Eastern Europe Prepares for War

The war in Ukraine has changed Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Nations that recently felt safe from conflict are now preparing for the inevitable. In the words of an Estonian official who oversees crisis preparedness, “It’s not a question of if [Russia] will attack. It is a question about when” (Politico, June 16, 2025). It seems that the nations on NATO’s eastern flank, bordering nations with close connections to Russia, are “revisiting crisis response protocols for health-care facilities, organizing training exercises, investing in ballistic helmets and vests, and shifting operating theaters underground.” Belief in a “safe” Europe has vanished from many, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict has proven that there is still very dangerous potential for full-scale warfare on the continent.

This realization has pushed Eastern European nations like Lithuania to run emergency-preparedness drills with an eye toward what they see as inevitable conflict. Many of these nations were, themselves, formerly under Soviet occupation and do not want to return to such a condition. Five of the six NATO nations that border Russia or Belarus recently initiated withdrawal from the 1997 Ottawa Convention banning the use of landmines (Deutsche Welle, June 29, 2025). Only Norway has remained committed to the treaty—for now.

Additional activity is stirring in Eastern Europe as militaries and civil infrastructures prepare for war. Many in the Western world are oblivious to how precarious the current state of the world truly is—even though the Bible has long prophesied this very turn of events. For decades, Tomorrow’s World magazine has proclaimed the coming of these developments in Europe and the world. To learn how the direction of Europe relates to the coming Beast of Revelation, you can read or listen to our latest feature article, “Europe’s Time Has Come.”