[curiousllama]

It was humor... The "threatener" was laughing, the audience was laughing, and the journalist laughed too.

Probably the best response you can hope for in the moment.

[agilob]

Hmmmm

>The meeting was ended due to the breach, while a Foreign Affairs Council spokesman told RTL: "Such a breach is illegal and will be reported to the authorities."

[xuhu]

The journalist was laughing, but the foreign policy chief just got painted as an emperor without clothes.

And the foreign policy chief was laughing, but I bet he was asking himself "who do I send over there to stop them" while trying to maintain the laughing face.