GERMANY PERSPECTIVE

Berlin reads this incident with the memory of a country that lost Nord Stream. Deutsche Welle reports the facts -- explosives of "devastating power" found near the Balkan Stream pipeline -- with German factual rigor, but the silence is deafening: no mention of the Nord Stream precedent, no reflection on the vulnerability of European energy infrastructure.

This is a significant silence. Germany, which lost its primary Russian gas supply channel in September 2022 and still has no definitive answer on who was responsible, cannot afford to speculate on another gas sabotage incident. The wound is too fresh.

DW contents itself with quoting Vucic -- "our units found an explosive of devastating power" -- and noting the "two large packages of explosives with detonators" found at Kanjiza, "a few hundred meters from" the pipeline. No false flag theory, no accusation against Kyiv, no Hungarian electoral analysis. The article is a sealed box.

This restraint isn't laziness but strategic prudence. Berlin knows that naming a culprit in a gas sabotage case means opening a debate you can't control -- and Germany has already paid the price of losing that control.