Was Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin the real target of the car bomb which killed his daughter, Darya Dugina?
"The conservative revolution is the restoration of the dignity and the dominance of Eternity" – Aleksandr Dugin
Photo of Aleksander Dugin and Darya Dugin.
There is a lot of speculation about what really happened and who planted the bomb which blew up the vehicle Darya Dugina was driving. Whomever is responsible for Darya’s murder, it was a horrific fiery death which many feel was meant to be her father, Aleksandr Dugin’s fate. Instead, Dugin came upon the scene after the car she was driving blew up. I cannot imagine the level of grief, horror and despair this has caused him.
For many including myself, this heinous assassination was not just meant to target Aleksandr Dugin, the devout Russian Orthodox Nationalist philosopher, historian and political commentator who is in many ways the antithesis of the woke “liberal” Nazi Ukrainian Nationalists. The hit, was also yet another provocation to ignite a major hot war with Russia which would draw the U.S., UK, NATO members and others into the World War III which some have been egging on for quite some time.
It has been reported by multiple sources that Darya Dugina and her father had attended a festival where Dugin had spoken. Although they were supposed to drive back to Moscow together, it’s been said that Dugin decided at the last minute to drive with friends in another vehicle so that he could chat with them on the way back to Moscow.
It must be noted that Aleksandr Dugin has been listed on the notorious SBU Myrotvorets “Peacemaker” kill list since 2014. Below is a screenshot of the machine translated listing for Aleksandr Dugin on the website whom they label as a Russian fascist and Anti-Ukrainian propagandist and chauvinist. You will note that it also says that he was “a member of the attack of fascist Russia on Ukraine 02/24/2022 and a member of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.” How creative.
What follows is a collection of some of the information which is out there in the public domain for us to consider.
Let us first honour beautiful young Darya Dugina who had so much life ahead for her which has been snuffed out in the most vile manner.
This is Pepe Escobar’s combination eulogy and analysis.
Darya Dugina will be flying like an eagle in an otherworldly sky.
Strategic Culture • August 21, 2022
Darya Dugina, 30, daughter of Alexander Dugin, a smart, strong, ebullient, enterprising young woman, whom I met in Moscow and had the honor to cherish as a friend, has been brutally murdered.
As a young journalist and analyst, one could see she would carve for herself a glowing path towards wide recognition and respect (here she is on feminism).
Not so long ago, the FSB was directly engaged in smashing assassination attempts, organized by the SBU, against Russian journalists, as in the case of Olga Skabaeyeva and Vladimir Soloviev. It’s mind-boggling that Dugin and his family were not protected by the Russian intelligence/security apparatus.
The key facts of the tragedy have already been established. A Land Cruiser Prado SUV, owned by Dugin and with Darya at the wheel, exploded in a highway near the village of Bolchie Vyazemy, a little over 20km away from Moscow.
They were both coming from a family festival, where Dugin had delivered a talk. At the last minute, Darya took the SUV and Dugin followed her in another car. According to eyewitnesses, there was an explosion under the SUV, which was immediately engulfed in flames and hit a roadside building. Darya’s body was burned beyond recognition.
The Russian Investigative Committee soon established that the IED – approximately 400g of TNT, unencapsulated – was planted under the bottom of the SUV, on the driver’s side.
The investigators consider that was a premeditated car bombing.
What is not already known is whether the IED was on a timer or if some goon nearby pressed the button.
What is already known is that Alexander Dugin was a target on the Myrotvorets list. Myrotvorets stands for a Center for Research of Signs of Crimes against the National Security of Ukraine. It works side by side with NATO collecting info on “pro-Russian terrorists and separatists”.
Denis Pushilin, the head of the DPR, took no time to accuse “the terrorists of the Ukrainian regime” for Darya’s assassination. The inestimable Maria Zakharova was more, well, diplomatic: she said that if the Ukrainian lead is confirmed, that will configure a policy of state terrorism deployed by Kiev.
An existential war
In several essays – this one being arguably the most essential – Dugin had made extensively clear the enormity of the stakes. This is a war of ideas. And an existential war: Russia against the collective West led by the United States.
The SBU, NATO, or quite probably the combo – considering the SBU is ordered by the CIA and MI6 – did not choose to attack Putin, Lavrov, Patrushev or Shoigu. They targeted a philosopher and ended up murdering his daughter – making it even more painful. They attacked an intellectual who formulates ideas. Proving once again that Western Cancel Culture seamlessly metastasizes into Cancel Person.
It’s fine and dandy that the Russian Ministry of Defense is about to start the production of the hypersonic Mr. Zircon as it continues to churn out plenty of Mr. Khinzals. Or that three Mig-31 supersonic interceptors have been deployed to Kaliningrad equipped with Khinzals and placed on combat duty 24/7.
The problem is the rules have changed – and the SBU/NATO combo, facing an indescribable debacle in Donbass, is upping the sabotage, counter-intel and counter-diversionary dial.
They started by shelling Russian territory; spread out around Donbass – as in the attempt to kill the mayor of Mariupol, Konstantin Ivachtchenko; even launched drones against the HQ of the Black Sea Fleet in Sebastopol; and now – with the Darya Dugina tragedy – are on the gates of Moscow.
The point is not that all of the above is irrelevant in terms of changing the facts on the ground imposed by the Special Military Operation. The point is that an upcoming series of bloody psyops designed for pure PR effect can become extremely painful for Russian public opinion – which will demand devastating punishment.
It’s clear that Moscow and St. Petersburg are now prime targets. The Ukrainian ISIS is a go. Of course, their handlers have vast experience on the matter, across the Global North/South. All red lines are gone.
The coming of the Ukrainian ISIS
The cokehead comedian has duly pre-empted any Russian reaction, according to the NATO script he’s fed on a daily basis: Russia may try to do something “particularly disgusting” this coming week.
That’s irrelevant. The real – burning – question is to what extent the Kremlin and Russian intel will react when it’s fully established SBU/NATO concocted the Dugin plot. That’s Kiev terrorism at the gates of Moscow. That screams “red line” in bloody red, and a response tied to the reiterated promise, by Putin himself, of hitting “decision centers”.
It will be a fateful decision. Moscow is not at war with the Kiev puppets, essentially – but with NATO. And vice-versa. All bets are off on how the tragedy of Darya Dugina may eventually accelerate the Russian timetable, in terms of a radical revision of their so far long-term strategy.
Moscow can decapitate the Kiev racket with a few hypersonic business cards. Yet that’s too easy; afterwards, who to negotiate the future of rump Ukraine with?
In contrast, doing essentially nothing means accepting an imminent, de facto terrorist invasion of the Russian Federation: the Darya Dugina tragedy on steroids.
In his next before last post on Telegram, Dugin once again framed the stakes. These are the key takeaways.
He calls for “structural, ideological, personnel, institutional, strategic” transformations by the Russian leadership.
Drawing from the evidence – from the increased attacks on Crimea to the attempts to provoke a nuclear catastrophe in Zaporozhye – he correctly concludes that the NATO sphere has “decided to stand on the other end to the end. They can be understood: Russia actually (and this is not propaganda) challenged the West as a civilization.”
The conclusion is stark: “So we have to go all the way”. That ties in with what Putin himself asserted: “We haven’t really started anything yet.” Dugin: “Now we have to start.”
Dugin proposes that the current status quo around Operation Z cannot last for more than six months. There’s no question “the tectonic plates have shifted”. Darya Dugina will be flying like an eagle in an otherworldly sky. The question is whether her tragedy will become the catalyst to propel Putin’s strategic ambiguity to a whole new level.
The BBC reports what was the initial official story.
Alex Christofou expressed his grave concerns regarding the murder of Darya at the beginning of his first update yesterday, 21st August.
There is other information being floated which may or may not end up being valid pieces of the puzzle.
These tweets by the chaps who are Russians With Attitudes are also very interesting.
This piece which was shared on the Moon of Alabama website is also worth considering as it relates to things Dugin allegedly said before Darya’s murder.
(I usually do not allow full copies of other pieces here but this is an exception as its messages are important.)
Strana news, now prohibited in Ukraine, on the incident (machine translation):
The death of the daughter of one of the main ideologists of the anti-Western course of Russia, Alexander Dugin, caused a great resonance, and not only in Russia.
In the Russian Federation, literally immediately, the version about the “Ukrainian trace” became the main one.In Ukraine, this was denied. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, called the murder of Daria Dugina the result of "a struggle between various political groups in Russia" in order to increase "ideological information pressure on Russian society" against Ukraine and in order to "internal ideological space in Russia itself become even more ultra-radical."
Meanwhile, the death of Dugin's daughter has become part of a chain of other events that could affect the situation in Russia itself and the course of the war in Ukraine.
Approximately 10 hours before the explosion of the car with Daria Dugin, Alexander Dugin himself published a rather harsh and critical message in relation to the Russian authorities in his telegram channel.
It was caused by the news about the next explosions in the Crimea, but taking into account the subsequent death of Daria Dugina, the text looks even more revealing.
We quote this message in full:
“I believe that the status quo regime in Russia can theoretically last no longer than 6 months. The desperate resistance of the Atlanto-Nazi regime in Kyiv demands from Russia significant - cardinal - internal transformations. Structural, ideological, personnel, institutional, strategic.That which is acceptable without an NWO [= Special Military Operation], in the conditions of an NWO - and especially a long one that is not going to end - is not acceptable.
Increasing attacks on Crimea, attempts to arrange a nuclear explosion in Zaporozhye, declarations of a counter-offensive on Kherson, Zelensky’s firm refusal to compromise, the West’s persistence in cutting off all ties with Russia – all these are signs that they decided to stand on the other end to the end . They can be understood: Russia actually (and this is not propaganda) challenged the West as a civilization.
So we have to go all the way.
The Supreme Commander-in-Chief said: we haven't really started anything yet. Now we have to start. You want - you don't want - but you have to.
For the first 6 months we were able - and this is a fact - to conduct the NWO without fundamentally changing anything in Russia itself. So far, the changes are cosmetic, and even completely inappropriate and useless elections have been decided to be held according to the schedule. As if nothing is happening. But it's actually happening.
The maximum comfort mode (adjusted for emergency conditions) and the preservation of the old system - "war through a dream" - will have to be canceled at some point.
It seems to me that with the beginning of autumn, this awareness of the need to transfer the country to a new track will be quite clear.
It will take another six months to realize the “irreversibility of the irreversible” and the inertial continuation of the old.
And there is not far and February 24, 2023.
I can understand that the authorities have been used to ruling the way they rule - more or less effectively - for 22 years. But that period is in the past. SVO has already changed everything. Now the question is not whether the government wants or does not want change. And it is precisely patriotic - conservative-revolutionary, if you like. Such changes are simply inevitable - even if you stand to death against their beginning, it will be possible to delay it for no more than six months. And then they will come anyway.
SVO is now more important than power - in its subjective dimension. With the beginning of the SVO, the regime of history itself changed irreversibly: a new ontological vector appeared that cannot be dissolved by arbitrariness or decree. The mighty forces of history have come into play, the tectonic plates have shifted.
Let the old regime bury its dead. A new Russian time is coming. Relentlessly."
Approximately in this spirit, many Russian telegram channels and bloggers who support the "special operation" began to comment on the death of Darya Dugina, blaming Ukraine for it unequivocally and urging "to go to the end."
And it was in this form that they commented on the strikes on the Crimea, as well as on objects on the territory of Russia.And with them, as Strana already wrote, there are many oddities. In addition to obvious explosions (an airfield near Sak, an ammunition depot near Dzhankoy), there were also a lot of fake reports.
But, interestingly, they began to spread not through the Ukrainian media (which would have been natural during the war), but through the Russian ones. And then they were actively picked up by the resources supporting the "special operation" and with the message already mentioned above "it's time to stop waging a" war through a dream ". Such an inflating of anxious, and even panic, moods during the war by the forces that support it looks strange.
Unless we assume that this is part of a broad campaign to justify some impending tough decisions by the Russian authorities both in relation to Ukraine and in domestic politics.Or, which is also likely, to push the Russian authorities and Putin personally to such decisions.
After all, while the Russian authorities, obviously, have a slightly different concept. Approximately the one Dugin wrote about.
War in the format of a football matchThe Kremlin, having started the biggest war in Europe since 1945, does not call it a war and tries to make sure that this war is practically not felt inside the Russian Federation. They try to preserve even purely symbolic signs of "peacetime" - from the holding of elections on September 11 to the "tank biathlon" criticized by Girkin.
As a result, the majority of the population in the Russian Federation now perceives the “special operation” as a football match in which they “cheer for ours”, but they themselves remain in the role of spectators and no one is forcing them to go out to play on the field. “Play”, that is, they fight, only those who are paid money.
This formula of "like a war" is criticized not only by Dugin.
There is also Girkin-Strelkov, who calls "to start fighting for real, for example, to announce mobilization." He also harshly criticizes the actions of the Russian command and the Russian authorities in general on a daily basis. At the same time, living (and by no means underground) in a country where, according to the law on “discrediting the Russian army,” citizens are sentenced even for writing the word “special operation” in quotation marks. And the fact that Girkin-Strelkov is still at large shows that at least some of the “Kremlin towers” consider his thoughts useful.
The question is whether Putin himself considers them useful.Putin's maneuver
On the one hand, it is difficult to suspect the liberalism of the President of Russia, and earlier he has repeatedly used the topic of various threats to tighten the screws.
On the other hand, the concept of “kind of war” criticized by Dugin and Girkin gives Putin a certain freedom of maneuver. Namely, the opportunity to end the “special operation” at the moment when he wants, declaring any of its results a victory without serious political damage to himself and to the entire system of Russian power.
The degree of possible dissatisfaction with this Russian society should not be exaggerated.
Revealing poll data was recently published, according to which approximately the same number of Russians (about 60%) would support both a new attack on Kyiv (that is, an intensification of the war) and Putin's decision to stop the “special operation”.
If society (mostly) did not question Putin when he started the big war without an obvious casus belli, then it is even less likely (for the most part) to ask questions if he also suddenly stops the war. Especially if this is accompanied by some, from the point of view of the Russians, "profit" - for example, the neutral status of Ukraine or "the growth of the Russian state with new lands."
That is why Putin has so far refrained from taking steps that could bring a sense of war to every Russian family. For example, from the announcement of mobilization. Moreover, the military effect of it is doubtful, and the socio-political one can be extremely negative. And in general, the readiness of the very system of Russian power to transfer the country to the rails of "total war" (and the Russian society to live on these rails) is very doubtful. As well as, in general, the prospects and meaning for Russia of such a "total war".
The phrase Peskov said after the retreat of Russian troops from near Kyiv has already become a classic: “Stalingrad is not on the calendar and should not be, there is no place for emotions.”
But the way the campaign is systematically unfolding on the topic “you need to go to the end, fight for real, change the system of power and internal order to meet the needs of wartime” shows that not everyone in the Kremlin (or near the Kremlin) agrees with Peskov."Twist" to 180
Dugin once wrote a text saying that Putin is a person who does everything “at 90 degrees”. That is, half. For example, after Yeltsin he did away with liberalism in domestic politics, but kept it partly in the economy. He annexed the Crimea and created the "LDNR", but did not go further. And now he started a war with Ukraine, but he did not call it a war and did not transfer the country "on a war footing."
And here we return to the main question - whether the current campaign for "total war to a victorious end" is Putin's own sanctioned preparation of Russians for the coming harsh times.
Either this is an attempt by certain forces (for one reason or another) to induce Putin to "turn around" to 180 degrees, and at the same time nullify the likelihood of compromises with Ukraine and the West to end the war.
And in this case, the question is whose arguments will outweigh. Because the current concept of the Kremlin, as it was written above, does not imply "total war". And it assumes the continuation of the “special operation” in the same unhurried format as now, in the expectation that sooner or later a situation will arise when the results of the “special operation” can be recorded at least at the level of a truce or even some kind of big agreement. After that, and announce its "victorious completion."Nevertheless, statements about "failures in air defense and the defense of Crimea" and "about the war already on the territory of Russia" within the framework of this concept are attributed to inflating panic, and even to "working for the enemies of Russia."
However, one way or another, the Russian authorities will probably react to the flow of events with explosions and to the demands to "start fighting for real." But it is possible that the traditional 90 degrees: they will not announce any mobilizations, but they will announce missile strikes “on decision-making centers”, they will tighten the screws in domestic politics and further strengthen the control of special services over many processes.Posted by: b | Aug 21 2022 15:45 utc | 41
Aleksandr Dugin is a Russian professor and author who believes that modernity and liberalism are highly destructive. If you are not familiar with his philosophy, I recommend listening to his interview with Jerm Warfare on the Fourth Political Theory
🕊 Rest in peace Darya Dugina. You will never be forgotten. 🙏
Great informative very sad post. Excellent perspective of the kind of war we are in. Multinational, planetary.