ISIS with a folding chair!
The fuck did I miss?
MOSCOW (AP) — Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media. A U.S. intelligence official told The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies had learned the group’s branch in Afghanistan was planning an attack in Moscow and shared the information with Russian officials.
Same I’m so confused
Honestly, even after knowing what happened, I’m still confused.
Russian concert halls are very strange places.
The last time something like this happened, the police ended up killing more people than the assailants. (If I remember correctly, they locked down the place down and gassed it.)
For anybody curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
That’s it, thanks. I did try a quick search, but everything was obfuscated by current events and I was feeling extremely lazy at the time.
Okay i knew Russia sucked, but i didn’t think it was a fucking cartoon
Can anyone explain to me what’s ISIS’s beef with Russia?
Credibility alert.
Chechnya is mostly Islamic, and Russia was very unfriendly to them, killings tens of thousands of women and children, with the battle of Grozny (twice) being the crowning achievement of civilian deaths.
Syria is mostly Islamic, and Russia has been killing ISIL/ISIS soldiers (and a large number of civilians) there for for about 9 years.
And Afghanistan itself had some slight history with Russia, being at war with them for about a decade.
Yeah in Syria it’s one of the few times US and Russian forces have fought “alongside” each other, both against ISIS.** There were so many greenforce nations in Syria the Pentagon had to dedicate staff to coordinate with a crazy mixbag of groups - Syrian Army, FSA, Kurds, Turkish, Russians, Iraq, and even Iran to make sure no one stepped on each other’s feet trying to kill ISIS. Lmao they REALLY pissed off the entire planet.
** - Russia quickly started hunting FSA people too and that’s how we got the whole “US absolutely deleting Wagner forces at the oil well” incident
Just to add:
- Syria: they also allowed Russian Islamic extremists to go fight in Syria rather than cause trouble in Russia - some of them reportedly joined ISIS
- Dagestan
- Sudan/Darfur
- disproportionate recruitment of Muslim minorities for the Ukrainian front
- violent repression of Muslim minorities
- involvement in the Sahel + helping military regimes in Niger/Mali/Burkino Faso fight ISIS affiliated groups
- Afghanistan: ISIS have previously attacked the Russian embassy there, saying the Taliban aren’t radicals and are Russian puppets.
- Iran: ISIS has perpetrated attacks in Iran, hates the Iranian regime. Iran is a Russian ally and provides them with drones for Ukraine, Russia in turn supports Iran.
Etc. etc. etc.
the Ukrainian front violent repression of Muslim minorities
An important distinction. There are a lot of ethnic minorities in Russia, and a lot of them are Muslim. The biggest groups got their own “stan” and are nominally independent now, but plenty in country.
One of the reasons Chechnya got hammered so hard in the 90s was to send a message to those groups. But they ain’t happy.
At least some of them are still pissed about the Afghanistan invasion in the 80s. Others are upset about Russia’s support for Syria.
Don’t forget indiscriminate slaughter of Chechens
Prigozhin was their secret crush
Daesh have beef with literally everyone that isnt themselves?
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Easy. Just look up the letter agency who fund it. False Flag as always.
As always
I too live in a world of theatre, I think my mailman is is in the CIA and is planning a false flag to get me locked up for 3 counts of mail fraud
The janitor in your office is planning something too! He went undercover for thirty years just to frame you!
Aw fugck I knew it, that rat bastard!
Oh yeah, he’s also an actual rat. He’s trained in the CIA robotics labs to pilot a man-sized mecha suit.
Unexpected Wayside School ftw
i mean possibility that it is a false flag exists, but if anything, it would be done by FSB. they did that before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
but the explanation that ISIS did it makes more sense
It’s the Badgers…!
Womble is a fa…
Ze flag, she is false.
nah, i don’t think so
russians were warned about possible terrorist incidents some two weeks ago, but dismissed it entirely. on public side you could see us embassy warning saying to avoid concerts and other crowded places. on tuesday putin straight up said that these warning are western lies and attempt at intimidation. it would make every bit of sense if this isis cell also heard of this warning and just waited for another concert
if it was a false flag, they’ll have more coherent pre-cooked narrative ready
Important detail: they weren’t just warned by the Americans, but by multiple countries.
Coherent pre-cooked narrative? You must be talking about some different Russia.
if it was a false flag, they’ll have more coherent pre-cooked narrative ready
Bingo. Putin is great at playing these games. If he had it planned it would be more graceful.
This time it was just out of left field. Sometimes weird shit happens.
Who would benefit from a false flag operation in Russia? They’re already at war with Ukraine.
Russia would. They’re claiming it’s Ukrainian driven, giving them an excuse to intensify their attack.
25 years ago Putin bombed apartment buildings in Chechnya to give cover for the following actions.
right, but back then appearing stronk and going to war were popular moves, not how it would work now. also elections already happened
unless you mean this false flag as a pretext for withdrawing from ukraine and going all in in afghanistan (again)
They’re using it as an excuse to amp up action in Ukraine, it’s going to be retaliation for the attacks on the gas infrastructure.
they could use, you know, attacks against refineries as pretext
But Isis claimed responsibility, is russia still saying that it was Ukraine?
Yes they are saying that, but Russia uses the propaganda technique ‘firehose of falsehoods’
. They’re claiming it’s Ukrainian driven, giving them an excuse to intensify their attack
They’re already going all out with missile strikes and throwing battalions of armored assets at the line regularly.
This is to allow them to declare martial law and/or draft more bodies. Assuming it was a false flag, which I doubt.
Wasn’t in Chechnya but Buynaksk (in Dagestan), Moscow, and Volgodonsk (in Rostov oblast)
