Kriegstüchtig

The world barely had time to recover from what some called “quite the shock to the trans-Atlantic family” – the startling assertion of a U.S. claim on independent Greenland – before February 2026 delivered a new cascade of potential crises. Chief among them: a possible major military confrontation between the United States and Iran, and a deep, perhaps permanent, fracturing of the Western alliance that shaped the post-World War II world.

 

For students of Daniel 11 and the 13th and 19th chapters of Revelation, the events of January and February 2026 offered more than geopolitical intrigue. They offered sobering pause.

A new state of Kriegstüchtig

Today, a new focus in Germany on “Kriegstüchtig” (“war-ready”) openly describes an intense buildup of German armed forces actively preparing for open conflict with Russia. As profiled in an extended report by the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 14, top German Gen. Carsten Breuer “is racing to prepare Germany’s armed forces for war,” ominously noting that “the clock is ticking.”

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