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It is instructive to meet the man whose ideological philosophy of Russia uber alles, green-lighting a return of Soviet-style politics, the Russian Federation reaching its tentacles out once again to suction its neighbours into their former roles of satellites under the kindly auspices of imperial Mother Russia, who speaks of Nazis ruling Ukraine, while the world sees a fascist totalitarian, irenic government in Russia's Kremlin with its KGB-operative president -- the ultimate Nazi -- scrabbling to destroy Ukraine.

For Alexander Dugin, as for his powerful acolyte, Vladimir Putin, it is perfectly legitimate as a special military operation, for Russia to coyly deny any such intentions of crossing its border with Ukraine while it was building up its troops and military equipment, then launching the attack with the stated purpose of liberating Ukrainians from their neo-Nazi taskmasters. In the process never hesitating -- indeed going out of their way -- to bomb civilian targets killing thousands of non-combatants.

However, Ukraine, taking its attackers by surprise through its intransigent refusal to be occupied and destroyed, is behaving irrationally and with unforgivable warlike brutality against the better-equipped, more numerous Russian invaders, Ukrainian servicemen fighting to the death to protect their land, their liberty, their sovereignty and their lives. Unthinkable that Ukraine could or would cross the border into Russia with its newly-acquired long-range missiles, and through undercover operations to strike the Russian heartland while fighting to counter Russian forces within Ukraine.

 

It is indeed a dreadful thing that a young 29-year-old Russian woman has died. Many young and old Ukrainian women have died, as have Ukrainian children. That Daria Dugina was also a prominent voice for a vindictive triumphalist Russia, urging the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainian lives, the daughter of the architect of a Russian military invasion of Ukraine, places her death on Russia's own doorstep of responsibility in destroying countless lives. What's good enough for Ukraine is good enough for Russia.

As for the FSB's claim that a Ukrainian woman entering Russia as a disguised undercover agent intent on killing the daughter of Alexander Dugin, claiming to have identified her and her mission taking an apartment in the same block with her young daughter, then following Daria Dugina to await the perfect opportunity for assassination, why bother? The likelier explanation is that the car the father was meant to use on a return trip to Moscow changed hands and was driven by his daughter who became the victim of an explosive meant for her father.

Irrespective of motive and execution, it is done, she is dead. The massive explosions hitting around Black Sea military emplacements behind Russian lines in the Donbas reflects Ukraine's resolve to make Russia's 'special military operation' a very costly enterprise for Moscow. Its success can be seen not only in lost military materiel, but the deep demoralization of Russian troops, some now refusing to fight, leaving the Kremlin to send military delegations to small towns looking for volunteer reservists for the front, and offering to lift prison sentences of criminals who will agree to fight in Ukraine. 

Not many takers.