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Armin Papperger.

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Exclusive: US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine | CNN Politics

Earlier this year, US intelligence discovered that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German ar

Pro-Putin stooges in the West are trying to rile up public opinion by claiming that aid to Ukraine will provoke World War III.

In fact, it is Putin who already considers himself at war with the West. His agents have been assassinating critics in the West since the 2000s. And since his illegal invasion of Ukraine, Putin's agents have engaged in acts of sabotage and terrorism in NATO countries.

The attempt to assassinate German arms executive Armin Papperger is just the latest blatant act of aggression by Russia.

The plot was one of a series of Russian plans to assassinate defense industry executives across Europe who were supporting Ukraine’s war effort, these sources said. The plan to kill Armin Papperger, a white-haired goliath who has led the German manufacturing charge in support of Kyiv, was the most mature. When the Americans learned of the effort, they informed Germany, whose security services were then able to protect Papperger and foil the plot. A high-level German government official confirmed that Berlin was warned about the plot by the US. For more than six months, Russia has been carrying out a sabotage campaign across Europe, largely by proxy. It has recruited local amateurs for everything from arson attacks on warehouses linked to arms for Ukraine to petty acts of vandalism — all designed to stymie the flow of weapons from the West to Ukraine and blunt public support for Kyiv. But the intelligence suggesting that Russia was willing to assassinate private citizens underlined to Western officials just how far Moscow was willing to go in a parallel shadow war it is waging across the west. Papperger was an obvious target: His company, Rheinmetall, is the largest and most successful German manufacturer of the vital 155mm artillery shells that have become the make-or-break weapon in Ukraine’s grinding war of attrition. The company is opening an armored vehicle plant inside of Ukraine in the coming weeks, an effort that one source familiar with the intelligence said was deeply concerning to Russia.

People constantly pooping in their pants worrying about World War III have probably forgotten that World War II was triggered by people endlessly trying to placate Hitler.

As a practical matter, consider that Putin's "3-day special operation" is now 866 days behind schedule. At the time the invasion began he had the second most powerful military in the world; he now has the second most powerful military in Ukraine.

Even before Western countries responded to the invasion with additional arms to Ukraine, resourceful local farmers were a factor in thwarting Putin's planned conquest.

Putin was not capable of defeating Ukrainian farmers in 2022 and he's even less capable of defeating NATO in 2024.

Ignore bullshit scares from Russian bots or MAGA weasels. Russia produces second-rate military equipment which is operated by poorly trained personnel who are little more than cannon fodder.

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#Rheinmetall und das Treibladungs­pulver: Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall übernimmt Hagedorn-NC GmbH, Osnabrück, und deren Werk in #Schepsdorf

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Rheinmetall statt Karmann?

Bekommt die alte Karmann-Schmiede in Osnabrück eine neue Aufgabe? “Übernimmt der Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall 2027 das Osnabrücker VW-Werk? Gerüchte brodeln. Rheinmetall hat, weiß die tazt den Standort schon in Augenschein genommen. “Osnabrück war schon früh eine Autobauer-Stadt – und man ist dort stolz darauf. Ab 1902 belieferte der Kutschenbauer Wilhelm Karmann von hier Kraftfahrzeughersteller…

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Lithuanian Artillery Plant Moves Forward with Rheinmetall Partnership

Rheinmetall Lithuanian Artillery Plant: Baisogala, Lithuania – The development of the German-Lithuanian artillery plant in Baisogala has taken a significant step forward with the signing of a partnership agreement. On December 20, 2024, representatives from German defense technology giant Rheinmetall, the Lithuanian energy transmission and exchange group EPSO-G, its subsidiary EPSO-G Invest, and…

Lithuanian Artillery Plant Moves Forward with Rheinmetall Partnership

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Rheinmetall-blackned win Bundeswehr's €1.2 Billion Digitalization Project for Land Forces

Rheinmetall-blackned win Bundeswehr’s €1.2 Billion Digitalization Project: Berlin (December 19, 2024) – In a major push to modernize its land forces, the German Bundeswehr has awarded a €1.2 billion (gross) contract to Rheinmetall and its partner company, blackned, for a large-scale project within the “Digitalization of land-based operations” (D-LBO) program. The initiative aims to integrate…

Rheinmetall-blackned win Bundeswehr's €1.2 Billion Digitalization Project for Land Forces

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CNN-Bericht über russischen Anschlagsplan auf Rheinmetall-Chef

Die russische Regierung plante laut dem Sender CNN die Ermordung von Rheinmetall-Chef Papperger. Dem Bericht zufolge konnten die USA und Deu

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Dem Bericht zufolge war das aufgedeckte Vorhaben Teil einer geplanten Mordanschlagsserie auf Führungskräfte von Rüstungskonzernen in ganz Europa, die mit ihren Waffen den ukrainischen Verteidigungskrieg gegen Russland unterstützen. Der Plan für den Anschlag auf Papperger war laut CNN der am weitesten fortgeschrittene.

[...] Wie es weiter heißt, soll es aber keine konkreten Informationen auf die Art des geplanten Anschlags oder eine konkrete Gruppe von Tätern gegeben haben.

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