After the largest Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region to date, Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin delivered a sharp message - not to Kyiv, but to his own Kremlin. Its essence: this will continue and escalate until Russia changes the way it wages war.

"All of this will continue and intensify until we change our style of waging war and our treatment of the enemy," Dugin said. He also drew a line between the external threat and internal opposition, claiming that foreign agents and what he calls the "fifth column" in Russia are directly tied to Western hostility. He compared Russophobia to cancer: "It is a disease. We must bravely acknowledge it and begin to treat it."

The trigger is no small thing. According to released figures, the attack involved 555 drones detected across Russian regions, with 17 injured, among them a three-year-old child. This is a war long since fought not only on the front, but reaching the major cities of both sides.

The detail worth noting is whom Dugin is addressing. This is not a message of comfort to the victims, nor a call for peace - it is a demand that the authorities be tougher. When a regime's ideological core publicly tells the top "you're not tough enough," it shows the pressure isn't only coming from outside. The question such messages never ask is simple: where does the logic of "even tougher" lead, and who in the end pays the bill for it?