The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media. A U.S. intelligence official told The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies had learned the group’s branch in Afghanistan was planning an attack in Moscow and shared the information with Russian officials.
The problem is that, this helps Putin. If we assume he has no regard for human life, then this is a massive opportunity for him. He’s made the most out of opportunities like this one in the past.
This attack on innocent lives is a profound tragedy as it is. I wish I could spend more time dwelling on the plight of the victims but my brain won’t stop panicking about all the ways Putin can exploit this situation to ruin even more lives.
It’s why I couldn’t shake the idea that this might be a false flag operation. It’s why I can’t deny the prospect that perhaps Russian security services didn’t do all they could to stop this before it occurred.
My thoughts to the victims and those close to them.
US security services have notified Russia of an impending attack, they notified US citizens there to about large gatherings
Gunmen went in calmly, shot at people for 1.5 hours without being stopped, then calmly walked back into a car and drove off.
IS claimed responsibility immediately
Russia claims it arrested the same gunmen in the car that was already identified and look at that, they went straight for the Ukraine border, an impossible to pass war zone. Uh huh…
It’s why I couldn’t shake the idea that this might be a false flag operation. It’s why I can’t deny the prospect that perhaps Russian security services didn’t do all they could to stop this before it occurred.
It makes him look weak, distracted, and unprepared. People might think his attention and army is spread too thin with the war in Ukraine.
Seems like a really shitty false flag operation to me.
In funding and creating Islamic fundamentalists, no and mujaheddin preexisted that event. The US did it by funding the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This isn’t some conspiracy this is information revealed by FOIA and started before the Soviet invasion. This is all blowback for unbelievably bad US foreign policy in the 60s and part of the global fight against communism and not that one event. Mostly because the PLFP (Palestinians) were Marxist Leninists. We the people all lost the cold war.
So the U.S gov (who no one was working and making decisions back then) should go back in time and do something else instead of trying to take the high road now, because they took the low road then. Got it.
(Not trying to be snarky it’s just the logic here doesn’t add up other than ‘I want to be mad’)
They never stopped funding Islamic fundamentalism and mujaheddin for their purposes and are the biggest allies of Saudi Arabia which also funds Wahhabism worldwide. It isn’t the “high road” if you are the ones responsible for the actions you are warning about. To me what the Americans did sounds more like a threat than the high road. Never take anything reported by any intelligence community at face value. They do not deal in truth.
Respect to USA for trying.
The problem is that, this helps Putin. If we assume he has no regard for human life, then this is a massive opportunity for him. He’s made the most out of opportunities like this one in the past.
This attack on innocent lives is a profound tragedy as it is. I wish I could spend more time dwelling on the plight of the victims but my brain won’t stop panicking about all the ways Putin can exploit this situation to ruin even more lives.
It’s why I couldn’t shake the idea that this might be a false flag operation. It’s why I can’t deny the prospect that perhaps Russian security services didn’t do all they could to stop this before it occurred.
My thoughts to the victims and those close to them.
Putin is already blaming Ukraine.
US security services have notified Russia of an impending attack, they notified US citizens there to about large gatherings
Gunmen went in calmly, shot at people for 1.5 hours without being stopped, then calmly walked back into a car and drove off.
IS claimed responsibility immediately
Russia claims it arrested the same gunmen in the car that was already identified and look at that, they went straight for the Ukraine border, an impossible to pass war zone. Uh huh…
All of this clearly shows it was the Ukraine!
It makes him look weak, distracted, and unprepared. People might think his attention and army is spread too thin with the war in Ukraine.
Seems like a really shitty false flag operation to me.
It wouldn’t exactly be the first time he’d do something like this, although if this is the case it’d be quite extreme even for him.
They also warned Iran before ISIS-K did their other attack.
Liberation means liberating the oppresses and the oppressors.
Okay, but there’s no way to know whether that “intelligence official” is telling the truth.
Maybe the US should have avoided creating Islamic fundamentalists to begin with. This all started because of the US funding mujahideen to fight Russia
Really, you don’t think the USSR invading Afghanistan before that plays any role?
In funding and creating Islamic fundamentalists, no and mujaheddin preexisted that event. The US did it by funding the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This isn’t some conspiracy this is information revealed by FOIA and started before the Soviet invasion. This is all blowback for unbelievably bad US foreign policy in the 60s and part of the global fight against communism and not that one event. Mostly because the PLFP (Palestinians) were Marxist Leninists. We the people all lost the cold war.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691019413/we-all-lost-the-cold-war
https://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/story/radical-islam-west-backed-global-terror-us-europe-britain-jehad-west-funded-terrorism-213727-2019-07-17
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Game-Unleash-Fundamentalist-American/dp/0805081372
So the U.S gov (who no one was working and making decisions back then) should go back in time and do something else instead of trying to take the high road now, because they took the low road then. Got it.
(Not trying to be snarky it’s just the logic here doesn’t add up other than ‘I want to be mad’)
They never stopped funding Islamic fundamentalism and mujaheddin for their purposes and are the biggest allies of Saudi Arabia which also funds Wahhabism worldwide. It isn’t the “high road” if you are the ones responsible for the actions you are warning about. To me what the Americans did sounds more like a threat than the high road. Never take anything reported by any intelligence community at face value. They do not deal in truth.