{"id":42023,"date":"2025-04-22T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42023\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:45:12","slug":"nato-panic-as-major-european-country-plots-action-on-russia-border-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/42023\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO panic as major European country plots action on Russia border | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany<\/a>\u2019s military has approached a number of major arms firms over whether they could provide logistics support in the event of a Russian attack on NATO\u2019<\/a>s eastern flank, according to reports. The Bundeswehr has reportedly spoken to companies including defence firm Rheinmettal, state-owned railway operator Deutsche Bahn and airline company Lufthansa as fears over Vladimir Putin<\/a>‘s Russia<\/a> continue, sparking panic among NATO member states.<\/p>\n

The Handelsblatt newspaper in Germany<\/a> reports the country\u2019s armed forces have approached the companies to see if they could help with the deployment of troops and equipment to the alliance\u2019s eastern border. Germany<\/a> has pledged 35,000 soldiers and more than 200 aircraft and ships within 30 days of any major war involving NATO<\/a>. The Bundeswehr\u2019s Operational Command said that the German military \u201crelies almost exclusively on civilian commercial service providers for the logistical transport of military goods and equipment outside of crisis zones\u201d.<\/p>\n

Industry sources say discussions are also being held regarding whether Lufthansa\u2019s flight school could take over basic training for fighter jet pilots.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> reported the German defence ministry, Lufthansa and Rheinmetall haven\u2019t commented on the reports, while Deutsche Bahn said it was unable to provide details of military logistics.<\/p>\n

It comes amid mounting tensions with Russia<\/a> and concerns over US<\/a> commitment to European security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s military has approached a number of major arms firms over whether they could provide logistics support in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,2821,332,978,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-42023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-nato","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114383573877673950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}