Remember when Russia said (via Medvedev and the MOD) that they’d start bombing offices of senior military officials and “decision-making centers” if Ukraine kept attacking Russia proper.
I ‘member. And I thought I’d wait a bit, to see how things panned out before I started griping again.
Well, not only did Ukraine commit a terrorist attack on Dugin and his family in Moscow, but then they also launched attacks on Crimea. They hit an airport. Tourists vacationing in Crimea took it in stride and said that the fireworks did more damage than the Ukrainian bombs. I like the fighting spirit, but still, it begs the questions, where is the payback?
Where is the red line, then?
Some more questions: why are the Ukrainian TV stations still pumping atrocity propaganda into the malleable minds of the peasants? Would it really be hard to hit a tower or two and cut the signal?
Marko’s been complaining about the intact bridges on the Dniepr for months now.
And yes, where are the reinforcements?
A strange war, no doubt.
Oh, Dugina’s assassin was stabbed to death in Austria 17 times. [NOTE: could be fake news].
You really have to wonder how they recruited her in the first. What did Kiev/the SBU/the CIA promise her? Well, I guess we’ll never know now that she’s dead. I’d wager it was her own side covering up loose ends.
I’ve always wondered who actually agrees to the standard spook sales pitch.
Desperate people? Ambitious people? Patriotic people?
I’ve spoken to the spook officers themselves before and all I got from them was a sense of misplaced superiority. That’s why they feel that they can use and then throw away the people that they recruit and use for their sinister purposes.
They’re just a gang. You’re either in or you’re expendable. More people need to know that.
But people are desperate, ambitious, and naive. They don’t understand the powers that be and their modus operandi. If they did, they’d be forewarned and forearmed. But, again, they’re not. Can’t say I’m going to feel too sad for this harpy though.
Working with the secret police is a red line that, when crossed, makes one’s own life forfeit. It is, on the most fundamental, physical level, a deal with the devil.
It seems that the Kiev government is switching to a strategy of employing partisan terrorism. They’ve always assassinations in the DNR and LNR before, but now there’s indication that they’re going to commit these terrorisms within Russia. The FSB says that a 44-year-old man prepared the bomb that was used to kill Dugina. Source:
Ukrainian citizen Bogdan Tsyganenko (born 1978), who arrived through Estonia on July 30 and left the country the day before the murder.
Tsyganenko provided Vovk with forged license plates and documents in the name of a real Kazakh citizen, Yulia Zaiko, and, together with Vovk, assembled a homemade bomb in a rented garage in southwestern Moscow.
Vovk then personally followed Dugina in the parking lot for guests of the Tradition festival, followed her car in a Mini Cooper and set off the bomb.
Both Vovk and Tsyganenko crossed a lot of lines (borders) to get into Russia and to get out - and at no point were either of them stopped by the FSB. Some lines can be crossed and flaunted even, I guess.
And while this is all interesting, of course, the question is what Russia will do next.
Draw another red line?
American conservatives are great about drawing red lines. The left advances. The right buys guns and tells the left not to push them any further. The left advances again. The right buys more guns and warns them again. Repeat.
But they do periodically hit Ukrainian command centers and ammo depots with missile strikes. Verifiable with a quick search on Google https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ukrainian+command+center+hit
-The Dniepr bridges still intact are a bit of a mystery though. Probably even with the bridges destroyed, it would still be easy for Ukrainians to bring supplies by ferry instead. This also assumes that Eastern bank Ukraine is completely dependent on provisions from the Western bank and Nato. There may still be hidden ammo manufacturing facilities in the East so to speak.
Also, blowing up the bridges would allow the western media to run all kind of sob stories about how evil Putin has separated people in the East fro their loved and dear in the West.
-Allowing the broadcasting of Ukrainian propaganda provides proof at home that they are engaging in disinformation.
At the end of the day it's all about answering the perennial question: are the Russians playing 4D chess supercleverly and beyond our understanding, or are they fundamentally clueless and are in fact just winging it?