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.

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    22 hours 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.

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      16 hours 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.

      • D_C@lemm.ee
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        10 hours 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!!

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        18 hours 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.