continues to play out
This is a good summary of everything we know so far. Basically during the Cold War the Austrians had a tacit understanding with both sides that they could do cloak and dagger shit against each other in Vienna as long as they didn't get out of control. The scandal now is that lately the Russians have been breaking the rules by spying against Austria itself and running assassination plots from there.
One of the more bizarre parts of the story is how deeply involved the company Wirecard was. They were a payment processor or something and the darling of the Eurotrash high tech world, a rare case of a company that could compete with Silicon Valley and Asia. It turned out it was a scam and the management had been working for the Russians. When their house of cards started to collapse they stole everything and fled to Russia.
We're now learning that the CEO of Wirecard was doing James Bond villain shit in Vienna, personally meeting with his spies in the Austrian glowiesphere to receive stolen USB drives and stuff. Even Shkreli isn't this cool.
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Russians should really count themselves lucky, since their biggest opponent (the West) will extend an almost endless amount of goodwill to them.
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