There is currently some thought, that Russia is behind it. One of the signs of it, is that they write of a politican named Vans. They probably mean Vance, but used some translation system from Russian, were Vans and Vance are spelled the same way.
This is either a false flag or they are fucking stupid.
If you want to fight climate change, you don't target the people that are willing to support you. You target a private jet, an AI datacenter, a super-yatch... hurting the people who are not in the position to change anything is beyond stupid.
Smart
As state security authorities opened an investigation into the cause of the blaze near the Lichterfelde heat and power station that damaged several high-voltage cables, the Vulkangruppe (Volcano Group) said it had deliberately targeted some of the city’s wealthiest districts. A police officer stands in front of the Lichterfelde power plant in south-west Berlin in the snow Berlin power outage hits 45,000 homes after suspected arson attack Read more
In a 2,500-word pamphlet seen by the Guardian which a police spokesperson called “credible”, the group said it had aimed to “cut the juice to the ruling class”.
It condemned a “greed for energy” produced by high-emission fossil fuels, calling the attack “action in the public interest” and an “act of self-defence and international solidarity with all those who protect the earth and life”.
Not to condone these actions but strange that this most poignant part is left out of OP's summary.
Glad I'm an American leftie and not burning infrastructure that provides electricity to citizens.
Total FF.
Lol at the people here struggling to justify this.
Honestly, I was expecting more claims the people doing it were technically far right because leftists can't be bad guys.
How hard would it be to fly a drone into an aircraft engine and take out a private jet? Honest question, not that I'm planning on doing it tomorrow or anything, I just don't know much about drones or aircraft. I'm guessing it's pretty hard to do, otherwise it would have been done by now.
Has anyone found the letter from Vulkangruppe? I'd like to have a little read.
As with the Hamas attack on October 7th and Al Qaeda's on 9/11, as with John Brown's murder or slave owners on the eve of the US civil war, as with the Indian independence movement outside of Gandhi, as with suffragette terror bombings in the early 20th century, as with unionist terror bombings in Europe in the 19th century, it's important to put terrorism in the context of the times.
Terrorism is bad, but it usually only exists in the context of far greater evils. Genocide, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, child labor, systeming oppression of women, and yes, climate change.
Of all of these, climate change will be the most deadly (though colonialism probably still has it beat for genocide). Entire nations are already being wiped off the map, and dozens more will follow. Hundreds of millions will die violently, with the people of Berlin as a group killing thousands of them though their present-day emissions.
In that context, focusing on condemning a couple of radicals who didn't even kill anyone is denying the gravity of the situation.
Every terrorist group was condemned at the time of the events. Many are now considered good in the eyes of history, and most of those have had their actions whitewashed by educational institutes dedicated to the status quo, or have had their results attributed to their pacifist compatriots.
I'm not saying anyone should engage in violence. There are plenty of people who need no encouragement if only you stop condemning and sanctioning them. Diversity of tactics has historically almost always been more effective than pacifism. So let us do our best in the way we like and let them do their best in the way they like.
And before anyone cites Chenoweth at me, read their paper and their later comments about how the paper is being misused to argue for pacifism. Then if you're surprised, maybe add Gelderloos' The Failure of Nonviolence to your reading list.
Protests over climate crisis, sets fire to things.
Fucking geniuses.
The authoritarian left is what I call them. The same people that think others should be murdered for their speech.
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