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Finally, by pointing the finger at Ukraine, the United States and Great Britain, Putin tries to deny what for him is an unacceptable reality: namely that for Islamic terrorism Russia and the West are equal and there is no difference between Catholic Christians . and orthodox.
Against all the evidence, Vladimir Putin chose the version most pleasing to him about the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
He attributed direct responsibility, as instigators, even organizers, to Ukraine, the United States and Great Britain, "that collective West" and its armed wing, the "Nazi regime" in Kiev, which the Tsar had designated as an implacable enemy.
According to established ritual, it was not Putin who made the accusation. In the hours after the attack, he was limited to showing the tracks. Which was then pursued and elaborated by his zealous executors into an escalating accusation, which contained implied threats.
In chronological order, the first was Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, considered the most powerful man in Putin's nomenclature ("the devil whispering on the president's shoulder", according to the definition of the great expert Mark Galeotti). Which was "certainly" Ukraine's fault, not ISIS's.
The second was the director of the FSB, the internal security services (former KGB, where Putin comes from), Aleksandr Bortnikov, who took the next step: the attackers were trained by Kiev in the Middle East. Adding that they wanted to flee to Ukraine to "be welcomed as heroes on the other side".
It matters little if in the uninformed reconstruction, a specialty of the house, there is a contradiction with what the Belarusian vassal of the Kremlin Lukashenko declared, according to which the four Tajik terrorists tried to enter Belarus in the first hours after the attack. (believable, since their car's license plate was actually Belarusian).
With this distorted and one-sided narrative, Putin has three objectives. The first is to justify a military escalation against Ukraine, which began immediately after the attack on the Moscow theater with a barrage of rockets in Kiev, Lviv and Odessa.
Dmitry Medvedev, who in the past served to keep the seats warm for Putin when there were still constitutional limits on the lifetime presidency, often talks a lot. But he also serves as a "useful idiot" for the Kremlin. And it is no coincidence that, after the massacre at Crocus City Hall, he threatened harsh reprisals against Ukraine's leaders. Effectively anticipating what has become the official Moscow version.
Putin's second objective is to regain credibility with his countrymen, who only a week ago had crowned him for the fifth time in an electoral plebiscite (without all doubts about the authenticity of the participation and consensus data), by opened the prospect of staying in the Kremlin until 2036.
On election night, interviewed by a rapt audience of supporters and journalists, Putin had promised his voters military strength, internal security and economic stability (thanks to a war economy that inflates all parameters).
That muscular and reassuring image was dented by Friday's March 22 attack, which sent Russians back to the early years of the century and Putin's first term, marked by terrorist attacks on residential buildings, theaters and schools.
Blaming the Crocus municipality massacre on martial law, in addition to the apparent police brutality in the treatment of those arrested, is a subtle way of assuaging Russians' anxieties, which have never fully subsided, about the threat of Islamic terrorism and to mitigate what Andrej Soldatov, in the Repubblica interview, defined as "the atavistic flaws of the Russian security services": ineffectiveness in prevention and controls, as well as the incompetence of the emergency services.
Finally, by pointing the finger at Ukraine, the United States and Great Britain, Putin tries to deny what for him is an unacceptable reality: namely that for Islamic terrorism Russia and the West are equal and there is no difference between Catholic Christians . and orthodox.
Indeed, with the actions against the Caliphate in Syria, the fight against Islamist expansion in the Sahel and other parts of Africa (which was entrusted to Wagner's mercenaries), the oppression of Muslims in Chechnya and Dagestan, Russia is for ISIS-K- in even more a lot. deadly enemy of the West./ La Republica
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