NATO, Kiev Murdered Darya Dugina in Cowardly Attempt to Salvage Dying Globalist Rule

On August 22, just two days before the six month anniversary of the Russian special operation to denazify Ukraine and ensure the safety of Donbass, an improvised explosive device went off inside the vehicle of Darya Dugina, killing the 29-year old Russian journalist, political activist, and daughter of influential political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.

The Western corporate media and online discussion forums were immediately abuzz with theories, very often suggesting that it was most definitely not the fault of the Ukrainian junta led by Volodymyr Zelensky and his ilk.

Theories ranged from “a domestic conflict with Russian intelligence forces” to an alleged underground rebel group that waged this attack as a prelude to an insurrection against Putin. Remarkably absent was even allowing the mere possibility of a Ukrainian or NATO connection to this high-profile act of terrorism, despite the fact that the Kiev junta had openly called for attacks behind enemy lines not long before.

Regardless, the time for baseless claims came to an end not long afterwards, when the official investigation from the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation named the culprit: a Ukrainian special agent who had infiltrated Russia under a false identity and had been reportedly shadowing Darya Dugina for around a month, even moving into the same apartment building as the journalist. In trying to not raise suspicions, the assassin had traveled with her own teenage daughter in tow, and had entered Russia with a Donetsk People’s Republic license plate. Immediately following the assassination of Dugina during her return from a traditionalism festival, the Maidanite murderess subsequently managed to flee to Estonia and escape Russian security forces.

The murderer had also lived in Lebanon for some time, as discovered by Lebanese journalist Marwa Osman.

This fact is particularly interesting as the Zionist media organization MEMRI TV has included both Darya and her father among people whose interviews and speeches have been translated by their website.

Thus far are the facts as we know them at the time being. A young journalist with a promising career was assassinated, either due to her own activism and family ties, or unintentionally during an attack aimed at her father. We seem to know the how of things, especially since it is unlikely the FSB would make up a story that after all ends in it failing to either prevent the assassination or to apprehend the suspect afterwards. Now we can focus on the why, and sift amongst the plethora of possible reasons and strategic goals.

The first question to be asked is whether it was indeed Darya Dugina who was the target, or if it was in fact her father, the political philosopher and founder of the Fourth Political Theory, who was intended to be assassinated.

The FSB investigation indicated that contrary to earlier expectations, the target was indeed Darya herself.

This in and of itself raises some questions, since Darya was a journalist and political activist, but not a professional politician or member of the military, and as such had no immediate tie to the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian propaganda channels across the board accused her of engaging in racism against Ukrainians, and even of calling Ukrainians subhuman, but any quick glance at her actual statements refutes this very quickly. So why go through the effort of assassinating a journalist deep inside Russia itself?

To answer this question, we need to bear in mind that in war, not all targets hit are necessarily militarily valid, or even useful at a first glance. Western powers have used shock and awe tactics for decades now, hitting civilian areas or territory of relatively little strategic import for the sake of sowing fear in the hearts of the civilian population. The Zelensky junta is no stranger to this concept.

In fact, Kiev has a so-called “hit list” that is freely accessible online. This website, named Myrotvorets, describes itself by the lofty wording of “Center for Research of Signs of Crimes against the National Security of Ukraine, Peace, Humanity, and the International Law,” and “Information for law enforcement authorities and special services about pro-Russian terrorists, separatists, mercenaries, war criminals, and murderers.”

While it sounds like a serious list is about to follow, the list of people to be eliminated contains such names as Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and Croatian President Zoran Milanovic. In a baffling showcase of unhinged radicalism, even Henry Kissinger, the dyed-in-the-wool Zionist imperialist mastermind of US foreign policy going back over half a century, was listed as an “enemy of Ukraine” for simply arguing that total war with Russia would not be in the best interests of the United States.

Any form of criticism of the EuroMaidan coup can land someone on the hit list, often with deadly consequences as was proven by the murders of the Ukrainian writer Oles Buzina and politician Oleg Kalashnikov, whose names were added to the list shortly before they were assassinated.

It comes as no surprise that Aleksandr Dugin and Darya Dugina both were listed as targets for the Ukrainian assassins who run the website, with Darya marked as “eliminated” soon after her death was reported. Interestingly, Myrotvorets openly admits to being based in two locations outside of Ukraine proper: the Polish capital of Warsaw, and Langley, Virgina, the headquarters of the CIA. Their website is hosted on a NATO-owned server in Belgium.

Combined with recent Ukrainian threats of operations behind enemy lines, there is a credible possibility that Darya Dugina was marked as a first victim within Russia, to be killed by Maidanite agents in an attempt to make the Russian population feel unsafe even within their own country.

The fact that she wasn’t a political or military figure would be considered irrelevant in such a case, as all that really matters is the terror that can be spread in Russian society. Especially since Ukrainian media and propaganda have repeatedly hammered in their opinion that “all Russians are responsible.” In such a warped total war mentality, there are no civilians or innocent bystanders. Every Russian has the risk of being considered a legitimate target of the contemporary followers of Stepan Bandera.

Aside from that, carrying out a seemingly random assassination is likely much easier to pull off than to carry out a high-profile attempt at President Vladimir Putin or Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. With the actual capacities of Ukraine being limited as they are, on account of having been dramatically losing across the battlefield for the past half year, it seems likely that their foreign operations potential can’t reach the Kremlin itself. And even if they could, even an unhinged administration like that of Zelensky should know that Russian retaliation for the assassination of a political leader would be devastating.

Perhaps Kiev was hoping that Darya Dugina would be a target of just enough prominence to cause fear, but not enough to warrant a retaliation on the field. If that was indeed their hope, they were sorely mistaken. The murder of, let’s call the situation as it is, a 29-year old woman inside her own home country for the mere fact of her being a journalist and for who her father is, has sparked a wildfire of reaction across the world.

Putin himself awarded her the Order of Courage posthumously, and various high-profile Russian political figures attended her funeral, including direct subordinates of the presidential office.

Abroad, even Pope Francis condemned the assassination, which interestingly caused a diplomatic incident with the same Ukraine that still claims to have nothing to do with her death.

Lebanese Islamic resistance group Hezbollah also conveyed their condolences to the family of the slain journalist.

Even the so-called Russian Action Committee, an organization founded by Garry Kasparov’s Free Russia Forum (which itself is known for its repeated calls for dismembering, balkanizing, and utterly destroying the concept of Russia in and of itself) and was founded in Lithuania with the specific goal of supporting the Kiev junta, said the assassination of Dugina was a bridge too far. The Committee, either out of legitimate shock at the murder or out of fear that the killing belied their claims of being peaceful and democratic, even went as far as blacklisting Ilya Ponomarev, the Russian-turned-Ukrainian US asset who had openly celebrated the murder.

A journalist from Russia who delved into the subject matter of the murder and possible reasons behind it, and who spoke to Basira Press on condition of anonymity, analysed the situation as follows:

“The attempt on the chief philosopher of the Russian Federation, Aleksandr Dugin, during which his daughter was blown up, caused a real shock in society. Enemies call Dugin a ‘builder of Putinism,’ an adept of the ‘Russian world,’ and simply a mouthpiece of Kremlin propaganda. But Aleksandr Gelevich is first of all a philosopher with his own agenda, the reviver of the idea of Eurasianism, and the creator of the fourth political theory. Such people cannot have allies in the face of the kleptocracy or oligarchy regime, such people have only their own way of life and temporary allies.

The West demonizes Dugin, but in fact Western media always try to create an image of the enemy in the camp of opponents. This is part of the work of the imperialist media, they are always looking for an excuse to justify aggressive propaganda against countries trying to live outside the rules of liberalism.

As for the assassination attempt, my opinion is that the first official act of disassembly inside the Kremlin took place. The attempted murder of a philosopher who supported Putin’s actions in Ukraine is a warning to the Kremlin elite about the beginning of an active phase of confrontation within the systemic oligarchs. After all, Dugin was not important to Putin, he was even ignored by the official media on the TV of the Russian Federation, the philosopher is limited to speaking on YouTube, but the bloody warning was followed by him. Why? Because this is a form of black mark for all Putin loyalists.

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But there is another opinion related to external factors. For example, the fact that Putin is ready to enter into a dialogue with Ukraine was not liked by ‘someone’ in the West. Schroeder, Erdogan, and the Zionists are ready to mediate between Moscow and Kiev, and Putin is not against it. And then there are these fatal attempts. Ukraine has already disowned what happened, so someone else is involved. Apparently the same third party is waiting for the continuation of the escalation of the conflict and, for example, the obsotreniya in nuclear plant in Zaporozhye. After that, the ‘answer’ to Putin will have to follow. Let me remind you that Britain called on its soldiers to prepare for war with the Russian Federation. An interesting coincidence.”

There are a few interesting points to take away from this, first and foremost the possibility of a higher-level involvement in the assassination, beyond merely Ukraine. The British and American imperialists foremost of all have a vested interest in trying to extend this conflict ever further. Their hope is that Russia will be lured into a war of attrition that will slowly grind them into destruction. High-level visits such as that of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson to Ukraine are meant to give exactly the sort of impetus to the war effort that the Maidanites need.

Unfortunately for London and Washington, the Ukrainians have shown themselves to be quite simply inept at warfare, as well as completely lacking in morale and esprit de corps. The long-awaited and much promoted Kherson Offensive for example, ended in utter failure and the death of several hundred Ukrainian troops in a matter of days.

Secondly, the possibility of a fifth column within Russia is definitely still there, be it in a far less organized and much smaller state as the “National Republican Army” claims would make it seem. It is entirely possible that the Ukrainian agent that reportedly killed Darya Dugina, had some form of support amongst dissident liberals or even high-ranking Gorbachevite-Yeltsinite figures who feel threatened by the sovereign course set by Vladimir Putin. As the journalist above mentions, the assassination may very well have come as the combination of two objectives: sending a warning to Putin and his supporters, and at the same time make an example out of an important figure in anti-hegemonic activism, philosophy, and journalism.

While this article is not aimed at diving deeply into the intricacies of Aleksandr Dugin’s political philosophy, it would be remiss not to at least give a cursory look at the influential thinker and his ideas, which have been significantly growing in popularity over the years.

As soon as news of Darya’s assassination reached Western press, mainstream journalists and sell-out political pundits alike were stumbling over one another to try justify the killing by stamping her father with labels such as “Putin’s brain,” “Putin’s Rasputin,” “far-right ideologue,” and of course the omnipresent term “fascist.”

The US State Department, arguably the main powerhouse of imperialism worldwide, has been closely monitoring Aleksandr Dugin for years.

The department’s Global Engagement Center, which describes itself as a “data-driven Mission Center leading U.S. inter-agency efforts to proactively address foreign adversaries’ attempts to use disinformation and propaganda to undermine U.S. interests,” mentions Aleksandr Dugin no less than 33 times in its comprehensive report entitled “Five Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem.” The US always finds the most over-the-top scaremongering titles imaginable.

In the report, the Center was particularly concerned about the call for a multipolar world that Dugin is known for, which would include the end of unipolar US hegemony, as well as the media outlet Geopolitica.ru that Dugin has been involved with. Regarding the latter, the paper specifically mentions “conspiracy theories around Bill Gates” as one of the unforgivable sins of the Russian news website.

Much of the rhetoric against Aleksandr Dugin comes from people like Alexander Reid-Ross, an author and liberal “leftist” activist with anarchist leanings.

Reid-Ross is one of the foremost theorists of the “Red-Brown Alliance” conspiracy theory: the idea of an ominous and omnipresent alliance between Marxist-Leninists (known as “tankies” in imperial leftist lingo) and fascists, the New Right and/or neo-Nazis. Reid-Ross laid out this belief for the first time in his 2017 book Against the Fascist Creep, in which he stated that “the crossover space between right and left“ was being used by far-right movements to gain access to a mainstream audience. While in 2017, Reid-Ross still seemed to warn primarily of the danger from the so-called right wing, by 2018 he openly showed his true colors as a gatekeeper for the establishment.

In that year, Reid-Ross released the article “The Multipolar Spin: how fascists operationalize left-wing resentment” on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in which he vigorously attacked the anti-imperialist Left in the United States and abroad as being in some way or other allied with, or at the very least sympathetic to, fascism and “anti-semitism.”

While the SPLC, which has blacklisted organizations such as the Nation of Islam and currently existing affiliates of the Black Panther movement as “hate groups” after all, is known for its gatekeeping for the status quo, the Reid-Ross article was apparently so terribly propagandistic, insulting and badly researched that it caused quite the incident.

In particular, the accusation that news website The Grayzone and its editor Max Blumenthal* were trying to co-opt leftist anti-imperialism into the service of a “fascist agenda” caused a major stir. The SPLC itself responded by not only removing the article itself, but issuing a formal apology to “those who believe they have been falsely described in it, including Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Tim Pool, Rania Khalek, and Brian Becker, and disclaim, as clearly as we can, any intention to suggest that any of them are white supremacists, fascists, and/or anti-Semites, that they hold such views, or that they are engaged in a conspiracy with the Russian government to promote such views or otherwise.”

The SPLC furthermore scrubbed its archives clean of Alexander Reid-Ross entirely, eager to distance itself from association with the imperialist agitator who had lost his disguise much too quickly. In an ironic twist, The Grayzone reported in 2021 that Reid-Ross, the self-proclaimed expert in monitoring and calling out “fascist creeps” wherever it dwelt, was now associating himself with the Network Contagion Research Institute, a think that is openly affiliated with Zionist hasbara unit the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Open Societies Foundation of George Soros himself, and the Charles Koch Foundation founded by the eponymous ultra-right wing oligarch and billionaire.

Judging by the person who brought the concept into mainstream debate, it seems more than fair to put the idea of a “Red-Brown Alliance,” a “NazBol conspiracy” into the dustbin of history where it belongs, right next to its older cousin called the “horseshoe theory” (the idea that fascism and Communism touch one another at the extremities of the “left-right spectrum” with liberal capitalism as the center of normal politics).

From the right-wing side of the political spectrum, we have people like Adam Green of Know More News, a political activist who actively smears Aleksandr Dugin as a closet Communist and mastermind of a “Soviet/Zionist plan to destabilize and rip apart America.”

This is extra rich when you take into account that Green himself used to work with ViaSat, a contracting firm with strong ties to the Zionist entity of “Israel” and its national airline company El Al. People on the right-wing spectrum hate Dugin and his daughter for the firm anti-racist and multicultural positions (genuinely multicultural, not the empty cosmopolitan version forced into existence by international finance capitalists seeking to profit off imported labor), as well as their opposition to the US and its traditional white supremacist nature.

Bear in mind that originally, only a handful of nations – mostly Anglo-Saxon offshoots and European Jews – were considered to be “fully white,” a distinction that had no place for Celtic, Iberian, or Slavic people whatsoever. Despite the fact that white supremacy has somewhat updated itself over the past decades to include more European ethnicities once considered too “swarthy” to be white, the Eurasianist ideals of Dugin and Dugina are, rightly so, considered to be antithetical to a racially exclusive political project.

More sneaky are the attempts by self-professed Christian right-wingers to accuse Aleksandr Dugin of being a pagan, or even a follower of satanic occult practices such as those of British occultist Aleister Crowley, using a out-of-context video of Dugin participating in a theatrical performance based on the works of Crowley from approximately 30 years ago or even older.

It bears mentioning that Aleksandr Dugin has been a prolific student of various sociological, anthropological, and theological schools of thought over the decades, from the esoteric studies of René Guénon over the existentialist philosophy of Martin Heidegger to the political musings of Carl Schmitt. Indeed, Dugin had a keen interest in the study of the occult at a certain point in his life, notably during the chaotic and violent 1990s, when Russian intellectual life was characterized by major feelings of disillusion, depression, and despair, and many dissident circles studied philosophers like Julius Evola, who had an interest in the occult during his time. Ironically, it is possible that many on the right who oppose Dugin simultaneously revere Evola yet apply double standards because Dugin is a living philosopher who actively opposes the hegemony of godless liberal western powers.

The aforementioned anonymous journalist who agreed to cooperate with Basira Press on this article, referred to the matter as followed when asked about it:

“Such [occult] events were the norm in the early 1990s, it’s just a kind of performance or theater, and Dugin is still studying the occult, but he did not call himself a fan of Aleister Crowley, these are still different things. For this, the philosopher was even accused of Satanism, but Dugin at that time was an active member of the circle of Old Believers, so it would be some kind of extreme to label it as ‘Satanism.’ Actually, this is where Dugin’s more in-depth life in Christianity begins. Take for example his main book on Orthodoxy – The Metaphysics of the Good News: Orthodox Esotericism (1996).”

Indeed, around the same time when Dugin was at the height of his soul-searching, he went in a radically different way than the occultists and neopagans, and joined a group of Old Believers of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Old Believers are a devout religious denomination that teaches strict observation to their religious traditions, and generally reject the 17th-century reforms that were made in the Russian Orthodox Church. The Old Believer group that Dugin found himself in, called the Edinoverie, does however operate in communion with the mainstream Russian Orthodox Church following an 18th-century compromise.

In a 2006 interview, Dugin had the following to add on the matter:

“My parents were Soviet people. Naturally, once before the revolution, my ancestors professed Orthodoxy. But in Soviet times, the Orthodox tradition was lost.

In the late 70s, I became a traditionalist. From the point of view of traditionalism, modernity is a parody of the world of antiquity – the world of tradition. So, my long period of spiritual search began, and in 1987 I became a member of the church in the bosom of the ROC MP. But since the beginning of the 90s, I began to feel uncomfortable again, being in the structure of the ‘Nikonian Church.’

(…)

The Old Faith is traditionalism transferred to the Russian Land. Old Believers are the salt of the Russian people. They retained the deepest, essential features. Without the revival of the Old Believers, without the cultivation, albeit sometimes artificial, of those sprouts of the Old Faith that exists in Russia, one cannot speak of Orthodox Russia. In other words, Russia will not be reborn without the Church, and the Church will not be reborn without the Old Believers.”

In other words, it suffices to say that Aleksandr Dugin is most definitely a devout Christian as a result of soul-searching and spiritual exploration. The same right-wing that rightfully complains about radical liberal “cancel culture” is happy to use the same tactics against Dugin through an out-of-context video from decades ago, despite the fact that faiths like Christianity and Islam hold the concept of repentance and forgiveness of past sins as a firm belief.

As a final thought on the question of why Darya Dugina could be singled out for assassination, it has to be mentioned that for the Anglo-Saxon hegemonic powers, Russia has for the longest time been considered as a major adversary and a threat to the unipolar plans of the West.

As far back as 1904, British liberal politician, geographer, and geopolitical analyst Halford Mackinder, listed Russia as the major threat to British designs worldwide in his work “The Geographical Pivot of History.” Calling the Eurasian landmass the “World-Island,” Mackinder reserved a special place for Russia and Central Asia as the Pivot Area of the world, also known as the Heartland.

Control over Eastern Europe, according to Mackinder, was of the utmost importance for stemming the tide of Russia’s rise to its natural place as Heartland power. Buffer states needed to be put in place in between Russia and Germany, the theory went on. Mackinder dedicated himself to this concept with full conviction during his tenure as High Commissioner to Southern Russia in 1919-1920, during which he delegated the British invasion of Russia under the guise of supporting the White counterrevolutionaries in that country’s Civil War.

Mackinder and those who learned from him posited several suggestions on how to ensure that Russia would be kept in check, and how to prevent it from growing into a strong Eurasian regional power. The idea of an invasion from the West, with special attention given to Germany as the frontline leader, was probably the most popular one. Lo and behold: exactly this sort of German frontline fight against Russian and Soviet power would happen no fewer than two times in the forty years after Mackinder’s publication in 1904, to the extreme detriment of both sides of the conflict.

US political scientist Nicholas Spykman elaborated further on the works of Mackinder in the early 1940s, notably during a time when the US was nominally still allied to the Soviet Union. In the analysis of Spykman, Russia constituted the Heartland of the world, with a huge Rimland stretched around it that contained the vast majority of the world’s population, natural resources and fertile land. Logically, whoever occupies the Heartland can only be considered a rival for the designs of the Atlantic powers that seek to establish control over the entirety of the Rimland.

Interestingly, in both Mackinder and Spykman, we find a (either implicit or outspoken) admission that their own countries, the Anglo-Saxon powers of Great Britain and the United States, are mere periphery on a worldwide scale. Mackinder named his own country as part of the Outer Crescent, and Spykman saw the United States as an Offshore Continent. Neither of these countries is anywhere close to the heart of the world, and in reality their ruling elites are constantly and keenly aware of this fact. The only way they can keep up their relevance as global powers is through sheer violence and subterfuge. It is no wonder that Spykman was taken as inspiration for State Secretary John Foster Dulles, one of the major architects of the very concept of the Cold War.

A complete in-depth look at both these geopolitical masterminds of Western policy would take us too far, but the following two quotes are an absolute must for understanding the geopolitical aims of both Anglo-Saxon imperialist powers to this day:

“Who controls eastern Europe rules the Heartland; Who controls the Heartland rules the World Island; and Who rules the World Island rules the World.”

Halford Mackinder

“Who controls the Rimland rules Eurasia; Who rules Eurasia controls the destinies of the world.”

Nicholas Spykman

Liberalism, in both its economic and metaphysical aspects, is by definition extremely intolerant of difference and diversity. Sure, liberals love claiming that they support multiculturalism and plurarily, something that they have been trying to weaponize by calling for the “decolonisation of Russia,” which in reality is nothing short of balkanization and destruction. But when push comes to shove, there is nothing the liberal globalists hate more than anything or anyone that differs from the amorphous, commercialized, and unidentifiable blob that they desire to turn humanity into. And as it turns out, in the contemporary world there are few people that personify radical philosophical opposition to liberalism quite like Aleksandr Dugin and Darya Dugina.

Perhaps that is one of the main reasons why Darya Dugina, a young journalist, Eurasianist activist, patriot, anti-imperialist, and devout Orthodox Christian, was chosen as the ideal target of a terrorist plot.

*Editor’s note: At Basira Press, to put it lightly we have large doubts about the sincerity of The Grayzone news and its editor Max Blumenthal. His father, Sidney Blumenthal, was chief advisor to former US president Bill Clinton and was among the advisers to then secretary of state Hillary Clinton during the times when Libya and Syria were torn to shreds by US-Zionist policies. Children are not responsible for their parent’s sins, but in this case Max actively cheered on the same policies of regime change in Libya and Syria that his father was whispering into the ears of the Hillary Clinton state department. Following the 2016 liberation of Aleppo, it no longer became profitable nor credible to stand on the side of the Syrian opposition that was clearly comprised solely of Wahabbi terrorist groups, so Blumenthal, Ben Norton, and others swiftly re-branded and launched the Grayzone and suddenly became against regime change in Syria. Blumenthal has not sufficiently apologized yet, even if we consider a possible excuse that if he were to cross his father he would wind up dying under mysterious circumstances. With that said, they often are the only outlet to issue quality reports on issues such as the Uighur “genocide” myth or even uncovering Alexander Reid-Ross’ connections to US intelligence and the Zionist lobby. The facts are the facts and we cannot find another place to cite them from, so citation does not equal endorsement.