Civil protection agency chief says country is ill-prepared for conflict and calls for urgent upgrades to cold war shelters

Civil protection agency chief says country is ill-prepared for conflict and calls for urgent upgrades to cold war shelters

Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said, warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.

Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict, and that in its current state Germany was inadequately prepared.

“For a long time, there was a widespread belief in Germany that war was not a scenario for which we needed to prepare. That has changed. We are concerned about the risk of a major war of aggression in Europe,” he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung news outlet.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    2 days ago

    Everyone on the planet needs to send the same message to Russia: Your warm water ports in Crimea will be useless, drones would just sink your fleet each year.

    Same for any mining minerals operations you managed to set up. The prize you’re trying to capture is no longer worth keeping it. Go home.

    The change in the nature of war has made the spoils into liabilities. Drones will keep the world’s borders set for some time now.

    • huppakee@piefed.socialEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      Putin cannot keep the Russian economy going without spending a lot of money on weapons, he has no way back.

  • Finch9678@europe.pubEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    The idea that you can hide yourself from a nuclear war is just as stupid as the idea you can win one.

    The only outcome here is to not have a nuclear war.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        There is a 100% effective solution to ending wars on planet Earth, most people are just opposed to the end of the human species for some reason.

      • D_C@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Inspirational. I’m going to make a movie about these comments. It’ll be about how a person (probably a teen, and a ‘hacker’) who uses technology to learn that no one wins at global thermonuclear war.
        I’ll call it War Games. Then I’ll travel back in time to 1983 and release it in cinemas!!

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Well, yea, but russia and its fans root every single argument they make on “but we have nukes, so we deserve special treatment”. It’s all they have.

      So anyone who wants to tell them to get fucked needs to get nukes or at the very least bunkers.

  • B-TR3E@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Not even in the days of the cold war there was remotely enough bunker capacity for everyone. What for anyway? Want to spend the next 100 or 1000 years in a subterranean hole? Good luck with that. Waste of money and resources but probably just the pipe dreams of some beaurocrat in a mostlly irrelevant institution.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      11·
      2 days ago

      What are you even going on about? This is about bomb shelters, not fallout shelters that you’re expected to live in for decades.

    • Zenith@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      The article says they want enough to shelter a million people, “everyone” isn’t the goal