The German interior and foreign ministers spoke for the whole federal government and said the attempted drone attack on Leipzig airport was organised by people acting on behalf of institutions of the Russian state. The measures announced with it are concrete: a consulate general closes, a cultural centre loses its lease, and entry controls tighten.
In this episode:
0:00 Intro
0:34 What Berlin said and what it is closing
2:29 Support the channel
3:03 Why the announcement came before the vote
4:25 An attempt to switch off a power station
5:50 A wartime bomb and 13,000 evacuated
6:45 The most expensive power in the group of twenty
7:49 Closing
• What was actually found at the airport in early August, and why investigators say it was not a single object
• The full list of announced measures, from the consulate closure on the eighteenth of September to intensified intelligence work
• Why the announcement came days before a state election in which a party sympathetic to Moscow leads the polls, and what either timing would have cost
• An attempt to disable one of the largest power stations in the east, found before it caused a single outage
• A wartime bomb weighing two hundred and twenty seven kilograms and the largest evacuation the region has run
• The most expensive electricity in the group of twenty, and how much of that price is not power at all
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