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Trump assassination attempt may be scenario of Russian special services

Sofia Polonska
17 September, 2024 Tuesday
18:00

There is a conspiracy theory. I emphasise, just an opinion. For discussion

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The latest attempt on Trump's life has a ‘Ukrainian trace’, because the shooter, Ryan Wesley Routh, is a public and ardent supporter of Ukraine. This is a well-known and established fact.

There are videos and images of him from Kyiv's Independence Square, as well as interviews with the foreign press, which show that he travelled to Ukraine immediately after Russia's full-scale invasion.

In dozens of posts on X in 2022, he said that he was ready to die in the struggle and that ‘we need to burn the Kremlin to the ground’.

Given all these factors, the person could have been recruited by foreign intelligence services, including Russian ones, without realising it, because there are certain techniques of indirect and remote influence.

The purpose of this incident may have been to create Trump's negative attitude towards everything ‘pro-Ukrainian’ in the US and beyond, as any person tends to transfer personal anxiety about life due to a threat to external circumstances and subsequently draws categorical and unambiguous conclusions.

The logic of this behaviour of the Russian special services fits in with previous actions aimed at forming negative attitudes towards the Ukrainian government and Ukraine among American officials and politicians.

Just to mention the Derkach-Dubinsky case, the tapes of wiretapping of Poroshenko and Biden, and the attempt to drag Ukraine into the Hunter Biden case. All of these are actions of Russian special services aimed at driving a wedge between Washington and Kyiv, causing systemic distrust and showing Kyiv to be toxic.

So why shouldn't the incident with the latest assassination attempt be viewed in this way? Although this is only one version.

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About the author. Oleh Posternak, political strategist, political consultant, member of the Association of Professional Political Consultants of Ukraine

The editors do not always share the opinions expressed by the authors of the blogs.

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