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Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called on the German people to be prepared for fighting on Monday evening in a broadcast appearance on n-tv. He warned the Russians of an “incalculable risk” and declared that Germany did not shirk from speaking of war if necessary.
"One must be prepared to defend one's country. For me, that is part of patriotism, which I personally believe in and consider right. This is my homeland. We only defend ourselves. But we must also be prepared to defend it."
In a later TV discussion with Pinar Atalay Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul concurred with BND intelligence chief Martin Jäger that the conflict with Russia is intensifying. The German government had also come to the conclusion that Russia had “far-reaching plans” beyond the current conflict in Ukraine. However, Wadephul confessed that he did not really understand these plans. “Honestly, you don’t quite understand it,” he said. Why would Russia want to conquer Ukraine now? At the time, Russia had a good relationship with Ukraine and was closely tied to Germany economically. “And that is why we have to assume that Russia has further-reaching plans,” said Wadephul, conveniently leaving out NATO's push for the conflict under former U.S. President Joe Biden, and NATO's encroachment on Russian borders with weapons of mass destruction.
He bases this assumption on a statement by Putin, saying the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. “If that was the greatest catastrophe, then he probably wants to repair it,” said Wadephul. He listed Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and the Baltic states. “Those are now EU and NATO members, and so we are then affected ourselves as allies,” said Wadephul.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul described the constant cyberattacks on Germany and the drone attacks as proof that Germany is already being attacked. However, he did not call it a war. “We are already being attacked. Think of the drones in Leipzig,” he said, calling it a “hybrid attack.” “It is an incalculable risk for Russia to take us on.” NATO could respond to such incidents, he said. “We also don’t shy away from speaking of war when it would be one.”
The Leipzig attack was an obvious false flag to anyone looking at the situation critically in CDM's view.
He explained, that he had told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN General Assembly that for Germany the Leipzig incidents had a “new quality” and that therefore a “line” had been crossed. He had also used this opportunity to explain his handshake with Lavrov, because, as he told n-tv and t-online, “one doesn’t give up civilization just because the person you’re talking to holds completely different values”.
The Foreign Minister said Germans should be aware of what is at stake for Ukraine. Citing Bucha, he claimed that Russian forces abduct children, rape, torture and kill in occupied territories. “We must not let that happen,” he said. Wadephul also said that Russian losses now run around 40,000 per month, which he gave as the reason for his harsh language. It was not clear whether Wadephul had verified this information himself. “I can’t say: I politely ask you to consider not firing the next shot!” he said.
Wadephul portrayed Bucha as a proven fact. Moscow denies any responsibility for the killings and claims that they were staged by the Ukrainian side. But to use Bucha in order to prepare the German public for war with a nuclear power is inflammatory, and it is driving Europe step by step toward a direct confrontation.
The Chancellor's trip to Kyiv was “very courageous”, said the foreign minister when asked whether he had worried about a drone attack during the time of the Chancellor's visit.
Taking all his remarks together, Foreign Minister Wadephul is getting the German public used to the prospect of a bigger conflict. For a long time now, the Russian actions in the former Soviet territories of Georgia, Moldova and the Baltics have been equated with an attack on German security. After the drones in Leipzig a “line” has been drawn. Defending the homeland, he told his audience, is patriotism. But while Wadephul continues to insist that Germany is only defending itself against Russia, his arguments for doing so assume a Russian attack on NATO that no one has shown is coming, and by his own account the German government cannot explain why Russia would want one.
