At first, the government of which we are citizens immediately pointed a finger: It was those bad Islamic people!
Which seems maybe true to a point, even though the perps ran, instead of blowing themselves up, and were clearly motivated by a piddling amount of money, and not by any sort of jihadi ideology.
The real question of course is who paid out the money, and cached the weapons, and so on.
The government somehow has an immediate opinion on that too. Their strongly voiced answer: Not Ukraine!
No answer at all, really. How could they know that?
The situation is complicated by the fact that the same government are habitual liars–one only has to look as far as the Nord Stream pipeline to know that much.
In the coming days, the Russians will no doubt find evidence for a different and more real answer, or at least a more evidence-based one.
The West will reject that evidence and claim that the autocrats of Moscow are the liars.
At which point shit will really hit the fan.
I am watching with interest and I hope you are too.