[wastedyears]

Zeepers hardest hit.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[Dead Corpse]

Didn’t KGB Putin win re-election by similar margins that Castro used to win by?

[Hyman Roth]

Never saw this coming/s

[Navy Patriot]

Putin accuses Ukraine of 'resorting to terrorist methods on instructions of West'

Nazi Ukraine, Nazi Nuland and Zeepers are All Guilty!

[USA-FRANCE]

Islamic State group claims Russia gun attack
https://insiderpaper.com/isis-claims-responsibility-moscow-attack/

[jacknhoo]

They do it here, they do it everywhere, our own CIA. Why wouldn’t he accuse them. Note, that’s not a question.

[piytar]

Related: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4226185/posts

[Kazan]

Only pathetic losers resort to Muslim-style terrorist attacks.

[Zhang Fei]

This is one reason people who say dictators who start wars to stay in power are wrong. War is an all-consuming exercise, uses up tons of resources that have to be taken from the civilian economy, That stokes discontent.

Resource diversion aside, war requires attention that is diverted from internal security. Praetorians sent to the front lines can’t protect the palace. Every ruler has internal rivals who will goose step and kiss his ring right up to the moment the ruler gets his coup de grace.

While there’s an outside chance Putin knew of this attack and instructed his men to let it through in hopes of pinning it on Ukraine and therefore goosing recruitment for the war, odds are it’s just a consequence of his securitate using all of its manpower and time protecting key supply nodes from Ukrainian spies supplying information to drone operators. Ultimately, wars are destabilizing in the domestic milieu because the state’s hard power is focused on fighting an external enemy while internal rivals are plotting, planning and marshalling their resources to make a bid for the throne.

This is why conquerors often pause even though their armies could make further gains. They need to weed out over-ambitious generals hoping to become rulers in their own right and stabilize a ship of state made unstable by the rise of victorious military commanders (e.g. Prigozhin) with men loyal to them personally. The alternative is to gain huge empires that are then commandeered by military commanders who take power while wiping out the ruling families under whose aegis these gains took place. Alexander and China’s First Emperor are just two examples of great conquerors whose ruling families were killed to the last with their demise.

[GBA]

Says the man invading his neighbor and launching missile and drone attacks against them? But his neighbor is the terrorist? Hahahahaha … right. That would be seriously funny if it wasn’t so serious and seriously deranged, too.

May God have mercy on you Vlad. Got the feeling you’re gonna need His Mercy even more than we, the people, here do.