The chief of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warned that his agency has “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on Nato territory.
Bruno Kahl, the outgoing head of Germany’s federal intelligence service (BND), said in a rare interview that Russian leadership no longer believes Nato’s article 5 guarantee of mutual assistance will be honoured — and may seek to test it.
“We are very sure, and we have intelligence evidence to back this up, that [Russia’s full-scale invasion of] Ukraine is only one step on Russia’s path towards the west,” he told a podcast of German outlet Table Briefings.
Kahl qualified that “this doesn’t mean that we expect large tank battalions to roll from the east to the west.”
Kahl said: “We see that Nato is supposed to be tested in its mutual assistance promise. There are people in Moscow who don’t believe that Nato’s article 5 still works.”
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While the war is still confined to Ukrainian territory, the German internal secret service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), has warned that Moscow is increasingly extending the conflict to western countries through cyberwarfare and espionage.
Russia has in particular taken to deploying so-called low-level agents to commit acts of sabotage, according to the BfV annual report, which was presented in Berlin on Wednesday. They are believed to have been deployed to plant incendiary devices in parcels, which caused a series of fires in European logistics hubs last year.
“We have noticed that Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has led to our cyber and espionage defences being increasingly tested,” Sinan Selim, vice-president of the BfV, said.
They are powerful in the way they use underhanded espionage, propaganda and flood internet with bots. Almost all the right wing parties in the western world are kremlin backed in one way or another. Russophobia is a legit word russian propaganda machine invented to drum up resistance against their imperialism, genocide and future plans of expanding it to even more countries.
The west doesnt even know all the evil shit china does on a daily basis.
Either europe rearms and survives or europe doesnt rearm because “”“wachist might get gunzz”“”" and we get our pets nailed to the wall, men and women and children raped in torture dungeons, children abducted and entire villages with everyone in it razed to the ground.
Don’t you think it’s very strange how everybody despises the people they want to give incredible military power to. And mostly those are still considered somewhat moderate. But they too goad us into believing war is inevitable.
Then again these moderates never had any kind of problem with their ally parading around with a mostly overt fascist foreign policy for more than half a century. At least now we should at least acknowledge that and accept that the west is in no way a benign empire in any way.
War is invenetable. You are fucking looking at a dark grey sky with thunder in distance while drops of water are falling saying it wont rain.
What will be your position in such a war? I mean, do you imagine yourself to be a soldier, a medic, a propagandist, a producer of military equipment?
The victim of russians.
Really?
at least he’s honest. i agree with him
The west is constantly making up verifiably false “evil shit” about China because they’re losing and they know it, every accusation is a confession and the obvious and constantly widening gap between their average standard of living and ours is destroying their credibility. Yes Russia sucks, doesn’t make the US and their lackeys any less evil.