Breitbart.com reports: “Russia is fighting a war against democracy and freedom and the ‘obvious assumption’ is that when things go wrong — like the closure of European airports by mystery drone flights — Russia can be blamed, Germany’s Chancellor said.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz told journalists in Berlin that Moscow is attempting to undermine the European Union, and while the two powers are not in a state of all-out-war, it is close. Merz, who is a centre-right conservative who decided to partner with the left rather than go into government with the sovereigntist-right earlier this year said of Europe’s relationship with Russia: ‘I’ll put it this way with a sentence that may seem a bit shocking at first glance, but I mean it exactly as I say it: We are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either’.

‘We are in a completely different world’, he said, while noting Russia is waging a ‘war against our democracy and a war against our freedom’…”