Operation "Wrath of God" in Ukrainian performance

In Ukraine, people like to remember the MOSSAD operation "Wrath of God". Indeed, it was spectacular, but long-lasting: for more than 20 years, Israeli secret services, with the help of the Jewish diaspora, found and destroyed those involved in a terrorist attack against the Israeli weightlifting team during the Munich Olympics in September 1972.

50 years have passed since the beginning of the "Wrath of God", and here it is worth paying attention to several interesting moments. In particular, Abu Daud, the ideologist of the terrorist attack, not only died by his own death, but also managed to visit the Palestinian lands occupied by Israel in the 1990s. This leads me to the point that it is not enough to say "Send the boys", as Golda Meir did, but you also need to have an influential machine to implement these plans. Only within 9 months after the start of the operation, MOSSAD officers destroyed 13 of the 17 figures on their list. It is also interesting that one of its figures, Jamal Al-Gashey, still lives in one of the African countries.

“With a high degree of probability, it can be stated that several dozen attempts on collaborators in the occupied territories of our country were the result of the work of special services”

Not only Israel, but also the majority of special services in the modern world do not recognize their own participation in operations for the extrajudicial destruction of their opponents, but similar steps were taken by the US, Great Britain, and France. Russia, which destroyed the resistance leaders in Ichkeria, bragged about it only because its actions were aimed at the domestic consumer. In the civilized world, it is not customary to show complicity in the deaths of one's own opponents.

The Ukrainian special services, in particular, the SBU, do not officially confirm their involvement in numerous successful attacks on collaborators with Ukrainian passports. However, the circumstances of Kirill Stremousov's death remained little known, the Russian media did not write about it very willingly, and the FSB quickly evacuated (and probably destroyed) the remains of his armored Lexus. However, it can be said with a high degree of probability that several dozen attempts on collaborators in the occupied territories of our country were the result of the work of special services. Persons who have gone over to the enemy's side become targets, and usually understand it well. Reanimated, but unsure of himself, Saldo, Pushilin and Pasechnik, constantly surrounded by guards, as well as nervous Balitsky perfectly understand their own disposability, but they can no longer do anything about their own fate.

Let me remind you that unexpected and high-profile deaths of Russian collaborators also occurred until February 2022. 

Visits by the head of the so-called DPR Zakharchenko to a restaurant in Donetsk, a ride in the elevator to the office of the Sparta Battalion of its commander Pavlov, or the explosion that took the life of Tolstykh aka Givi - are the links of the same chain behind the work of the Ukrainian special services. And this should be remembered by Russian commanders who give criminal orders to their subordinates. It will not be easy to hide even after the end of the war on the territory of Russia: the Ukrainian diaspora there (and not only it) will be able to show itself.

““Even after the end of the war with Russia, we will not know for sure who punished the Russians who came to our land uninvited”

Naval experts note how cowardly the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been behaving in recent months. The reason is simple and obvious: on October 29, 2022, in Sevastopol, several naval drones, armed with explosives, attacked the anchorage of the Black Sea Fleet, damaging the Ivan Golubets minesweeper and the Admiral Makarov frigate, which after the sinking of the Moskva missile cruiser took over the functions of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. By the way, the explosion on the Kerch Bridge, which is Putin's favorite infrastructural project, was not a random blast but a targeted operation by the SBU.

I will allow myself an unpopular assumption: even after the end of the war with Russia, we will not know for sure who punished the Russians who came to our land uninvited. However, there is compensation: this process will continue even after the cessation of hostilities. However, as before – without an official comments.

About the author: Evhen Mahda, political scientist

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