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pingveno@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Gunmen in combat fatigues fire on Moscow concert hall crowds, killing and wounding several people

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Gunmen in combat fatigues fire on Moscow concert hall crowds, killing and wounding several people

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Russia’s top security agency, the Federal Security Service, says there are dead and wounded in a Moscow concert hall that is ablaze amid a shooting by several gunmen.
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    Why doesn’t it seem like a false-flag? Who could benefit from this, politically, more than Putin? Remember the Reichstag fire.

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      Wut. He’s already in power and just won another six year term.

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        He’s been in power for a long time but he’s run an authoritarian regime. He relies on the suppression of a depoliticized majority of the population. The idea here is that he wants to make a move towards totalitarianism: mobilize more of the population towards the war effort. Squeeze those depoliticized folks to force them to declare their loyalty to the regime.

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          NYT: U.S. Says ISIS Was Responsible for Deadly Moscow Concert Hall Attack

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            Yes - but why did he let it happen? I’m thinking more that Putin willfully neglected any action against it because (reason). Maybe he wants to mobilise more and wants people to feel like they’re under attack?

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              I don’t know, why did Bush let 9/11 happen? This is wild speculation one day after the attack with practically no reliable information to work with. The English speaking world has decided that Putin is a cartoon villian or the new Hitler, so sinister conspiracy theories abound.

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                Putin is a real villain, and it’s not far fetched. I don’t know what 9/11 has to do with this though

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                  why did he let it happen?

                  The analogy isn’t hard to follow: If Bush had some intelligence before the 9/11 attacks, then why did he let it happen? Was he willfully negligent as well? After all, was he not a real villain? Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests

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                    It’s 100% irrelevant to whether or not the Putin did

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      Nevermind the Reichstag, remember that the FSB and likely Putin were behind the bombing of four apartment blocks in Russia in 1999 that killed over 300 people. It got blamed on the Chechens and was used to justify the invasion of Chechnya.

      This wouldn’t even be the bloodiest false flag Putin has done in his career.

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