Post-Boston Analysis

The Boston bombings by two brothers from Chechnya have reignited debates on terrorism, Islamic extremism and the need to “do more.”

Russian President Putin stressed that Russia and the US must work together closer on fighting terrorism. 

But Putin is making an error. He should know better than to join himself tighter to the US security-state hip. Judging by the way the US government and the supine US mainstream media treated Putin, he should be suspicious of the whole entire bombing escapade anyway.

There are three main reasons that I see why Russia must not collaborate any further with the US on counter-terrorism:

1. Since the 1990s, US regimes from Clinton onwards have been generally sympathetic to the Chechen rebels and their supposed fight for independence. Numerous pro-Chechen organizations were formed in the US and some European countries, and which still exist. They provided aid and shelter to Chechen separatists and their leaders. Granted, this support is not really because the US cares about those people, but because the Chechnya issue could be exploited to destabilize and weaken Russia.

2. The US has supported Islamist fanatic militant groups in Libya in 2011 to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a secular leader, and is today aiding and abetting Al Qaeda-linked militant groups in Syria. These groups conduct massacres, beheadings, bombings and kidnappings on a daily basis and have terrorized the Syrian populations for over two years now.

3.   The bombings in Boston may be an inside job perpetrated by US government agencies in order to squelch criticism and crack down on dissenters, as well as a way for the US government to worm its way further into the internal business of foreign states, especially Russia, in order to undermine them from within.

 

So there is definitely a disconnect here between US words and actions. 

The US government can deny, excuse and lie and dance around the fact that it sponsors terrorist groups in Syria all it wants, but the facts speak for themselves.

When Chechen rebel groups, who in the past were aided by US/west, set off bombs in Russian subways and held Russians hostage in schools and theatres, the US did not give a damn. There was no mass-sympathy for the victims and no worldwide “call to action.” Americans did not really care.

But two Americans get killed by a bomb set off by the same extremists, whom the US and its allies have been coddling for years, in a US city and the whole world suddenly has to get down on their knees and wail and genuflect!

Whether these two characters were just patsies in a false-flag terror act concocted by the FBI or some other spook organization within the US government, or whether these two were independently acting on their own beliefs and grievances, only time will tell.

But one FACT is indisputable: The actions and policies of the US government inspired and drove these two brothers, directly or indirectly, to commit these acts of terror in Boston.