The Situation In Germany

[Gawan]

Four months later, and here we are again.

A large-scale power outage in Berlin's south-western district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on Sunday 3 following an incendiary attack on a power cable next to the Lichterfelde combined heat and power station. 55,000 households are expected to be without power until next Thursday.
Freezing temperatures and snow. Police have received a letter claiming responsibility from a left-wing group. (No surprise there)

Emergency shelters are being prepared. The elderly and disabled are trapped in high-rise buildings as elevators don't work.
Suburban trains are running as they receive power from separate power plants.

Uptown mansion areas have mostly kept their gas lantern street lighting so they are not falling into total darkness.

People are about to learn about preparedness as such emergencies begin to occur more often.

I also read about it today and was shocked to read that it will take them until next Thursday to fix it. And as you wrote, with these temperatures, it's crazy. I also read that they blame the Russians. I think it was in the Berliner Zeitung.

 

[Ricardo]

Is this the gladio networks doing their shenanigans as usual ?

 

[Ursus Minor]

No doubt the ragtag Antifa types who act as perpetrators are being handed all the important info on how to attack and where are just patsies for powerful background circles hellbent on destroying nation states.

Critical observers are adamant that the Berlin power network is always being hit at its most vulnerable points.

 

[Gawan]

No doubt the ragtag Antifa types who act as perpetrators are being handed all the important info on how to attack and where are just patsies for powerful background circles hellbent on destroying nation states.

Critical observers are adamant that the Berlin power network is always being hit at its most vulnerable points.

The left-extremists "Vulkangruppe" wrote a letter of confession, and they claim responsibility. Who knows where they got that knowledge from?

 

[Cosmos]

I don’t take anything that comes from the mainstream and/or political ruling class in Germany at face value. Therefore I‘m skeptical about anything they say about who did this or that, in which way and why.

Be is as it may, it is certainly interesting and perhaps telling that germans “can’t get“ around 50.000 people in their own capital (Berlin) back on the electrical grid for at least 4 days or so, in the dead of winter.

 

[Cosmos]

People are about to learn about preparedness as such emergencies begin to occur more often.

I‘m afraid that is the way many germans will have to find out that it isn’t a good idea to rely solely on electricity to heat your home: The hard way.

 

[Niall]

Four months later, and here we are again.

A large-scale power outage in Berlin's south-western district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf on Sunday 3 following an incendiary attack on a power cable next to the Lichterfelde combined heat and power station. 55,000 households are expected to be without power until next Thursday.
Freezing temperatures and snow. Police have received a letter claiming responsibility from a left-wing group. (No surprise there)

Emergency shelters are being prepared. The elderly and disabled are trapped in high-rise buildings as elevators don't work.
Suburban trains are running as they receive power from separate power plants.

Uptown mansion areas have mostly kept their gas lantern street lighting so they are not falling into total darkness.

People are about to learn about preparedness as such emergencies begin to occur more often.

I find this to be highly suspicious.

A week-long power outage in the dead of winter. Immediate certainty that 'leftists' carried out an arson attack, yet no arrests or other details about suspects. And something similar happening just a few months ago...

It reminds me of the spate of unsolved attacks on power grid electric substations in the USA. The only surface difference is that, over there, the perpetrators as cast as right-wing extremist 'white supremacists/accelerationists', also seeking to 'bring on the collapse of Western civilization'. Why do US authorities suspect they're being committed by right-wing extremists? Because there have also been foiled power grid sabotage plots in which federal informants entrapped members and associates of the 'AtomWaffen' neo-Nazi group (whose members have also been active in Ukraine in recent years).

Anyway, let's look closer at these recent outages in Berlin:

As the Guardian reports it:

Damage to cables means tens of thousands will be without electricity until Thursday amid freezing temperatures […]

Police deployed about 160 officers to the site of the incident in the Lichterfelde area and said they were “investigating on suspicion of arson”.

They drove vans equipped with loudspeakers through the affected areas, urging residents to stay with friends or relatives elsewhere if possible, use mobile phones sparingly and ensure they had torches to hand. […]

Here's the dystopian scene in Berlin today:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2007821780153487804

Now, the last two paragraphs from the above Guardian report:

Saturday’s outage was worse than one in September, when tens of thousands were also left without power in Berlin after a fire hit electricity pylons. Police also suspected arson in that case, and an unnamed anarchist group claimed responsibility online for starting the blaze.

Germany has been on high alert for sabotage activities directed at its infrastructure, including from foreign actors such as Russia.

An "unnamed anarchist group online" means, of course, that the perpetrators could have planted a false trail to protect their real identities.

So, what happened back in September? Berlin's longest power outage in a quarter-century (Up unti yesterday's, which they're very certain will run for another 5 days). I found a a summary of that incident on Medium:

In early September 2025, a large-scale power outage struck southeastern Berlin, leaving tens of thousands of residents in the dark for approximately 60 hours. The blackout is the city’s longest in at least 25 years and began in the pre-dawn hours of September 9, 2025 and was not fully resolved until September 11. The incident stemmed from a deliberate arson attack on critical power infrastructure, now being investigated as a politically motivated act of sabotage.

Wow, deliberate arson, and politically motivated! In Germany, you can't insult Der Chancellor online without risking arrest, or openly support the AfD without being surveilled by the state, so the authorities surely cracked down hard here and made lots of noise about it in the media... right?

Wrong! No arrests, no official statements, no media follow-up investigations or reports.

On yesterday’s ‘arson attack’, Bild reports:

Police received a letter claiming responsibility on Saturday. According to the letter, the left-wing extremist group Vulkan is claiming responsibility for the attack. Police are currently verifying the letter's authenticity. According to RBB (Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting), security sources consider the letter plausible.

For 14 years, left-wing extremists have been terrorizing Berlin with arson attacks on vehicles, businesses, and infrastructure. Most recently, in May, they carried out an attack on a transformer station and a radio mast in the upscale Dahlem district of Berlin. Their statement claiming responsibility at the time stated that society could no longer afford the wealthy and that these villa districts had to be paralyzed.

The group committed its first act of sabotage against technical infrastructure in 2011. Seven years later, they claimed responsibility for an attack on cable connections in Berlin's Charlottenburg district. Thousands of households were without power for hours.

In 2019, they attacked cables for the S-Bahn and long-distance railway in Berlin-Karlshorst. At that time, they also expressed solidarity with "Fridays for Future" and their climate strikes. In March 2024, the group shut down the Tesla factory in Grünheide for several days.

I cannot reliably search German media as I don't know the language, so, FWIW, Grok tells me that not a single suspect has been named, nor any arrest made, for any of these 8-9 acts of sabotage against the German power grid in recent years.

And that, in arguably the most tightly controlled country in Europe, is extremely suspicious. I.e., it smacks of an organization that is shepherded through its deeds by 'intelligence connections' and 'security clearance'.

This 'Vulkan group' may be, as suggested above by Ricardo, akin to today's Baader-Meinhof Gang, an 'extreme leftist' organization in the 1970s that turned out to be 'handled' by NATO/CIA agents.

 

[Cosmos]

I find this to be highly suspicious.

A week-long power outage in the dead of winter. Immediate certainty that 'leftists' carried out an arson attack, yet no arrests or other details about suspects. And something similar happening just a few months ago...

It reminds me of the so-called 'AttomWaffen attacks' on the power grid in the USA, where the only surface difference is that the perpetrators on that side of the Atlantic, on the few occasions where they have been caught and faced trial, were right-wing extremist 'accelerationists' seeking to 'bring on the collapse of society'.

Anyway, let's look closer at these recent outages in Berlin:

As the Guardian reports it:



Here's the dystopian scene in Berlin today:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2007821780153487804

Now, the last two paragraphs from the above Guardian report:



An "unnamed anarchist group online" means, of course, that the perpetrators could have planted a false trail to protect their real identities.

So, what happened back in September? Berlin's longest power outage in a quarter-century (Up unti yesterday's, which they're very certain will run for another 5 days). I found a a summary of that incident on Medium:



Wow, deliberate arson, and politically motivated! In Germany, you can't insult Der Chancellor online without risking arrest, or openly support the AfD without being surveilled by the state, so the authorities surely cracked down hard here and made lots of noise about it in the media... right?

Wrong! No arrests, no official statements, no media reporting.

On yesterday’s ‘arson attack’, Bild reports:


I cannot reliably search German media as I don't know the language, so, FWIW, Grok tells me that not a single suspect has been named, nor any arrest made, for any of these 8-9 acts of sabotage against the German power grid in recent years.

And that, in arguably the most tightly controlled country in Europe, is extremely suspicious. I.e., it smacks of an organization that is shepherded through its deeds by 'intelligence connections' and 'security clearance'.

This 'Vulkan group' may be, as suggested above, akin to today's Baader-Meinhof Gang, an 'extreme leftist' organization in the 1970s that turned out to be 'handled' by NATO/CIA agents.

Yep. Pretty much my suspicions as well.

I can’t repeat enough how Germany seems, yet again, to be on the forefront of evil, at the very least within Europe. It hasn’t been looking good for years/decades here and it is getting worse.

I lived here long enough, have seen closely how tightly manipulated and often willingly encouraged many people here are (not only “the people above“, far from it). Not to mention the totally corrupted system. Frankly, I think Germany is a Pathocracy and possibly one of the farthest down that road in the west. And by now I don’t think an AFD party could change much about it either because it has already been infiltrated as well. There is basically nothing I would put past “those in power“ here.

There is basically only one person left I would risk voting for and that is Wagenkecht. But the system itself is so desolate and corrupted that I can’t see much hope in any usual political procedure either. I’m afraid Germany is once again on the road of “learning“ lessons the hard way, in one form or the other.