Permitted Sabotage as Governance Failure

Updated: 2026.01.06 22D ago 1 sources
A sustained pattern of infrastructure sabotage that goes unrepaired or unprosecuted for years signals not just policing failure but a breakdown across intelligence, judicial thresholds, and infrastructure governance. Chronic destructive campaigns (14 years in this case) create cascading public‑safety, economic and political harms and expose mismatches in threat prioritization and legal remedies. — If authorities tolerate or fail to prosecute repeated attacks on critical infrastructure, it becomes a national‑security and institutional‑legitimacy crisis requiring legal, prosecutorial, and infrastructure‑resilience reforms.

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For 14 years, a crazy eco-terrorist group has attacked Berlin's energy infrastructure with impunity. Authorities have done nothing despite enormous damages and wide-scale disruption. What is going on?
eugyppius 2026.01.06 100% relevant
The article’s Volcano Group allegedly cut power cables serving 45,000 Berlin households amid freezing weather and—per the author—has operated with impunity for 14 years, pointing directly to persistent enforcement and resilience shortfalls.
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