The\u00a0vile assassination of Darya Dugina<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 de facto terrorism at the gates of Moscow \u2013 may have fatefully coincided with the six-month intersection point, but that won\u2019t change the dynamics of the current, work-in-progress historical drive.<\/strong><\/p>\n The FSB may have cracked the case in a little over 24 hours, designating the perpetrator as a neo-Nazi Azov operative instrumentalized by the SBU, itself a mere tool of the CIA\/MI6 combo de facto ruling Kiev.<\/p>\n The Azov operative is just a patsy.\u00a0<\/strong>The FSB will never reveal in public the intel it has amassed on those that issued the orders \u2013 and how they will be dealt with.<\/p>\n One Ilya Ponomaryov, an anti-Kremlin minor character granted Ukrainian citizenship, boasted he was in contact with the outfit that prepared the hit on the Dugin family. No one took him seriously.<\/p>\n What\u2019s manifestly serious is how oligarchy-connected organized crime factions in Russia would have a motive to eliminate Dugin as a Christian Orthodox nationalist philosopher who, according to them, may have influenced the Kremlin\u2019s pivot to Asia (he didn\u2019t).<\/p>\n But most of all, these organized crime factions blamed Dugin for a concerted Kremlin offensive against the disproportional power of Jewish oligarchs in Russia. So these actors would have the motive and the local base\/intel to mount such a coup.<\/p>\n If that\u2019s the case that spells out a Mossad operation \u2013 in many aspects a more solid proposition than CIA\/MI6.<\/strong>\u00a0What\u2019s certain is that the FSB will keep their cards very close to their chest \u2013 and retribution will be swift, precise and invisible.<\/p>\n Instead of delivering a serious blow to Russia in relation to the dynamics of the SMO, the assassination of Darya Dugina only exposed the perpetrators as tawdry operatives of a Moronic Murder Inc.<\/p>\n An IED cannot kill a philosopher \u2013 or his daughter.\u00a0In an essential essay\u00a0<\/a>Dugin himself explained how the real war \u2013 Russia against the collective West led by the United States \u2013 is a war of ideas. And an existential war.<\/p>\n Dugin \u2013 correctly \u2013 defines the US as a \u201cthalassocracy\u201d, heir to \u201cBritannia rules the waves\u201d; yet now the geopolitical tectonic plates are spelling out a new order: The Return of the Heartland.<\/strong><\/p>\n Putin himself first spelled it out at the Munich Security Conference in 2007. Xi Jinping started to make it happen when he launched the New Silk Roads in 2013. The Empire struck back with Maidan in 2014. Russia counter-attacked coming to the aid of Syria in 2015.<\/p>\n The Empire doubled down on Ukraine, with NATO weaponizing it non-stop for eight years. At the end of 2021, Moscow invited Washington for a serious dialogue on \u201cindivisibility of security\u201d in Europe. That was dismissed with a non-response response.<\/p>\n Moscow took no time to confirm a trifecta was in the works: an imminent Kiev blitzkrieg against Donbass; Ukraine flirting with acquiring nuclear weapons; and the work of US bioweapon labs. That was the straw that broke the New Silk Road camel\u2019s back.<\/strong><\/p>\n A consistent analysis of Putin\u2019s public interventions these past few months reveals that the Kremlin \u2013 as well as Security Council Yoda Nikolai Patrushev \u2013 fully realize how the politico\/media goons and shock troops of the collective West are dictated by the rulers of what Michael Hudson defines as the FIRE system (financialization, insurance, real estate), a de facto banking Mafia.<\/p>\n As a direct consequence, they also realize how collective West public opinion is absolutely clueless, Plato cave-style, of their total captivity by the FIRE rulers, who cannot possibly tolerate any alternative narrative.<\/p>\n So Putin, Patrushev, Medvedev will never presume that a senile teleprompter reader in the White House or a cokehead comedian in Kiev \u201crule\u201d anything. The sinister Great Reset impersonator of a Bond villain, Klaus \u201cDavos\u201d Schwab, and his psychotic historian sidekick Yuval Harari at least spell out their \u201cprogram\u201d: global depopulation, with those that remain drugged to oblivion.<\/p>\n As the US rules global pop culture, it\u2019s fitting to borrow from what Walter White\/Heisenberg, an average American channeling his inner Scarface, states in\u00a0Breaking Bad<\/em>: \u201cI\u2019m in the Empire business\u201d. And the Empire business is to exercise raw power \u2013 then maintained with ruthlessness by all means necessary.<\/p>\n Russia broke the spell. But Moscow\u2019s strategy is way more sophisticated than leveling Kiev with hypersonic business cards, something that could have been done at any moment starting six months ago, in a flash.<\/strong><\/p>\n What Moscow is doing is talking to virtually the whole Global South, bilaterally or to groups of actors, explaining how the world-system is changing right before our eyes, with the key actors of the future configured as BRI, SCO, EAEU, BRICS+, the Greater Eurasia Partnership.<\/p>\n And what we see is vast swathes of the Global South \u2013 or 85% of the world\u2019s population \u2013 slowly but surely becoming ready to engage in expelling the FIRE Mafia from their national horizons, and ultimately taking them down: a long, tortuous battle that will imply multiple setbacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n On the ground in soon-to-be rump Ukraine, Khinzal hypersonic business cards \u2013 launched from Tu-22M3 bombers or Mig-31 interceptors \u2013 will continue to be distributed.<\/p>\n Piles of HIMARS will continue to be captured. TOS 1A Heavy Flamethrowers will keep sending invitations to the Gates of Hell. Crimean Air Defense will continue to intercept all sorts of small drones with IEDs attached: terrorism by local SBU cells, which will be eventually smashed.<\/p>\n Using essentially a phenomenal artillery barrage \u2013 cheap and mass-produced \u2013 Russia will annex the full, very valuable Donbass, in terms of land, natural resources and industrial power. And then on to Nikolaev, Odessa, and Kharkov.<\/p>\n Geoeconomically, Russia can afford to sell its oil with fat discounts to any Global South customer, not to mention strategic partners China and India. Cost of extraction reaches a maximum of $15 per barrel, with a national budget based on $40-45 for a barrel of Urals.<\/strong><\/p>\n A new Russian benchmark is imminent, as well as oil in rubles following the wildly successful gas for rubles.<\/p>\n The assassination of Darya Dugina provoked endless speculation on the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense finally breaking their discipline. That\u2019s not going to happen. The advances along the enormous 1,800-mile front are relentless, highly systematic and inserted in a Greater Strategic Picture.<\/p>\n A key vector is whether Russia stands a chance of winning the information war with the collective West.\u00a0<\/strong>That will never happen inside NATOstan \u2013 even as success after success is ramping up across the Global South.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/straight-talk-pierre-olivier-gourinchas.jpg?itok=glj0u72H\")
<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\nThe straw that broke the camel\u2019s back<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n
The facts on the ground<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n