Dmitry Orlov

The investigation of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack is moving forward and is coming ever closer to proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the entire event was organized by the US and that Victoria Nuland of the US State Dept. was its inspiration.

Recall, if you will, that the White House was the first to (supposedly) know who was behind the attack: it was (supposedly) ISIS-K. The K is for Khorasan, which is a historical region comprising a vast territory now lying in northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and northern Afghanistan. As it applies to ISIS, it is a misnomer coined in an effort to misdirect. ISIS was organized with US help on the territories of Iraq and Syria and was deployed in a failed effort to overthrow the government of Syria. The effort was going well, but then Russia intervened and pretty much blasted ISIS straight out of the gene pool. Some straggling remnants of ISIS were then transplanted to Northern Afghanistan — again, with US help — in the hopes of using it to foment trouble for Russia by destabilizing the Central Asian states. But then the US abandoned its Afghani heroin-growing mission because Mexican-made fentanyl (using Chinese precursors) was so much cheaper and the Mexican drug cartels were paying US officials good money to keep the southern border open for their drug mules.

So, what happened to ISIS-K? There is no reason to think that it was ever in Iran or in southern Turkmenistan and Taliban representatives have reported that there is no trace of ISIS-K in Afghanistan either — they left with the Americans. Where did they go to? Well, to the Ukraine, apparently! This makes the White House gambit of blaming ISIS-K for the Crocus attack in order to deflect the blame from the Kiev régime, parroted by officials and news media in the EU, particularly daft: when pointing fingers, it is very important to make sure that you are not pointing at yourself. Take note: ISIS-K is now ISIS-U, its leaders now sheltering in Kiev. One is even known to have taken part in a failed cross-border attack on Russia’s Belgorod region.

The four gunmen involved in the Crocus attack, all now in Russian custody and quite talkative, were not ISIS. The signature of an ISIS attack is different: its members are appropriately brainwashed to be fearless and willing to martyr themselves; they never do terrorism for hire; they always try to take hostages; and they always try to make political demands. The four Crocus miscreants were sad, unemployable migrant workers; they did it for the promise of paltry sums of money; they did not take hostages and they did not make any political demands; and they were afraid to the point that one of them ran off into the woods and climbed a tree (a dog sniffed him out).

Notably, the four were captured and arrested while driving to the Ukrainian border where Ukrainian officials had promised to take them across it and to a hero’s welcome in Kiev. Was Victoria Nuland planning to be on hand to give them cookies? No, Victoria had been fired for attempting to do her own thing — insubordination, that is. She even went as far as holding a bizarre press conference on an empty street in Kiev at which she promised the Russians a big surprise prior to the elections. (She’s completely mad, you know.)

And what was that big surprise? Well, Victoria thought it would be a great idea to organize a big terrorist attack in Moscow on the eve of Putin’s reelection (at which he won 87.28% of the popular vote). She was aiming to have it happen at the concert of the wildly popular patriotic pop singer Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov) but the head terrorist, after having a quick walk around the venue and taking note of the tight security, postponed it.

Perhaps Victoria had tried to call it off but failed. It often happens when dealing with hit men: canceling a hit can be more expensive than ordering it to begin with. In this case, the hit men in question were working for the Kiev régime, which is currently very much starved of fresh money and weapons and, being true to form, most likely used this occasion to make some unreasonable demands, which Victoria was in no position to meet. There was no conceivable reason or justification for carrying out the terrorist attack after the election — and yet it was carried out. Victoria had put herself in the position of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice and there was no other choice but to fire her as expeditiously as possible.