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For Washington, it was just another day in the war that has become the primary focus of American foreign and defense policy. But May 3 brought another reminder of the potentially catastrophic nature of the open-ended U.S. commitment to Ukraine.
As The New York Times was forced to admit, the drone strike on the Kremlin, the historic building that is the center of power in Russia and where its authoritarian President Vladimir Putin works, was “real.” Many people witnessed the two explosions over the famous fortified complex that dates back to the 14th century and whose iconic walls and bell tower are more than 500 years old. But, according to the Times, “the rest is hazy.”
Like much of the corporate media, the Times was eager to buttress Biden administration denials of involvement in the incident, despite the angry Russian claims that the United States had “dictated” strikes inside their country. And if the allegation is that the White House or Pentagon is directly responsible for shooting missiles at the capitol of a nuclear power, that’s probably right. Surely, not even President Joe Biden would do something so patently insane as that.
But as the documents leaked from the Pentagon last month confirmed, U.S. intelligence is neck deep in Ukraine’s war effort. Indeed, a year ago, the Times was already reporting that the American military was providing “real time battlefield intelligence” to the Ukrainians, including in efforts to help them kill Russian generals. And since we also already know that Ukraine is willing to operate inside Russia to assassinate figures associated with the Putin regime, it’s not really that much of a reach for Moscow to link Washington to the strike on the Kremlin.
Nevertheless, outlets like the Times were seeking to muddy the waters about the incident by claiming that perhaps it was a false flag operation conducted by the Russians or the work of rogue operatives who could have been working for either side in the war.
That is possible. But, like the claims that were endlessly repeated by the administration and their media cheerleaders last year about the Russians blowing up their own gas pipeline in the Baltic, which were eventually quietly debunked, it’s not terribly likely.
