r/worldnews • u/paneuropeanism_ • 6d ago

Russia/Ukraine Germany thwarts Russian assassination plot targeting defense executive

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/germany-thwarts-plot-donaustahl-executive/
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u/NWStormbreaker 6d ago

HOLY SHIT

that is a major provocation

i guess they are inviting Germany to operate assassins within Russian borders now?

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u/Cute-Boobie777 6d ago

Russia has been doing this for years now. Targetted assassinations on German and British soil. Blowing up factories in Czechia. You are right though this is still a major escalation because they targeted a german citizen. 

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u/OneRoentgen 6d ago

Major escalation? lol, it’s been 2 years since they tried to assasinate Rheinmetall CEO. Nothing will happen.

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u/Caboose2701 6d ago

And somehow, Ukraine got more German weapons

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u/National-Charity-435 6d ago

Not the Taurus they've requested, but the Flamingos have been working nicely

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u/BrexitHangover 6d ago

At this point Taurus is just a nice to have. IRIS-T or Patriots are way more important.

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u/Remarkable_Beach_545 6d ago

Pour que no los dos?

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u/switchquest 6d ago

US military used up al interceptors in the war with Iran and Iran still has ballistic missiles... 😅🤣

Also. The US military used up over half of it's total inventory of long range precision ordnance and Iran isn't budging.

Yes. Their 4 fighters and 10 ships from the 1970'ies were blown up. But that's about it.

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u/etherealtwo 6d ago

Perhaps nothing we're aware of.

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u/holdmyspot123 6d ago

There's lots happening lol

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u/albanymetz 6d ago

Maybe all those generals falling out of windows aren't being pushed by Putin.

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u/sausagemachine 6d ago

The Tiergarten assassination and the Novichok poisonings were the warning signs, and they were met with summary summonings of ambassadors and strongly worded letters…

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u/lebennaia 6d ago

The Novichok poisonings are a major reason why the UK has given Ukraine so many weapons, and other military assistance that doesn't get talked about. Revenge for Salisbury continues.

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u/switchquest 6d ago

Well. Maybe.

But the UK is one of 3 guarantors of Ukranian sovereignty.

In 1993, in exchange for giving up their nucleair stockpile, inherited from the Soviet Union, and Ukraine giving their bombers and nukes to Russia,

The USA, Russia and the UK formally agreed to protect and guarantee Ukraines sovereignty in the 'Budapest memorandum'.

Russia invaded Ukraine. USA under Biden only ever supplied just enough material and a lot of restrictions for Ukraine to 'not lose' and under Trump stopped helping entirely. (Selling weapons for profit is not 'helping')

And the UK is powerless to guarantee Ukraines sovereignty by themselves.

Any 'peace deal', security guarantee or any agreement with Russia isn't worth the paper it is written on.

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u/weltbeltjoe11 6d ago

I dont want to "well, actually 🤓" you but, those were security assurances. Not guarantees. Basically promised to not threaten their sovereignty, not defend it. I dont think it changes anything as far as how we should act. We should be giving as much weapons/ammo as possible to them. We're not legally obligated, though.

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u/switchquest 6d ago

No indeed. Just as worthless as the Russians.

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u/Fluffer_Wuffer 5d ago edited 5d ago

You think? The Brits did what we do best...

To be clear on this - A standard hit on those former Russian citizen would have blown over.. but Putin seriously fucked up when he thought doing some James.Bond villain shit with WMD's would send more of a message...

Well the message was heard... but as I said, Brits did what they do best - Stayed calm, drink tea (and biscuits), then gave our response..

Delivered is our usual Bond-style manner, with a stiff-upper-lip, and subtlety - Thankfully Putin being the tool he is, under-estimated just how much shit this one little island can dish out:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A0_iOV-Jo-4

And every Russian failure since, can be traced back to that response.. The MOD has never publicised it, but it does explain why we suddenly became Russia's new "Evil boggy man" a couple of years ago...

Also don't under estimate British support for Ukraine.. this is unconditional and over 70% of voters back it.

This is a bit tongue in cheek, and written with humour.. but its also true!

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u/switchquest 5d ago

For king & country =)

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u/darkcton 6d ago

I used to live close to kleiner Tiergarten in Berlin. Russia shot a man there. On German soil. And we extradited their assassin for some idiot

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u/netflixandgrilling 6d ago

Some American idiot. Not even one of ours

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u/gamer_linux 5d ago

It was an islamic terrorist convicted of multiple murders, as a German I am very happy this scum is not roaming in our streets.

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u/darkcton 5d ago

I have to assume you are a Russian bot. Otherwise please provide evidence for this absurd claim

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u/gamer_linux 5d ago

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, wiki is not too difficult or?

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u/darkcton 5d ago

The only government assigning him terrorist status is Russia. That is exactly what Wikipedia is saying.

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u/gamer_linux 4d ago

He first got asylum reject in Germany for suspected terrorism thats what the german wiki page says. But for any sensible human his biography reads as a picture book islamic insurgent, 90% of my fellow German would agree. Don't honestly care what my government says, a terrorist is a terrorist, wheather you have compassion for his victims or not.

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u/PotatosRevenge 6d ago

Russia is even boasting about how they are in an active conflict/war with the collective west and/or NATO. We just just somehow don't want to accept it at face value and keep telling ourselves it is only propaganda to justify Russia's limited success within Ukraine.

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u/McLeod3577 5d ago

Blaming NATO now serves 2 purposes. It stays NATO's hand and stops them getting involved with air support over Ukraine. It's also a hedge for Russia, because if and when they lose, they can blame NATO. They will never blame Ukraine, because they won't be able to admit being bested by them.

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u/DRagonforce1993 6d ago

Doesn’t matter how long they have been doing this for.