Because they need to have some justification for their continued invasion. shit-head fascists gonna fascist, after all.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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Option A: admit your security services are myopic and ineffective
Option B: blame it on the super big bad evil you’ve been building up over the past decade plus that externalizes the root problem
Hmm…
Why is predictable thing we all knew was gonna happen happening?
Truly, one of the great mysteries of our time
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Ukraine just bombing somewhere in Russia is more believable than them doing a state sponsored terrorist attack and not taking credit.
If the attack had been against a political or military target it would be more believable. Ukraine has nothing to gain by attacking civilian targets.
They have a lot to loose though. A lot of western countries would pull support if they did.
Man, ISIS must be pissed about this.
Wait until ISIS publishes videos of the actual terrorists alive and well once they have exfiltraded Russia.
It fits the narrative. Just like how Putin won their "election."
Jesus fuck, already.
they want confusion around it, they don't care which story people like.. the people who want to believe it was Ukraine can believe that.. people who want to believe it was Muslims can believe that.. as long as nobody suspects the real culprits: Russian security services and Putin himself..
Ah shit, boys! This guy figured it all out. It makes complete sense that Russia would hire ISIS to do a job like that, especially after Moscow's relations with the Taliban have been growing better by the day.
(Mental parkour award winner of the year! Gold star!)
it wouldn't surprise me. Russia became almost comical evil during the last decades, I truly expect everything from them.
Anything is possible and real world events can sometimes be more bizarre than fiction. (It was just the immediate jump to a conspiracy theory that I found hysterical, btw.)
this guy thinks ISIS can get a team of gunmen into Moscow, and that said team could be captured without any fuss
I have worked security long enough to know most perceived security is an illusion. Also, it might be really easy to find a few non-white people in that part of Russia headed away from Moscow at a fast pace.
Russian stunts are notoriously bad and Occam's Razor absolutely applies. It would be magnitudes easier to hire a few Russians to act like Ukrainians and do the same stunt. Blaming Ukraine would be much easier in that case.
Conspiracy theories aren't my thing, especially when they are just vomited out with little logic.
The one group of people I'm pretty certain it isn't is the Russian security services. They don't care about their people but staging a terrorist attack makes them look weak.
The Russians don't need justification for the war they can just do it as their population is so cowed that the government can basically do whatever they want. They regularly murder political rivals and no one says boo.
so it could be virtually anyone else, and that's what they want you to think.. they want everyone in Russia to be worried, and to be unsure where the threat is coming from..