In an alarming announcement, German Defense Minister Peter Struck stated that the German Army may “consider missions beyond its current peace-keeping and stabilization mandate” in the future ( Deutsche Welle, June 6). The military of a nation that launched two world wars in a generation has emerged from its ruins and has demanded an active role on the world scene!

In an interview with the German magazine Focus, published June 4, Struck boldly declared that the German Army should be ready to act militarily in areas it is currently deployed, if the situation should deteriorate into violence. Struck also told the magazine that, realistically, troops would lose their lives as they are used in combat situations.

“For those of us who were born after the war this is an unfavorable idea but we must be realistic,” he was quoted as saying. “It is possible that we will consider going to other countries and separate warring parties by military means” ( ibid.).

There are already around 6,500 German troops deployed around the world, mostly in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Just this spring, Germany agreed to send 75 military observers to Sudan to join a group of 750 UN observers, which will form a part of a UN peacekeeping force of 10,000 troops. The deployment was set to last for six months and was limited to southern and eastern Sudan as outlined by the UN Security Council resolution passed in late March. The group of observers will not offer direct help in the region but will be able to liaise with African Union troops in the area.

Struck is scheduled to meet with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at the end of June, where they will decide whether to extend the length of the deployment.

This follows after a statement from the German Defense Ministry in April that declared Germany was willing and ready to play a stronger role in Afghanistan.

“Germany is ready to take charge of the entire northern region,” Struck said in a visit to Uzbekistan before he left to Kabul, capital of Afghanistan ( ibid.).

Struck said that Germany would of course wait until nato finalized its plans for the region before it would approve of expanding the role of the 2,000 German troops deployed in Afghanistan.

So more German peacekeepers in a war-weary world is a good thing right? Wrong!

The German military may have quietly maneuvered itself into peacekeeping missions, but it has a far more ambitious goal than liaising with foreign troops. Peacekeeping is just a way for Germany to test the waters and to get the world to accept a renewed German military power.

The Trumpethas declared for years that the German military would rise again, but not to bring peace as it says it will, but to start World War iii!

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