Russia, Putin's theorem: “Moscow in the sights of NATO”

“Russia is the main target of NATO's aggressive policies” That “use Ukraine as a tool” to implement them, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, declared in an interview with Tass, quoting “as proof” were the words pronounced on Wednesday by the Secretary General of the Atlantic AllianceJens Stoltenberg, with L
to request allies for more long-term commitment and fewer short-term offers on aid to Kiev. Zakharova therefore anticipated that, following the completion of the investigation into the Crocus attack, Moscow “will draw the appropriate political conclusions”.

The Moscow theorem on the attack to hide the security flop

Since last March 22, Russia has intensified the accusations of terrorism aimed at Ukraine, suggesting that Kiev and its allies are responsible for theKrasnogorsk concert hall attack, claimed by ISIS-K and cost the lives of at least 145 people, with another 551 injured. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also did today, actions such as the explosion against the Crimean bridge or the actions against the refineries are associated with the Crocus attack.

The Mosca's theorem struggles to take off weighed down as if by a construct of insinuations. Which originate in the need to mask the failure of the security services in avoiding the attack, perhaps they are the sign of a split within the regime and which can in any case be used to accompany an escalation of military operations.

An Naba, a weekly bulletin associated with IS published on Telegram, accused Russian authorities of trying to disguise their failure to stop the Krasnogork attack by blaming their enemies in the West. From this comes Moscow's artificial explanation according to which the perpetrators, the four attackers of Tajik origin arrested a few hours after the attack near the border with Belarus, they believed they were acting for IS but actually the person who gave them instructions on Telegram is an agent of the Ukrainian services. And if Kiev didn't actually organize the attack, it at least planned to welcome the attackers as “heroes” after having set up a “window on the border” for them, after having financed the operation.

There Moscow's propaganda appears to have borrowed the narrative set up by the Emomali Rahmon regime in Tajikistan, suggests Meduza, after four foreign cyclists (two Americans, one Dutch and one Swiss) were killed on a mountain road on 29 July 2018 near Danghara, the President's hometown. An attack claimed two days later by ISIS with a video, published by the Amaq news agency, with five attackers sitting in front of the Nurek dam in Tajikistan talking about their affiliation with ISIS.

However, the Attorney General in Dushanbe had immediately spoken of IS being used as a “cover”, indicating responsibility for the attack in the Party of Islamic Rebirth of Tajikistan, an opposition party and banned since 2015 as an extremist group, with the support of Iranian special forces, whereas Iran is to Tajikistan what Ukraine is to Russia, a brother of a different political structure.

The evidence? The confession of the only assailant who survived a raid by security forces. A confession which, despite the torture evident on the suspects, does not even appear to have occurred in Moscow after March 22nd.