Now it is buying tanks, building suicide drones, deploying troops abroad and committing €460 billion to rearmament
Isaac Stanley-Becker in The Atlantic shows how a nation built on “never again” is preparing for war again. 1/
Lt. Gen. Freuding says the old U.S.-led order is “really cut off.”
During Trump’s freeze on Ukraine weapons, Germany received no warning. German officers now hunt for information through their embassy because their Pentagon contacts have gone silent. 2/
Berlin’s answer is the Zeitenwende — Germany’s declared “turning point.”
The government vows to build “the strongest army in Europe” and, for the first time since WWII, is permanently stationing 5,000 troops abroad — Panzerbrigade 45 in Lithuania by 2027. 3/
37-year-old Mykola Zakhozhyi left home on his motorcycle to check Russian positions near his Kyiv suburb. He never returned.
Russian soldiers seized him in the woods, kicked his head until he blacked out and poured diesel on him, threatening to burn him and others – NYT. 1/
Russian troops moved Mykola through camps and jails. Guards lined prisoners up and made them run a gauntlet of kicks and punches.
They slammed men into metal door frames and jumped on their backs as they lay on the ground. 2/
In Kursk, guards hit prisoners on the way to the showers and to the yard, shocked them with electric devices and beat them while they waited for interrogations.
Former detainees said this was standard routine. 3/