from Sputnik News
The
editor-in-chief of Sputnik’s parent media group dropped bombshell audio
last Friday of a conversation between senior Bundeswehr officers
discussing plans to attack the Crimean Bridge using German-made Taurus
missiles. The leak, whose authenticity was subsequently confirmed by
German media, sparked a formal investigation.
The leaked conversation
between senior Bundeswehr officers plotting aggression against Russia
using German weapons raises serious questions about who’s truly in
charge in Germany – the military or the civilian government, and signals
a truly worrying slide toward military rule, former US Marine Corps
intelligence officer and independent military analyst Scott Ritter has
told Sputnik.
“There's
a crisis in civil military affairs in Germany today, and the whole
world seems to be ignoring this,” Ritter said, pointing out that while
attention has been paid to the details of the leaked February 19 discussion,
in which officers effectively plotted “an act of war” against Russia -
“no ifs, and or buts” about it, the more important question about just
who is in charge of Germany today has been left unanswered...
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