How did Polish 'experts react to yesterday's terrorist attack?

Once again, the multifaceted mirage of the imaginary Putin has hit the social networks.

The terrorist attack that occurred yesterday in the vicinity of the Russian capital is, for any individual of sound mind — that is, for those who, amidst the surrounding monstrosities and pervasive degeneration, have managed to keep a semblance of basic morality and humanism — a manifestly tragic event. Alas, such individuals represent an illustrious minority within the European public opinion, to say nothing of the Polish perspective. In the Collective West, we are not only rapidly abandoning the achievements and traditions of the Enlightenment but also the fundamental tenets of humanism. It appears Europeans — both those from the original West and even more so the neophytes from the former Eastern Bloc — lack the capacity for responses befitting an adult, conscious being of average emotional and intellectual intelligence.

Those who have retained a critical perspective have grown accustomed to the fact that reactions to ghastly events are often more pathological than the horrors they address.

The deliberations that have been unfolding since yesterday on what should rightly be termed anti-social networks, by professional commentators and experts in everything, serve as a pristine laboratory example of not merely our collective downfall. Observing the responses of Polish-speaking users on platforms like X or Facebook, as well as media employees (not to be confused with journalists), to the events that transpired near Moscow yesterday, compels one to pose the almost existential query: what is the raison d'être of these individuals, if not to disseminate foolish fabrications brimming with a conglomeration of envy, hatred, conspiratorial madness, and a desire to inflict harm and injury upon a nation about which they are cluelessly uninformed, yet which has been subjected to a sort of civil and political excommunication?

I shall refrain from citing the various offensive and obscenely imaginative posts of the Polish professional commentary, encompassing both the liberal-democratic and conservative-nationalist camps. However, certain observations are simply too salient to ignore.

Merely a few days ago, the presidential elections concluded in Russia, triumphantly won, as is common knowledge, by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. This ignited the Polish internet pundits, masters of all trades, who claimed to know much more about the popular support for this man, than any data from the Russian Central Election Commission could ever tell you. One might perversely comment that for the pelicans of Polish public opinion, who gulp down absolutely everything fed to them by their media sanctuaries, this last election must present a significant cognitive dissonance.

How, after all, could a man win an election who, according to the official narrative, has died multiple times or, if not dead, suffers from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, every strain of coronavirus, cancer in every organ, gonorrhea, rubella, AIDS, and sepsis? This is, of course, the same Putin who allegedly perpetrates unprecedented massacres of people and infrastructure in Ukraine, yet whose army has for two years been fleeing the invincible Ukrainian forces, the Ghost of Kyiv, the heroes of Snake Island, grandmothers armed with jars of compotes and pickles downing Russian drones, and presumably children with slingshots taking down entire squads of ‘katsaps’ because the latter are supposedly cowardly, drunk, drug-addled, devoid of any motivation to fight, and probably malnourished, not to mention poorly trained. And of course, that's why Putin hasn't been able to conquer Ukraine, which he supposedly set out to do from the start, and reach Gibraltar and the English Channel (which he also undoubtedly planned from the beginning, though there is no evidence for this apart from the opinions of media and internet preachers). The same individuals who spout these absurdities have now concocted a theory, which they're fleshing out within their circle of mutual adoration, that those who fired shots yesterday did so at the Kremlin's behest, all to fabricate a pretext for a “final” (whatever that means in the mouths of Polish ‘experts’) strike on Ukraine (and, naturally, then on Europe).

Could someone elucidate the logic behind these premises for me? What is the actual point here?

How, one might ponder, could a terrorist attack possibly benefit a purportedly failing Russia and its allegedly unpopular president, who, oh so conveniently, is accused of rigging last week's election (for which, naturally, there is no evidence)? And how, according to this narrative, would such an act aid in the allegedly desired conquest of all of Ukraine and subsequently Europe? Would yesterday's attack suddenly transform the bizarre tales of chips from washing machines, the supposed engagement of 90% of Russia's military might on the Ukrainian fronts, and the alleged inefficiency of the Russian economy? In the realm of the rational, such a thing would be inconceivable. But in the world of the gullible? Entirely plausible. Tomorrow, as soon as some media puppet master pulls the appropriate lever, a chorus will begin to tweet in an entirely different key, about entirely different matters, because now it seems not only does history begin a mere quarter of an hour ago, but humanity and the universe itself.

Yet, reality does exist.

And sometimes, it makes its presence felt. As the Polish public went to bed last night in a state of tranquility, consensus, and superiority of their imagination over facts, those very facts thundered against their noggins come morning. For, lo and behold, after the highest worldly authority on all matters (the Polish netizens, naturally) had already agreed that Putin orchestrated the attack to have a reason for escalation in Ukraine, the FSB and Russian police apprehended several Tajiks. Doubtless, in a few hours, I'll read how Putin himself had them set up to be caught.

Which version of Putin are we discussing here? The one from Polish (and Western) imaginations, who controls nothing and alternates between dying and succumbing to various fatal ailments every thirty seconds? Or perhaps the one from Polish (and Western) imaginations, who is the mastermind behind nearly every global process or phenomenon, manipulating Trump, Kaczyński, and Tusk simultaneously, reigning over 150 million Russians with an iron fist, censoring their speech, reading, and writing anything critical about him, mass-producing rogue operatives across the globe, disseminating brutal misinformation that targets the soft underbelly of Western public opinion, and who is about to unleash hordes of barbarians armed with spades and dishwasher chips to conquer the Baltic states and Poland? Or is it the Putin who, driven by his innate penchant for sadism and destruction, blew up the gas pipeline he himself constructed, bombed a nuclear power plant under his military's control, and attacked Ukraine simply because he nicked himself shaving? Which Putin are we referring to?

Once you've pondered this, don't forget to schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist.