Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.

Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.

Four knife-wielding prisoners claiming to be Islamic State group militants launched a deadly attack in a penal colony in southern Russia on Friday before being killed and their hostages released, officials said.

The attack left four people dead, while the four hostage-taking prisoners were “neutralized” by snipers, Russian officials said.

The attackers initially seized eight penal colony employees and four fellow inmates, according to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Ser

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    74·
    3 months ago

    Why should I test your certainty if you’re already certain?

    Were you lying when you said you were certain? Otherwise, you should be able to produce the evidence that made you certainty.

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      410·
      3 months ago

      I’m just going to vaguely gesture at your post history. You’d be referencing specific examples or relevant books or white papers if you had the level of familiarity required to do so.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        72·
        3 months ago

        Sorry, you don’t get to decide what I would do as evidence. You know absolutely nothing about what I would do.

        • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          39·
          3 months ago

          You say that, but the alternative, that you’re only feigning ignorance on the subject and making vague assertions that Russian prisons must so incredibly worse than American prisons when you could actually show or just vaguely point in the direction of actual knowledge on the subject is not plausible.

          If I see someone in a wheelchair slip out and struggle to get back in, I’d say I’m certain they can’t walk very well. Yes it’s physically possible they’re just pretending, but it’s so unlikely as to not be useful to include in my understanding.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            72·
            3 months ago

            making vague assertions that Russian prisons must so incredibly worse than American prisons

            I made no “vague assertions.” I said it outright. And it is backed up by the fact that Russia’s own police services claim a higher per-capita death rate in Russian prisons than is what is claimed in American prisons. I’d link you to that, but you’d probably make some claim that you’re certain about something or other, again with no evidence before the fact.