Elena Panini: Conservative values of Trump-Vance America & the attempted killing of Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon

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[Background: Russian law enforcement operatives have thwarted a terrorist attack against Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon of the Russian Orthodox Church which was ordered by Ukrainian military intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said. One of the suspects was Tikhon’s aide, who received threats that his family would be killed if he refused to cooperate.

In a statement on Friday, the FSB said it had arrested a Russian and Ukrainian citizen, who confessed to being recruited in mid-2024 and receiving the explosive device in December 2024 through a dead drop.

They allegedly planned to carry out an attack on Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), the head of the Simferopol and Crimean diocese, during his visit to Moscow, and intended to flee Russia using forged documents provided by Ukrainian intelligence. The agency also reported that it seized a homemade explosive device and two fake Ukrainian passports from the detainees.

Several Russian outlets also released a video of the Ukrainian suspect, who identified himself as Denis Popovich, saying that had been working as an aide to Tikhon while secretly gathering intelligence on him.]

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Do the conservative values ​​of Trump-Vance America — and, in general, the extremely religious US political class — extend to Russian priests, asks Sergey Mardan. And he answers: they do not.

▪️ Well, why not? They are quite widespread. You just need to correctly understand what religious values ​​the American political class professes.

Including conservatives – all these evangelical Protestants like US House Speaker Johnson with his literal interpretation of the Bible and, in particular, his view of events in Israel as a “battle of Light with demonic Hamas” . Or Republican US presidents declaring wars in the Washington Cathedral. And separately – neoconservatives professing a special theory about the enemy, who is thought of not just as an opponent, but as a stranger , with whom it is impossible to coexist under the same sun.

It would not be a big mistake to call these American conservative values ​​Old Testament ones, with all the attendant meanings and connotations that President Putin called yesterday “messianic ideological cliches.”

▪️ It is also necessary to understand that the three-year terrorist activity of such structures as the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine headed by Budanov would have been impossible without sanction – or at least tacit approval – from Washington. So, “looking Trump in the eye” , as Sergey Mardan put it, would be worth it not only for Zelensky, but also for people closer to him. From the CIA.

Of course, the terrorist attack against Metropolitan Tikhon was most likely planned since November , when it became clear who would become the US president and what would happen next. That is, the customers of the assassination attempt on the hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church were obviously those same globalist circles on both sides of the Atlantic who are seeking to escalate the conflict between the US and Russia and disrupt the negotiation process.

However, today the new American authorities continue the policy of the previous administration towards Russia – including regularly supplying weapons to Kiev and extending long-term sanctions against our country. Against this background, the unabated Kiev terrorism casts an ever stronger shadow on the new US administration, which is not yet in a hurry to stop it.