Brit moms ‘have to accept sons will to die for NATO’ as Germany warns of Russian assault

The NATO secretary general has issued a ominous statement to British mothers telling them their beloved sons might have to perish abroad in order for NATO’s alliance to be successful

The NATO secretary general has issued a chilling statement and warned British mothers will need to accept their sons have to die abroad on European soil in order for the NATO alliance to be a success.

The ominous statement comes alongside the German foreign minister warning there are some in Russia who no longer believe NATO’s Article 5 guarantee of mutual assistance will be honoured. As the German foreign minister claims there is “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on NATO territory.

Last week NATO secretary general Mark Rutte announced what he believes the challenges are which threaten the success of NATO. The secretary general said: “Many people believe that the real test for NATO is whether the US is going to fight for Europe.”

“The real test will be whether British mothers will actually accept that their sons have to die for Finland or Estonia or Poland. If they don’t, there is no NATO,” the NATO secretary general ominously said.

The general highlighted how the second world war spiralled out of control and said: “This is how World War II started. ‘Why fight for Danzig [now the city of Gdańsk]?’”

“‘Let’s give it to Hitler, it is just a city in Poland. Why should we die for it?’ That was the question asked by western European nations [at the time],” he added.

“And this is exactly the question that Putin is going to pose to NATO. Europe is already spending money on weapons, but it has to do so much faster,”

“But the real question is, who is going to tell the voters that the threat of the war is real?” secretary general asked.

The terrifying rhetoric comes coupled with claims Russia could be gearing to test if Article 5 will be upheld if an NATO member is attacked. Germany’s chief of foreign intelligence service warned that his agency has “concrete” evidence that Russia is planning an attack on NATO territory.

Speaking to a podcast of German outlet Table Briefings Bruno Kahl, the outgoing head of Germany’s federal intelligence service, revealed just how close he believed a Russian attack on a NATO ally was.

“We see that NATO is supposed to be tested in its mutual assistance promise. There are people in Moscow who don’t believe that NATO’s Article 5 still works,” Kahl said.

The intelligence expert claimed Russia had taken to deploying low-level agents to commit acts of sabotage in a report conducted with his intelligence agency presented on Wednesday.

Germany’s chief of foreign intelligence warned that Moscow is increasingly extending the conflict to western countries through cyberwarfare and espionage.

While the expert said he didn’t expect Russian tanks to start rolling into western Europe anytime soon he did add a Russian attack could be a very real possibility in the future.

“We have noticed that Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has led to our cyber and espionage defences being increasingly tested,” Sinan Selim, vice-president of the Germany’s foreign intelligence service has said previously.

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