Aug. 23—The assassination of the 30-year-old Russian journalist/activist, Darya Dugina, with the initial evidence pointing at a member of Ukraine’s Azov-founded National Guard, one Natalya Vovk/Shaban, is one of those events that qualify as a trigger for a rapid expansion of the “confront Russia” game into a nuclear confrontation. At what point do Western so-called democracies step in and squash the networks that deliberately built up neo-Nazi irregular forces? Does the targeting of citizens of the United States, of Germany and elsewhere, by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council and by Ukraine’s SBU, not elicit a blink of the eye?
Yet, the European Union’s resident blather-mouth, Foreign Affairs representative Josep Borrell doesn’t blink on training even more such fighters. He’s pushing for the EU to train Ukrainians in military skills in the countries abutting Ukraine—evidently because the U.K., Canada and the U.S. have been getting all the glory? A lot more troops, for an indefinitely extended conflict, for the “big mission.” Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova didn’t waste her breath: “We should call a spade a spade: the EU will set up bases to train terrorists and Nazi militants for the Kiev regime. A hundred years ago, the Europeans also didn’t immediately realize what fascism is like. They realized later, but it was too late.”
Meanwhile, the Trump team finally weighed in with a legal suit against the Department of Justice and the FBI, for the unconstitutional and unwarranted raid. The 27-page suit nails the DOJ’s “Russiagate” operation as an out-of-control, willing to lie to courts on behalf of a political witchhunt. The court has no business taking their word for anything, on the matter of the seizure of privileged material of a President or the matter of what documents that had been declassified. The court must appoint a Special Master. In a related development, the imminent “Nuremberg”-style trials prepared by Russia and the Donetsk government to open in Mariupol shortly is no small factor in the bizarre actions in Kiev these days.
India and Russia are reportedly deep into arrangements for a trade-based, non-dollar monetary system. Patrick Lawrence, in Consortium News, calls attention to Putin’s speech last week at the Moscow International Security Conference as a prime example of thoughtful, strategic statecraft. His article, and Putin’s speech, bear some modest study. Helga Zepp-LaRouche summarizes the current strategic situation of the last 24 hours, which in part witnessed Russia’s renewed drive in southern Ukraine, and Ukraine’s massive bombardment of the civilian sections of the city of Donetsk. It bears no less study.
Such study may bear a unique fruit. Being proven right has its merits. But speaking and acting with the confidence and assurance of that proven track record of EIR and LaRouche’s movement is critical in such a time. Pull rank.
