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There is a CRITICAL piece of information that was neglected in this and most articles:

In the late 90s, a relatively newly minted President Putin was embroiled in a military operation against Chechnya.

Then, there were a series of apartment bombings in Russia. The party line was that they were Chechen terrorists.

Now, a few REALLY strange things happened:

1. the government accidentally referenced a 4th bombing... 3 days before the bombing occurred

2. local police foiled a 5th bombing. The people arrested ended up being FSB. Putin was immediately before becoming a leader of Russia was the head of the FSB.

3. An independent investigation on if the Kremlin was involved resulted in everyone involved being jailed or assasinated.

The strong suspicion was that this was a false flag operation, at least outside of Russia.

The RESULT of the bombing was a massive galvanization of the populace around Putin and his Chechnya war.

So, long story short: this was the event that propelled Putin into the Russian political stratosphere.

There shouldn't be any confusion as to Putin's experience with political gain from terrorist attacks.

I'm not suggesting Putin was responsible for this last attack, but using such an attack for political gain is absolutely a strategy he has succeeded with in the past.

If he does think they did, that would certainly be the real story here.

Why, though? The new guy might not let them keep their loot and what do they care if a bunch of poor subhumans die in a ditch somewhere else?

You don't get into these positions for good stances on truth and ethics.

It's raining men, halelujah!

You perfectly used the word blyat there.. I spilled my drink laughing!

It's only a little better, but the Bloomberg article they are cribbing from claims to have sources.

There are people who say Vladimir Putin fell down a set of stairs and shit himself. I don't know if Vladimir Putin fell down a set of stairs and soiled himself. What I do know is that the Kremlin press office explicitly denied that Vladimir Putin fell down a set of stairs and soiled himself. Obviously, it wouldn't be the first time the Kremlin lies about something, but that doesn't mean it is true that Vladimir Putin fell down a set of stairs and shit himself. It is also possible that it is not true that Vladimir Putin fell down a set of stairs and shit himself.

Before or after they made your pee pee smol like pinky finger Mr. President?

Isis K doesn’t have much motive to claim an attack they weren’t behind, from what I’ve read. Salafist jihadis are decently competitive and vie for the mantle of being the “premier” group that will bring about an Islamic caliphate. They need to come across that way to potential recruits and funding sources to achieve their aims and getting caught claiming responsibility for an attack they didn’t actually do would undermine that credibility in their circles.

I think Isis did perpetrate this and Putin is trying to keep the focus on Ukraine because the alternative is to potentially bring into focus how it easy it was for a bunch of Jihadis to waltz into Moscow and perpetrate a brutal attack because the Russian security apparatus has its hands completely full with Ukraine at the moment.

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.

Nah, at most he knew about it in advance and didn’t prevent it to be able to blame Ukraine.

But I don’t know what the point of the article is. Of course the inner circle know it is BS. They don’t care and have never cared about all the BS stories told to the public. They only car about their money and not losing it.