Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture.org Jan 1, 2023
An air base deep in Russian territory has been attacked twice with drones in less than one month. It is not some remote outlying facility either. The air base near the city of Saratov houses nuclear-capable Russian strategic bomber aircraft.
The latest attack was on December 26 in which three Russian servicemen were killed from falling drone debris after the weapon was reportedly shot down. Saratov is 730 kilometers southeast of Moscow and hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
On December 5, the air base was also targeted, again apparently by drones. On the same day, an air base at Rayazan less than 200 kilometers from Moscow was also attacked. The next day on December 6, a military facility at Kursk was targeted.
Ukrainian forces have not openly claimed responsibility for the attacks but there have been reports in the U.S. media hinting at that. The White House and State Department have both denied any American involvement, claiming that the U.S. has urged Ukraine not to strike Russian territory. “We are not encouraging Ukraine to strike beyond its borders,” said Ned Price, the State Department spokesman.
Nevertheless, there is the question of how are drones making their way deep inside Russian territory to launch air strikes on strategic targets.
It seems implausible that offensive unmanned aerial vehicles could travel undetected for hundreds of kilometers over Russian airspace, and then mount attacks on highly sensitive military sites. More likely, the weapons have been activated near their intended targets.
A recent separate report by investigative reporter Jack Murphy may shed some light. He does not refer to the spate of drone attacks on Russian air bases. But he cites former U.S. intelligence agents who claim that the Central Intelligence Agency is running clandestine sabotage teams inside Russia.
According to the report, the CIA is working with a European NATO ally to activate sleeper cells that have infiltrated Russia with caches of weapons. There are no Americans on the ground and the purported liaison with the NATO ally’s agents gives an extra layer of plausible deniability for Washington.
The reporter claims that the extra plausible deniability is a major factor that would enable U.S. President Joe Biden to approve of such provocative covert operations on Russian soil.
Lending credibility to such a scheme is numerous reports of mysterious explosions across Russia since it launched its special military operation in Ukraine back in February. Several military facilities have been destroyed by fires which Russian media have tended to report as due to unexplained accidents.
A Russian aerospace research institute in the city of Tver was set ablaze on April 21 in which several people were reportedly killed. Several other munition depots have also been hit with apparently freak accidental infernos.
Last week, on December 23, a military center in Moscow’s Eastside was badly damaged by a major fire that burned for over four hours. The day before, Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, was engulfed in flames while undergoing repairs docked in Murmansk.
What we are surmising here is that it is entirely plausible that a spate of deadly incidents at military facilities across Russia over the past year is no accidental coincidence but rather has been instigated as sabotage operations aimed at sowing confusion and logistical problems for Russia’s campaign in Ukraine.
That pattern ties in with the above report claiming that the CIA has been busy infiltrating Russian territory along with a European NATO ally for this very purpose.
In particular, the attacks carried out on high-security air bases deep in Russia strongly suggest that the weapons used for such raids were already emplaced in Russia by the alleged CIA sleeper cells. It seems unlikely that drones could have traversed such long distances from Ukrainian territory deep inside Russia undetected.
The use of sabotage teams behind enemy lines is nothing new for the CIA in regard to Russia. Following the Second World War, the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency recruited Nazi intelligence officers and operatives to carry out terrorist attacks in Soviet territories. Hitler’s top spymaster Lieutenant General Reinhard Gehlen and the Gehlen Organization became prized CIA assets following the war.
But it is significant that the CIA reportedly took a renewed active role in infiltrating Russia after the 2014 coup it helped orchestrate in Ukraine.
According to reporting by Jack Murphy: “The first of these sleeper cells under the combined control of the CIA and the allied spy service infiltrated into Russia in 2016, according to a former U.S. military official and a U.S. person who has been briefed on the campaign… After the 2016 infiltrations, more teams slipped into Russia over the next several years. Some smuggled in new munitions, while others have relied on the original caches, according to two former military officials and a person who has been briefed on the sabotage campaign.”
What this means is that the U.S. war planners were fully anticipating the current proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.
This corroborates admissions by NATO chiefs and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the post-coup Kiev regime was prepped for war against Russia at least eight years prior to the eruption of hostilities in February 2022.
If indeed the CIA is behind the deeply penetrating attacks on Russia and President Biden has signed off on them, then that has grave implications for how this conflict can be resolved. It suggests that the United States has been systematically planning a war on Russia and is not simply reacting to Russia’s operation in Ukraine by supplying defensive weapons.
In other words, Ukraine was put on a hair-trigger, set to go off as a cover for American aggression against Russia.
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More misdirection propaganda rubbish. The US would not send any covert forces into Russia. I ain’t gonna even explain why, as it should be glaringly obvious to anyone reading on here.
It is most likely these attacks were carried out by the SAS, and as far as SAS muppets sent into Russia, they’d have no knowledge if the Amerikans were involved, such as orders or intel.
It is highly amusing that most so called truther/alternative media pundits will almost never mention the SAS/SBS or MI6.
If drones were used in Russia, mostly likely dropped in by chute, or carried in and assembled, then launched inside Russia flying very low, or low enough to evade radar detection.
The Amerikans don’t have these skill sets. Amerikan special forces are steroid fed over heavy, and useless, unless they are flown in by choppers, and flown back out.
The SAS are comparatively light, and train to walk, or glide, or chute into a danger zone and live hand to mouth for weeks, if not months. Do their mission, and then make their own way out. The yanks don’t and can’t do this.
Just more typical imperialism shown by the US. Does not seem that war can be avoided. Who is at the bottom of this, typical neocons or the yids? Aha, that should be an easy one to see.
yes the russias have to learn to guard heavily their
military + industrial instalations . 10-50 heavy
armed guards and they have to alert general public
to watch for civilian agents handling remote steered
drones . and Putin has to reinstall stalinisc GULAG
system since CIA agents had 30 years training to
hide under the russian population as false “russians”.
Think what you will of Russia and Putin, but there is no denying that the most despicable terrorist organization in the world is al-CIAeda.
The strike on a Russian military training school by a wave of HIMAR missiles which killed scores of Russians means Russia has to actively hunt down these systems rather than try passively try to bring down the missiles in flight. That didn’t work here and if Russia actively hunts down these HIMARs it is because the US has escalated with its targeting. Russia should pull its finger out and not appear so weak.
Although one dead western soldier looks like a dead Ukrainian, and they won’t carry items that identify them as westerners, when these systems get taken out the dead amongst the wreckage may have tattoos that identify them as English speakers, and some may even have their unit tattooed on them. And other things may give them away as westerners if the Russians autopsy the bodies, such as a pin-and-plate holding an old fracture together, or the composition of dental fillings etc. Ours and theirs may differ.
Total nonsense, since both ‘sides’ are covertly governed by the same transnational cabal of Jewish central bankers. Its all about reducing the global white population. One way is via war. Other ways are immigration/miscegenation/vaccines/fentanyl. Figure it out if you can.
“The US would not send any covert forces into Russia. I ain’t gonna even explain why, as it should be glaringly obvious to anyone reading on here.”
Carl Jones still thinks the Ukraine/Russia war started 24/02/2022 and not the American coup d’état in 2014. OMG.
I rest my case!
Robert: you’re a thicko brainless twat of a code bot who’s clearly not been doing their homework.
Finian Cunningham’s analysis is as sound as it can be, for lack of the full constructive information. Colonel Macgregor has said that there are clandestine sabotage operational teams in Russia: the now-awakened ‘sleepers’. And Russia certainly knows that a drone cannot fly undetected over several hundred kilometres of Russian territory, then hit its target with the help of a guide on the ground, and do that again (as it has done ) some four or five times since early December 2022. This sounds like a poorly conceived film scenario.
I cannot believe that the Russians are wasting time on looking for saboteurs on their territory. Is that just something they say while they are doing much more germane things? My God I hope Russia is not stumped by this new attack strategy!
Vladimir ! What are you waiting for, to reactivate the SMERSH units ??
‘sleeper cell’ resample al-Qaida isis and covid. nuclear warhead mounted on hypersonic missiles on the HQ will make them sleep forever. prolonging war with trickery cowards doesn’t fit Russians. swift decisive actions are the antinode. 2014 was a big miss.