The espionage machinery of the United States shows signs of being very well oiled and has done nothing but make a mockery of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, so closed in his bunker.
This is one of the readings that analysts in the United States make of the disdain shown by the head of the Kremlin to the information, provided by Washington, that Russia was in danger of suffering a terrorist attack by the Islamic State.
“The Russian dictator, focused on the imaginary threats of alleged Ukrainian Nazis, instead of the actual danger from Islamist terrorists, gleefully dismissed the prophetic messages of the United States”, wrote Max Boot in The Washington Post this Saturday.
“Providing information about his twisted psyche,” insists this specialist from the think tank Council on Foreign Relations, Putin described the US notification earlier this week as “a provocative statement that looked like blackmail and an attempt to intimidate and destabilize our society”.
Only a few days later, his job is smarter than anyone, except for the character that connects him with Donald Trump, he has portrayed him and his Government. “Putin is not interested in serving the citizens of Russia or protecting them from current threats, and his regime is more adept at suppressing peaceful dissidents than violent terrorists,” Boot emphasizes in his article.
He was aware that the intelligence of the United States is a target. And he knows it because he was right when he predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And, without going very far, he offered a similar warning to Iran, which also scorned it, with the same result. There were almost a hundred deaths in January, when two bombs exploded in Kerman, the Iranian city where many people had gathered to commemorate the death of the head of the national guard, Qassem Solemani, killed in a US attack.
Faced with the possible strangeness of Washington helping Moscow, the rival that has challenged the West by invading Ukraine, experts responded that the fight against the Islamic State is an international mission in which all countries must collaborate.
Putin’s reaction to the attack by four armed men on the concert hall near Moscow surprised American intelligence. Not only because he disregarded the information sent, which would be understood as geostrategic tension, but because of the lack of internal caution and preparation once he knew what could happen.
This is a reading from which the weakness of the Russian leader can be deduced. A fact that is interpreted as much truer than the electoral victory last week.
But this will not prevent Putin, they said, from convincing a large number of Russians that there is a connection between those arrested for the attack and Ukraine, as he spread without evidence this Saturday. Although US spies rule out this connection, Putin, the tough guy, has to cheat the shame of not protecting his people.
