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SALON.COM 2026-09-07

Putin is testing Europe. How far will he go before war?

Germany blames Russia for a Leipzig drone attack as state-sponsored terrorism, sparking EU frustration over responses, Putin’s hybrid tactics, and unclear U.S. reaction.

The MSM is all abuzz about the Ruskie Boogeyman's "Hybrid Warfare" against the EU & NATO.  The instigation of all this Fear Mongering is over 3 Drones supposedly packed with explosives which did NOT detonate in the Leipzig airport.  They were conveniently found and nobody knows if they were really supposed to explode or not, nor is there any evidence actually linking them to Russia.

According to the reports "everybody" in Europe is worried about this new escalation of Ruskie belligerence, except the thing is nobody would even know about it if every media outlet wasn't plastering the headlines on every website.  Nobody got killed, no skyscrapers collapsed and the water supply hasn't been poisoned.  If they weren't broadcastring this horror, the only people who would actually be worried are the Pols and security services.

The  theory  being promoted is Vlad is doing this to "test" Europe to see how they would react to an actual attack.  As tests go, it's pretty pathetic, since with nobody dead and no critical infrastructure damage, you still have no idea how they would react to a REAL attack.  The current reaction is to add more Sanctions for Russia to ignore or evade.

So who's really doing the testing and to what end?  The only thing that makes sense is they are testing the public to see how much support they'll get for ramping up military spending and cutting their social welfare budgets.   What they want is more money to spend on war toys.  They wanna do it without actually killing anyone, because that might backfire and force them into a real confrontation they don't want.

Far as Vlad goes, he doesn't have to do anything to sow more dissention and bickering between EuroPols.  They are doing fine floundering on their own.

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