Die USA teilten Russland mit, dass das Rathaus von Crocus ein mögliches Angriffsziel sei
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/02/us-warning-russia-isis-crocus/
Die USA teilten Russland mit, dass das Rathaus von Crocus ein mögliches Angriffsziel sei
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/02/us-warning-russia-isis-crocus/
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Putin was happy with the location anyway and decided to not change it
No one will ever convince me now that Russia didn’t intentionally let it happen to help achieve policy goals. No one is that incompetent.
Russia is just going to spin this into “see, the US knew where it would take place, they planned it!”
Why didn’t the US put Crocus City Hall in their public warnings? wouldn’t that have made their warning even more powerful in terms of both protecting individuals who managed to hear it, potentially even stopping it, and making a stronger statement against the Russian government?
How many countries warned Putin??? How many times was Putin warned??? What did Putin do with those warnings??? How specific were the warnings to Putin??? There is no scenario we’re Putin doesn’t look like an incompetent fool, unless he complicit. Then he looks evil.
So by the standard of previous comments Oct 7th was a false flag attack cos there was no way the IDF didn’t spot the build up of people at the border. Just wondering?
Why is a concert venue in Russia have an English name/title versus a Cyrillic one? This is like an airport or mall in china having a main name written in English…
Of course Putin already knew about it and made sure to conveniently make it worse than should have been in order to try and blame Ukraine/the west and garner more support for his war of conquest. There were lots of things very suspicious about it, police only minutes away but taking hours, exits locked and possibly KGB inside.
We knew this already. Kremlin’s narrative has already been undercut by Iran and Belarus. They should stop the bullshit and move on.
More interesting reporting would have how many tickets were sold and how many (w/ bonus points on who if any) were no-shows that night?
And Putin dismissed it a fear mongering. But he likes the population to have fear. He then says he is the only one that can protect them from it happening again.
Putin is trying to spin this as some sort of 4D chess, galaxy brain move but the fact is that his government was completely incompetent in preventing this attack. “Yes, I totally let ISIS blow up the Opera hall in Moscow on purpose, and I even denied the US warnings about the attack that they made publicly days before because I am so smart” lol are you serious?
There’s no world in which this is good news for Putin’s government. He can’t claim to keep his own citizens safe in his own capitol, Moscow, literally the *one* thing a dictator is supposed to do to keep legitimacy is maintain a monopoly on violence.
He was completely surprised by the attack. If the attack was planned propaganda, he wouldn’t have let the US look more well informed than they are, he wouldn’t have been scrambling to find scapegoats that now have conveniently disappeared (if the were REALLY supposed to be Ukrainian he would be parading the suspects on the media 24/7 talking about how they’ve captured foreign agents) and he wouldn’t have had to wait days before putting out a statement on the attacks.
Putin just couldn’t handle the possibility that the CIA knew something and as a result he disregarded the danger and ignored the warnings. The simplest explanation is that Putin is incompetent. It takes a massive conspiracy theory (that doesn’t even work) to try to spin this as somehow helpful to Putin or Russia.
I bet ISIS are having a reality check on their OpSec these days.
Just gives him a free narrative to deepen his people’s hatred and worry so he can direct it towards Ukraine
Damn Ukraine, directing those Islamic Terrorists ISIS who Russia has been bombing for the last decade in Syria.
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Putin was in Siberia fishing when an FSS agent walked up and said “Mr President, five gunmen attacked the Crocus Hall”. Putin told the agent “Great plan.” but then corrected himself as he forgot Siberia is 3 hours ahead of Moscow. He then had the FSS agent shot for Ukrainian conspiracy.
I believe they were warned there was a potential for a Ballroom Blitz.
So did Iran and many others , so like Bibi they let it happen to drive fear into the country and convince them the strong man will save us ( nonsense)
Paywall. Can someone post the article?
I just imagine the existential crisis going on among the people who got the message and passed it along. Only for it to be ignored and then blamed on the people issuing the warning.
Nah that’s useless because they will instead blame the ones who warned them about possible terrot attacks,
cunt behaviour.