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rick · 6/2/2025, 7:45:53 PM · permalink

"Operation Spider’s Web: A Tactical Spectacle, a Strategic Disaster". Reposted "Why Were Russian Planes Not In Hangars?"  
History may look back on this moment not as a clever gambit, but as the spark that lit a global fire.
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Brian Berletic, a former U.S. Marine and military analyst, put it succinctly: this is not a repeatable military capability. It's a one-time, resource-intensive show. The only reason Ukraine’s SBU even exposed how it was done is because it can’t be done again at scale. And now that Russia knows the method, it will adapt, tightening its internal security and rewriting the rules of defense against long-range sabotage.  
  
But let’s go deeper.  
  
What we are witnessing is not Ukraine “going rogue”—as some in the American right, like General Mike Flynn, suggest—it’s the continuation of a US-run proxy war, one that started long before 2022, as even the New York Times admitted. The CIA has been embedding itself in Ukraine’s intelligence apparatus for over a decade, training and directing sabotage operations inside Russia. This drone strike was no different—it bore the signature of US operational planning, logistics, and strategic timing.  
  
The implications are enormous.  
  
Targeting nuclear-capable bombers—openly displayed due to treaty obligations—sets a dangerous precedent. Not because it tipped the military balance (it didn’t), but because it crossed a line that until now had remained largely unchallenged. Zelensky, with Washington’s backing, struck strategic assets on Russian soil in a moment when ceasefire talks were allegedly underway. This was not a misstep—it was intentional escalation disguised as tactical brilliance.  
  
General Flynn is right about one thing: if such an attack had happened at a US bomber base, we would call it an act of war. But when it happens to Russia, Western commentators applaud it as “ingenuity.”  
  
This hypocrisy is dangerous and suicidal.  
  
What happens when Russia retaliates? When it no longer limits its strikes to Ukrainian military infrastructure but begins to hit NATO intelligence nodes, supply hubs, or CIA installations operating in Ukraine? Are Western capitals prepared for that chain reaction?  
  
Let’s also be brutally honest about Ukraine’s role in this equation. It is not a sovereign actor. It is a vessel—a delivery system for NATO aggression. Washington does not want peace in Ukraine. It wants Russia bled dry at Ukraine’s expense. That’s the real war effort: sacrifice a nation to weaken a geopolitical rival.  
  
And to those comparing this drone operation to a “Ukrainian Pearl Harbor,” ask yourself: What happened to the country that carried out the original one?  
  
This reckless assault on nuclear-related assets, enabled by American intelligence and celebrated by a cheerleading Western media, is not a tactical triumph. It is a geopolitical provocation of the highest order—one that could provoke retaliation with catastrophic consequences not only for Ukraine, but for Europe and the world.  
  
Ukraine has now transitioned from proxy to existential threat. A regime, armed and directed by the West, attacking nuclear powers without regard for consequence or restraint.  
  
History may look back on this moment not as a clever gambit, but as the spark that lit a global fire.  
  
—Kevork Almassian is a Syrian journalist, geopolitical analyst, and the founder of Syriana Analysis.  
  
[https://kevorkalmassian.substack.com/p/operation-spiders-web-a-tactical](https://kevorkalmassian.substack.com/p/operation-spiders-web-a-tactical)

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