Sahra Wagenknecht has dismissed Berlin’s warnings of an impending conflict with Russia as baseless “hysteria”

Veteran German politician Sahra Wagenknecht has condemned Berlin’s plans to boost the nation’s armed forces through a lottery-based recruitment system, ridiculing what she described as the government’s obsession with an imagined war against Russia.

German lawmakers have been debating ways to strengthen the army as Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for it to be turned into the “strongest conventional army” in Europe.

The government aims to expand the armed forces by around 80,000 servicemen. Some have proposed activating a…

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