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Germany keeps taking steps to lead Europe in various ways.

Notice one related to military matters:

June 9, 2025

Germany’s Defense Awakening

Berlin’s military spending surged to $88.5 billion in 2024, making Germany the world’s fourth-largest defense spender and the largest in Central and Western Europe.

After years of underinvestment and political caution, Germany now allocates 1.9% of its GDP to defense, just short of NATO’s 2% target. This marks a 28% increase from 2023 and an 89% leap since 2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

This military renaissance is not merely a response to shifting NATO expectations or American pressure. It is a structural transformation backed by a €100 billion special defense fund, …

Germany is also investing heavily in its ground forces, with acquisitions that underscore a pivot toward mobility, survivability, and networked warfare. …

Germany’s maritime capabilities are receiving a significant boost with:

• Three Type 424 SIGINT vessels, modern signals intelligence ships designed for enhanced surveillance.
• A €4.7 billion deal for four advanced submarines from ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
• Four Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) costing €52.5 million for mine detection and underwater reconnaissance. …

Germany has approved the procurement of Brimstone missiles to enhance the Eurofighter Typhoon’s precision ground-attack capabilities. In parallel, drone and loitering munition programmes are progressing rapidly:

• Plans are underway to acquire 147 fixed-wing UAVs, with an option to expand to 600, for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance purposes.
• AI-enabled loitering munitions such as the Helsing HX-2 and STARK OWE-V are being developed for precision strike operations.

These additions reflect Germany’s desire to operate across the full spectrum of aerial warfare, including unmanned and autonomous systems.

Communications, Satellites & Cyber Capabilities

A modern military must be digitally connected. Germany is investing heavily in communications, encryption, and space systems, including:

• A €1.9 billion investment in a Tactical Wide Area Network (TaWAN LBO) for secure land communications.
• 1,350 multi-cryptophones to secure command-level communications.
• Over 9,000 GPS M-Code receiver cards for encrypted and accurate positioning. …

Germany’s military transformation is more than a budgetary uptick—it is a recalibration of its postwar identity. … Germany has taken the first irrevocable steps toward becoming a “framework nation” in European defense—not just economically, but militarily. https://www.eurasiantimes.com/military-renaissance-in-germany-from-ad-missiles/

A reader sent me a link to the following:

‘Meet force with force’

Policy advisors in Berlin are urging a tougher EU response to Trump’s tariff offensive. The message: escalate, take risks and act as a global power.

BERLIN/BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (own report) – In the face of the Trump administration’s escalating tariff offensive, foreign policy advisors and economic experts in Berlin are urging significantly tougher countermeasures by the EU. …

In order to put a stop to the US trade warfare it is, they say, necessary to “meet force with force”. The situation demands not only the implementation of counter-tariffs but also export restrictions on vital products. For example, the United States depends heavily on Dutch-made lithography equipment used in semiconductor production. The EU must, they say, even take the risk of causing widespread instability on the financial markets. This may be the only scenario that can make the Trump administration back down. These calls for a more aggressive response go hand in hand with ambitious long-term demands: the EU should assume the role of an independent global power. …

The calls for a more offensive response by the EU to the Trump administration’s punitive tariffs are accompanied by demands that the EU should move towards an independent role as a world power. Last week, for example, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen explicitly demanded that the EU must “shape” a “new international order” that “will emerge in this decade”. She exclaimed that, “Our mission is European independence.”[6] Speaking in Berlin, shortly before, the European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde had called for the euro to take on “a greater international role”. Her ambition is for the euro to offer a partial challenge the dollar as a global reserve currency.[7] Berlin, for its part, is seeking to increase military spending to a massive five per cent of German GDP. Indeed, the goal of upgrading the Bundeswehr has explicitly been stated as Germany becoming the strongest conventional armed forces in Europe.[8] The thinking is that such a huge level of spending could eventually enable the EU to become a leading military power on the world stage. In this scenario, Europe equipped with a strong global currency and an independent economic policy could be a global leader – under German leadership. 06/04/25 https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/10007

A New Era

Berlin celebrates the formal commissioning of the Lithuanian Brigade with a military roll call. Merz and Pistorius seize the opportunity of the first permanent German military base in Eastern Europe …

In his speech in Lithuania, Chancellor Merz reiterated to an international audience that Berlin’s arms buildup’s objective is to make the Bundeswehr the “strongest conventional army in Europe.” The allies are “virtually demanding this,” 05/30/25 https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9996

Yes, Germany wants the EU to dominate trade. Note that Ursula von der Leyen is also German.

Germany also wants to dominate the EU militarily.

There will be many unintended consequences of Donald Trump’s statements and policies, including relating to trade, military matters, and tariffs.

Now notice something from my latest book available at Amazon Kindle: Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies? as well as Amazon print Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies?:

Trade …

One of the unintended consequences of Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs and other trade matters is that it is motivating nations he has threatened to look to trade more with each other.

Europe will get more serious about trade deals with others internationally …

• Pushing tariffs and other policies that foreign nations do not like is contributing to other nations looking to bypass the USA dollar, as well as trade more with each other and less with the USA. This will further push various globalist’s moves forward without the USA. This is also helping set the stage for the coming European Babylonian Beast to dominate international trade. …

the United States, which is a mixture of ethnicities like biblical Samaria, is on the receiving side of the end time biblical prophecies related to Joseph’s son Manasseh. …

The Bible, itself, teaches that the Assyrians will be used to punish “an hypocritical nation” (or hypocritical people, as the Hebrew can be translated as is done in Bishops’ Bible of 1568) that refuses to repent:

⁵ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. ⁶ I will send him against an hypocritical nation (Isaiah 10:5–6, KJV). … Germany (Assyria)

(Thiel B. Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies? Nazarene Books, 2025)

So, are Germany and the European Union taking actions consistent with those predictions?

Yes.

Consider, further, a full quotation of Isaiah 10:

5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? (Isaiah 10:5-11, KJV)

Notice that the above prophecy, which relates to the Germanic people of Europe states, “it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.”

The push to become the dominate military is consistent with that.

To see more scriptures related to future trade, we put together the following video:

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Trade Wars – and the Winner will be …

US President Trump imposed tariffs on a global scale. Those tariffs were imposed on friend and foe alike. It seems as if President Trump is no respecter of nations. But how will this work out for the United States? Will these tariffs result in other nations drawing closer together that have had rather cold, and even not so cold, relations in the past? Will global tariffs result in trade wars? Were the events which are happening predicted by any in the Continuing Church of God? Is Europe drawing closer to China? Is Europe drawing closer to Latin and South America? With the exception of a few of America’s allies, is the net result of these tariffs a worldwide scramble to create new alliances and new trading partners to the exclusion of the United States? What will be the future result of these new alliances? Many of the nations that are now seeking new alliances were just recently America’s allies. They were her friends. Dr. Thiel brings to light the fate of America and her allies at the hands of her former friends, as revealed in the book of Lamentations. As we rapidly approach the end times listen in as Dr. Thiel brings to light world events. Then listen as he shines the light of Bible prophecy directly on the questions raised from these world events.

Here is a link to our video: Trade Wars – and the Winner will be …

The idea of Germany wanting to lead is not new. Back in 2022, we put out the following video:

Various leaders in German have pointed to a more unified, militaristic, and German-led Europe. After Russia’s ‘special military operation’ into Ukraine, Germany declared it would increase its military spending to the third highest level of any nation on the planet? German-Foreign-Policy.com reported that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants the European Union to play a powerful and more unified geopolitical role. Does what he is stating consistent with prophecies in the Book of Revelation about Europe reorganizing and turning power over to one called the Beast? Are some in Poland and Hungary (like Peter G. Feher) concerned about the domination of Europe by Germany? Is a European/German leader prophesied as the “King of the North” to make some type of a deal with a leader of nations in the Middle East and North Africa called the “King of the South”? Is that King of the North prophesied to have a great army and many ships? Could the Beast/King of the North be German? Did the old Worldwide Church of God warn back in 1980 that, in the future, the German people be concerned enough about Russia that it would call for a Bavarian strongman to lead them? Does the Bible point to such a leader rising promising peace? Steve Dupuie and Dr. Thiel address those issues.

Here is a link to our video: Germany wants to lead a united Europe.

Church of God warnings on trade and military matters are coming to pass.

In the Continuing Church of God:

19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: (2 Peter 1:19, KJV)

We continue to see international affairs that are aligning with properly explained biblical prophecies.

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