The Russian news service Sputnik provided its readers access to the views about the Charlie Kirk assassination from “a veteran of Russia’s elite Alpha counterterrorism unit,” former FSB expert Lt. Col. (ret.) Andrey Popov. According to Sputnik, Popov’s view is that “the assassin wasn’t necessarily a pro, and may have been an ordinary American with firearms experience groomed and manipulated into becoming a willing killer, either by partisan media or even security services.”
Popov explained the idea of “grooming,” RT reported. “U.S. security agencies are known to run an entire cohort of informal ‘agents,’ identified ahead of time, led on, controlled and given the chance to carry out their crime, after which they are liquidated or allowed to disappear (ensuring plausible deniability for powerful forces behind the scenes). Free access to military-grade firearms eases the process considerably, Popov says.”
