EYE_ON_THE_BALL: Syrian gas attack / Russia's US Hack

EYE_ON_THE_BALL: Syrian gas attack / Russia's US Hack - different operations to the same end: discredit "Atlanticism" in the mytho-political view of Alexander Dugin.

"What’s at stake here is more than the future of Ukraine. Putin’s larger goal appears to be to change the nature of the international system, particularly with respect to Europe. If he’s successful it will have exposed the hollowness of the Western model approach to international affairs. He also will have made the model of democracy appear morally corrupt. Ultimately what frightens Putin the most is the viability of that model for his rule at home. Striking a blow against its credibility is not only about international prestige and national pride but a cynical way to maintain his power base inside Russia."
-Putin’s Asymmetrical War on the West (FP)

"But the attacks do more than just murder Syrians: they expose the international order as a sham, and weaken the same institutions that are supposed to restrain Assad and his chief backers, Russia and Iran. A weakened and humiliated United Nations—or European Union or United States for that matter—behoove the maneuvers of Moscow, Tehran, and Syria, which more often than not find themselves targets of the wrath of an international order dominated by Washington and Brussels."
-What Could Possibly Motivate a Chemical-Weapons Attack? (The Atlantic)