Russia rearming faster than thought ‘for possible attack on Nato’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/20/russia-rearming-faster-than-thought-possible-attack-on-nato/
Russia rearming faster than thought ‘for possible attack on Nato’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/20/russia-rearming-faster-than-thought-possible-attack-on-nato/
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**From The Telegraph:**
Russia is rearming faster than first thought for a potential attack on Nato, Germany’s military pointman on Ukraine has warned.
On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, Maj Gen Christian Freuding said that Russia had already replaced missiles and tanks lost in its invasion of Ukraine.
“The Russian armed forces are not just able to compensate for their enormous personnel and material losses… they are successfully rearming,” he told Die Welt newspaper.
Vladimir Putin has reorientated the Russian economy to feed his war machine and has also bought extra supplies from Iran and North Korea which Maj Gen Freuding, who is head of the German military’s task force, said was helping Russia replenish its tanks, missiles and drones.
He warned that although it was not clear that Putin had plans to attack Nato, he was “clearly creating the conditions for it”.
“Production is growing, the supplies in the depots are growing,” he said.
Germany is locked in a debate ahead of a national election next month on whether to back a £2.5 billion aid package for Ukraine.
Olaf Scholz, the chancellor, has said that he will only back the aid package for Ukraine if tight national borrowing rules are relaxed.
In Ukraine, Russian forces have surrounded the fortress town of Pokrovsk and are on the brink of capturing one of the last Ukraine-held villages in south Donetsk.
Russian military bloggers celebrated the military advances and said they were “shaping the international agenda”.
“Ukraine has stopped coal mining at the Pokrovsk mine due to the approach of Russian forces,” said the Two Majors Telegram blog. “Pokrovsk is surrounded from the flanks.”
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This would be the worst thing russia could ever do and I’m pretty sure they will not unless they figure there’s just no way out and accept an even more horrible future. Was always told economy’s and women win wars, you run out of money your done, you lose the support of mothers and your done. I’m wondering how much russia is flirting with both right now.
Come at me, bro.
Russia proved itself fully incompetent against a country that wasn’t expecting them. What do they think is gonna happen when they attack the strongest military coalition in the history of humanity?
You know what else they are churning out? Cripples and human mulch. We shouldn’t underestimate russia crazy but this comes off as a bit over the top.
Very doubtful. Russia is struggling otherwise they would not be so dependant on Iran and NK. They are desperate to show strength as they cannot sustain the current burn rate of people or equipment and need the war to stop.
Russia is not going to attack nato, this is fear mongering propaganda.
With russias material losses in Ukraine, I’d be very surprised if they were able to even come close to replenish their stocks. There is a reason we believe they’ll have emptied their Soviet era stockpile at some point in 2025-2026.
This is factually incorrect.
It’s very clear that the Russian army is continuously getting weaker in Ukraine due to the amount of losses they sustain which their weakened economy can not replace.
The German general’s remarks on Russia having already replaced all it’s lost in the form of missiles and tanks in Ukraine, do not align with the general sentiment about Ukraine degrading Russia’s war supplies. Which of the two is true, then?
If Russia had built up enough to attack Nato maybe it should see if it can roll over all of Ukraine in a few days now … Just to test the hypothetical out? Россия. Всё шипит, колбасы нет.
gona assume he knows that France and the uk are nuclear armed enough to slag a good part of russia by themselves?
Y’all need to remember that the incoming US president has expressed skepticism about NATO…
Bring it on putitard
Well since im pretty sure America is about to turn on us and leave NATO so this would make sense.
If with America on our side we never really gave a proper answer to Russia invading European soil, it’s normal that they think that as soon as America leaves us we’re just gonna drop our pants and let them in.
Eh just sounds like fear mongering to me. I know kremlin does some braindead tactical decisions but this is a whole nother level.
If im wrong ill see ya in the fronts.
The over hyped Telegraph should focus on reporting the constant war crimes, murders of civilians and the daily terrorism in Ukraine instead of fantasy headline hunting.
There are a lot more avenues Putin would take before just killing off his whole country like that. The whole FSB would have to be ok with this too, which makes it more unlikely.
The source for this whole fear mongering article is just a German general saying that Russia is increasing weapon production and speculating that it could use those weapons on Nato. Putin is having a pretty hard time just gaining control of eastern Ukraine in the past 3 years (about 1/5th of Ukraine). What makes anyone think he would actually want to expand the war to all of Nato? That’s suicide.
They can’t successfully invade Ukraine, so they want to pick more fights with larger, better armed, diplomatically allied countries? Yeah, that makes sense. Sounds like a plan. What could go wrong.
Finland says “hey..wait…hold my beer!” Russia wants no part of the Finns, Germans, etc…even Spain’s navy would give them a few more artificial reefs.
this is laughable, no they arent. they can’t even rearm their idiot troops in ukraine fully
They’re resorting to Ladas, Golf Carts and motorbikes, – what the heck are they rearming too, tricycles?
Definitely not a coincidence with trump taking office and his open criticism of NATO
Russia tried to take over every single democratic election this cycle, and he got the big one. Every other country is going to be mad soon
Someone let Poland off the leash
Russia would be done in a week
And sending troops on motorcycle because they’re so well armed
LMFAO
It is easy to say that a Russian attack on NATO will not happen. But Russia is rapidly expanding its weapons production, while Europe is having problems even strengthening its arms industry in order to be able to help Ukraine. Yes, Russia may not be in the best position to wage war against Europe in a few years, but Europe will also quickly run into problems if it does not produce more weapons as soon as possible. You can’t win a war with a few hundred tanks and helicopters…
With Trump on his Throne, you can be sure Russia will get another Free Ticket to attack.
Putin is absolutely giddy right now.
If history is anything to go by, in the beginning of 1941 Hitler had his forces already stretched across Westen Europe. Yes, he’d conquered Norway, France and the Low Countries, However his attempt to conquer the UK (Operation Sealion) had failed with the Luftwaffe taking quite a hit thanks to the RAF and pilots from the Free Air Forces of the occupied European nations. Meanwhile resistance operations within the occupied nations were still active and in some cases improving their effectiveness.
It was at this point that Hitler thought it would be a marvelous idea to invade the Soviet Union.
As the old saying goes: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
With what army?
Regardless of all the reddit generals saying, one thing is certain. Russia is a wild card and unpredictable. Trump gained 32 billion market cap on his meme coin smells of a massive bribe. If he goes for Nato and Trump turns a blind eye I believe Europe will be in for another long drawn out war with yet another fanatic.
So if it’s ww3, do I still need to go to work?
I think people who are saying Russia doing this would be insane don’t really understand that today Russia is completely congruent with Putin. Putin absolutely cannot afford a ceasefire in Ukraine because as soon as the country’s attention is moved from the war effort onto him they will kill him.
He needs a short conflict with NATO to come out saying: “We couldn’t possibly fight them all, yet we still took territory away (in Ukraine).” This makes him look like a “sane saviour” not the absolute clown show of a criminal and incompetent administrator that he really is.
Yeah I doubt that very much. Poland would be in Moscow in a week
Constantly see these headlines. Daily! How in the sweet good god hell would they possibly pull off any attack against an even larger and stronger opponent than they’re already fighting and not be decimated? Unless it’s just day 1 nuclear holocaust any mention of “attack nato” is just wasting everyone’s time. They wouldn’t dare.
For anyone worried – here in the UK the Telegraph is jokingly called the “Torygraph” because they’re basically a mouthpiece for said party, a party that was in power for 15 years until last year.
They’re now constantly playing the “we need to spend more on defence, the new Labour government doesn’t care about your safety!” shit, forgetting the 15 years of Tory rule saw our armed forces cut to the bone.
It’s just designed to make Labour look like they’re not magically fixing 15 years of shit overnight.
Russia isn’t going to attack NATO any time soon, because they know that unlike them, we have one red line, and it isn’t bullshit. If they try it, we’re all fucked.
Pure projection lol they’ve got nothing.
Airspace would belong to USA in a matter of 30 minutes, and it would be great treaining/show of power exercise for the US.
They can’t even take Ukraine in 3 days….
lol, the telegraph, so click bait nonsense.
certainly the recent ramping up of what is essentially conscription by a different name is of concern but it is a sign of desperation and not strength. full mobilisation is the last throw of the dice and ultimately Putin’s inevitable downfall
Surely we’re not stupid enough to go back for round 3. Surely.
Russia is rapidly rearming and has successfully converted into a war economy.
NATO countries are struggling to rearm even when not at war.
Easy to see here that Putin will be in prime position to strike when he’s finished with Ukraine.
What is he trying? Suic!de by NATO? …or does he have Trump in his pocket?
Anyone here posting sensible opinions on how it makes no sense for russia to attack other countries – guess what, it doesn’t matter if something makes sense for the country in the long run. What matters is putin’s personal status quo. There’s no easy backing away from the expansionism started in Ukraine, the whole russia is on the wartime rails now. Any sort of reduction in militarization will have a catastrophic effect for putin on so many levels. So he intends to wage war until he dies, the country be damned.
The Daily Telegraph in full “it’s the end!” mode.
Anyone would think that they had a paper to sell…
russia cant even handle ukraine, how the fuck would they handle an entire goddamn continent? itd be literal suicide.
I feel so manipulated by this headline and article
Nonsense… Russia is a flaming pile of shit, but its got lots of self preservation corn nuggets.
If it actually attacked a EU / NATO country it would fold to conventional warfare efforts in 3 days — and not like 3 days to Kyiv…. The only option for them to survive would be to use nukes, but then MADD and game over for them anyway.
I’m generally anti-war which I don’t think is an unreasonable default position, but we as Europeans need to brace ourselves for a future where we might need to fight for the future of our continent and Union.
We face the worst of both worlds sandwiched between a violent murderous Oligarchy (Russia) and an unpredictable, and now unreliable United States where the president won’t even rule out using military force to invade a Danish territory.
Buckle up, the next five years are going to be rocky at best.
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