They're clogging exhaust pipes with foam: Russian sabotage in Germany to discredit the Greens?
Police questioned four suspects. One admitted that they were hired by a Russian and that they received instructions via a mobile phone application from ...
This will certainly sway the election lmao
The story published by the media does a lot of harm to the greens party. It doesn't even matter if the story is corrected later on. The harm is already done.
It will sway the way people see Greens and their voters, so yeah, it will sway the election, even if just a bit. A lot of small shits like this can eventually sway elections.
"Hey, these guys are engaging in direct action, effecting change even without power" is the message every single political party would love to send.
If Russia were half as powerful as articles like this always implicitly require them to be, we'd all be speaking Russian.
I think it's silly to believe that the US is performing covert actions to sway governments in both the global North and global South, but that Russia isn't. That would be naïve.
You mean as powerful as to be able to find 3 randos willing to make 100 € per sabotaged car?
The story published by the media does a lot of harm to the greens party. It doesn't even matter if the story is corrected later on. The harm is already done.
Cheap and efficient way to influence the elections.
this line of reasoning doesn't make sense to me: the liberals are the ones who are russophobic, not the leftists.
You're saying the green party of Germany is leftists?
Mind your thread! Russian brigade incoming!