NATO Official Warns Europe To Be Prepared for All-Out War with Russia

Admiral Rob Bauer, NATO’s military committee chief, becomes the first NATO official to admit what the Western states are preparing for: an all-out war with Russia. The blunt statement was offered during the press conference at the beginning of the largest NATO exercise since the end of the Cold War.

NATO will launch the Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise next month, which will run through May and involve some 90,000 troops who will rehearse the alliance’s execution of its regional plans. The scenario is also adapted to the current context, presuming Russia attacks NATO’s Eastern flank. This could be Romania, Poland or the Baltic states.

We have to realize it’s not a given that we are in peace. And that’s why we are preparing for a conflict with Russia. (…) There must be a realization that not everything is plannable and not everything is necessarily going to be ideal in the next 20 years.

Robert Bauer, NATO’s military committee chief on NATO’s preparing for war against Russia

Not only that, but the high-ranking NATO official urged the population to prepare to survive the first 36 hours of the war with Russia.

You need to have water, you need to have a radio on batteries, and you need to have a flashlight on batteries to make sure you can survive the first 36 hours.

Robert Bauer on how population is required to prepare to survive the first 36 hours of the war with Russia

Steadfast Defender 2024, or STDE24, is an Article 5 exercise and is primarily designed to demonstrate NATO’s ability to strengthen the Supreme Allied Commander Europe’s (SACEUR) area of responsibility through the transatlantic redeployment of forces from North America. The exercise, which takes a 360°, multi-domain approach, also underscores the capability and deployment of forces across Europe, focusing on demonstrating live exercises, NATO communicates.