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2025-12-02 23:23:19Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Germany and the Pentagon no longer cooperate

An unprecedented situation is occurring between Germany and the United States.

According to German Army Lieutenant General Christian Freuding, his contact with his American counterparts at the Pentagon has been cut off. Freuding told the American magazine "The Atlantic".

He says that in the past he had been able to contact US officials "day and night" via text messages. But now communication has "broken down, completely broken down".

To obtain information, Freuding contacts the German Embassy in Washington, where someone is trying to find contacts in the Pentagon.

According to Freuding, the order that the US and Germany once created together is disappearing. He cites a case of a presence in the US military environment where, according to him, his presence was of no interest to his counterparts overseas. “My presence seemed to offer him something he had been missing: an interested American audience for his concerns about European security.” Freuding had once been able to send messages to US defence officials “day and night,” he said, but recently communication with his counterparts in Washington had been “interrupted, really interrupted.” The Trump administration had offered no warning, for example, about its move to suspend certain arms deliveries to Ukraine. For information on US policy, Freuding turned to the German embassy in Washington, where “there is someone trying to find someone in the Pentagon.”

The swing in American support couldn’t have come at a worse time. Freuding points out that the German officials I met, a group of wary military planners, spend their days watching Moscow’s troop mobilizations, trying to determine whether Vladimir Putin will order an attack on a NATO country by the end of the decade and whether the American president, in such an event, would come to Europe’s defense. “You not only have an enemy knocking on your door,” Freuding said, “you are also in the process of losing a true ally and friend.”

So Germany has realized that it needs to rearm. It is spending billions on weapons and repurposing civilian industries to produce weapons. It is even debating whether to reintroduce compulsory military conscription. The government has promised to transform its army into the strongest in Europe. For the first time since World War II, Germany is permanently stationing troops beyond its borders.

Not long ago, these plans would have raised international alarms. But as the United States upends the global order it created, Germany may have no other choice.

Recently, however, Germany has begun looking beyond the United States for air defense weapons. Berlin is working with Tel Aviv to perfect an Israeli-bought missile defense system that can intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missiles in space. On the sleeve of his military T-shirt, beneath a German flag patch, is another in Hebrew letters, the logo of the weapons project: Arrow 3. For decades, Germany has been a major arms exporter to Israel, its commitment to the Jewish state’s security a legacy of the Holocaust. Arrow 3, the largest defense deal in Israeli history, overturns that logic by making Israel a guarantor of German security.


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