{"id":289061,"date":"2024-06-08T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T05:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=289061"},"modified":"2024-06-09T07:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:39:47","slug":"conscription-and-rationing-germanys-plan-for-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=289061","title":{"rendered":"Conscription and rationing: Germany\u2019s plan for war with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Rothwell \u2013 The Telegraph June 6, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Germany will conscript the young, ration food and turn subway stations into bomb shelters during wartime, according to a new government preparations for a future conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

German officials have released a 67-page document which outlines how the outbreak of war\u00a0will affect the civilian population<\/a>, in particular those in professions that can support the army.<\/p>\n

According to the document,\u00a0national conscription would return to Germany<\/a>\u00a0and the employment agency would have powers to force skilled citizens over-18 to work in certain fields \u2013 and prevent them from quitting if their work is useful to the war effort.<\/p>\n

The German government would also ration food allowing for at least one hot meal per day, and would rely on secret grain stockpiles to maintain food security.<\/p>\n

German businesses would be required to switch towards defence production, while hospitals would be told to prepare to receive a large influx of war casualties from the eastern front.<\/p>\n

At the same time,\u00a0Germany would order a large troop movement<\/a>\u00a0to the east to defend the country\u2019s eastern Nato flank. It may also need to host and feed thousands of allied\u00a0Nato soldiers on German soil<\/a>\u00a0as they transit towards the front line.<\/p>\n

As part of those movements, tanks and other military vehicles would be given full priority on German roads and rail routes, and the government would have powers to suspend air traffic.<\/p>\n

Some aspects of daily life would be ordered to continue as normal, such as the sitting of the Bundestag to preserve democracy and regular collection of rubbish.<\/p>\n

All doctors, nurses, vets and psychologists would be divided between the Bundeswehr, the German army, and roles in civil society.<\/p>\n

The German media will be obligated to provide certain updates or other pieces of information immediately, and German authorities will be allowed to evacuate certain parts of Germany while taking care to ensure families are not separated.<\/p>\n

Boris Pistorius, the German defence minister, has vowed to turn Germany into a \u201cwar-ready\u201d nation in response to the\u00a0Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, and he has warned a direct conflict could break out in as little as five years.<\/p>\n

Mr Pistorius has also sought to bring back conscription in peacetime to increase the manpower of the Bundeswehr. However, he has reportedly faced stiff opposition from allies in the ruling SPD party, and is likely to water down the proposal to voluntary army service once it is fully announced.<\/p>\n

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The prospect of war with Russia is now being seriously considered in Germany, as the government releases a 67-page document outlining measures to be adopted in the event of war, including conscription and rationing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":289062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289063,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289061\/revisions\/289063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}