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The far-right AfD presents itself as a patriotic party, but revelations about possible monetary payments from Russia and a suspected Chinese spy have exposed its members as traitors to their country. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the Kremlin even drafted a "manifesto" for the party.
Russian officials warned their German counterparts in the spring of 2022 that a decision to reject cheap and reliable Russian pipeline gas in favor of tanker-shipped liquefied natural gas would cause manufacturers from the European industrial powerhouse to flee for better climes. Two years on, these warnings have become reality.
In 2022, Berlin dutifully followed the Biden administration’s instructions to cut Germany off from Russian gas and ramp up arms deliveries to Ukraine for NATO's proxy war against Russia. Two years on, alarming predictions of a major economic crisis and the wholesale deindustrialization of Europe's biggest industrial economy are coming to pass.
Tucker Carlson asked President Putin who he thought blew up the Nord Stream pipeline network and why, with the Russian leader offering a response which included an assessment of the sanity of the current German government. Sputnik reached out to a lawmaker from Germany’s fastest growing opposition party for his take on Putin’s comments.
An alleged spy for Russia who was working as an adviser to a German MP has resigned after what appears to be correspondence between him and a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agent in Moscow was published.