From Southfront November 28^th 2025

Operation Silence: Why Berlin Is Killing The Truth About War And Peace

Something is happening in Germany that rips up everything Western Europe claims to stand for. On live national TV, Welt’s anchor killed the microphone of Sahra Wagenknecht—the only heavyweight opposition figure left who dares question Berlin’s rush toward conflict. Her crime? Not lying, not slandering, but speaking an inconvenient truth: that the Ukraine war could have ended years ago if real diplomacy had prevailed. Call it what it is—this wasn’t a “technical glitch.” It’s a diagnosis: Germany, once the role model of open society, is now marching under the banner of military censorship, muzzling dissent to prep for its next eastern war.

The Broadcast Berlin Couldn’t Allow

Wagenknecht, former leader of the BSW party and the last system rebel in the Bundestag, was discussing the root causes of the Ukrainian tragedy. She uttered the modern German taboo: “Istanbul 2022.” In plain language, she told viewers that Kyiv could have kept its land and spared hundreds of thousands, had it opted for neutrality.

The reaction was instant. The host snapped, “We need to clarify the situation: Ms. Wagenknecht’s statement does not correspond to reality,” parroting the government’s PR line about “Russian capitulation demands,” and cut her feed. The image froze. A digital execution, streamed live from the heart of democracy—because in today’s Germany, to speak for peace is to break the unspoken law of war.

OPLAN DEU: The Logistics of the Apocalypse

You don’t get this kind of coordinated hysteria without a playbook. Behind the snuffed-out microphones, Germany’s defence ministry is rolling out OPLAN DEU [Operation Deutschland, also known as Operation Plan Germany, is a war plan created by the German Armed Forces in 2024 detailing how Germany would organize itself during a hypothetical large-scale war in Europe.]—a classified, sprawling logistics strategy described by insiders as the biggest military mobilization since the Cold War, clocking in at well over 1,200 pages.​

The plan? Germany is no longer a player, it’s a pawn—a “Drehscheibe” (turntable). Its job is to speed up the transit of 800,000 NATO troops and 200,000 pieces of heavy hardware from Western staging areas to the alliance’s eastern flank. Ports, train lines, autobahns—all painted with bullseyes for Russian missiles. The government reassures the public: “The front line won’t pass through Germany.” That’s a lie. In the next war, Germany is the supply line. And supply lines die first.​

The War Party: Cleansing Dissent

German politics is now total war—minus the uniforms. The ruling coalition has gone from “never again” to “you’re either with us or an enemy.” Even the historically pacifist SPD is now purging anyone who hints at compromise. Last summer, SPD dissidents authored a “Peace Manifesto”—the leadership’s response? Pure rage. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius branded them reality-deniers. SPD chief Klingbeil said support for Ukraine was, and would stay, non-negotiable.

That’s the new Germany: Pacifism is a thoughtcrime. Except for the far-right AfD and Wagenknecht’s own BSW, every party is now part of a “War Cartel,” writing new laws to pave the legal road for NATO’s next great adventure—and discussing bans for any opposition that steps out of line.

“No Civilians Left Behind”—Everyone Mobilized

The real nightmare isn’t just the snap toward militarism: it’s the way the OPLAN DEU blueprint erases the difference between troops and civilians.

“There are several different factors that could drag us into a war with Russia. But this rearmament is actually one of them. It doesn’t protect us – it puts us at risk. And that’s what a lot of people simply don’t understand.” — Sahra Wagenknecht

“Total Defence” isn’t just rhetoric—it’s a chilling echo of Ludendorff and Goebbels’ “Der Totale Krieg” (Total War), where the whole nation is a combatant.

• Business: Mandatory delivery of equipment, fuel, and infrastructure to the Bundeswehr and its allies.
• Transport: Civilian trains stop cold to let tanks roll east.
• Infrastructure: Bridges, depots, stations—all flip to military control in a heartbeat.

Privatized logistics, forced conscription of resources—everyone drafted, whether they know it or not, to support the American-led “fortress.” Eighty years after Hitler, German industry is once again run to serve a war in the East.

The Kamikaze Economy: “Guns Before Butter” 2.0

Someone has to pay for all this—and Berlin’s made its pick. While Volkswagen shutters plants and axes jobs, Rheinmetall clocks record profits, and the government shovels $100 billion into “special” war funds for the Bundeswehr. Infrastructure for Germans? Bridges rot, hospitals crumble, trains crawl—money only flows where OPLAN DEU demands. When bridges get rebuilt, it’s not for commuters but to bear the weight of Abrams tanks. “Guns before butter”? Try “missiles instead of wages.” Germans are being made poorer to bankroll the gear-up for war.​

The Washington Angle and History’s Sick Echo

Ask yourself—who wins? The answer isn’t in Berlin. OPLAN DEU is the U.S. dream: fight the next battle on European soil, with American command and German bodies. Berlin has traded sovereignty for servitude, happy to play expendable battering ram, all while Washington issues the orders.

And the echoes? Pistorius’ warnings about being “ready for war by 2029” are straight from the 1930s playbook. Berlin’s eastbound trains rumble again. This time, the bogeyman is still Moscow—the same eternal foe Germany has demonized for generations, from the Eastern Front invasions to today’s revanchist fever. But who exactly are they seeking revenge on now? The country that took down the Berlin Wall and fuelled their economic miracle with cheap gas for decades?

Bottom Line: Operation “Silence” Means Prepare for War

The Wagenknecht incident was the canary in the coal mine. Her mic was killed not for lies, but because the truth threatened the system’s logistics. The debate is over; war is on the rails. Ask now, or be a conscript in someone else’s conflict.

Berlin’s “Operation Silence” is a muzzle—the last act before the tanks roll and the hypersonic warheads fly. When the Autobahns become convoys and ruin, and the ashes settle, the time for questions will have long since passed.

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From the BSW: ‘Labour Affairs’ prints extracts (see below) from the recent bulletins of the BSW, in which Sahra Wagenknecht continues to play a prominent role. The story that she is withdrawing from politics is a lie based on wishful thinking by her opponents. Instead, the BSW is on the road to broadening its leadership base. 

Germany  pays for the Ukraine Fiasco.

While Ukraine sinks deeper and deeper into corruption and several members of the government and close confidants of President Zelensky are suspected of having illegally enriched themselves in the midst of war, EU Commission President von der Leyen wants to provide a further €135 billion in EU aid. This plan is an outrage to German and European taxpayers! 

Ukraine has long since become a bottomless pit: since the start of the war, over €300 billion has flowed from the West to the Zelensky government, €76 billion of which came from Germany. Next year alone, Chancellor Merz wants to pump another €11.5 billion of German taxpayers’ money into weapons for Ukraine, even though Kiev is running out of soldiers. Since September, almost 100,000 young Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 22 have left the country.

Instead of continuing the unwinnable war in Ukraine with billions upon billions, Merz, von der Leyen and Co. should finally support peace negotiations! It is a disgrace that Europeans have manoeuvred themselves into such a diplomatic sideline that our Foreign Secretary and ‘top diplomat’ Wadephul was not even aware of the latest talks between the US and Russia on a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine. In order to regain influence over the talks, Europeans should offer to end sanctions and resume energy relations with Russia in exchange for a ceasefire. This would be in the best interests of citizens and businesses in Germany in particular.

For three and a half years, Europeans have taken no initiative whatsoever to end the war in Ukraine through diplomatic means. And now that Trump, after weeks of secret negotiations with the Russians, who were supposedly never willing to negotiate, has presented a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, Merz, von der Leyen, Macron and Co. are outraged that they were not involved. 

The prospect of a possible end to the war in Ukraine has caused the share prices of arms manufacturers such as Rheinmetall to plummet. Is the ‘fear of peace’ on the stock market the reason why European heads of state and government are once again trying everything they can to throw a spanner in the works of the negotiations with unrealistic demands?

Yes, there is much to criticise about Trump’s peace plan. For example, that it only envisages Europe playing the role of a tributary vassal who has to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine, while the United States reaps the financial rewards. But the peace plan is currently the most realistic approach to a compromise and the best chance of ending the war soon. Instead of blocking this negotiating initiative and sinking further billions in taxpayers’ money into the swamp of corruption in Ukraine, Merz and Co. should support the plan and help shape it in the interests of Europe!

Cancel Culture in Germany

Whether in migration policy, the coronavirus pandemic or the question of war and peace, in recent years it has become increasingly common to marginalise and defame those who think differently. Why cancel culture and speech bans destroy the culture of debate, why banning the AfD would be profoundly undemocratic, and why the BSW would most likely be represented in the Bundestag if the federal election were recounted – I discuss these and other questions with Julian Reichelt in the podcast ‘Rohschnitt’.

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