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The conspiracy theorist in me tells me that this might be a staged drama by US-German authorities to instill confidence in German citizens. Or may be to deceive Russia.

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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Well stated, who coined this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

I doubt this is going to instill confidence. On the contrary, if this goes on, it could damage the German government and boost fringe parties.

I mean in a way that the German citizens might think that their country is standing up against the mighty US.

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