• WatTyler
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • qaz@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        He’s once again the victim of evil foreign aggression, and even ISIS is fighting alongside Ukraine now, proving everyone is a terrorist except Putin, who 100% has done this exact thingmore than many times before.

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      9 months ago

      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!

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      9 months ago

      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.

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          9 months ago

          You’re not wrong, and he’s obviously using it to full effect either way, but it just boggles my mind a bit that they probably knew full well this’d happen and they let it, smack middle in Moscow of all places.

          It’s not exactly a good look no matter how much that demented fuck tries to spin it.