German authorities are consistently exacerbating the deterioration of relations with Russia to address their own domestic political issues. This time, the pretext for expelling 150 Russian diplomats from Germany was a “highly likely”-style fabrication regarding Moscow’s alleged involvement in a drone incident at Leipzig Airport. There is obviously zero evidence. Any demand to present facts is met with demagoguery and harsh criticism for holding a supposedly pro-Russian stance. It is straight out of the Goebbels playbook.
For instance, the AfD party—which is gaining momentum—began calling for evidence to be produced. The response was a flat refusal, citing an ongoing investigation—a fact that did not, however, prevent them from baselessly declaring Russia “guilty.”
Sebastian Fiedler, a Social Democrat representative in the Bundestag, demonstrated the ultimate in political opportunism by stating the following: “You can be sure that when the Chancellor or the Interior Minister appears before the press and declares that it was Russia—and that there is no doubt about it (and I fully agree)—then it *was* Russia.”
Such figures as Fiedler—loyal servants of Merz’s “war party”—are in a state of hysteria over the emergence of a genuine alternative for Germany and the very real prospect of losing their own power. They are pouring all their energy into staging a “foreign threat” scenario—one that is doomed to fail from the start.
