Russo-Polish war after the death of the Rurikid dynasty was really more of an attempted dynastic takeover.
The Vasa kings of Poland were actually Swedish. Poland had an elected kingship and after the end of the Jagiellon dynasty in the late 1500s, had Hungarian, etc. kings — the Vasa kings were a mistake in my amateur historian’s pov.
They wanted to expand the Vasa franchise.
Your Russian Derangement Syndrome is flaring up.....even President Trump proposes to open Trade and Commerce up with Russia, as it was before senile Joe destroyed world trade.
“Russia wants to do large scale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over, and I agree,” Trump said...
They have much of what the West needs, at much cheaper prices. Get used to it. When I was in Moscow, ( three years), Joint Ventures prospered all, especially Germany which has now tanked.
You nitwits would be defending Japan after Pearl Harbor.
your anti-American derangement syndrome is flaring up.
You don’t give any answer to the fact that
the EU has 5% Mohammedans.
Russia has 11%
So yeah, they have the same problem.
The article is behind a paywall, so I could only comment on the excerpt that's presented here. I wish posters wouldn't post articles that are behind paywalls.
Also, you give no response to the fact that your statement delta7 No, Russian is the most richest nation in the world, their natural resources are $75 trillion plus=” is false.
Russia does have the world’s highest estimated total value of natural resources (primarily oil, natural gas, coal, gold, timber, and rare earth metals), valued at approximately $75 trillion as of 2021 per Statista, with some Russian sources (e.g., Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin in November 2025) claiming over $100 trillion. The U.S. ranks second at ~$45 trillion, followed by Saudi Arabia (~$34 trillion) and Canada (~$33 trillion).
However, this does not make Russia the “richest nation” overall. Natural resource estimates (undiscovered or unextracted reserves) are not the same as current economic wealth:
Russia’s GDP (2024 est.): ~$2.2 trillion (11th globally).
the first comment by the original poster :)
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An MSN link not behind a paywall
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-s-secret-plan-for-war-with-russia/ar-AA1RezUv
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