Facts Don’t Support Western Spin on Dugin Bombing

Mainstream media reports are drawing the wrong conclusions about Aleksandr Dugin assassination attempt – If Putin ordered Dugin’s assassination, he would not likely have missed! Western media is spinning the August 20 car bombing of Darya Dugina, the daughter of “Eurasionist” ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, as an attack on Vladimir Putin’s “spiritual guide” (CNN) and “brain” (Foreign Affairs) – implicitly a violent blow against the Putin regime. That fits the longstanding and long-discredited view promoted by Western chancelleries that the Russian president won’t survive the Ukraine war due to growing domestic opposition. This self-serving reading of the murder—repeatedly endlessly in the…