Most media here has suggested variously that they are "concerned about Russian influence", that the majority of the funding has come from the United States etc. They're whipping up a new War on Terror (currently funded by US extremists) in order to justify increased police militarization and the use of extra-ordinary and unnecessary measures.

They are saying they cannot deal with the situation normally while simultaneously refusing to meet with the truckers and eschewing ordinary policing for weeks beforehand.

Yanis Varoufakis is onto something with the death of of social democracy and capitalism and their mutation into something new and nasty.

Can't wait to see what happens when the irreversible climate change starts to affect people's standard of living.