It began with hints. Intimation.

Now, it’s no holds barred accusations.

The Russian authorities are aggressively pushing the line that Ukraine and the West were behind last month’s Crocus City concert hall massacre outside Moscow which left 145 people dead.

The Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. But soon after the suspected gunmen were detained President Vladimir Putin hinted at a Ukrainian connection.

At the weekend Russian state TV broadcast interrogation videos of the four suspects, all citizens of Tajikistan. One of the men said on camera that the post-attack plan had been “to head towards Kyiv”.

Their words must be taken with extreme caution. During a court appearance after their arrest the men showed signs of torture.

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    7 months ago

    Because they need to have some justification for their continued invasion. shit-head fascists gonna fascist, after all.

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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…

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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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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      7 months ago

      Wait until ISIS publishes videos of the actual terrorists alive and well once they have exfiltraded Russia.

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    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…

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      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.

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        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…