– US use of terrorism to advance foreign policy objectives is based on decades of evidence and includes support for militants in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union, Chechen separatists inside Russia in the 1990s and 2000s, and Al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria from against Syrian, Iranian, and Russian forces;
– More recently, US foreign policymakers have laid out plans to use listed terrorist organizations as proxies to carry out attacks in targeted nations like Iran and Pakistan;
– Ukraine has already carried out an extensive terror campaign aimed at Russian civilians deep within Russian territory including in Belgorod, St. Petersburg, and Moscow;
– US media admits collaboration between US intelligence and Ukrainian intelligence from 2014 onward while also admitting Ukraine has carried out a number of attacks on civilians inside Russia including Darya Dugina and Vladen Tatarsky;
– US media also admits that despite the US claiming to have warned Russia of an impending terrorist attack, information was withheld due to the “adversarial relationship” between the US and Russia;
– Leading up to the deadly Moscow attack, US foreign policymakers had repeatedly stated the need to make ordinary Russians “feel the pinch” of the conflict;
References:
NYT – Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack (March 28, 2024):
RAND Corporation – Extending Russia (2019):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html
The New Yorker – The Redirection, by Seymour Hersh (2007):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
NYT – C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition (2012):
NYT – Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A. (March 2013):
Washington Post – ‘Al-Qaeda is eating us’: Syrian rebels are losing out to extremists (2017):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/al-qaeda-is-eating-us-syrian-rebels-are-losing-out-to-extremists/2017/02/23/f9c6d1d4-f885-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_story.html
BBC – Islamic State and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps (2018):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27838034
Brookings Institution – Which Path to Persia? (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
BBC – US removes Iran group MEK from terror list (2012):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-19767043
Foreign Policy – Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists (2012):
Russia Maters -Claim (in 2004, 2015 and 2017): The U.S. government supported Chechen separatism:
https://www.russiamatters.org/node/20317
RFE/RL – Chechen Separatist Fighters Defend Ukraine Against ‘Common Enemy’ Russia (November 2022):
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-chechens-common-enemy-russia/32136592.html
NY Times – Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack (March 28, 2024):
NYT – U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia (October 2022):
NYT – The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin (February 2024):
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