I'm pretty sure Putin also thinks that Ukraine had nothing to do with it.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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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:
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the government accidentally referenced a 4th bombing... 3 days before the bombing occurred
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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.
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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.
Putin’s apartment bombings in the late 90s were just an all around jaw-droppingly brazen false flag. This bit in particular always gets me:
A suspicious device resembling those used in the bombings was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan on 22 September.[3][4] On 23 September, Vladimir Putin praised the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ryazan and ordered the air bombing of Grozny, which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War.[5] Three FSB agents who had planted the devices at Ryazan were arrested by the local police.[6] The next day, FSB director Nikolay Patrushev announced that the incident in Ryazan had been an anti-terror drill and the device found there contained only sugar, and freed the FSB agents involved.[7]
Because the FSB ran a terrorism training op using a package of sugar as a bomb stand-in days after multiple bombings occurred all over the country. And they totally didn’t need anyone else to corroborate that - they’re the FSB, of course they’re trustworthy.
suuuuuuuuure.
I appreciate your citations!
In a documentary I watched on the subject, an "expert" stated that local police had tested the device tested before the FSB grown ups showed up and their findings that they WERE explosives, not sugar.
I don't have a definitive source, but it's my understanding that the "sugar" line actually was actually directly disputed by initial findings.
Full disclosure: I literally just copied part of the wiki text lol
And yeah - I am sure the local cop who tested the explosives had a very long and productive life for the next week, at which point he probably fell off a balcony onto several bullets, head-first.
If he does think they did, that would certainly be the real story here.
Yeah bruh, maybe his inner circle should do something about the blyat who’s ruining them.
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!
I'm sure Business Insider has access to the inner circle of Russian government.
Oh no, Ukraine pooped my pants while I was wearing them!
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.
Missing the chance to conjugate that verb, shat is a very funny word.
Before or after they made your pee pee smol like pinky finger Mr. President?
Meanwhile :-(
Then fucking do something against it you inner circle twats!
he doesn't care what people think as long as there's total confusion about it
I would actually be even more worried if Putin's inner circle actually believed the propaganda they're currently fabricating.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Many Kremlin insiders disagree with President Vladimir Putin's claims that Ukraine may be connected to last Friday's terror attack in Moscow, Bloomberg reported.
While Putin and some of his followers continue to publicly push the idea of Ukraine's role in the attack, behind the scenes few people in Moscow's top business and political circles support the theory, insiders told the outlet.
On Friday, armed attackers stormed the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, opening fire and killing at least 137 people during a rock concert.
Making no mention of ISIS-K, he said: "They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border," NPR reported.
"The United States, through various channels, is trying to convince its satellites and other countries of the world that, according to their intelligence data, there is supposedly no Kyiv trace in the Moscow terrorist attack," he said, according to CNBC.
Andrei Soldatov, an expert on the FSB and Russian intelligence, told Bloomberg that Russia's security services "know this was Islamic State, but after Putin's remarks they have no choice but to follow orders and prove that there was Ukrainian or Western involvement."
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