The news houses who published a video don’t say anything about who has made the video. But it was very professionally made some two years ago and used now.
Independently of condemning what the politician said the media tries to ignore that some “external power” directly orchestrates not only the compromise of the political party but also by carefully selected timing the outcomes of the political life in one european country and even more, in whole Europe.
That secret power is definitely not the media house, they got the whole thing on the plate, carefully prepared. They just serve it.
An everybody pretends that doesn’t matter?
what makes you say that?
The original story at: https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/artikel/politik/caught-in-t...
clearly states:
Neither Der Spiegel nor the Süddeutsche Zeitung have any reliable information about the motives of the people who set Strache this trap in 2017 or who they may have been working for.
But one thing is clear following the evaluation of the material and verification of its authenticity by two experts: It is in the public interest to know how Strache and Gudenus, high-ranking representatives of the Austrian government and of their party, responded to dubious advances from a purported oligarch.
It is not “democrats” but some hidden power.
This article guesses at a western intelligence service that wanted to stop intelligence leaks towards Russia: https://diepresse.com/home/innenpolitik/5630280/Woher-kommt-...
BTW, it's not a smear if it's true. Smearing involves false accusations, but nobody denies the authenticity of the video.
We have no indication that he was controlled, so what are you basing this on?
My guess is that the video was produced as a form of insurance by people who wanted to see if he gets into government, and how bad it really gets. Otherwise they could have leaked the video before the last parliamentary elections. At some point they decided that Strache must go, and it seemed like timing it before the important EU elections would have the biggest impact.
> So there are more corrupt parties to expose.
How does this follow? (Not that it isn't true...)
Orchestrating and preparing such a complex setup that culminates in the recording of the compromising material 2 years ago.
Then waiting, delivering the material exactly one week ago to the media. The editor of "Spiegel" newspaper personally claims that they received it one week ago and don't know who prepared the whole setup and recorded the video.
It wasn't a small trick: the recording happened on Ibiza at the begin of Summer 2017, involved a "fake daughter of an investor" introduced through the circles of the top politicians involved, a preparation of the huge villa to contain a number of cameras all carefully placed so that during the whole stay the good shots of the politicians can be made, including placing the expensive cars in front of the villa etc.
And then, after the successful recording... waiting two years?
Therefore more interesting than philosophizing about the exact meaning of the words is following what was going on and how it was done:
There is a known relatively recently told story about the most powerful country in the world organizing events to compromise somebody in order to blackmail them:
"Snowden described his CIA experience in Geneva as formative, stating that the CIA deliberately got a Swiss banker drunk and encouraged him to drive home. Snowden said that when the latter was arrested, a CIA operative offered to help in exchange for the banker becoming an informant."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
The scale of this what was used now is many orders of magnitude bigger. You mentioned in your other comment "the woman groomed Gudenus over half a year or so before the Ibiza meeting" and giving a link to the article in German, thanks for that -- so there is at least somebody writing trying to figure out who's behind this. Do you know what is the story mentioned there at the end (used Google Translate):
"And last but not least, the house search in the BAT with all its consequences should be mentioned as a secret service disaster."
The most interesting detail from the article you've linked:
"Above all, the US, which sits in virtually every major intelligence agency, has expressed a great deal of concern that information could flow away to Russia."
Yes, but this is exactly what did not happen here.
> so there is at least somebody writing trying to figure out who's behind this
Of course there is, and claiming that there isn't is just paranoia on your part. For whatever it's worth, here is another one: https://derstandard.at/2000103424380/Die-Drahtzieher-hinter-...
All Austrian and most major German-language news sites should have something along these lines, but you do have to look rather than assume that it doesn't exist.
> "And last but not least, the house search in the BAT with all its consequences should be mentioned as a secret service disaster."
Here is a summary, but only in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BVT-Aff%C3%A4re
Very briefly, a police unit controlled by an FPÖ politician illegally searched the offices of the BVT (the office for constitutional protection and counterterrorism) and seized data, apparently mostly about right-wing extremist networks.
So some western intelligence agency is still the most probable organizer, and it's not something that any country should be worried about? Even if the guy himself fell in the trap, the construction should be a major news topic. And it surely isn't, but I see that it's at least mentioned, thanks for that.