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.
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.”
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.”
targeted assassination of intellectuals is CIA’s goldest oldie.