Was the vehicle bomb meant to send a message or to intensify the dispute?
By Philip GIRALDI
The dreadful automobile battle in Moscow that killed twenty-nine years of age Darya Dugina recently raises lots of concerns about the motives of the Ukrainian routine and its fans that sent an assassin to murder a prominent Russian civilian who has no obvious role in the federal government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. It needs to be assumed that the target of the attack was Darya’s daddy, the philosopher and sociologist Aleksandr Dugin, who has been predictably denigratedby western media outlets like the Washington Post, which refers to Dugin as “Putin’s brain” or “Putin’s Rasputin” while the New York Timeslamely calls him a “Russian ultranationalist.”
Dugin, to be sure, is an effective media figure popular in Europe who is a strong supporter of the Kremlin’s military effort against Ukraine which is presently playing out. It appears that he has never ever even met Putin, which indicates that I have satisfied Putin more than he has, let alone encouraged him, and he is typically deemed a minimal figure in his own country. To be sure, he is understood for his fiery rhetoric and hawkish anti-Western and anti-American position, picturing as he does Russia serving “as a serious bulwark against the ubiquitous spread of the Western liberal design on the world.”President Vladimir Putin’s August 16th speech to foreign dignitaries at the Moscow Conference on International Security would appear to verify that the Russian leader typically at least shares Dugin’s point of view. Putin stated that “The situation worldwide is changing dynamically and the lays out of a multipolar world order are taking shape. An increasing number of nations and individuals are selecting a path of totally free and sovereign advancement based on their own unique identity, traditions and values.”
Dugin, like Putin, is a real conservative in cultural terms and would reasonably be referred to as a Russian nationalist, believing as he does that Russia and its conventional values should be treasured rather that cast away in pursuit of the presently trendy globalism. He, also like Putin, is protective of the Russian Orthodox Church, that makes him a metachronism or even worse from the perspective of the cancel culture presently rampaging in the west.
I had the opportunity of taking part in a conference in 2018 in the Iranian city of Mashhad with Dugin and got to know him somewhat. He is a prominent intellectual, a respected writer and speaker, and a true boy of Holy Russia. That he looks backwards at Russian history to pick the cultural patterns and propensities to inspire him must be a positive example of a possible course to pursue for the lots of conservatives worldwide who have been appalled at what is being done to western civilization at the hands of the wreckers who are now in control of many countries.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has utilized surveillance cam footage and other resources to rebuild what likely occurred in the vehicle bombing. First off, the Dugins had no unique security. Aleksandr Dugin led a life in the open, as did his daughter. They would both go to cultural and folk events and speak, frequently freely meeting with fans, which is what they were doing on the day of the bombing as honored visitors at a “Custom” celebration near Moscow. Aleksandr had no factor to think that some government may seriously want to assassinate him, although it is known that he was on the Ukrainian federal government’s well-known MyrotvoretsOpponents of Ukraine “hit list”for alleged supporters of the Russian intervention, which even consists of prominent antiwar “Pink Floyd” artist Roger Waters. The names on the list are blocked on the real group site, but there are reportedly more than 200,000 entries on it, including many prominent Americans. Oddly, the Myrotvoretssitehas on the home page upper right-hand corner the addresses of the begetters of the site, which are Langley Virginia, house of the CIA, and Warsaw Poland. Dugin was clearly incorrect if he assumed the list was all simply a bit of political theater.
According to the Russian cops, a 42-year-old female called Natalya Vovk, who also utilizes the surname Shaban, supposedly a member of the Ukrainian National Guard’s Azov Battalion, departed Ukraine on July 23rdin a vehicle with false Donbas plates, the area presently under Russian control. She drove into Russia together with her 12 year-old daughter Sophia Shaban as cover, changed the plates to those of Kremlin ally Kazakhstan, and then continued to rent an apartment in the structure in Moscow where Darya lived. According to one report, Darya would often drive her dad to meetings as he did not like to drive, but in this case, he changed to another automobile. Vovk, who may have had an accomplicewho assisted her get a phony Kazakh passport and might have helped in building the bomb, planted the gadget under the Dugin vehicle and detonated it by push-button control before leaving to Estonia after once again changing her cars and truck license plates to Ukrainian. It is to be presumed that Vovk was on an objective prepared and licensed by Ukrainian intelligence (SBU).
No western federal government has actually knocked the assassination. The Ukrainian government has actually denied being behind the attack, though there have actually been reported celebrations in Kiev and elsewhere. Dugina was apparently declared “liquidated” on the Myrotvoretssite. The Washington Posthas actually naturally editorialized its view that nobody need to believe anything that the Russians are reportingabout the assassination, though one may more reasonably rely on the Kremlin than the United States Capital’s leading source of media disinformation. Also, the British media rapidly delved into the fray, suggesting that it was the Russians themselves, either a dissident group or representatives sent out by Putin, who did the foul deed. Even the Pope was on the getting end after he described Darya Dugina as an “innocent victim.” Andrii Yurash, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See, tweeted thatthe Pope’s words were “disappointing … how (is it) possible to mention one of ideologists of (Russian) imperialism as innocent victim? She was eliminated by Russians.” But, to be sure, unless extra details appears, there is absolutely nothing in the Russian government reconstruction of events that seems a fabrication as it is mostly supported by surveillance electronic camera video clips and images of those involved.
There remain, however, 2 major questions that have not been responded to or even attended to at this point. The first is intention and the second associates with which other nations might have been involved in the planning and execution of the bombing. And there is a back story that might contribute to a better understanding of just what happened and why. Dugin, for all his brilliant scholastic credentials and absence of any Russian government position, is considered as actively hostile to the interests of the United States, possibly due to the fact that of his assistance of the attack on Ukraine, and has been both approved and end up being a person of interest for American police and intelligence companies. Darya was likewise approved.
By “individual of interest” I mean that the national security agencies have used their details collection resources to monitor where Dugin goes, whom he is in contact with, and to discover what are the numerous groups that he is involved with. That details would all by itself be suggestive in terms of the evident strategy to assassinate Dugin by automobile bomb, but it also fits in neatly with several other connections. First off, the actual capabilities of the Ukrainian intelligence services are not plainly comprehended, however it is well known within the United States intelligence neighborhood that the CIA, MI-6 and Mossad are all in Ukraine actively engaged in training and advising their regional counterparts. The bombing in Moscow required significant elegance as it utilized previous intelligence, multiple license plates and presumably also identity documents when borders were crossed, something the Ukrainians acting alone might not have actually had the ability to achieve.
So did the United States, Britain, and/or the Israelis understand what their Ukrainian counterparts were planning? More than that, did they collude in the operation or offer intelligence that made it possible? NATO member Estonia’s obvious cooperation in assisting the exfiltration of Vovk rather suggests a broadly based intelligence operation. The Israelis in particular are adept at that type of cross border targeted assassination operation, having utilized comparable methods to kill Iranian researchers and professionals. And they may have likewise had a secondary intention in targeting Dugin over his criticisms of the Jewish rolein the fear that followed the Bolshevik transformation as well as its enormous overrepresentation both in the existing Russian oligarchy in addition to in the brand-new American and globalist elite. Remarkably, Putin has likewise angered the Israeli federal government by his criticism of the current lethal attacks on the Palestinians and by his closure ofthe Jewish Agency for Israel which organizes the emigration of Jews from Russia to the Jewish state.
If foreign intelligence services were involved, that likewise would suggest that the particular governments may have approved of the assassination attempt, which could recommend an intention beyond just alerting Russia that its apologists could be eliminated even in Moscow at any time. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has actually pressed his “allies” to get more associated with the fighting in his country, beyond the arrangement of billions of dollars and weapons. The killing of Dugin may have been viewed as a possible intriguing transfer to encourage Moscow to over-react in reaction, causing still more western participation, maybe to consist of NATO and other allied troops appearing on the battlegrounds to face Putin directly. To be sure, one is not motivated by statements coming out of the mouths of western leaders and NATO exposing that the real goal of the combating is to weaken Russia and perhaps bring about regime modification, which increases the likelihood that Moscow will take a tough line in its response. Nor was it precisely motivating to heara befuddled President Joe Biden’s calling Putin a “war criminal” and Moscow’s intervention a “genocide” while also devoting the United States to withstand whatever it takes for as long as it takes to ensure that Ukraine “wins” the war, which is a virtual pledge to escalate the conflict.
It is also paradoxical that the US Congress is dabbling the idea of stating Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” when it is Washington-ally Ukraine that remains in fact utilizing fear. It might appear impossible that anyone would outline to assassinate a popular Russian in order to more escalate a dispute that is currently edging perilously near to a nuclear exchange, however there you have it. If Zelensky and his neocon consultants set the trap to deepen the participation of Washington in their war, Biden must have recognized the folly and backed totally out of the dispute. But there is little chance of that, regrettably. When it pertains to Russia, the hawks are both bipartisan and securely in control.