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  1. We are living in a "hybrid phase", he adds, with threats including "disinformation, cyber attack, espionage and sabotage". When asked if this is the most dangerous period, in terms of risk of war for Germany since the Cold War, he replied: "Yes, definitely." "I don't think we are in war, but we are no longer living in peacetime." Last year, Germany honed its battle readiness including using war games to test how the military or civilians respond. But while ministers and military chiefs talk about the need to get "war ready" - years of deprioritising defence have made that task extremely complex. Success involves the whole country rising rapidly to the challenge, according to Bodemann. "Russia is reorganising, restructuring and boosting its forces... We have to speed up to be ready before it is," he warned. In her annual report, Germany's armed forces commissioner, Eva Hogl, noted the nation's military, or Bundeswehr, faced significant personnel problems as well as continuing struggles with equipment shortages. At the end of 2023, soldier numbers dropped by 1,537 compared to the year before with more than 20,000 vacant posts. So how did we get here? Nato bases in Russias back yard which the Russians find threatening to their country
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  2. As of January 28, 2025, the Doomsday Clock is set at 89 seconds to midnight. This is the closest the clock has been to midnight since it was created in 1947 another red flag that we are closer to armageddon
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  3. As part of its response to the new threat, Germany has a top-secret document called Operation Deutschland or the Oplan. The 1,000-page dossier details the measures Europe's biggest power would take to protect critical infrastructure and mobilise its own forces, as well as aid with the mobilisation of NATO troops, in times of war. "Since the Russian invasion into Ukraine, the situation has completely changed," says Lieutenant General Andre Bodemann, head of Germany's Homeland Defence Command and the self-described architect of the plan.
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  4. We thought peace would be achieved in 24 hours when President Trump got in
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