In the long arc of European history, moments arrive when the language of diplomacy gives way to the grammar of threat — and this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's warning that Germany is moving toward war marks such a moment. A drone strike attributed by Berlin to Russian forces at Leipzig airport has crystallized a deeper rupture, prompting Germany to harden its infrastructure and prompting NATO and the EU to close ranks. Whether Lavrov's words are a caution or a provocation, they have landed in a continent already bracing for what may come next.