Western ruling elites have Dariia Dugina’s blood on their hands

The murder of Dariia Dugina triggered the now quite predictable reaction from the collective West: total indifference.  This is hardly something new.  The West not only put a Nazi regime in power in Kiev, it supported it by all means possible while that regime did all of the following:

1. Used its armed forces in an internal civil war, which is (was?) banned under the Ukrainian constitution which resulted in about 14’000 dead over eight years.
2. “Ze” has crushed any and all internal opposition, not only putatively “pro-Russian” parties and politicians (many of them members of the Ukrainian Rada), but also clearly pro-Ukrainian parties (say the “Party of Sharii”).
3. “Ze” also banned any alternative/free media inside the Ukraine.  Western journos did not notice or object.
4. The Ukrainian armed forces have now shelled/bombed the civilian infrastructure of the LDNR for years (and tried to cut off water from the Crimean Peninsula).

Ukraine - Wrong Assumptions, Wrong Conclusions - And A Lot Of Dead Soldiers

August 24, 2022

As the war in Ukraine passes the half year mark lots of media produce their conclusions about the beginning of the war. But when looked at in detail these are most superficial write ups of what people assume Russia's plans at the start of the war were and how those assumed plans fit with the presumed reality.

The Washington Post has a long 'exclusive' piece headlined:

Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital

It first describes the immediate start of the war and then states a false assumption:

The question everyone faced at that moment, [Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis] Monastyrsky said, was: “How far can the enemy go with that enormous fist?”

If the Russians could seize the seat of power in Ukraine, or at least cause the government to flee in panic, the defense of the country would quickly unravel. Moscow could install a puppet government.

That was the Kremlin’s plan.

I don't know why the authors think they know what the Kremlin's plan was. I am certain that the described one is not what Russia intended to strive for.