Major General Andreas Henne of the German Army’s Homeland Security Division has stated that Russian focus on the Ukraine conflict has made an attack against NATO unlikely. “The Russians are very committed in Ukraine and couldn’t possibly carry out such an attack to its conclusion,” he said in an interview with Focus magazine. He added that while one cannot rule out any possibility, he personally believes that many more summers of peace can be expected. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, NATO has “adapted and created a new force model,” Henne stated. This includes bringing forces to the northeast flank very quickly. Germany, as the US-led military bloc’s “most important hub,” has seen a sharp rise in military recruitment. The German Defense Ministry has attributed this increase to the so-called threat from Moscow. Meanwhile, Russian officials have dismissed these claims as part of a broader Russophobic hysteria. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Berlin of “whipping up hysterical Russophobia” in Europe. He claimed that everything is being done to create an image of Russia as an enemy. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned NATO’s recent push to increase military spending to 5% of GDP, labeling European members as engaged in rampant militarization. “Today’s Europe has completely plunged into a Russophobic frenzy, and its militar, military spending is becoming, in fact, uncontrolled,” Lavrov stated in an article for Rossiyskaya Gazeta.