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RE: Crocus

I think some people try to get a view of what is being said from various sources...I just find it odd that Putin is blaming Ukraine as they have enough to do keeping their territory and abiding by what the directives they are given by supporters in order to keep the aid for their cause flowing so to speak...
This yet another attempt (by Putin) to blame Ukraine and at best trying to get his people on board with his war against Ukraine or what he refers to as Nazis...
Civilians are being targeted...and Putin will use this to attain his objective...propaganda...
We all know that Putin started the invasion...despite his attempts to make it out that it was Ukraine who was the aggressor...hard to get around that fact...

You Can't Make This Sh*t Up

They are delusional or led to believe that Trump is their saviour...not unlike Warren Jeffs...
Grifting Bibles for Jesus... has a ring to it...don't you think?
Trump is like the Devil dangling a carrot...the lesson for those of Christian faith according to the Book's author...is not to be tempted by this imposter...this is a test of faith according to him...

Crocus

I don't think that many people outside Russia have ever noticed the event. Those, who did notice of whatever reason, shouldn't listen to the state paid propaganda. If the Russian officials wanted tell the truth, they would by now release the video from the cameras inside Crucus. Until now we only have the videos taken by the witnesses on their phones.

As to blaming someone... Putler has nothing to gain in blaming ISIS. You can't defeat an ideologically powered insurgency, you can only destroy it. But it's difficult and actually needs another ideological power, which huilo doesn't have. He wants to make Ukraine the main cause of all problems Russia has after 23 years of his rule, because it's easier.

The most odd thing in the whole is that there will be people who will believe it.

RE: How can anyone vote for Trump, when even his staff won’t support him.

I have to laugh...it sounds like someone is sleepless...but imagine anyone having the stamina of reading the whole piece the poster wrote?...
I wonder if the current news of Trump is keeping people from sleep? Insider trading and much more...never mind Pence...he is the least of the orange man's troubles...

RE: Crocus

Interesting that Islamists have claimed responsibility for the attacks but continually throws it back to Ukraine...

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the attack on the Crocus City Hall was carried out by "radical Islamists", but blamed the shooting on "those who are fighting Russia with the hands of the Kyiv regime". (RIA Novosti)

Russian President Vladimir Putin now says 'radical Islamists' were behind Friday's attack on a concert hall that killed more than 130 people, but connected it to Ukraine and the West. ISIS-K — an offshoot of the Islamic State — has claimed responsibility. ( taken from the CBC Canada)

I find this odd to tie both working together...

Crocus

Well... an unpopular opinion: while indeed Russia of the times of Soviet Union and now putler's Russia is a terrorist state, the Russian people... (wanted to write "who are not in the system", but living in Russia is being a part of the system)... hence, the Russian people, who are not directly part of the system, just ordinary citizens trying to survive, they are also victims of this terrorist state.

One of possible post- putinism scenario is picturing Russia falling in a several parts by ethnic or economical or climatic zones. And some evil tongues claim, that the Western countries (whatever it is) let the Ukrainian war continue, because they are afraid of dissolving of Russia.

Well... they were afraid of dissolving of USSR. Being afraid doesn't work.

Crocus

All the OSINT groups I usually listen to, claim that it's Khorosan branch of Islamic state. And they even admitted the honer.

The only thing FSB did is that they did nothing. They - huilo - let it happen.

If you follow event in Russia, you could notice a riot policeman every 5 m along the road leading to the cemetery there Navalny was buried. Anything of the sort on an event with more than 6000 thousand people, after a multiple warnings about a terrorist attack? Nope.

Crocus

You are from another planet.


And putler's Russia is a planet for itself.

Crocus

There's nothing he can do to make his war popular. (Did you noticed, that you called it "his" war? It is.)

The thing is - and it makes me feel miserable - that the majority of Russian population would not mind a short victorious adventure, like Kiev in 3 days and the Eastern Ukraine in a week. (That's totally awful and I am sorry, that the country of my birth turned into that.) But no one wanted and still doesn't a long war. Have you noticed that they increased money reward for joining the army? For the depressed regions, like Dagestan, Tyva, Buryatia, it's a lot of money - it's more money that a man there can earn in his entire life - and still, they have difficulties with even filling the loses. The propaganda works 24/7, people live in misery, dissent utterly marginalized and prosecuted - and still they have difficulties with filling the gaps in the ranks. They force convicts, homeless, mentally ill including junkies, heavily indebted and other men, who actually in need of help and would get it in a human regimen...

If anyone even wondered about quality, motivation and discipline in such an army, you don't need to wonder anymore.

By the way, they have burned a couple of GULAG colonies due to the absence of inmates and arrested a few GULAG officers in order to send 'em to the war. Imagine a young lieutenant given command to a platoon of serial killers? They would just laugh. Another thing - a virtuhai: he is used to and they a used to. A working scheme.

Crocus

Not only USA, that even mentioned "concerts" especially, but also Iran, putler's ally, warned about the attack. It looks like, that huilo didn't doubt information, but just let the even happen in order to use it for his benefit.

Now, it's known that large Russian towns cannot live without low-paid gastarbeiters, who do road cleaning, building, garbage removal, taxi and delivery cervices, etc. Russians themselves, in the large towns - there's a difference with the small once - don't want to do that job. Plus, the money, that the gastarbeiters send home, is a good part of their countries' income. Those countries don't want to lose it. Those countries are also the routes for huilo to circumvent the sanctions. A dilemma that this halv-bald intestinal worm is trying to solve with "Ukrainian trace". They stomped so hard over all other evidences, that only the "right" ones could remain.

Now, the evil tongues made it a fashion to call any trace "Ukrainian". Indeed, we had snow here the other day and a couple of magpies hopped over my tiny porch and left a lot of Ukrainian traces. Now gone after the heavy rain, of course, but the feeling remains.