Research on the Russian Vulkangruppe attacks on Berlin brings up significant reasons to question hollow-sounding insistence of “left-wing” terror.

One politician in particular stands out. Alexander Dobrindt’s receipts are damning. His political trajectory from CSU General Secretary to Federal Interior Minister comes with a documented 15-year pattern of driving attention towards left-wing threats while erasing or ignoring right-wing ones.

Relevant also is his track record on infrastructure risk management. The same man who promised 50 Mbit/s for all by 2018 while disbursing under 2% of allocated funds, who pushed copper over fiber while Germany sank to the bottom of European rankings, is now doing it again with his analysis of infrastructure threats.

Yes. You read that right. Dobrindt looked at copper and fiber options and chose… copper. Whoops. Wrong. For his failures he became known in Germany as the Münchhausen of Broadband. Apparently, he was the man in charge who pushed Germany to the bottom of European fiber deployment.

The same guy now says he looked at left-wing and right-wing threat data and saw only… left. Whoops. Wrong again.

Will Germany be the last to realize who’s actually bombing their infrastructure?

Here’s a true Münchhausen moment from June 2025, when Dobrindt spoke at a press conference about the Verfassungsschutz report:

Indeed, the chart he holds up shows “gewaltorientiert” blue bars of 2023-2024 are completely flat.

As many people pointed out at the time, the report said the opposite of what Dobrindt was claiming. The personnel potential of left-wing groups in one year went from 37K to 38K. The number of violence-oriented scene members remained unchanged at approximately 11,200.

Volksverpetzer perhaps reported it best, with an appropriate Berlin “Schnauze” tone highlighting the obvious error:

Violence-oriented left-wing extremists “rise significantly” according to Interior Minister Dobrindt from 11,200 to 11,200 (not a typo).

Volksverpetzer also pointed out how Dobrindt’s analysis errors continued and became even worse. The scale of a y-axis for right-wing extremist personnel potential was 0 to 60,000. However, for the presentation of left-wing extremist potential, it was shifted to 40,000. In other words, the increase of left-wing extremists by under three percent was presented by Dobrindt as the same visual amount as the nearly 25 percent increase to 50,250 persons for right-wing extremists.

Three is not the same as twenty-five. I thought Germans were supposed to be good at math.

Shocking to find out, I know, but also evidence of the kind of incompetence seemingly going on with current investigations of the Russian Vulkangruppe attacks.

In the 2023 Verfassungsschutzbericht, Nancy Faeser had clearly reported that right-wing extremism is “the greatest extremist threat to our democracy.” Despite a twenty-five percent rise the next year, this central statement is completely removed in 2024 under Dobrindt. No justification for this deletion was provided.

Look closely at what Dobrindt was sitting on in 2025, inexplicably trying to shift focus to only left-wing groups.

• Right-extremists: 50,250 (UP 25%)
• Left-extremists: 38,000 (UP 2.7%)
• Right-wing violent crimes: UP 47%
• Left-wing violent crimes: DOWN 26.8%

This guy claimed that violence-oriented left-extremists “rise significantly” when the number was literally unchanged and crimes went down nearly 30%. Meanwhile, actual right-wing threat data was manipulated and hidden by him with misleading graphics and deletion of standard threat assessments.

Dobrindt’s willingness to fabricate threats and hide the real ones must serve his electoral interests. Otherwise, what’s the explanation for this threat data nonsense?

I suppose CSU politicians believe they can out right-wing the AfD (Nazi) for votes. The AfD rose five percent since Bavaria’s 2023 state election to 20 percent in current polls. The foundational CSU doctrine (Franz Josef Strauß) has been that “no legitimate party should exist to the right of the CSU.” That opens the door to fabricating left-wing threats and erasing right-wing ones to keep the most radical voters from defecting to AfD (Nazi).

Which brings us to 2026 headlines. His ZDF interview explicitly ruled out Russian involvement in the Berlin blackout before the investigation concluded. He pre-emptively declared “no indications” of Russia while he simultaneously announced he would be expanding surveillance of only the “linksextreme Szene”.

He’s still trying to push a false narrative that the Russian Vulkangruppe is left-wing.

The man who looked at copper and fiber and chose copper. Who looked at 11,200 and 11,200 and saw “significant rise.” Who looked at Russian naming conventions, Cyrillic transliteration errors, and GRU infrastructure attack toolkits and thinks he saw… definitely not the Russians?

Fifteen years of attacks on German infrastructure. Zero arrests. A naming convention that fails every test of German left-wing practice. A GRU contractor called Roman god “Vulkan” cleared for classified work the same year “Vulkangruppe” appeared. And Germany’s Interior Minister declares “no indications” of Russian involvement suspiciously ahead of the actual investigation.

A government that acknowledges GRU attacks on its infrastructure must respond. A government that blames domestic extremists can defer, study, and score political points in a fight with the AfD to out right-wing itself. Dobrindt doesn’t seem to be stupid. He is more likely… well, I guess we’ll find out.

The question isn’t whether Dobrindt even believes his hollow-sounding left-wing accusations. The question is whether Germany can afford an Interior Minister whose entire career has been built on looking for threats that aren’t there, and trying to get others to miss the ones that are.