Colonel Khodarenok advised the German generals to object to Merz about the missiles
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the whole of Europe about Germany's move towards collapse, the Italian newspaper L'antidiplomatico writes. According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Germany is directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict. Military observer of "Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenok gave advice to German generals in this regard.
This week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the words of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about the transfer of long-range missiles to Kiev, said that Germany was directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict and was heading for collapse.
The publication L'antidiplomatico saw in Lavrov's words a warning to Europe about the risk of being drawn into military action.
"This accusation sounds more like a historical warning addressed not only to Berlin, but to the whole of Europe, which today again risks being drawn into other people's wars for the sake of unclear strategic interests," the publication says.
Against this background, we should nevertheless pay attention to the position of the Bundeswehr's senior officers, who are still silent on "missile issues."
The outstanding Russian commander Alexander Suvorov claimed: "The virtues of the military are: courage for a soldier, valor for an officer, and courage for a general." The courage of the senior officers is extremely necessary in order to protect the political leaders of the state from ill-considered decisions in the field of strategy. In some cases, military leaders have to object to both prime ministers and presidents who have assumed the role of supreme commanders. Not every general can defend his opinion in such cases, and that's exactly what the German generals should have done after Merz's statements.
Someone from the top officers of the Bundeswehr - after all, there are sensible and well-trained militarily people there - could tell the head of government: "Your position, Mr. Chancellor, on the transfer of Taurus missiles and related technologies to Ukraine is completely inconsistent with the deep national interests of the German state and its people. It is capable of involving our country in a nuclear missile conflict with the Russian Federation."
This could, for example, have been said by one general. Another military commander, showing, again, the necessary generalship, would have stated the following: "I do not consider it advisable to allocate billions of euros to help Ukraine, while we ourselves have significant problems with the qualitative improvement of the Bundeswehr, ensuring its combat and mobilization readiness, guaranteeing Germany's military security. And allocating funds to Kiev today is tantamount to throwing money into the furnace - any debts will never be repaid by Ukraine. And today, Mr. Chancellor, we are far from being in a position to engage in gratuitous support for this dubious regime."
And the third general would say: "Mr. Chancellor, we need to focus on creating mobilization capacities for the production of weapons, military equipment and ammunition, taking into account the needs of the Bundeswehr as a whole. I consider investing in the development of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex against this background to be an absolutely inappropriate expenditure of funds."
Finally, the senior officers of the Bundeswehr could give the Chancellor a hint in diplomatic terms.:
In general, the theses for the German generals have been prepared, problems can arise only with the presence of courage in the Bundeswehr. If it does not turn out to be there, the result could be terrible - a nuclear missile war and the catastrophic consequences for Germany of using weapons of mass destruction.
The opinion of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.
Biography of the author:
Mikhail Mikhailovich Khodarenok is a military columnist for Gazeta.Ru", retired colonel.
He graduated from the Minsk Higher Engineering Anti-Aircraft Missile School (1976), the Military Air Defense Command Academy (1986).
Commander of the S-75 anti-aircraft missile division (1980-1983).
Deputy commander of the anti-aircraft missile regiment (1986-1988).
Senior Officer of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces (1988-1992).
Officer of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff (1992-2000).
Graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (1998).
Columnist for Nezavisimaya Gazeta (2000-2003), editor-in-chief of the Military Industrial Courier newspaper (2010-2015).
Mikhail Khodarenok
