A car bombing near Moscow. A photogenic 29-year-woman named Darya is blown to bits. She was a commentator on RT, but more significantly the daughter of the political and cultural philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, and she largely shared her father’s views.

… and an uglier pile of oxymoronic views is hard to imagine. Dugin is a Russian fascist. He is what the western media claim Putin is, an expansionist and imperialist. Beyond that, an arch-conservative–in an American context he’d be a militaristic flag-waving family-values Republican.

That same western media is happily referring to him as ‘Putin’s brain’ in one of those stupid mimetic phrases of evil intent they love so much (horse paste, anyone?). There is no evidence that the two men have ever even met.

In the same manner they’re calling it terrorism, which it clearly is not. This was an assassination pure and simple, targeted even, though perhaps it was the father who was targeted rather than the daughter–it was his car that was rigged to explode.

Rigged by whom? The Ukrainians are denying it, in spite of both Dugins appearing on their public list of enemies. Some group no one ever heard of before is claiming credit. And the Russian security state is naming and blaming a woman who is said to work for the Ukrainian FSB, and claimed to be an Azov-branded Nazi as well.

It’s hard to believe we’ll ever know for sure. It’s also hard to get too worked up about fascists blowing up fascists, if that turns out to be what happened.

But it’s a human tragedy certainly, and potentially one that we will all be dragged into geopolitically in the end.