GERMANY PERSPECTIVE

Berlin deploys its usual documentary precision. Tagesschau opens with a clinical headline — 'One dead and many injured after Iran's attack on the airport' — then details with a sense for numbers that distinguishes German journalism from all others. Sixty-three wounded. Seven emergency surgeries. The listed injuries: open heads, cerebral haemorrhages, amputations, blast trauma. No other European paper publishes this medical precision. Kuwaiti authorities are quoted word for word: a terminal 'severely damaged', 'considerable material damage'. Iran is named explicitly as the perpetrator, but Berlin immediately adds its version: Tehran calls the attack a 'reaction to US strikes'. German coverage balances sources without editorial condemnation. Tagesschau underlines that the Kuwaiti army declares itself ready to take 'all steps' to protect the state's security. What distinguishes the German angle from other European voices is the place of the civilian — the journalist spends more time describing the wounds than analyzing the geopolitics. For Berlin, the event is first a human catastrophe, an event to be documented before it is explained. That posture is not innocent: it avoids any position on the expulsion of Iranian diplomats or on the contradictory Patriot version. Germany watches Kuwait through the eye of a medical examiner, not a strategist.