Report: Germany Has a Plan for War With Russia — And It Includes US Troops
American, Russian, and Ukrainian delegations have been discussing a peace proposal drawn up by U.S. officials to end the war in Eastern Europe. And while it appears that the Trump administration is operating in good faith, that may not be the case for Europe’s top leaders.
A recent Wall Street Journal report, “Germany’s Secret Plan for War With Russia,” bolsters the suspicion and allegation that Western Europe, and Germany in particular, prefers a wider war with Russia over peaceful compromise. Germany’s plan includes dragging the U.S. into its hypothetical war, mainly via its membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
This may explain why European leaders are vehemently opposed to Ukraine conceding territory it has already lost, territory that Russia, as a victor, will not abandon — territory Ukraine cannot win back without help from other nations. The Germans are “racing to implement” a “secret plan for a war with Russia,” according to the Journal report. The plan “details how as many as 800,000 German, U.S. and other NATO troops would be ferried eastward toward the front line. It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would travel, and how they would be supplied and protected on the way.” Its authors dub it an “all-of-society” approach to war.
This aligns with Europe’s military buildup over the last year. As we reported back in May, many nations on the Continent — Germany especially but also a coalition of Nordic countries — have been boosting defense spending and training. But their rearmament may be about more than just self-defense. You can read our report on that here.
Operation Plan Germany
Operation Plan Germany, according to the Journal, is a 1,200-page classified document “drafted behind the nondescript walls of the Julius Leber Barracks.” The article presents the plan as having two main objectives: beating Russia in an all-out war or (best-case scenario) being so prepared for war that it would prevent one.
This fall, defense contractor Rheinmetall set up a temporary camp in the east German countryside that accommodated 500 soldiers. (Rheinmetall, by the way, just signed a €260 million deal to resupply German and NATO troops.) During the camp’s 14-day meeting, participants played out war situations and learned that “the land couldn’t accommodate all the vehicles” because “it consisted of noncontiguous plots, forcing Rheinmetall to bus soldiers to and fro.” This is one of the many lessons that “are continuously incorporated” into the plan. This is also a reason why “Berlin aims to spend €166 billion by 2029 on infrastructure.”
In a hypothetical war with Russia, “Germany would no longer be a front line state but a staging ground,” according to the Journal. That’s why the administration of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been working to prepare the entire country for war. Per the Journal:
While the new Merz government was trumpeting a €500 billion defense spending plan and a return to conscription this year, the bundeswehr was working under the radar, briefing hospitals, the police and disaster relief agencies, striking agreements with states and the autobahn operator and drawing transit routes for military convoys.
In late September, a military exercise dubbed Red Storm Bravo took place in the northern city-state of Hamburg to rehearse cooperation between the bundeswehr and the police, firefighters and civil protection units.
Leaders Against Peace
Since taking office, Merz has been blatantly open to escalation. The German leader has endorsed the idea that Ukraine should be allowed to launch Western-issued long-range weapons deep into Russia. (President Donald Trump toyed with this a few backs as well, but nothing came of it.) At the 2025 NATO summit, Merz said, “We are already in conflict with Russia.” And just before he was officially inaugurated, he said that it was “time to explore nuclear cooperation between France, the U.K. and Germany.” The context was the Trump administration’s indications that it was reducing its military footprint in Europe.
The Journal article cites “analysts” who appear to have one main agenda: diminishing the current peace negotiations. In the article, they parrot the idea that should a peace agreement emerge from this week’s negotiations, it would only “free up time and resources for Russia to prepare an attack against NATO members in Europe.” The notion that Russia, after taking three years to grind out a sliver of a much smaller Ukraine and taken a big hit to its economy thanks to thousands of Western-leveled sanctions, plans to roll through Europe is irrational. This narrative is more likely propaganda designed to set the stage for escalation sought by the European globalists.