“The Deep State’s drones.”

There shall be no peace with Russia.

Flight plan by MI–6. Ukrainian strike drones, 2023. (АрміяInform, cc by 4.0/ Wikimedia Commons.)

10 JUNE—Of all the displays of bravado in which the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors have indulged these past three years of war—drone and rocket attacks on Russian cities and infrastructure, the Kursk invasion last summer, and so on down a considerable list—the coordinated drone attacks on five Russian airfields last Sunday are surely the most extravagant. This was a daring, well-planned, and carefully timed operation—let there be no question of this.

What will the Russians do in response? This is our question, or one among a few, and it is a good one. The world now awaits Moscow’s next move with bated breath, one reads more or less everywhere.

Let us continue breathing at our normal rate, I propose.

The Russian Federation is entirely accustomed to the West’s incessant provocations, and the drone attacks at the beginning of this month are but another. Moscow understands these occasions as such and is well-practiced in judging where lie its best, long-term interests. In this case, I go to an old Buddhist and Taoist notion, as subtle as it is effective. This is the principle of nā karna in Hindi, wu wei in Mandarin. In either tradition it means “actively doing nothing.” And this is what we already see from the Russians—the reaction of no-reaction.