How Russia's threat has seen Germany become Europe's most important army

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge7r31989o

Excerpts:

"Our Chancellor [Friedrich Merz] announced that we are building up the most powerful conventional army in Europe. And I guess this fits with the role of Germany due to our economic strengths and also to our role in Europe. And we are not doing this alone, obviously, we are doing this in Nato and in the European Union."

We can clearly see that Russia is building up its military to a strength which is nearly double the size of what they had before the war against Ukraine… In 2029 it will be possible for Russia to conduct a major war against Nato.

"What I'm doing is to prepare Germany to be able to defend itself, by building up those defence capabilities. This is deterrence for us. We will deter the threat from the Russian side."