Fighting without a front line

Can the current terrorist attacks stop the transition to a multipolar world?

A Ukrainian attack with US-made long-range ATACMS missiles with cluster warheads has been inflicted on Sevastopol in Crimea resulting in one and a half hundred wounded and five dead, including children. During the strike, a US drone was detected over the Black Sea. Armed militants have attacked Orthodox churches and synagogues, as well as police officers in Makhachkala and Derbent — twenty people have been killed. This is a terrible summary of just one day. What is behind the terrorist attacks?

The President of Belarus,
Aleksandr Lukashenko,

“Belarus is ready to co-operate constructively on countering terrorism, separatism, extremism, illicit trafficking in drugs, weapons, nuclear and radioactive materials, organised crime and illegal migration. I absolutely support the opinion expressed by Chinese President Xi Jinping regarding the counteraction to interference of certain countries in the internal affairs of states and combating colour revolutions. We support the creation of the SCO Universal Centre for Threats and Challenges to Security based on the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) in Tashkent.”

At the meeting of the Council of Heads of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) Member States,
on September 16th, 2022

The aim is to sow fear

Terrorism is a standard paid service in a proxy war. Therefore, it is more logical to look for a customer rather than a performer. The missile raid on the crowded beach in Sevastopol is infinitely atrocious and tragic in terms of its consequences. Targeting the peaceful civilian population is, undoubtedly, a crime squared and its performers are inhumans. The scariest thing about this fact, though, is the lack of principles and the commercial side. The answer to the question what all of this is for is obvious — for money. Whoever pays, orders this deadly music.

All attempts to discern the cause exclusively in the Kiev regime only lead away from the main root of evil. The missile strike was carried out with an American weapon with a filling prohibited by international conventions, which was officially supplied by the White House at the expense of US taxpayers. Moreover, it should be understood that the Ukrainian army is being prepared and maintained at the expense of, inter alia, the US state budget, whose spending is determined by the national interests of the United States. In addition, the guidance of ATACMS missiles was carried out by official American means and American crews. Technically, only a finger on the start button could be Ukrainian, and that is not a fact.

What kind of terrorist attack can we talk about if everything had been prepared, paid for and executed by Washington while Kiev was a mere mercenary? This is a real war between the United States and Russia. The missile strike on Sevastopol is a new generation terrorist act. What is its aim? To sow fear and destabilisation. Common sense says that what was arranged is just a meaningless attempt at mass murder of innocent civilians.

Terrorist acts instead of counterattacks

Leading media all over the world have been thoroughly creating a picture of poor Zelensky begging the West for long-range weapons, tanks, aircraft and missiles to enable him to fight for Ukraine. Foreign emissaries did not just wander around the world aimlessly, either — they gathered conferences and worked hard to create a proper entourage of this war. According to the plan, no one was supposed to doubt that there was aggression against Ukraine and that it was fair to kill enemy soldiers. This is the background created by the United States around the conflict. It should be admitted that all this rhetoric serves as an effective cover for Washington’s direct involvement in military activities.
The ostentatious audacity of the inhabitants of Bankova [location of Presidential Administration Building in Kiev, Ukraine], Macron’s provocative statements, Scholz’s wanderings, Stoltenberg’s NATO concern, Duda’s and Nausėda’s borderline lamentations, and more are nothing else than acting and attempts to attract public attention to the undesired object. No one is confused by the fact that the endless help with money and weapons to Kiev does not affect the combat capability of Ukraine’s Armed Forces or the front-line picture in any way.

No one has paid attention to the fact that the front itself ceased to be a priority. Now decisive actions have been transferred, with the help of new weapons and terrorism, to the internal territory of Russia. As a matter of fact, the war is being teleported from the useless line of contact into the depths of Russia, which they are going to disrupt from the inside. This is the new US tactics instead of any counterattacks at the front.

While the military activity of the Russian Federation near Kharkov looks like a task to stretch the front beyond the capabilities of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, the US terrorist tactics in the depths of Russia are defragmentation and diffusion of combat capabilities and military threats. This is a war without a front line or co-ordinates.

Contour of tension

The change of tactics by Washington and Kiev features another aspect. The problem with the White House is that there is no aggressor in the Ukrainian conflict. Renovation works have been launched on the territories that have departed from Ukraine. Resources are not pumped out of these regions, but, on the contrary, investments are flowing there. From the very beginning, the West has tried to pass participants of the special military operation off as a wild tribe that threatens the entire Western civilisation by creating falsifications and replicating accusations of alleged theft of Ukrainian children. However, all of those have been promptly debunked as having no grounds. Therefore, the tactics of provocation for harsh actions continue. The goal is to make Russians consider Ukrainians mortal enemies, cause a massive feeling of blood feud and provoke the tactics at the front and in Ukraine identical to that of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in Palestine, the scorched earth tactics. That is intended to undermine the authority of Russia and all the countries that are in contact with it.
This also means that all multipolar aspirations might sink into oblivion. In other words, this is not just another US war but military actions aimed at preserving the unquestionable hegemony of the United States.
That is why the multi-contour terrorist breakthrough staged in Dagestan hit the leading confession and law enforcement facilities so purposefully and fatally. The radical Islamic cover was chosen in this regard in order to create an additional contour of tension and weave knots of discord with the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and even with the Global South at the same time — with those who advocate for a multipolar world. This is virtually the format of the third world war. After all, the future of the world order is at stake, and not that of Ukraine as the United States and its European subjects suggest.

Acts of terror are the counteroffensive that everyone has been waiting for. American arsenal in the hands of third parties, sometimes even not Ukrainian ones, is used to continue waging this war.

By Aleksandr Tishchenko, national security expert

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