Quote Originally Posted by kaur View Post
Ulenspiegel, this is not screw-up, this is done by purpose. This game has a name. In Ukraine war thread I had interesting discussion with this forum's fallacy tester mirhond. Russian compatriots brought in from Latvia told lies about Ukrainian "crimes". Lavrov picked this up and repeated this lie like he did in Germany. Like you see under the link SVR officers seems to be involved.

http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...rov#post172151

Sounds familiar?

http://jmw.typepad.com/files/budenz-...ity-groups.pdf
In case of Germany it was a screw up, sorry. The result would have been good if Putin had waited until the crime was confirmed. So he looked incompetend.

We have only a few million Russians in Germany, only a small part of them shows promising potential for such stunts, the ability of a economic powerhouse like Germany to fight back in an unsymmetric way is there and Merkel is not the forgiving type.

BTW: The attempts of Moscow to influence Russion emigrants in Germany is nothing new.