How Deep State Scuttled Ukraine Peace Process

A day after trilateral meeting between United States, Ukraine and Russia concluded in Abu Dhabi on February 5, resulting in confidence-building measure of prisoner exchange involving over 300 prisoners of war, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev was shot and critically injured by a hired assassin in Moscow. Alexeyev is a deputy of the head of Russian GRU military agency, Admiral Igor Kostyukov, who was leading the Russian delegation.

In January, Moscow accused Kyiv of trying to strike a residence of President Vladimir Putin in Russia's northern Novgorod region with over ninety long-range attack drones. Kremlin said Russia would review its negotiating position in ongoing talks with the United States on ending the Ukraine war.

A video posted on the Russian Defense Ministry's Telegram channel showed Admiral Igor Kostyukov handing to the US attaché what he described as the controlling mechanism of a drone found among downed fragments. "The decryption of the content of the memory of the navigation controller of the drones carried out by specialists of Russia's special services confirms without question that the target of the attack was the complex of buildings of the Russian president's residence in Novgorod region," Kostyukov said.

Similarly, last June, Ukraine mounted Operation Spiderweb, in which Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia targeting strategic bombers, in order to scuttle peace talks between Russia and Ukraine happening in Turkey, after the inauguration of Mr. Trump as president, who had made an electoral pledge of resolving the Ukraine conflict as soon as possible after being elected president.

Despite Trump admin’s indisputable sincerity in resolving the deadly conflict, the charade of peace negotiations has been going on for four years but the elusive peace deal has repeatedly been scuttled by certain opportunistic quarters in US military that are hell bent on engaging Russia in a protracted war of attrition in order to degrade military capabilities of Cold War-era rival.

Fact of the matter is Ukraine War was over before it even began, in the first month of the war, after Russia achieved its central military objectives in Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. In the early days of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, the Washington Post reported in March 2022: “The main threat to Kyiv appears to be a massive Russian convoy, about 40 miles long, approaching Kyiv from the northwest and believed to be about 20 miles from the capital and stuck near a cargo airport.”

Dubious Ukrainian claims of having repelled Russia’s assault on the capital by mounting guerrilla warfare tactics to the contrary, it’s an incontestable fact that the “40-mile-long” military convoy of battle tanks, armored vehicles and heavy artillery that descended from Belarus in the north and reached the outskirts of Kyiv in the early days of the war without encountering much resistance en route the capital was simply a decoy astutely designed as a diversionary tactic by Russia’s military strategists in order to force Ukrainian forces to scramble to defend the embattled country’s capital and deter military command from sending reinforcements to Donbas in east Ukraine where real battles for territory were fiercely fought.

All the towns from the Belarus border to the northern approaches of the capital fell in quick succession. Russian forces continued advancing from the northwest of Kyiv, capturing Bucha, Hostomel and Vorzel on the outskirts of the capital by March 5, and Irpin by March 9, 2022.

Quite astonishingly, however, instead of mounting a long-awaited assault on the capital, it was reported on March 11, 2022, that the convoy had largely dispersed, taking up positions in forests around the capital, before withdrawing back to Belarus after Russia’s announcement of scaling back military campaign in north Ukraine at Istanbul peace initiative on March 29, 2022.

Clearly, commanders of the military convoy had explicit instructions to spare the city of four million people. The indiscriminate bombardment of the densely populated Ukrainian capital and ensuing urban warfare would inevitably have caused thousands of needless civilian casualties. Therefore, Russia’s military brass decided to spare the rest of the embattled country and restricted Russian military offensive on liberating Russian-majority Donbas region in east Ukraine.

Shortly thereafter, at Istanbul peace initiative in March 2022, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, leading the Russian peace delegation in Istanbul talks, told reporters: “In order to increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations and achieving the ultimate goal of agreeing and signing an agreement, a decision was made to radically, by a large margin, reduce military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions.”

Ukrainian negotiators said that under their proposals, Kyiv would agree not to join alliances or host bases of foreign troops, but would have security guarantees in terms similar to Article 5, the collective defense clause of the transatlantic NATO military alliance.

“Ukrainian negotiators have essentially agreed to Russia's principal security demands of rejecting NATO membership and regarding the presence of foreign military bases on its territory,” the Kremlin's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, who is ironically still leading Russian delegation in Geneva four years later, told Sputnik News in March 2022.

“The combat potential of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been significantly reduced, which allows us to focus our main attention and efforts on achieving the main goal—the liberation of Donbas,” then-Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu proudly boasted in March 2022.

Following Istanbul peace initiative in March 2022, in the spirit of apparent “reconciliation and multilateralism” defining the Biden administration’s approach to conducting international diplomacy, then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken handed over the “power of attorney” to the Ukrainian president to offer Russia relief from international sanctions in exchange for ending its military offensive in Ukraine.

On April 3, confirming in an NBC News interview that Zelensky—then one of the most ambitious emerging new leaders in Central Europe, not to be mistaken for an imperialist stooge—had the ability to negotiate sanctions relief for peace, Blinken, while assuming the air of magnanimity and rapprochement, revealed that President Joe Biden’s administration would support whatever the Ukrainian people wanted to do to bring the war to an end.

“We’ll be looking to see what Ukraine is doing and what it wants to do,” Blinken said. “And if it concludes that it can bring this war to an end, stop the death and destruction and continue to assert its independence and its sovereignty – and ultimately that requires the lifting of sanctions – of course, we will allow that.”

Contradicting misleading reports hailing Ukraine’s imperial stooges as purported “masters of their own destinies,” however, President Joe Biden told the EU leaders at a summit in Brussels in March 2022 that “any notion that we are going to be out of this in a month is wrong, and that the EU needed to prepare for a long-term pressure campaign against Russia.”

“US and European officials voiced skepticism over Russia’s sincerity and commitment towards the peace talks, underlining that only a full ceasefire, troop withdrawal and return of captured territory to Ukraine would be enough to trigger discussions over lifting sanctions on Russia’s economy.

“Western countries were discussing both enforcement of existing sanctions and drawing up potential additional measures to increase pressure on Russian president Vladimir Putin,” senior EU and US officials confided to the Financial Times.

Advising Ukrainians to hold out instead of rushing for securing peace deal with Russia, the Sunday Times reported, senior British officials were urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to instruct his negotiators “to refuse to make concessions during peace negotiations with Russian counterparts.”

“A senior government source said there were concerns that allies were over-eager to secure an early peace deal, adding that a settlement should be reached only when Ukraine is in the strongest possible position.”

In a phone call, then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned President Zelensky that President Putin was a “liar and a bully” who would use talks to “wear you down and force you to make concessions.” The British prime minister also told MPs it was “certainly inconceivable that any sanctions could be taken off simply because there is a ceasefire.” London was making sure there was “no backsliding on sanctions by any of our friends and partners around the world,” he added.

Leaving Orwellian doublespeak of American and European statesmen aside, in a significantly escalatory move virtually sinking Istanbul peace initiative to the bottom of Black Sea, Ukraine's Operational Command South announced in April 2022 that it had hit a Russian warship with a “Ukrainian-made Neptune anti-ship missile” that was operating roughly 60 miles south off the coast of Odesa in southeast Ukraine and that it had started to sink. “In the Black Sea operational zone, Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles hit the cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet—it received significant damage,” the Ukrainian statement said.

A Russian government statement acknowledged: “A fire broke out. Other units of the ship’s group tried to help, but a storm and a powerful explosion of ammunition overturned the cruiser and it began to sink.” Although the Russian statement initially claimed the cruiser “remained afloat” and measures were being taken to tow it to port, it later admitted the warship had sunk as four Russian ships that had gone to the Moskva’s rescue were hampered by bad weather and by ammunition exploding on board.

Russian news agencies said the 611-foot-long (186 meters) Moskva, with a crew of almost 500, was commissioned in 1983 and refurbished in 1998. It was one of the three cruisers in Russia’s formidable Black Sea Fleet. The Moskva was armed with a range of anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles as well as torpedoes and naval guns and close-in missile defense systems, including 16 anti-ship Vulkan cruise missiles with a range of at least 700 km (440 miles).

Reportedly, the warship was also carrying S-300 anti-air missiles, which were crucial to Russia’s air-defense capabilities over Crimea. It was the first time Moscow had lost a cruiser since German planes sank the Chervona Ukraina (Red Ukraine) in 1941 at Sevastopol – the Crimean naval base.

Although Ukraine claimed the Russian warship was struck by a “Ukrainian-made Neptune anti-ship missile,” developed domestically based on the Soviet KH-35 cruise missile that became operational in the Ukrainian naval forces in 2021, Politico reported in March 2022 that Kyiv had specifically demanded “long-range anti-ship missiles” from Washington.

Lending credence to the reports the United States had delivered Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Ukraine, the Washington Post reported in March: “During an official visit, a Ukrainian special operations commander told Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and other lawmakers that they were shifting training and planning to focus on maintaining an armed opposition, relying on insurgent-like tactics.

“Ukrainian officials told the lawmakers that they were frustrated that the United States had not sent Harpoon missiles to target Russian ships and Stinger missiles to attack Russian aircraft, Moulton and Waltz said in separate interviews.”

In addition to the CIA’s clandestine program for training Ukraine’s largely conscript military and allied neo-Nazi militias in Donbas in east Ukraine aimed at cultivating an anti-Russian insurgency in Ukraine, and the US Special Forces program for training Ukraine’s security forces at Yavoriv Combat Training Center in the western part of the country bordering Poland, the Pentagon revealed in April 2022 that it had also been training Ukrainian troops that were inside the US before Russia launched its invasion.

The Ukrainian naval cadets were participating in a pre-scheduled professional military education program at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School in Biloxi, Mississippi, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, according to Pentagon’s then-Press Secretary John F. Kirby. 

“That school is a security cooperation school, operating under the US Special Operations Command in support of foreign security assistance and geographic combatant commanders’ theater security cooperation priorities. The Ukrainian forces received training on patrol craft operations, communications and maintenance.

“Since the conclusion of the course in early March, the Department of Defense provided the group additional advanced tactical training on the systems the United States has provided to Ukraine, including on the Switchblade unmanned aerial vehicle. Several batches of Ukrainian naval cadets trained at the Naval Training School in Biloxi, Mississippi, have already returned home to Ukraine and were deployed in Odesa and the rest are now headed back to Ukraine,” Kirby said.

Besides receiving advanced tactical training on operating the Switchblade kamikaze drones and unmanned coastal defense boats, included in the additional $800 million in military assistance to Ukraine announced by the Biden administration in April, the Ukrainian naval cadets also received training on operating long-range anti-ship missiles in the United States.

Clearly, the US-trained Ukrainian naval forces deployed in Odesa in the southeast scored two hits of Harpoon anti-ship missiles on the Russian guided-missile cruiser Moskva operating 60 miles south off the coast of Odesa that punched a hole in the warship’s hull and ignited a blaze that, in turn, caused the massive amount of ammunition loaded on the cruiser to explode, and the battleship subsequently sank to the bottom of the Black Sea.

Dispelling dubious Ukrainian claim of having sank Russian cruiser with domestically built Neptune anti-ship missiles and conclusively determining the military operation to sink Moskva was planned and orchestrated by Pentagon, the Daily Mail revealed in April: “US maritime surveillance plane was over Black Sea minutes before Russian flagship Moskva was hit by missiles.”

“The US Navy used its new marine surveillance aircraft to provide accurate targeting data to Ukrainian forces to sink the Russian Black Sea flag ship Moskva on April 13. P-8 Poseidon aircraft is packed with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment which can track surface vessels and submarines at ranges of more than 100 miles.

“P-8 left US Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily on April 13, hours before the attack. Before reaching the Black Sea coastline, the Poseidon turned off its trackers, so it could no longer be followed online. The aircraft was 'hidden' for almost three hours before it returned to Flight Radar 24.

“The US Navy refused to confirm if it assisted Ukraine with the attack by providing intelligence data. A Defense source added: 'In keeping with our support to NATO’s eastern flank, we have been conducting some limited air patrols off the coast of Romania. But we will not speak on the details of operational matters.’”

How CIA and Mossad Sabotaged Palestinian Resistance

Israel was created amidst oil-rich Arab World during World War II lest Baathist Arab socialist states might fall under the Soviet sphere of influence in the backdrop of the Cold War. Therefore, like the infamous McCarthyite agitprop of the sixties engendering Russophobia amongst gullible Western masses, the naïve sheeple were also inoculated against perils of anti-Semitism to the extent where it became practically impossible to denounce even Zionist hegemony in the Arab World.

This puerile reverse prejudice still persists in the West and anti-Zionist voices are promptly silenced and pro-Palestine activists are ostracized from mainstream discourse. Under the auspices of formidable tools of coercion deployed by the deep state to dominate political narratives in Western countries, misplaced sympathy for Zionist tyranny has penetrated subconscious of Western subjects to such an extent that they reflexively overlook the Palestinian holocaust perpetrated by self-styled “champions of human rights,” lest the critics of Israeli oppression are branded as anti-Semites.

Although theoretical framework of Jewish state was posited by Balfour Declaration of 1917 by the end of First World War, Israel was in fact practically conceived in the 1940s by the US deep state. During World War II, the Allied and Axis powers used oil as a weapon by enforcing naval blockades of ships carrying fuel, thus crippling military capabilities of adversaries.

Realizing the critical significance of abundant oil reserves of the Persian Gulf, Israel was created amidst the Arab World as military outpost of Imperial United States and its armed forces were trained, organized and equipped with sophisticated American weapons as Zionist Corps of the US CENTCOM. Even Israel’s nuclear program was presented to rentier state wrapped in gift paper by US security establishment.

After decline of Anglo-French Empire following World War II, Imperial United States emerged as its successor. After the Arab World gained independence in 1950s, Baathist Arab socialist political forces formed governments in several Arab states. This fact engendered apprehensions in Western capitals that the oil-rich Arab World might fall under the Soviet sphere of influence.

Therefore, the CIA and Israeli Mossad, operating hand in glove, infiltrated Palestinian liberation movement with spies, double agents and criminal elements, such as German neo-Nazis and Latin American narcotics smugglers. These infiltrators mounted false flag black-ops, including Black September hijackings and the Munich Olympics massacre of 1972, in order to vilify Palestinian resistance as “terrorist organizations,” thus legitimizing the creation of Zionist state.

After being evicted from their homeland following creation of Israel, Palestinian refugees took shelter in neighboring Jordan. But the subversive activities of saboteurs infiltrated in Palestine liberation movement in Jordan culminated in the Dawson's Field hijackings of 6 September 1970, when criminal elements masquerading as Palestinian freedom fighters seized three civilian passenger flights and forced their landing in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, where they took foreign nationals as hostages and blew up the planes in front of international press.

The hijackings were in fact orchestrated by CIA in order to dislodge Palestinian refugees from Jordan, constituting a security threat to Israel. Notably, during the hijackings, there were no civilian casualties. Only one hijacker, Patrick Argüello, was killed during the unsuccessful hijacking of an international flight from Tel Aviv to New York City. Arguello was a Nicaraguan American born in San Francisco, California, who was clearly an intelligence informant and used to do “dirty work” for American spy agencies.

The hijackings provided a pretext to Jordan’s King Hussein who ordered the Jordanian Army to crackdown on Palestinian refugees in Jordan, leading to the infamous Black September massacre.

Former Special Forces Captain Netanyahu was also an operative on the payroll of deep state and is privy to dirty tricks played by Israeli intelligence in collaboration with American spy agencies to demonize Palestinian resistance movement.

In May 1972, a Belgian Sabena Airline flight from Brussels to Tel Aviv was hijacked by four hippies, two men and two women, addicted to opium and heroin and claiming to belong to Black September Organization – a coproduction of CIA and Mossad to discredit legit Palestinian liberation movement.

The drug junkies pretending to be hijackers had two handguns, which they apparently discovered hidden inside flush tank of aircraft’s toilet like the cunning plot of Hollywood epic Godfather. But the useful idiots didn’t realize they were given blank ammo that only makes noise without firing a shot.

A team of Israeli commandos, led by Epstein mate Ehud Barak and including Netanyahu, was promptly dispatched to neutralize wannabe terrorists. Disguised as aircraft technicians, commandos raided the aircraft, killing two male hijackers and capturing two female concubines while rescuing the hostages.

During the one-sided firefight, as hijackers were shooting blank ammo, Netanyahu was shot in the arm by one of his colleagues. After the blockbuster thriller was screened in cinema houses in Israel and across Western World, Barak and Netanyahu were hailed as national icons and both were subsequently elected premiers.

Although this satire is getting rather lengthy for the fast age of digital era, I’ll recount just one more tragicomic episode and let readers figure out themselves rest of hijackings of sixties and seventies typically attributed to Palestinian liberation movement.

In July 1976, an Air France flight between Tel Aviv and Paris was similarly hijacked by four hijackers, two of whom allegedly belonged to Palestinian resistance while the remaining two were German neo-Nazis, and was forced to land at Uganda’s Entebbe airport.

It’s noteworthy that Uganda’s military dictator Idi Amin initially enjoyed considerable support from United States and Israel, though he later fell out of favor. Hence, Amin and Uganda’s military commanders were taken into confidence for letting Israeli commandos mount choreographed raid at Entebbe airport.

Shortly thereafter, a team of hundred Israeli commandos was hastily assembled. The commandos raided the Entebbe airport, killing hijackers and rescuing hostages. But during the raid, Benjamin Netanyahu’s older brother Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu was also accidentally killed.

It’s noteworthy that in almost all of these hijackings of sixties and seventies naively attributed to Palestinian liberation movement, plots were quite similar: hippies addicted to narcotics posing as freedom fighters, accomplices included German neo-Nazis and Latin American drug smugglers, such as Carlos the Jackal, after making international news headlines, purported hijackers were easily overpowered in commando raids and were immediately killed lest they spill secrets, and hostages were effortlessly rescued with minimum collateral damage.

Excluding the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972, in which a dozen victims lost their lives. But that was a botched operation as German police officials weren’t privy to the plot. CIA and Mossad assumed that the terrorists and hostages would be granted safe passage, and indeed a Boeing 727 was waiting on the tarmac to fly them out of Germany.

But foolhardy German police deployed snipers at the airport, attempting to shoot hijackers and rescue hostages. This led to the carnage in which precious lives were lost. Typically, however, CIA and Mossad’s false flag subversive operations, vilifying Palestinian resistance across the world, were quite flawless and surgical, but occasional mishaps do happen when operational miscalculations cause collateral damage.

How Indian Deep State Wiped Out Gandhi Dynasty

Readers would be amazed to find out that world’s so-called “largest democracy” is in fact ruled not by elected politicians but by powerful military brass. That over the course of India’s tumultuous history has brazenly assassinated two prime ministers, Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, thus wiping out the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, constituting hereditary leadership of India’s only liberal party, Indian National Congress, and replacing it with a Hindu fascist and servile stooge of deep state, Narendra Modi.

How ironic that only two generals in Indian army were promoted out of turn as army chiefs and both were brutally assassinated. One was Gen. Arun Kumar Vaidya who was appointed army chief by Indira Gandhi in 1983 and the other was Bipin Rawat who was appointed army chief by Modi in 2016 while superseding two senior officers.

Following the gruesome assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, her handpicked army chief Gen. Arun Kumar Vaidya also met predestined fate in 1986, only several months after retirement. Both assassinations were alleged to be carried out by Sikhs, but in fact the murder plots had fingerprints of deep state all over, in the backdrop of Siachen conflict and Indian army’s nefarious plot to mount pre-emptive airstrikes on Pakistan’s nuclear installations in the Orwellian year 1984, as disclosed by the US State Dept.’s documents declassified in 2015.

Reagan admin had warned Pakistan in 1984 that India was planning to mount a pre-emptive strike at its nuclear installations before Pakistan could produce adequate stockpile of nuclear warheads constituting a powerful deterrent against future Indian aggression. This information was conveyed to Gen. Zia-ul-Haq in a confidential letter written by President Ronald Reagan on Sept 12, 1984, delivered by Ambassador Hinton, American ambassador to Islamabad.

Reagan’s fear was based on a CIA analysis, which noted in July 1984 that Indian security establishment viewed a Pakistani nuclear threat as imminent. The CIA analysis also added that “an Indian attack on Pakistani nuclear facilities would almost certainly prompt retaliatory strikes against Indian nuclear facilities and probably lead to a full-scale war.”

Besides Pakistan’s nuclear program, another factor that heightened friction between traditional adversaries was Siachen conflict. In 1984, India treacherously mounted Operation Meghdoot to take control of strategically vital Siachen Glacier in Ladakh region, bordering Pakistan and China.

In this backdrop, India’s military brass was requesting permission from the gov’t of Indira Gandhi to mount a pre-emptive strike at Pakistan’s nuclear installations. After Ms. Gandhi denied permission due to fear of full-scale war between traditional rivals, deep state instructed two Sikh bodyguards of Ms. Gandhi, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to kill her.

Gunmen belonging to Sikh faith were chosen as assassins because Ms. Gandhi had ordered conducting Operation Blue Star at Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984. Thus, the Sikh faith of alleged murderers provided an expedient alibi to real assassins to obfuscate the actual sinister motive of the assassination. It defies common sense as to why Ms. Gandhi would keep Sikh bodyguards in security detail despite mounting military operation at the holiest temple of Sikhism.

In order to erase incriminating evidence and forestall confessional statement that might have spilled the secret, ringleader of hitmen, Beant Singh, was shot dead at the spot, while brainwashed patsies, Satwant and Kehar Singh, were later hanged in Delhi’s Tihar prison.

Incidentally, Indira Gandhi’s heir apparent Sanjay Gandhi had also died in suspicious circumstances, after he lost control of his aeroplane while performing an aerobatic maneuver and crashed in the Diplomatic Enclave of New Delhi in June 1980. Sanjay had previously survived an assassination attempt in March 1977 after unknown gunmen fired at his car from 300 meters during an election campaign in New Delhi.

Indira Gandhi’s second son and arguably last scion of fabled Nehru-Gandhi dynasty Rajiv Gandhi, who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989, was similarly assassinated in May 1991 by India’s deep state due to his pacifist role in Operation Brasstacks, a military exercise conducted by India’s armed forces along Pakistan’s border, and for withdrawing military support to Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, where a power struggle was ongoing between India and China.

Operation Brasstacks was a massive military exercise of the Indian Armed Forces in the state of Rajasthan along Pakistan’s border from November 1986 to January 1987, mobilizing half a million Indian troops. The operation's aim was to provoke Pakistan to respond and this would’ve provided India with a pretext to mount pre-emptive strikes at its nuclear installations before Pakistan could produce adequate stockpile of nuclear warheads constituting a permanent deterrent against prospective Indian aggressions.

India’s then-Army Chief General Sundarji did not inform Rajiv Gandhi, then newly appointed prime minister following assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, about the scale of the operation and important details were hidden from him. Indian army lobbied the government multiple times, but unsuccessfully, to attack Pakistan.

The war was averted only due to shrewd “Cricket Diplomacy” conducted by Pakistani Gen. Zia-ul-Haq. With Indian troops amassed along the Pakistani border in early 1987, the morning of Feb 21, 1987, presented an altogether different surprise: a Pakistan Air Force jet landed at Delhi airport, with the visitor none other than Pakistan President General Zia-ul-Haq.

The general had flown to Delhi on the pretext of watching a test match between Pakistan and India in Jaipur. Wisdom ultimately prevailed, and the next day, Rajiv met Gen. Zia for dinner. Negotiations were held in cordial atmosphere with intention of reducing tensions at the border. The leaders agreed that in the first phase, both countries would drawdown troops from borders.

But this peacemaking overture precipitated a rift between India’s security establishment and political leadership which, alongside withdrawing India’s military support to Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, a Hindu militant organization notorious for inventing suicide bombing, became a reason for Rajiv’s fall from grace and eventual assassination in May 1991.

As Rajiv was campaigning for general elections in India slated from May to June 1991, he was killed at an election rally near Chennai by a female suicide bomber allegedly belonging to Tamil Tigers. As with scapegoating Sikhs for assassinating his mother Indira Gandhi, deep state deployed the plausible alibi of Tamil militants killing Rajiv as retribution to cover its tracks in the brazen murder of Rajiv Gandhi.

Lastly, Bipin Rawat served as the first Chief of Defense Staff of the Indian Armed Forces from January 2020 until his death in a helicopter crash in December 2021. He was regarded as a “political general” and Narendra Modi’s lackey. Despite completing three-year tenure as army chief, the new position of Chief of Defense Staff was created in January 2020 to accommodate him, because Modi wouldn’t trust anybody to lead India’s behemoth armed forces besides him.

Modi had trouble finding Rawat’s replacement, and eventually National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s protégé Anil Chauhan was brought back from retirement to be appointed as Chief of Defense Staff, which is a ceremonial post equivalent to Pakistan’s since-abolished Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff appointment. Indian army’s de facto head has traditionally been army chief, a powerful appointment currently held by Gen. Upendra Dwivedi.

Bipin Rawat was despised by India’s military brass, because despite suffering two humiliating defeats – India’s airstrikes on Pakistan following Pulwama attack in Feb. 2019 when an Indian aircraft was shot down by PAF and pilot held captive and the Galwan incident in disputed Kashmir in May 2020 in which Chinese troops beat to death scores of Indian soldiers – still Rawat was continuing to lead India’s army and there was no way to get rid of him because he had Modi’s blessings.

On fateful morning of December 8, 2021, Rawat’s Mi-17 helicopter took off from the Sulur Air Force Base in Tamil Nadu but failed to reach the destination at Wellington Cantonment, because a bomb aboard the chopper exploded, killing all 14 people onboard, including Rawat and his wife. I don’t mean to implicate Gen. Manoj Naravane in the “typical air crash” but he was army chief at the time of Rawat’s death, who incidentally oversaw counter-insurgency ops and was adept in executing assassination techniques.

Incumbent Chief of Defense Staff Anil Chauhan should also be careful while boarding decrepit aircraft, because India’s antiquated aircraft fleet has a history of “technical malfunctions” and “pilot errors” leading to fatal crashes, while boss of the bosses Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi is yearning to restore military discipline and professionalism by eliminating political appointees from Indian armed forces.