Faith in fakes: How anti-Russian hysteria is driving the EU’s drone hoax

An unverified existential threat and calls for a so-called drone wall are being used to justify a bloc-wide remilitarization push and shut down diplomacy Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a well-timed ploy to ramp up defense spending? The late-autumn drone sighting hysteria that swept across Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium, was used by the bloc to amplify and entrench an anti-Russia stance that has seen it throw hundreds of billions it cannot afford into weapons and a war its chosen side cannot win.Tens of millions of Euro has since been spent on the back of a 'scare' that has been shown to have been irrational, exuberant and driven by vested interests.The most bizarre national security scare in recent European history began at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport on September 2 last year. According to Denmark’s Frihedsbrevet news site, an airport employee told her supervisors that she saw two drones approach the area “stealthily,” adding that “they are big. They are not toys.”The airport was temporarily shut down, and within hours, reports of a similar drone incursion came in from Oslo, Norway.“I can only say that this is in my eyes a serious attack on Danish critical infras...