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 ... the sky is blue, the water is wet, neocons are genocidal maniacs... Yes, murdering Daria Dugina is one of them. 

These operations have been cast as extreme measures Ukraine was forced to adopt in response to Russia’s invasion last year. In reality, they represent capabilities that Ukraine’s spy agencies have developed over nearly a decade — since Russia first seized Ukrainian territory in 2014 — a period during which the services also forged deep new bonds with the CIA.The missions have involved elite teams of Ukrainian operatives drawn from directorates that were formed, trained and equipped in close partnership with the CIA, according to current and former Ukrainian and U.S. officials. Since 2015, the CIA has spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-formed services into potent allies against Moscow, officials said. The agency has provided Ukraine with advanced surveillance systems, trained recruits at sites in Ukraine as well as the United States, built new headquarters for departments in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, and shared intelligence on a scale that would have been unimaginable before Russia illegally annexed Crimea and fomented a separatist war in eastern Ukraine. The CIA maintains a significant presence in Kyiv, officials said.

I wonder why WaPo suddenly decided to expose these well-known facts to American public? CIA is now directly associated with murders of Russian citizens and attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure. Not news, really. Russians know who and how.

The Economist...

... British trash about SBU thugs. 

Yeah, sure--"clear strategy" in assassinating people. Nalivaichenko, former SBU chief and CIA asset, speaks about it with pride. Surprise, surprise, not. UK political class, a collection of pedophiles, satanists and other perverts, lives out its genocidal anti-Russian dreams vicariously through the piles of corpses of VSU and ejaculating from assassinating many civilians. In the absence of honor and military-industrial capability it is "quiet desperation is the English way"(c).

Now another collection of clowns from London who pass there for military "experts" parades itself, yet again, as an Exhibit A of NATO's operational-strategic impotence. 

RUSI, which describes itself as the world’s oldest security think tank, warned that training Ukrainian officers based on NATO norms would be futile, because those tactics are not widely grasped by Kiev’s troops. “We could get that horribly wrong,” the institute’s senior research fellow Jack Watling told the Telegraph.“We could do it whereby we’re like, ‘We’re going to teach you how to be a NATO staff officer. We have courses and we have a book that tells us what that means.’ But the problem is that if you take that person who has learned all these NATO procedures and you put them back in Ukraine, where they have different tools and where none of their colleagues understand any of the NATO terminology, then they will revert to what their colleagues understand.”

I have news for RUSI and Sandhurst Faculty--everything you know about modern war is a collection of fairy tales. The saddest, for you, part--none of you have tools to get it right. Quoting my good friend, a senior staff officer:"We don't even sweat about European part of NATO." 

That Is Why They Call Him Grisha In Russia...

.... Despite Graham, of course, being 100% Brit. He is what is called in Russian "Svoi"--ours, belonging to us, a friend--because he is now more than just great war reporter. 

These are a special breed of humans, with an acute sense of right and wrong. That's Graham Phillips for the last very many years. He is recognized on the streets of Russian cities, people try to hug him and shake his hand and I am 100% sure that in the peaceful life Graham would have been an outstanding resort reporter. I hope he will be and will limit himself to only one wound he has got in 2015, I believe, when reporting from the front-lines in Donbass. Yeah, these guys: Brits, Americans, French (there is an awesome French guy fighting for Donbass while also evacuating civilians from the war zone), what have you, who contribute more to preserving some very thin thread tying Russia and what is left best in Western Civilization. 

P.S. The rumors are circulating that Gonzalo Lira was killed by Nazi and SBU thugs in Kharkov. I am sure this hasn't been just the Ukie idea, they had someone "higher" suggesting this murder. Gonzalo was a US citizen, if I am not mistaken, but this fact is no guarantee of anything in 404. SBU is essentially a CIA outlet.

Two Can Play The Game.

The difference, of course, is that Russians usually do not stage "chemical attacks" and do fight very real terrorists.  Here is a real shot across the bow for Ukraine. Russia's major media report about FSB catching an SBU asset from... ISIS (in Russian).

It is not necessary to comment on Ukraine in general and SBU's in particular involvement with all kinds of dirty assets from terrorists to very high probability of being "helpful" in producing a truck load of utter "intelligence" Trump-Russia collusion trash for the benefit of HRC and her campaign. It is just that this time the matter and accusation go really public. The question is not that Ukraine tries a terrorist activity on Russian territory--that everybody who has half-brain knows. It is that the connection between Ukraine and ISIS terrorists has been exposed this way.

Hm, why would Russia do this? I guess the message is clear: there is a consistent stream of information from Syria about weapons being delivered through (or BY) Ukraine to Al Qaeda and ISIS groups in Syria. Considering the fact that Ukraine lives under de facto external control it is easy to make a connection who really plays the puppet master. Not that cabal in Kiev wouldn't like most Russians dead and Russia... well..."ukronazified", but that is beyond the point in overall strategic situation. At this stage the United States which is undergoing a complete meltdown of its state institutions and is in the process of a slow coup, as the last resort has three possible pressure points (shcwerpunkt) , short of all out war with Russia. Those are obvious:

1. Ukraine;

2.Syria;

3. Nord Stream-2 and Europe. 

Numbers 1 and 2 involve an open military action either by proxy or, as some madmen in D.C. suggest, in first person against Russia. Well, if there could be some "calculations" on possible Syria provocation which can contain at least slim theoretical chances of gaining whatever neocon cabal wants to gain (long ago gone self-respect?), Ukraine is the place where the final remaking of the European (and global) Order will happen. It may happen relatively slow or it may happen really fast and this depends only on Russia and how she wants to proceed. Poroshenko desperately needs some kind of "action" and he doesn't give a damn if he loses most of Eastern Ukraine as a result--he needs political power by means of cancelling "elections" (or rather parade of Ukrainian psychopaths vying for power). He needs "war" with Russia. Obviously it has to be such a war that doesn't result in complete demolition of the Ukrainian State and Poroshenko, if shit hits the fan, having enough time for Porky to escape Pskov and Ivanovo paratroop divisions deploying around and into Kiev. Poroshenko needs something middle of the road. After all, nobody wants to have personal X-101 or 3M14 assigned to oneself. 

The United States also needs SOME reaction from Russia along the lines US "elites" think are beneficial to the US. OK, not to the US--to them personally, staying in power and finishing off what's left of once beautiful American idea of Republic and Supremacy of the LAW.  And here we run immediately into the same wall which I try to bypass for several years now--how can you explain to those "elites" that instead of saving the Republic they not only bankrupted it but accelerate its decline with each passing day. At this stage I don't think it is possible to explain this to the American power elite, at least most people there. It is not just that America has been sold out to Israeli, Saudi, and whoever pays more, interests, it is just we finally have to say this openly--modern American political class is dumb as a stump. It is uneducated and it is good only for one thing--to keep itself re-elected and close to government sinecures. They don't understand that there is no "winning" under any circumstances anymore. And that is what makes them so dangerous--monkey with a grenade is not a pretty or calming sight. So, what is it going to be: Syria or Ukraine? Or both? Truth is, many in D.C. are war criminals and terrorist enablers--I don't think any of them wants to face justice, a real one. But as much as I do not take anything what came out of Tom Clancy's amateur imagination, I somehow like the ending of otherwise lame The Sum Of All Fears. Granted we all survive and that Republic survives, I still have a hope, however fainting with every passing day. After all, real life is not Hollywood.