About that post on public opinion polls pengovsky was promising? Yeah, it’s going to have to wait, because Muddy Hollows entered Mossad/Not-Mossad territory this morning. And it obviously has to do with the honey-trap from the previous post.
After the supposedly shocking revelation from undercover videos became public, the political right wanted nothing more but to keep talking about what was said, regardless of the context. The political left on the other side, wanted to talk about election interference, regardless of what was said. And today they got their chance.
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Do not be fooled, it really is a duck
Long story short, Mladina magazine and 8. Marec Institute teamed up to do some research. Based on some, well, credible sources and some online sleuthing, they pieced together a story about Israeli Mossad-adjacent types, hobnobbing with SDS, since December last year.
According to the research team, people from Black Cube, an Israeli private intelligence company did what they allegedly did in some other places (notably, Hungary) and engaged in some light honey-trapping of people with connections to the Golob government.
This, of course, is more than enough for the left to scream election interference from here until Sunday (and then some). And, truth be told, this is a much more credible response than some vague statements about those videos being forgeries and/or AI deepfakes.
Now, just to make sure that everyone is on the same page, this was not Mossad. Because, once again, if the Mossad is after you, you are going to get Mossad’ed upon. But to put it in the words of Groucho Marx, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, don’t be fooled. It really is a duck.
Spooks, cooks and a little irony
The videos of Dominika Švarc Pipan, Nina Zidar Klemenčič, Rok Hodej and some Gen-I executives (see, pengovsky told you there were going to be other leaks) are simply too well executed to be the work of some Muddy Hollows freelancing insignificunts.
But according to the report, things weren’t as clandestine as SDS and their Middle Eastern buddies had hoped. When the videos appeared it didn’t take Mladina/8. Marec “credible sources” long to put two and two together, and – at the very least – point the illustrious investigative team in the right direction.
As to who these credible sources are, we can only guess. But we can make a reasonable guess that it wasn’t some cook at the Ljubljana Airport. Or maybe it was, given that it was the cook aboard The Red October who worked for the KGB. Or that the cook on the Missouri was a former Navy SEAL. If you catch pengovsky’s meaning…
Also, there’s more than a little irony in the fact that Mladina made a name for itself almost 40 years ago, by reporting on an intelligence leak that got Janez Janša arrested in 1988 and launched him into political stratosphere. And now, they’re once again reporting on what seems to be an intelligence leak. Only this time the report is about Janša working with rent-a-spooks.
There are, of course, multiple ways too look at the current shituation. One is decidedly pearl-clutching, the other unhealthily cynical. Either reader can decide where on this spectrum pengovsky falls.
Ratfucking
But one thing is certain. In a serious country, people would have been prosecuted for this. Be it for the alleged corruption, be it for alleging corruption without evidence, for the entrapment of unsuspecting individuals or for aiding and abetting said entrapment. And more often than not, Muddy Hollows is not a serious country.
If all of these allegations are true, then this here place is not only a corruption-infested den of thieves, it is also a playground for foreign intelligence services or their subcontractors. And apparently, these guys can take anyone on a ride, and interfere in European elections virtually at will.
Or, none of this is true, and both the videos and the report are just elaborate ratfucking schemes, aimed at shaving a couple of percentage points from the other political bloc.
Or, more than one thing can be true at the same time. It did not escape pengovsky’s attention that Peter Šuhel, Janša’s chief of staff all but confirmed the basic allegation of the report. Which kind of makes sense. To put in the words of Jack Ryan, there’s no point in defusing the bomb once it has already gone off.
More where that came from?
Be that as it may, fact of the mater is, that none of these allegations need to stand the test of time. The videos only need to stand until Sunday evening, while Mladina/8 Marec research needs to looks plausible for the next week or so.
But just as there was more than one video, pengovsky wouldn’t be surprised if there was more than one article on this over the next few days.
