Posted on 11/12/2026 7:58:11 AM PST by BenLurkin
The French are holding talks with German officials to understand how Berlin would use deep precision strikes in order to align strategies should the Continent go to war with Moscow, according to six officials cited by the Financial Times.
A source suggested there are fears that attacking Russian targets with conventional weapons could provoke 'a nuclear response' from Moscow.
He said: 'If the Russians don't get the signal right you could get to the nuclear threshold without realising.'
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Germany has led efforts to re-arm Europe and is developing ground-launched missiles with a range of up to 2,000km (1,243 miles) – meaning Berlin would be capable of hitting targets deep inside Russia.
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A senior German source said Berlin 'could not agree more' that European allies need 'a joint doctrine and a joint understanding about the escalation ladder'.
Meanwhile a British official said Germany's 'strategic culture' is 'evolving quickly', adding: 'We should embrace that.'
Britain is also holding talks with Germany over a joint plan in the event of war with Russia as well as developing long-range weapons with a range of up to 2,000km (1,243 miles).
Deep precision strikes with these weapons would be used to cripple Moscow's 'warfighting potential' – meaning targeting command centres, logistics sites and ammunition storage facilities.
But Nato is 'conscious' of avoiding a nuclear response from Russia, said the British official.
It comes after German General Ingo Gerhartz warned last week that Nato allies must consult on the decision to carry out deep precision strikes as Russia will blame the whole alliance for a single country's actions.
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What a crock...where did Germany attacking Russia come from?...This the new E.U. strategy? They have no decent armed forces that could endure any such outing? Am i wrong?
I think the French would rather get nuked by Iran than Russia. In their calculous it’s more politically correct.
They have the US Armed Forces embedded in Germay.
“They have no decent armed forces that could endure any such outing?”
If it’s a nuclear strike, bodies don’t mean much when the first domino is tipped. And there may not be a lot left to pick up the pieces if there are any left over time.
wy69
Germany’s on the march again?
Cool. Call out the Stukas!
Isn’t starting world wars part of their national heritage?
We should get out of NATO and have a purely economic and diplomatic relationship with Europe.
Now that the U.S. has become an undependable ally, Europe is re-arming; and - while Russia thinks it can set one European country against another - the truth is Germany by itself has twice the GDP as does Russia ($5T v $2.5T). Adding together all the non-U.S. members of NATO, we’re talking of GDP, population and conventional military that are multiple the size of Russia. The Europeans will suffer Russian belligerence for only so long.
The U.S. thought it could stay out of European affairs during the run-up to WWII. Then, with the fall of France, public opinion started to reconsider the matter. First, we approved lend-lease to Great Britain. Then, active defense of our coastal waters, the Caribbean and cross-Atlantic shipping. In the meanwhile, we were building up are our forces, beginning peacetime conscription and developing plans for industrial mobilization. We couldn’t and we didn’t stay out of European affairs.
After WWII, we thought to form and be part of NATO to bring stability to Europe. That we would dominate the western alliance and be the counter-weight to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. That was a bipolar world. Us versus them. Nowadays, we are in a post-Cold War world. Without us dominating the democracies, the odds are significant of one or more wars in Europe and elsewhere that we will be dragged into.
The French are already surrendering to Russia.
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