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In its report on the August 20 automobile bomb assassination in Moscow of Darya Dugina, daughter of the Russian fascist Alexander Dugin, the New York Occasions hastened to declare that there “was no proof that the assault was related to the warfare in Ukraine…”
The Occasions cited, with out a trace of skepticism, the denial of Ukraine’s involvement by Zelensky adviser Mykhailo Podolyak: “Ukraine actually had nothing to do with yesterday’s explosion. We’re not a legal state just like the Russian Federation, a lot much less a terrorist one.”
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However right now, the Occasions has posted an article headlined, “U.S. believes Ukrainians have been behind an assassination in Russia.” It stories:
United States intelligence businesses imagine elements of the Ukrainian authorities approved the automobile bomb assault … that killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of a outstanding Russian nationalist, a component of a covert marketing campaign that U.S. officers concern might widen the battle.
The Occasions states: “America took no half within the assault, both by offering intelligence or different help, officers stated. American officers additionally stated they weren’t conscious of the operation forward of time and would have opposed the killing had they been consulted.”
The article continues: “Afterward, American officers admonished Ukrainian officers over the assassination,” and provides, “The carefully held evaluation of Ukrainian complicity, which has not been beforehand reported, was shared inside the U.S. authorities final week.”
The denial of involvement by the US lacks any credibility. The Kiev regime is a creation of the US-instigated 2014 Maidan coup, and the dependence of its army on US armaments and intelligence providers is a longtime reality.
Simply three days earlier than Dugina’s assassination, the Occasions printed an article headlined: “Behind Enemy Traces, Ukrainians Inform Russians ‘You Are By no means Protected.’” Correspondent Andrew Kramer wrote:
They sneak down darkened alleys to set explosives. They determine Russian targets for Ukrainian artillery and long-range rockets supplied by the US. They blow up rail strains and assassinate officers they think about collaborators with the Russians.
Kramer described Ukrainian use of automobile bombs in assassinations: “They first lower {an electrical} wire, blacking out a streetlight, then dashed rapidly into the darkness the place they planted a bomb, wrapped in tape with the sticky facet going through outward, right into a wheel effectively.
“The fishing line was taped each to the within of the wheel and to a detonator, rigging the bomb to blow up when the wheel turned.”
Kramer named the Ukrainian army models “liable for overseeing operations behind enemy strains … the army intelligence service, referred to as HUR, and Ukraine’s Particular Operations Forces.” Nothing Kramer reported was unknown to US intelligence.
It’s nothing lower than preposterous to counsel that Ukraine might have carried out a high-level killing in Moscow with out US data and approval.
Nonetheless, the query arises: Why have US intelligence businesses leaked to the Occasions a report that implicates Zelensky’s regime within the Moscow assassination? Why does it report that it has admonished Ukraine for this operation?
Can it’s that the report signifies US concern over the political fallout from a newer operation that’s of far better worldwide consequence than the Moscow assassination? The unexplained bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline involves thoughts.
My guess is that the aim of the “publicity” of the Moscow assassination is to supply the Biden administration with a level of “believable deniability” ought to Ukrainian involvement within the Nord Stream bombing change into recognized. So Kramer now writes:
Whereas the Pentagon and spy businesses have shared delicate battlefield intelligence with the Ukrainians, serving to them zero in on Russian command posts, provide strains and different key targets, the Ukrainians haven’t all the time advised American officers what they plan to do.
America has pressed Ukraine to share extra about its warfare plans, with combined success. Earlier within the warfare, U.S. officers acknowledged that they typically knew extra about Russian warfare plans—due to their intense assortment efforts—than they did about Kyiv’s intentions.
Utilizing language that appears like a fastidiously constructed alibi, Kramer writes: “U.S. officers additionally lack an entire image of the competing energy facilities inside the Ukrainian authorities, together with the army, the safety providers and Mr. Zelensky’s workplace.”
It’s no much less probably that the Biden administration lacks “an entire image of the competing energy facilities” inside the CIA, the army and numerous different segments of the huge US nationwide safety state, and can’t management all of the covert operations underneath method in Ukraine.
This actuality underscores the recklessness of the US-instigated warfare. An occasion can happen, with or with out the approval of the Biden administration, that may set off a drastic escalation of the battle, all the way in which to thermonuclear warfare.
