Europe appears to be preparing for World War Three, as French hospitals have been ordered to make preparations for an imminent war in Europe and Germany says it is on alert for Russia’s military drills.
France’s ministry of health has told health bodies across the country to prepare for a possible ‘major engagement’ by March 2026, according to documents obtained by Le Canard Enchaîné.
The French government is predicting a scenario where the nation would become a supporting state that has the capacity to take a massive number of wounded soldiers from France and other European nations.
The order aims to ‘anticipate, prepare and respond to the health needs of the population while integrating the specific needs of defense in the health field’.
The ministry of health added: ‘Among the risks identified, therefore, is the hypothesis of a major engagement where the health issue would consist of taking care of a potentially high influx of victims from abroad.
‘It is therefore a question for our health system of anticipating the care of military patients in the civilian health system’.
It comes after Germany’s chief of defence Carsten Breuer said NATO and his nation’s forces will be on alert ahead of Russian military drills.
Breuer said that though he doesn’t expect Vladimir Putin’s forces to attack NATO territory as Russia conducts military training in Belarus with the Zapad 2025 exercise, his nation would ‘be on… guard’.
The Khmelyovka firing ground during drills to train amphibious assault, part of the active phase of the military exercises ‘Zapad-2021’ staged by the armed forces of Russia and Belarus in Kaliningrad Region, Russia, September 11, 2021
The ‘Zapad-2021’ joint military drills of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus at the Mulino army base in the Nizhny Novgorod region
Russia is set to launch the Zapad 2025 training exercise in a few weeks
Breuer said that though he doesn’t expect Vladimir Putin’s (pictured) forces to attack NATO territory as Russia conducts military training in Belarus
He said: ‘We don’t have any indication that preparations for an attack are taken under the cover of the exercise. But we will be on our guard, not just the German forces, but NATO’.
This comes amid fears that the world is on the brink of a third World War that, according to NATO chief Mark Rutte, will be started by Russia and China.
He warned in July that the combined attacks from the Chinese and Russian leaders could trigger a World War nightmare and bring the planet to the brink of Armageddon.
According to the NATO chief, China would start by seeking to grab Taiwan – while ensuring the Kremlin dictator simultaneously attacks NATO territory, amid fears Putin is anyway eyeing the Baltic republics Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, formerly part of the USSR.
Russia today hit back at ex-Netherlands premier Rutte, claiming he had ‘gorged on too many of the magic mushrooms beloved by the Dutch’, while warning he should look forward to a future in a hellish Siberian labour camp.
Stressing the urgent need to re-arm and boost military budgets, Rutte told the New York Times in a chilling vision of the future: ‘Let’s not be naïve about this.
‘If Xi Jinping would attack Taiwan, he would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, residing in Moscow, and telling him, ‘Hey, I’m going to do this, and I need you to to keep them busy in Europe by attacking NATO territory’.
‘That is most likely the way this will progress, and to deter them, we need to do two things’ he added.
Continuing his terrifying account, Rutte said: ‘One is that NATO, collectively, being so strong that the Russians will never do this.
‘And second, working together with the Indo-Pacific – something President [Donald] Trump is very much promoting, because we have this close interconnectedness, working together on defence industry, innovation between NATO and the Indo-Pacific.’
Rutte warned that Putin is rearming at a fast pace, insisting that Western countries must increase defence spending.
‘We have an enormous geopolitical challenge on our hands,’ he said.
‘And that is first of all Russia, which is reconstituting itself at a pace and a speed which is unparalleled in recent history.
A soldier fires a mortar towards positions of Russian troops near Kostyantynivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025
Zapad-2023 joint Russian-Belorussian drills
This comes amid fears that the world is on the brink of a third World War that, according to NATO chief Mark Rutte, will be started by Russia and China
‘They are now producing three times as much ammunition in three months as the whole of NATO is doing in a year.
‘This is unsustainable, but the Russians are working together with the North Koreans, with the Chinese and Iranians, the mullahs, in fighting this unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine.
‘So here, the Indo-Pacific and your Atlantic are getting more and more interconnected. We know that China has its eye on Taiwan.’
