For a government, it's one thing to have bad ideas of its own, but far worse to implement another governments’ bad ideas – and tolerate no debate about them at home.

And yet that's what is happening now in Germany. Or, at least, it is what the unpopular coalition government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz and its proxies in the mainstream media are trying to achieve with regard to the planned stationing of intermediate-range missiles.

Appropriately enough – considering that post-Nord Stream attacks, obediently self-deindustrializing Berlin has become an embarrassingly submissive American vassal – it was from Washington, as a sideshow to the recent NATO extravaganza, that Germans were first told they will host a whole new class of American weapons soon. From 2026, these so-called “long range fire capabilities” are scheduled to initially consist of Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles, and later include new hypersonic systems.

The placement is supposed to be temporary at first and then become permanent. Once set up in Germany, these weapons, with ranges of up to 2,500 kilometers, could threaten the core of Russia, including Moscow, with attacks that would take only about ten minutes from launch to impact. Many of them can carry nuclear as well as conventional warheads. Inevitably, putting Russia at high risk of what its planners must see as a new Western capacity for surprise attack, their bases will also become priority targets for Russian forces.

In other words, the decision to host such weapons on German soil is of vital importance. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin used the occasion of his country’s Navy Day – going back, incidentally, to a famous battle of the Great Northern War, when Peter the Great compelled the rest of Europe to accept Russia as a great power – to spell things out as clear as can be: The American plans, if realized, will be answered by a “mirror” response: Moscow, in other words, will keep Germany, America’s willing forward fire base, in its sights.

Moreover, a point often overlooked, the Russian........

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