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Europe’s Staged Panic over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?

Denmark, Drones & Deception

by Jan Oberg / October 6th, 2025

Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark…

Drones over Denmark. No damage. No trace. No answers. Yet the headlines scream “Russian threat,” and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks with a certainty that defies logic: “We don’t know they were Russian—but we know Russia is the biggest threat to Europe.” It could be nobody else – unless you make an interest analysis which I did a few days ago.

This is not security policy. It’s theatre. And the audience is being played.

Let’s rewind. These drones—unphotographed, untracked, unclaimed—appear and vanish like ghosts. Airports shut down. Panic spreads. Military budgets swell. And the narrative hardens: Russia is behind it. But what if that’s not just wrong but deliberately misleading?

Here’s a hypothesis for those willing to think beyond the script: What if these drones weren’t Russian at all? What if they were Ukrainian? Or British? Or American? Or a combi-operation?

Ukraine now has Europe’s largest drone capacity, way more advanced than Russia’s. Over 500 manufacturers. Hundreds of thousands of FPV drones per month. Long-range systems reaching 800 km. AI-assisted swarms trained on thousands of missions. According to Zelensky, Ukrainian technicians are already stationed in Denmark. The capability is there. The motive too?

Now add timing: These drone sightings occurred just before two major militaristic summits—one EU, one EPC—with NATO participation. The perfect moment to stir fear. To justify escalation. To silence dissent. To decide to have a “drone wall” against those pesky-evil Russians!

And here’s where the nasty mind kicks in, in two possible plots: What if Trump—eager to offload Ukraine obligations and push Europe to pay more—gave Zelensky the nod? “Send a few drones. Make the Europeans nervous, pay more so they go down faster.” After all, Zelensky is an actor. He could still stand next to the Danish PM and talk about these Russian drones.

The other plot could be: Ukrainian super drone experts were already in Denmark. On September 29, 2025, Ukrainian drone specialists allegedly arrived in Denmark to begin the “Wings of Defense” joint exercises, the next morning.

While no evidence links the unidentified drones seen over Denmark between September 22 and 28 to Ukrainian personnel in Denmark, the timeline surrounding their arrival remains conspicuous. The Wings of Defense exercise was announced on September 29, yet Ukrainian specialists were already present , and the drills had begun, implying prior coordination.

Given the complexity of joint military planning, their deployment must have been arranged well in advance. That the Danish media largely ignored this extremely significant cooperation, even as political rhetoric escalated and airports shut down, suggests a choreography not of causality and coincidence, but of convenient silence.

President Zelensky confirmed the mission, stating that “Ukraine’s experience is the most relevant in Europe right now,” and emphasised that Ukrainian expertise, technologies, and frontline-tested methods could become a key element of a future European “drone wall.” The timing, rhetoric, and silence surrounding these events should invite deeper media scrutiny but it won’t.

Danish politicians just add “hybrid attack,” although no attack took place, compare it to 9/11, blame Russia, call it an unprecedented attack on Danish infrastructure and, look, that black Russian rabbit appears out of the top hat and does its job.

Frederiksen’s certainty is suspicious. Her rhetoric is too strong, too rehearsed, aimed as it seems to persuade herself that she cannot be even a bit wrong. If she and other leaders weren’t told these drones were Ukrainian, they’d never suspect it. And if they were told nothing, the Blame Russia Chorus start singing automatically.

That’s how false flags work. That’s how Nord Stream worked. Blame Russia. People in fear will forget, never publish the results of your always drawn-out “investigations,” or close them down.

Why has no one promised an investigation of these drone “attacks” – and what a fiasco their presence was for the Danish “defence” system as a whole?

This isn’t just about drones. It’s most likely a case of planned deception. It’s about how fear is manufactured, how ambiguity is weaponised, and how escalation is dressed up as defence. “Peace through strength,” they say. But what they’re building is not peace—it’s a militarist fortress built on paranoia, self-righteousness covering up for the NATO expansion blunder and complete intellectual and moral disarmament – lost compasses.

So let’s be clear: If these drones were a setup—engineered by allies to provoke panic—then Europe’s leaders are either complicit or clueless. And if they’re clueless, their intelligence services are failing. Failling spectacularly.

The real threat isn’t Russia. It’s the erosion of reason and the systematic cancellation of civilian measures to solve conflicts. The abandonment of diplomacy. The rise of a Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex, MIMAC, that in this case sees every problem as a nail—and drones as the hammer.

The intellectual level of politics and media is below measurement. Listen to what they say:

“We do not want or plan war; Europe must arm to be so strong that we avoid war,” they proclaim—then, without pause, insist that arming Ukraine is essential to winning the war against Russia. Russia must not win because then, another undocumented assertion, Russia will take other countries, one by one. And – Pravda-style – no journalists selected for press conferences will ask a single critical question.

This is not strategy. It’s cognitive dissonance dressed up as policy. A contradiction so glaring it borders on political satire: war prevention through escalation, peace through hatred and destruction of whole countries.

These leaders confuse militarism with diplomacy and believe that deterrence is achieved by feeding the flames. Their kakistocratic groupthink can only send Europe into darkness. Never ever say words like mediation, conflict resolution, UN peacekeeping, peaceful coexistence, common security, negotiations, or the future of a peaceful Europe. Talk only about what is relevant for the battlefield.

That simply cannot create peace. And peace with Russia is, of course, not their goal.

Some people know exactly who sent those drones. That’s why so many questions remain unanswered and why they could fly in, make their point and disappear again. These people know precisely what they want to achieve – and how to fool you.

Don’t be!

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Jan Oberg is a peace researcher, art photographer, and Director of The Transnational (TFF) where this article first appeared. Reach him at: oberg@transnational.org. Read other articles by Jan.

To the European Union: A Lamentation and a Warning from the Edge of Conscience

by Sammy Attoh / October 6th, 2025

There comes a time in history when silence becomes complicity, and diplomacy becomes theater. That time is now. As European leaders escalate their crusade to demonize President Vladimir Putin and provoke Russia into confrontation, they betray not only the principles of peace but the sacred memory of war’s devastation. This is not statesmanship—it is spiritual amnesia.

President Putin, for all the West’s caricatures, has not colonized nations, nor has Russia built its legacy on the plunder of continents. Unlike the empires that carved up Africa, Asia, and the Middle East with blood-stained treaties and bayonets,¹ Russia’s posture has been one of strategic caution, not imperial ambition. To cast Putin as the architect of global instability while NATO encircles his borders is to invert reality and insult the intelligence of the global South.²

And yet, the European Union—under the bellicose leadership of Ursula von der Leyen—marches toward escalation with a fervor that borders on madness. Her rhetoric is not the language of peace, but the drumbeat of war. In her 2025 State of the Union address, von der Leyen declared, “Europe is in a fight… for our liberty and our ability to determine our destiny.”³ She proposed sanctions, drone production, and the use of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine reparations.⁴ She offers no vision for reconciliation, no blueprint for dialogue, no balm for the wounds of history. Her legacy, if unchecked, will be written not in treaties, but in ashes.

Let us speak plainly: the world is overstocked with nuclear warheads.⁵ One miscalculation, one provocation, one arrogant gesture could ignite a conflagration that no nation survives. This is not a chessboard. It is a graveyard waiting to be filled.

Europe must remember its own ruins—the bones beneath its cathedrals, the ghosts in its parliament halls, the children who once hid beneath rubble while sirens wailed. To forget that history is to invite its repetition.⁶

And what of Africa? What of the global South? We watch this spectacle with weary eyes, knowing that when empires clash, it is our soil that absorbs the fallout. Our economies that collapse. Our children who starve. We are not pawns in your geopolitical games—we are witnesses, and we are weary.⁷

This is not a defense of any one leader. It is a defense of sanity. Of restraint. Of the sacred obligation to preserve life. The European Union must abandon its crusade and return to the table of conscience. The stakes are no longer political—they are existential.

Let the leaders of Europe hear this: history will not absolve those who sleepwalk into annihilation. The world demands wisdom, not warfare. Dialogue, not destruction. And if you cannot lead with humility, then step aside for those who can.

The hour is late. The world is watching. And the ancestors are whispering: choose peace, or perish.

ENDNOTES:

• 1
  Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, 1972.
• 2
  Mearsheimer, John. “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault.” Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2014.
• 3
  Ursula von der Leyen, State of the European Union Address, Sept 10, 2025. Fortune.
• 4
  Rikard Jozwiak, “Von Der Leyen Calls For EU Independence Amid Rising Tensions,” Radio Free Europe, Sept 10, 2025.
• 5
  Kristensen, Hans M., and Matt Korda. “Status of World Nuclear Forces.” Federation of American Scientists, 2025.
• 6
  Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books, 2010.
• 7
  Achille Mbembe. Necropolitics. Duke University Press, 2019.

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Sammy Attoh is a Human Rights Coordinator, poet, and public writer. A member of The Riverside Church in New York City and The New York State Chaplains Group, he advocates for spiritual renewal and systemic justice. Originally from Ghana, his work draws from ancestral wisdom to explore the sacred ties between people, planet, and posterity. Read other articles by Sammy.