A Russian Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile system rolls through Red Square at night in preparation for a May Day parade.
Sabine Siebold, Sarah Marsh – Reuters Aug 31, 2022
Germany’s chief of defence has warned that the West must not underestimate Moscow’s military strength, saying Russia has the scope to open up a second front should it choose to do so.
“The bulk of the Russian land forces may be tied down in Ukraine at the moment but, even so, we should not underestimate the Russian land forces’ potential to open a second theatre of war,” General Eberhard Zorn, the highest-ranking soldier of the Bundeswehr, told Reuters in an interview.
Beyond the army, Russia also has a navy and air force at its disposal, he added.
“Most of the Russian navy has not yet been deployed in the war on Ukraine, and the Russian air force still has significant potential as well, which poses a threat to NATO too,” Zorn said.
The Bundeswehr regularly supports NATO air policing missions over the Baltic states with fighter jets and, having one of the strongest fleets in the region, is also keeping a close eye on the developments in the Baltic Sea at its doorstep.
One potential hotspot there is Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave sandwiched between NATO members Poland and Lithuania, that hosts Russia’s Baltic naval fleet and is a deployment location for Russian nuclear-capable Iskander missiles.
Russia has threatened to station nuclear and hypersonic weapons in Kaliningrad should Finland and Sweden join NATO as they are in the process of doing.
Zorn, speaking before the start of an Ukrainian offensive in the south, stressed that Russia continued to have substantial reserves.
“As concerns its military, Russia is very well capable of expanding the conflict regionally,” the general said. “That this would be a very unreasonable thing for Russia to do is a different story.”
Referring to the military situation in Ukraine, Zorn said the dynamic of Russia’s attack had slowed down but Russia was still pressing steadily ahead.
“Supported by massive artillery fire, they are driving their advance forward – regardless of civilian Ukrainian casualties,” he said.
He also suggested that Russia was not about to run out of ammunition any time soon.
“The Russians have enormous quantities of ammunition at their disposal,” he said. “This ammunition is partly old and very inaccurate but it is exactly this that causes great destruction to civilian infrastructure. They fire around 40,000 to 60,000 rounds of artillery ammunition per day.”
Zorn said he nevertheless did not anticipate any far reaching offensives deep into Ukrainian territory at the moment.
He also said Russian forces were currently focused on conquering the Donbas, the industrial region of eastern Ukraine where Moscow-backed separatisst already hold chunks of territory. No military resolution was in sight yet, however, he said.
Reporting by Sabine Siebold and Sarah Marsh; Editing by Angus MacSwan
So much crap in this article. Russia has about 9% of army in UKraine. All they are trying to do is whip up more spending. As if they aren’t throwing away billions in UKraine.
2nd front with china over AlaskaCanada !
some chinese troops are already in canada
thanks by Trudeautraitor .
“Germany’s chief of defence says Russia has the scope to open up a second front should it choose to do so.”
The dumb Kraut obviously isn’t aware that Russia “has the scope” to wipe Germany – along with the rest of ZATO! – off the face the earth… ” should it choose to do so”
The Western nations, all on their death beds from suicide, being raped by Moslems in their sleep, should not dare to speak of Russia at all
rothschild wars
great article
https://brutalproof.net/2017/03/rothschilds-bankers-behind-all-wars-their-men-never-maimed-or-murdered-in-their-wars/
He is preparing us for a NWO army against Russia. Look, the Russians did not have a chance from the beginning of this play. We are just waiting for the next Pearl Harbor…….. And then all those missing weapons will appear…
German General Zorn is in perfect agreement with US Colonel Macgregor. And Gonzalo Lira has been talking along these lines for a long time. It should be abundantly clear to the NATO countries that pumping Ukraine with weapons is pointless: The Ukrainian oligarchy is selling them off on the black market with glee, and leaving the military, who are left unarmed on the frontlines, to die in eye-watering numbers.
It is ever more clear that proceeding with this war is in the interest of the oligarchy only: The longer it goes on, the more weapons they can put on the black market. (For goodness sakes! In its recent offensive in Donbas, the Russians reported 1,200-odd Ukrainian military ‘eliminated’ in one day!) But then, the mass deaths of Ukrainian soldiers just feeds the oligarchic trade in human organs, so the oligarchs are unbothered.
The prolongers of this war have a lot to answer for!
Even if the original Cold War was theater orchestrated by an OSS/CIA entity—-the way World War 2 was orchestrated by the central banks, getting George Patten and other genius generals who saw through the ruse murdered—-there is still a flaw in these people thinking Russia will go along with this now, like they did in the past, because Putin and his associates were not a part of the original scheme.
There is a lot of latitude for a tripwire disaster in which the West overplays its hand and Putin decides enough is enough.
We should all be focusing on what would constitute “the ironic eventuality” of a “reversal of fortunes” for the “timeless elites”…
Richard D hall on rich planet tells like it is
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=282&part=1&gen=1
In Mariupol DPR. War Crime Trails begin. Rape,Torture Genocide of Ukrainian Russian speaking peoples by Ukraine NAZIS. DPR has the death penalty. Canadian and Nato high ranking officers also on trial for war crimes. This will be interesting.
Reuters is stoking the coals for WWIII peril in the very controlled war going on in the Ukraine. Meanwhile their Zionist owners are stepping up their Israeli air and missile attacks on any Syrian army installation they can find, while the US and the UK keep right on training and supplying ISIS divisions to hold sectors and cause havoc in the land.
Of course, since they’re both (NATO/Russia) in on in together to exterminate thousands/millions of Aryan Ukrainians & advance their WEF policies. NATO has no intention of ‘defeating’ Antifa Russia, since they’re both surreptitiously governed by the same cabal of Jewish Oligarchs..figure it out…Its like the phony ‘Cold War’ where the West was covertly supplying the USSR with all sorts of material, money, equipment & resources while pretending to be ‘enemies’ to the stupid/insane masses of the world…Repeat scenario here (2022)–nothing has changed since the Cryptocrats remain the same..
A second front is likely to be the Baltics. This is where Britain is trying to cause trouble now.