Geopolitics
Germany's 'Greater Than Cold War' Threat: A Manufactured Crisis for Expanding State Power
Germany's Interior Minister has warned of a destabilisation campaign, supposedly from Russia, posing a threat worse than the Cold War, prompting calls to expand domestic intelligence powers. This alarmist rhetoric is a classic Western tactic to expand securitisation, demonise Russia, and erode the hard-won legal safeguards that protect German citizens from their own government's overreach.