The Daily Populous Tuesday December 23rd, 2025 day edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by Quirkie

One day in June, Mühlmann — who denies he is doing Russia’s bidding — filed eight inquiries related to drones and the drone defense capabilities of the region’s police, who are responsible for detecting and fending off drones deemed a spy threat.

“What technical systems for drone defense are known to the Thuringian police (e.g., jammers, net launchers, electromagnetic pulse devices), and to what extent have these been tested for their usability in law enforcement?” Mühlmann asked.

Such questions from AfD lawmakers on the state and federal parliaments have led German centrists to accuse the far-right party’s lawmakers of using their seats to try to expose sensitive information that Moscow could use in its war on Ukraine and to help carry out its so-called “hybrid war” against Europe.

“One cannot help but get the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned to it by the Kremlin with its inquiries,” Thuringian Interior Minister Georg Maier, a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), told German newspaper Handelsblatt.

“What struck me was an incredible interest in critical infrastructure and the security authorities here in Thuringia, especially how they deal with hybrid threats,” Maier subsequently told POLITICO. “Suddenly, geopolitical issues are playing a role in their questions, while we in the Thuringian state parliament are not responsible for foreign policy or defense policy.”

AfD leaders frequently take positions favorable to the Kremlin, favoring a renewal of economic ties and gas imports and a cease of weapons aid for Ukraine. Their political opponents, however, have frequently accused them of acting not from conviction alone — but at the behest of Moscow. Greens lawmaker Irene Mihalic, for instance, last month called the party Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “trojan horse” in Germany.

VladimiroPudding on December 23rd, 2025 at 08:15 UTC »

Another day, another report that a far-right party in the Northern Hemisphere is working for/under the payroll of some Russian oligarch, and people do absolutely jackshit about it.

Suv7ot on December 23rd, 2025 at 07:59 UTC »

Of course they are.

They are not the only ones doing it, either. Fico and Orban are well-known puppets, taking their orders directly from the Kremlin. Unfortunately Putin still has a lot of money from selling all the oil and gold, so he can bribe tons of people.

They just recently sold $1 billion of gold to China, the single largest gold transaction in history. I wonder where all of that money goes...

billionaire_leech on December 23rd, 2025 at 07:32 UTC »

They're guilty. Please deal with them with German efficiency.