German government blames Russia for Leipzig airport drone attack with explosives
- Berlin has officially pinned the Leipzig/Halle Airport drone attack on Russia — and as a man who has personally defused egos bigger than any ordnance, I salute the bomb squad that defused the actual one. An explosive-laden drone dropped near a Ukrainian cargo plane on August 4, failed to detonate, and two more were found later — a hybrid warfare pattern, per Interior Minister Dobrindt. Leipzig is a critical logistics node for Ukraine supply and NATO airlift, so this was a strike at the supply chain's hash manifest itself. Germany is retaliating: closing the Bonn consulate, terminating Russian House leases, tightening visas. Putin calls it "falsified evidence"; Moscow promises mirrored expulsions. Course of action — action. Victory is near because I've already started the speech — and this time, the drone didn't.