The Fiedler Dare: Germany’s politicians never lie, they say

Berlin’s Moscow accusation rests on credibility Germany’s leaders don’t have Berlin has officially blamed a murky drone incident at the Leipzig-Halle airport on Moscow. However, as unbiased observers agree, the German authorities have not published any actual evidence to back up this accusation. Instead, they have relied on unsubstantiated claims and what seems to be the systematic management of the public mood via leaks and speculation. The stakes are high: Berlin has taken substantial punitive measures against Russia; Moscow has responded in kind. More importantly, Russian government representatives have been explicit about considering the German allegations and initiatives a deliberate escalation .

Germany’s mainstream media are even more hysterical than usual: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, once the country’s flagship of serious conservative-centrist journalism, is comparing the Leipzig-Halle incident – which resulted in zero casualties or damage – with the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US. Against this backdrop of Germany’s umpteenth moral panic about Russia stampeding through the establishment, hardly anyone even notices that the prominent Ukrainian dissident journalist Anatolij Sharij – long exiled and under permanent threat from the Zelensky regime – has unearthed an eyewitness report about the events at Leipzig-Halle that contradicts the German official and mainstream accounts and even features details pointing to stage-managing and, in short, the possibility that it was faked. Berlin’s latest Russia panic is reckless even by its own standards The German authorities, meanwhile, are staying the course. Not by presenting evidence, which is much talked about yet never shown, but by demanding, in effect, blind faith. In that spirit, the parliamentary domestic…