I don't buy that theory. First of all: outside of the party "Die Linke" and the left wing of the SPD, there's little ideological friendship to Russia in German politics, it's either regular corruption (Gerhard Schröder) or industrial politics ("you give us cheap energy, we keep our eyes closed and don't mention the smell"). If anything, actions like these will make Germans more willing to spend extra money on defense, suffer during the shift to different energy providers, and support Ukraine.

As it's usually the case with these events, it's easy to find motives if you discount the possibility of being caught. The US might do it for the reasons I mentioned. The German govt might do it to make the population more willing to follow orders. Some anti-capitalist group might do it because ... idk, trains are evil (they've been sabotaging mostly local trains in/around Berlin in the past decade or so, but they typically claim their actions, so we'll see). The DB might be behind it to get more money to upgrade & secure their infrastructure.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't me, but everyone else has a motive.

You both are right. Don't forget that "Die Linke", "SPD" and other marxist invested parties serve the same role today as they did during the first cold war. Their ideology works towards a class struggle by uncivil means, destabilising their democracy. The same goes for their economic policy, it would drive the country into the ground. Or the "greens" using terror and fear campaigning against nuclear energy in the past; it got us where we are today. Point being: There is no need for ideological friendship/alignment for actors to be on the Russian side. Many people are simply controlled without realising it.

> Many people are simply controlled without realising it.

I'm sure that's true in general, and you'll never know whether you did someone else's bidding without realizing it, unless they tell you (but would you believe them?) or you uncover some huge conspiracy (but then who says that's not fake to make you do something else?). I vaguely remember an interview that Adam Curtis made with some British economist for one of his movies concerning stagflation and the general direction of the economy and wages at that time, and he said something like "when I can't sleep, I sometimes wonder whether what we did was exactly what someone wanted and they knew what would happen".

As for Die Linke, (the far-left wing of the) SPD and the Greens, I don't believe they're malicious. I believe they mean well, even though I probably disagree with them on most of their core issues.

2/3 non NPC people within a political party is someone else his strawman ( on average ). But that does not automatically mean they are malicious.

Right wing AfD also seems to sympathize with Russia. Unclear how much because they like Putin's "traditionalist" policies and how much because they are Russian controlled shit stirrers.

Ah, yes, you're right. I didn't even consider them, because they're pretty much irrelevant, at least for now. I also believe it could be both + there's probably a bit of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" as well (the "enemy" of them being the current center-left government), and a good splash of insanity. Add tribal behavior where you're moving with the group you're a part of and I guess this is what you get.

>don't buy that theory. First of all: outside of the party "Die Linke" and the left wing of the SPD, there's little ideological friendship to Russia in German politics, it's either regular corruption (Gerhard Schröder) or industrial politics ("you give us cheap energy, we keep our eyes closed and don't mention the smell").

You don't buy what? Why does there have to be "ideological friendship" for two groups of criminals to cooperate and root for each other? It has been obvious to anyone looking at actual actions made rather than words and political theater.