Ukrainian media asks ‘who should be next’ after car bombing of Russian writer
A Ukrainian media group partnered with BBC, Der Spiegel & other Western outlets polled readers on which Russian intellectual should be assassinated following a car bomb attack on a Russian novelist.
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Hours after Russian writer and activist Zakhar Prilepin was nearly killed in a targeted car bomb, a popular Ukrainian news agency submitted a poll that asked its readers, “Who do you think should be next in the Russian pantheon of scum propagandists?”
While the Biden administration has greenlit Kiev’s campaign of terror, it’s open season on Russian intellectuals supportive of the government’s war effort, according to Ukrainian news agency UNIAN. Following a car bomb intended to kill Russian novelist Zakhar Prilepin in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia, the outlet polled its audience on Telegram, providing a list of names of prominent Russians that could be assassinated.
Excluding the two reported assassination attempts on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prilepin is the third high-profile Russian to be targeted for assassination by Ukrainian agents. His maiming follows the car bombing that killed Dariya Dugina, which was intended for her father, the Russian nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, and the bombing of a public event featuring Vladlen Tatarsky, who ran a popular Telegram channel. The Telegram post by UNIAN explicitly references Dugin, Tatarsky, and Prilepin.
Among the list of potential targets were the operators of other Telegram channels, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan (crudely referred to in the post as “beaver eater”), Russian TV news hosts Dmitry Kiselyov and Sergey Mardan, and others. Some 50,000 Telegram users have voted in the poll at the time of this article’s publication.
According to UNIAN’s About page, the outlet “partners in information dissemination and exchange” with American outlets Reuters and Bloomberg while its clients include prominent foreign outlets like the BBC and Der Spiegel.
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Of course the Kiev regime is a terrorist entity. This is no secret. What is Russia proposing to do about it?
Pretend that Russia were to start assassinating various Kagans and other hawks, whilst conducting polls to ask who should be next?
What would the response of the West be? Or rather, how loudly would various goodthinkers be screaming about "terror"?
Because they are losing on the battlefield, they go to a media and PR narrative manipulation war (straight out of the US playbook); and, when they are beaten there too, they start to go after the “propagandists,” soft targets, with cowardly terrorist tactics. But the US, both parties, is fully on board--perhaps even furnishing intelligence in support including, most significantly, with the drone strike on the Kremlin. Wrong side of history, another stain among many historic stains on the “Collective West.”