Several articles in the German media have come to our attention. They echo the talking points of a recently released FBI report, which, this time again, baselessly accused Russia of conducting a propaganda campaign. The striking similarity of these false narratives and the way they are presented suggests that various news outlets might have been using the same playbook.

German media space continues to serve as a testing ground for fabrications cooked up in the United States. Inured to spreading whatever they are fed without giving it too much thought or asking too many questions, German media jumped at the chance to spew more tales about Russia claiming that Moscow interfered in the electoral processes in Germany.

This tactic has become classic across most EU countries. The ruling anti-Russian clique is making desperate attempts to come up with an explanation for the growing popularity of the opposition at a time where trust in the current authorities has plummeted to record-breaking lows. The only choice they are left with is either to admit to the grave mistakes that had caused the crisis around Ukraine and effectively put an end to Europe’s economic prospects and undermined the well-being of its own people - and to resign, or to blame it all on the “hidden hand of the Kremlin.”

Washington’s obeisant puppets, who have been unable - for over two years now - to put a finger on the perpetrators of the Nord Stream pipeline attacks despite the fact that their beneficiaries nearly handed themselves in, prefer instead to stoke the narrative of an ephemeral “Russian threat.”

For example, in an interview with the Stern magazine, Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock attributed the high rankings of The Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance and Alternative for Germany opposition parties to - surprise - “Russian propaganda.” Her party colleague, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck went as far as to baselessly accuse Wagenknecht of obtaining funding from Moscow as payment for spreading falsehoods. However, later the court had him take his words back.

No one has ever produced any evidence. Reporters do not seem to need facts to corroborate their striking claims.

Clearly, the new wave of accusations against Russia which have it allegedly meddling in Germany’s domestic affairs and using disinformation in the process is tied to failures of Germany’s ruling parties - SPD, FDP, and the Greens - in the parliamentary (Landtag) September 2024 elections in eastern Germany’s federal states of Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg.

Local elites refuse to admit the fact that the rise in opposition popularity stems primarily from Berlin’s unwillingness to listen to what large groups of people have to say, and the authorities are trying to shift the blame for their own mistakes and failures onto external machinations.

Notably, some German officials are not even trying to hide their true motives. In a comment to Tagesspiegel, head of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) Martina Rosenberg bluntly stated that in light of ongoing “foreign intelligence agencies’ spying attempts,” her organisation needs a broader mandate in order to be able to effectively support the deployment of a combat-ready Bundeswehr brigade in Lithuania, among other things.

It appears that playing the “Russian interference” card is all that’s left for the politicians who are desperately clinging to power. German taxpayers, though, will undoubtedly get the short end of the stick amid the authorities’ awkward attempts to save their faces.

The German public (the media is hopeless in this regard) should take note of the experience from overseas: Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections cost the US treasury nearly $32 million. The investigation lasted for nearly two years, but they failed to find the Kremlin’s “fingerprints” no matter how hard they tried.

https://www.trtdeutsch.com/news-welt/fbi-auch-deutschland-im-visier-russischer-desinformation-18204599

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/fbi-bericht-russland-verbreitet-in-deutschland-gezielt-propaganda-mit-desinformationskampagne-100.html

https://www.prosieben.de/serien/newstime/news/fbi-bericht-russische-propaganda-soll-afd-in-deutschland-unterstuetzen-428534

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/annalena-baerbock-macht-russische-propaganda-fuer-bsw-erfolg-mitverantwortlich-a-63af7f8e-9237-4936-8042-18fb850e400a

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/dhl-paketbrand-in-leipzig-sabotage-akt-vom-juli-hatte-offenbar-fast-zu-flugzeugabsturz-gefuhrt-12528386.html