Ukraine: will the democracies take the step of state terrorism?


EDITORIAL

The Russians accuse the Ukrainians of terrorism. The destruction of the Crimean Bridge is of strategic and above all symbolic importance for the Master of the Kremlin. Putin wanted it, he inaugurated it. He was even the first to use it while driving a truck.

All weekend, Ukrainian leaders bit their lips not to howl with joy. They took responsibility for the hit in half-words, then they limply denied and finally, they accused the Russian secret services of having engaged in obscure settling of accounts. It’s the detail that kills. It’s the return of the Lebanese syndrome!

The Lebanese Syndrome

In the 1980s, Lebanon was the rat race of militias, neighbors, sponsors of the region, major powers. The war of all against all. I had a very smart friend there, let’s call him Joe. Joe is an intelligence professional, expert in violent death. After each attack, Joe explained to me that the one who had done the hit was not the one who was profiting, but a third who wanted to incriminate the most obvious suspect or even a fourth who wanted to aggravate the chaos.

This dizzying mise en abyme is the Lebanese syndrome. Today there is a Ukrainian syndrome. When the Crimean bridge jumps, kyiv accuses the Russian services. When the power lines that supply the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and provide cooling for the reactor are cut, kyiv claims that they were bombed by Russian gunners. They are endangering the installation they occupy and which they have just annexed, they seem to say.

When a journalist is murdered near Moscow, it is again the Russian services that are criticized. They were targeting his father, Alexander Dougin, an intellectual who inspires Putin but who did not get into the car bomb. The French press takes up this theory and buries the colleague without shedding a tear. When Nord Stream 1 and 2 are sabotaged in the Baltic Sea, sinking $13 billion and creating irreversibility. Another blow from the Russians!

“It’s state terrorism”

The Lebanese affairs have finally been cleared up. Ten years later, the witnesses speak, the archives open up and the simplest hypothesis has always been verified. It was the Syrians who killed Bashir Gemayel. It was the Lebanese Forces who blew up Prime Minister Rachid Karamé’s helicopter. And it was the Iranians and Hezbollah who pulverized Rafic Hariri.

The New York Times, citing US intelligence sources, reported that Ukrainian intelligence killed Daria Dugin and missed her father. We understand that the Ukrainians hated the old theoretician of Pan-Slavism who claims that their nation does not exist. But from there to putting a bomb in your car, there is a step that democracies are forbidden to cross. It is state terrorism.

If it turns out that American or Western services have similarly sabotaged the gas pipelines, which would be logical but unprecedented, we will know that from now on all provocations are permitted and that Putin is not the only one play with the worst.



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