Thread by @RWApodcast

Going through this new WaPo article on Ukrainian terror attacks inside Russia. Interesting combination of bragging about how great the CIA is but also trying to create distance from what the SBU is actually doing. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/…

The CIA are nice guys, unlike the SBU. Training, providing advanced surveillance equipment & intel, supplying explosives, sure! But to press the button... God forbid. “Local excesses”, as they said under Stalin. The world hegemon hides behind the bicolor rag again. How American.

The author knows little about the history of post-Soviet intelligence agencies; the FSB was basically built from scratch in the 90s (by the former head of the Ukrainian KGB, by the way), while the SBU basically is the UkrSSR's KGB.

Also, interesting CIA-MI6 diarchy.

Theoretically, this admission - that they turned a civilian into an unwilling & unwitting suicide bomber - means that Ukraine is, without a shred of doubt, a terrorist state, and the US an official state sponsor of terrorism. Practically, however, no one cares.

I have little faith in Justice being served when everything is said and done, but this detail should not be forgotten. Zelensky personally signed off on the assassination of Daria Dugina.

Sad that the Kremlin couldn't find its balls and didn't send some people with firepower and plausible deniability into Estonia after her.

I do hope that, “those who think they are untouchable”, will spend the rest of their lives hiding in South America under assumed names.

At times like this, one really wishes that the FSB were a little more like the KGB. As is, we can only rely on the good old 152mm & FAB-500 for Justice.