The Kremlin's 'propaganda coup'

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The Kremlin has scored a major propaganda victory by managing to record and publish the contents of a “top secret” telephone call between commanders in the German Luftwaffe.

Since Russian propaganda channel RT published the telephone conversation last week, the German press have coined the fallout the “eavesdropping affair,” and the opposition in the Bundestag are demanding a parliamentary inquiry.

While the fact that the Kremlin was able to listen in on the confidential call is a major embarrassment, what has been less discussed internationally is what the commanders actually talked about.

During the conversation, four senior Luftwaffe commanders discussed a briefing that they were about to give to Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on what supplying the Taurus missiles to Ukraine would mean.

They talked about how Ukrainians could be trained on using the missile, whether Germany would need to supply them with satellite data to m…