Conspiracy theories abound as to who is behind the strikes, but the idea that all is going to plan is getting harder to sustain, says Russia researcher Jade McGlynn
The location is significant. Rublyovka has come to symbolise how out of touch Russia’s political classes are with real life and the country’s many troubles.
, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, mentioned these tensions, arguing that Russia’s decision-making elites live in a fantasy world where the war doesn’t affect them – and that that needs to change for victory over Ukraine.have attacked itself? After all, since war broke out on 24 February 2022, it is no longer possible to say that Putin, or the Kremlin, would never do that.
Other social media users were dismissive of the attack, rightly claiming it wasn’t much compared with what Russians were doing to Ukraine, albeit said without any sympathy for the latter. But there is also growingat Russia’s insistence that the war “is all going to plan”, and increasing exasperation at the gap between hyperbolic rhetoric and the Kremlin’s inability to realise its militaristic ambitions.
The ongoing mockery of Kremlin propaganda lines should not be taken as evidence of dissidence or an appetite for liberal democracy; indeed, many such people approvingly cite Stalin as an example of a non-corrupt leader who had the moral vigour to do whatever it took. Instead, it is better understood as the natural consequence of Russia’s war against reality.
Tuesday’s drone attacks poke another hole in Russia’s aggrieved unreality – in which Red Army-heir Russian heroes are saving ordinary Russophile Ukrainians held hostage by CIA/British/gay parade-backed Nazis.
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