If NATO had to deploy heavy forces from Western Europe to Eastern Europe in an emergency, they wouldn’t make it. That is because, according to European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas, European transport infrastructure would collapse under the weight of NATO tanks and other equipment. He told the Financial Times that they would get stuck in tunnels, cause bridges to collapse, and become snarled up in border protocols. He is aiming to spend €17 billion on overhauling the continent’s infrastructure to boost military mobility in order to facilitate the rapid transport of several hundred thousand NATO soldiers to the east in the event of a Russian attack on NATO’s Eastern flank.
The EU plans to modernize 500 roads, bridges, and railways, along four main military corridors. Details of these projects are not publicly accessible, for security reasons.
But when is the alleged Russian attack coming? Sönke Neitzel, often presented on German television as an “expert” with doomsday scenarios, claims that this summer will be “the last one in peace.” At any rate, the European roads would not be ready by 2026, neither the bridges nor railways.
