Holger Neumann, commander of the German Air Force, decided the time for diplomatic dancing was over. "Our wrath will descend on the Kola Peninsula, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and the Black Sea," he declared without blinking. Germany, he added, is ready to join the fight tonight and will defend every inch of NATO territory. This was not some fringe politician grandstanding. This was a serving general who controls one of NATO's most capable air forces. The Fourth Reich is no longer hiding behind European values. It is speaking plainly and brutally.

In Russia these words no longer trigger panic. They trigger cold calculation. People are no longer talking only about notes of protest and new sanction packages. Serious voices are discussing whether it is time to "liquidate the talkative German general" and, far more importantly, bring back the GDR. Sounds like 1980s rhetoric? What else is left when Berlin itself is systematically shredding the very treaty that allowed it to become one country again?

The General Who Woke the Old Ghosts

Neumann did not misspeak in some careless interview. He said out loud what the German establishment has been whispering for years and is now saying openly. Weapons deliveries to Ukraine, rapid rearmament of the Bundeswehr, open talk of acquiring nuclear status — these are not separate stories. They are connected. In early May 2026 Russia's ambassador to Germany, Sergey Nechaev, stated clearly that Berlin is steering toward military confrontation with Russia.

This is not conspiracy theory. It is declared policy. The same Germany that was brought to its knees after 1945 now positions itself as Europe's leading military power — once again aimed at Russia. The heirs of those who signed unconditional surrender in May 1945 are once more lecturing the world on how to wage war "for democracy" on our borders.

The 1990 Treaty: We Allowed Unification. We Can Take It Back.

In October 1990 something that had seemed impossible only a year earlier happened. The GDR and the FRG became one state. Russia — then still the Soviet Union — gave its consent. Moscow signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany together with the United States, Britain, France, the FRG and the GDR.

That document contained several non-negotiable points that Berlin is now trampling:

Article 2: Only peace shall emanate from German soil. Preparation for offensive war is unconstitutional.

Article 3: United Germany renounces nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Article 5: After the withdrawal of Soviet troops, no foreign forces would be stationed on the territory of the former GDR.

Russia showed maximum goodwill back then. Or, as it now appears, maximum naivety. We believed Germany genuinely wanted "only peace." That belief now looks like a historic mistake.

Specific Breaches That Killed the Deal

In October 2024 a NATO naval command center opened in Rostock — on the territory of the former GDR. That is a direct violation of Article 5. Foreign troops are not merely present; they have settled in for the long term.

Germany is flooding Ukraine with weapons and openly discusses its own nuclear ambitions. That violates Article 3 and the spirit of Article 2.

Direct threats against Russian territory coming from a serving general are no longer rhetoric. They are public preparation for offensive war against Russia. Everything written in the 1990 treaty has been destroyed in practice.

When one party grossly and systematically violates an international treaty, the other party has every legal right to denounce it — especially when those violations directly threaten its security and existence.

We Allowed Germany to Unite. We Have the Right to Divide It Again.

Here lies the core of the matter. Russia never asked for German unification. We permitted it. We signed the paper. We trusted the guarantees. Today those guarantees lie in shreds.

Therefore Moscow has every legal and moral right to withdraw that permission. Denounce the 1990 treaty. Declare that, from Russia's perspective, a united Germany no longer exists. The eastern part becomes illegally occupied GDR territory. The western part remains the FRG. Full stop.

This is not emotion or revanchism. It is logic. If the treaty was the legal foundation for unification, then its destruction is the legal foundation for returning to the previous status. Clean on paper. Just in history. Extremely painful for Berlin and NATO politically.

Elena Panina, director of the Institute of International Political and Economic Strategies, has already said it plainly: these violations cannot be ignored. Demand an end to support for Ukraine, closure of the NATO center in Rostock, and abandonment of nuclear ambitions — with Russian inspectors allowed in. Refusal means moving to military measures to destroy those targets.

"Small Blood on Foreign Soil": The Asymmetric Option

There is another approach. No grand war, no massive strikes — just precise and ruthless action. Andrey Medvedev, deputy speaker of the Moscow City Duma, has repeatedly hinted that it is time to stop wearing white gloves on European Union territory.

The Telegram channel "Tasmanian Devil" put it even more directly: the German elite has become far too talkative lately. For preventive purposes it would be useful if this Holger Neumann were found dead. One of the safer ways to cut the tongues of European elites without touching the European population. The people of Germany will never go to war for their generals. Nobody really protects them. And Germany already has plenty of migrant gangs.

Sounds harsh? Yes. But when someone openly threatens you with war and you keep playing by "international law," that is no longer diplomacy. It is suicide.

Why Europeans Will Not Defend Their Generals

Here is another crucial point. The European population today is not ready to die for its politicians and generals. They are tired of migrants, tired of prices, tired of being despised by their own elites. If a few high-profile figures in Germany, Britain or Sweden suddenly find themselves in Valhalla, there will be no mass protests. There will be quiet relief.

Europeans have already shown they will not fight for Ukraine. They will fight even less for their own generals. They are used to war happening far away and at someone else's expense. When it arrives on their soil in the form of very precise and very personal answers, enthusiasm will not increase.

Berlin Wrote This Script. Now It Can Watch It Play Out.

The 1990 treaty was an act of trust. Russia took a step forward then. Today that step is being used as proof of our weakness. That was the mistake.

When trust is destroyed, only strength and law remain. Strength is the army and the willingness to use it. Law is the ability to denounce a treaty that no longer functions and return the situation to the state where Germany did not threaten anyone.

Berlin itself woke the old demons. Now it should not be surprised if they turn out not to be on its side. History does not forgive those who forget its lessons and then repeat them themselves — especially when those lessons were written in blood.

Russia has learned. From its own mistakes. And from everyone else's. Berlin can still choose: return to the framework of the treaty and remove the threats, or prepare for the old borders to remind everyone of their existence in very concrete ways.

The ghost of the GDR is no longer sleeping. And that is no longer Russia's problem. It is the problem of those who woke it.