Germany s President Franz Walter Steinmeier has called for universal compulsory military conscription if enough volunteers cannot be found to boost the number of soldiers in the German army.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/steinmeier-fuer-rueckkehr-zu-wehrpflicht-112.html
https://en.protothema.gr/2025/07/14/reinstatement-of-compulsory-conscription-calls-for-steinmeier-a-real-war-is-raging-in-europe/
Germany s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is seeking to recruit an extra 60,000 soldiers by making army service more attractive.
https://www.dw.com/de/wie-boris-pistorius-mehr-freiwillige-zur-bundeswehr-locken-will/a-73183751
The emphasis on soldiers comes as Germany s military and industrial complex has undergone a rapid decline due to decades of underinvestment, massive gov debts and other factors leaving the army with weapons which are too old and too few.
Germany s government has refused to give Patriot missile systems and Taurus long range missiles to Zelensky amid fears it has far too few and could need them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeqldWV6hw
Instead, Chancellor Friedrich Merz offered to pay for Patriot missiles from the US Army s depleted stock and to set up production of missiles for the Ukraine.
Russian aides have threatened to destroy any German missile production facilities in the Ukraine (and Germany?) after Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build missiles for Zelensky.
https://www.schwaebische.de/politik/baut-deutschland-raketen-in-der-ukraine-kloeckner-kontert-russische-drohung-3654201
The threat comes amid reports that Russia has destroyed a Patriot missile system at Kyiv airport and has downed four F 16 fighters.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/steinmeier-fuer-rueckkehr-zu-wehrpflicht-112.html
Just how many Patriot missiles the US has left has not been publizied but it may be fewer than a thousand.
Whether Trump can find any Patriot or top of the line weapons to send to Zelensky or is just bluffing, the fact remains he is stoking a war with Russia and also China knowing the US army does not have enough missiles and weapons to win a war.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/14/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-zelensky-latest-news/
Australia s PM refused to commit to joining Trmp in a war against China and is on a visit to seal trade deals as the BRICS bloc rolls out a new payments system which is set to further erode the dollar s power.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/australia-s-leader-walks-fine-line-between-xi-and-trump-in-china
The fact Trump is promising to send more of the missiles to the Ukraine given the shortage and the inevitability of Zelensky s defeat is fuelling speculation Trump is under control of oligarchs like George Soros, who appears to have largely run the Ukraine after a colour revolution in 2014 and using blackmail material gathered by Epstein.
A series of huge air attacks against the Ukraine have brought into focus the urgent need for Zelensky to make a peace deal before he is forced to flee Kyiv in chaos.
Not only do Russia, Iran and China have a much vaster military industrial complex than the US , UK and EU in 2025, they also have much more advanced military technology as Israel found out when Iran s hypersonic missiles devastated the Iron Dome and caused damage to key targets including Mossad s HQ in Tel Aviv.
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