Posted on 03/25/2024 11:22:27 AM PDT by RandFan
... However, Russia experts and a Wagner defector who told the ICC that the Kremlin had ordered "atrocities" in Ukraine have noted several bizarre occurrences on the night of the terror attack.
Former GRU Colonel Igor Salikov says that police units supposedly disappeared around the time of the attack, while Vlad's elite forces stationed nearby also failed to show.
He claims it all points to a "botched inside job" by the FSB or a poorly executed response by Russian emergency services.
Another key detail is the amateur way the four gunmen handled their Kalashnikov machine guns despite ISIS fighters undergoing weapons training.
The venue was also hit by a massive blaze that destroyed part of the building - with Salikov noting it couldn't have been anything else but Spetsnaz white phosphorus grenades.
Vlad's elite special forces are believed to have used white phosphorus while carrying out attacks in Ukraine.
He then points out that the psychological profile of the gunmen is inconsistent with ISIS fighters - who would proudly die for their deeds rather than being arrested and tortured.
Brit Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon also told The Sun that the attack had all "the hallmarks of Russian false flag attacks".
He pointed out that Russia's security is "absolutely watertight" and it appears "almost too perfect for four people to wander in there and kill 137 people."
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
Git yer shovel. It’s going to be a long night.
We’ll never know the truth. So pick yer theory. One’s as good as the next.
But FR does have a lot of experienced military analysts
As good as anyone on Tee Vee
I’d like to know their thoughts if they watched the harrowing footage...
We’ll figure this one out as soon as we figure out Malaysian Flight MA-370.
I’m not saying it was aliens....but...
It has all the hallmarks of the false flag event upon which Putin rose to power.
Or TWA800
“It has all the hallmarks of the false flag event upon which Putin rose to power.”
or how Netanyahu kept power
“We’ll never know the truth. So pick yer theory. One’s as good as the next.”
There’s a crowd here that claims it was a Ukraine/CIA operation. Until there’s some reliable evidence, the ISIS story is the most likely. After all, Russia has created a lot of enemies. I think only the Serbians like the Russians now.
It could be a third-party group (non-NATO, non-Russia) trying to provoke WWIII. [/wild conspiracy theory #42]
Ya ever get the strange feeling the media is being paid to gaslight us?
True. You have a whole world full of people who hate Russia. Especially her erstwhile “allies”.
Chine would profit.
Former USAF officer.
1) Russia having a lot of enemies and who likes them. The majority of mankind, defined by the leadership of countries representing the majority of 7B people, have chosen not to support various US/UK initiatives, particularly in the UN. And they phoned congratulations to Putin on his election. So there is that, the majority of mankind, which one achieves with Chinese and India phone calls, plus the others.
2) As for the Moscow story, the very first thing that occurs to me is the source of the ISIS story. It was apparently a claim on a Telegram channel that was taken up within seconds by the entire global (non BRICS) MSM. No one that I know of investigated the Telegram channel’s internet address nor on what date that channel was created. There was far, far too fast an avalanche of media support for that story. Whatever happened to thorough investigation?
3) Another item of great puzzlement is the simple geography. Tajikistan traverse would require visas into 3 countries (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and then Russia) in a vehicle loaded with weapons. Crossing all those borders and risking just one event of vehicle inspection. This is not how anyone rational would plan such a thing. Far too much risk of discovery.
4) The avalanche of media stories careful to note the appearance of these people in court. Evidence of beating. But of course Russia’s FSB would use drugs to extract information. Far more effective than beating. So this puzzling, as was having them travel 100+ miles before pickup.
5) There is no need for Russia to manufacture a story of Ukraine involvement. They have no need for such a story. Their configuration on the war is already defined and being relentlessly pursued. They have no one to persuade of anything wrt Ukraine. They certainly know anything they say will be denied by any guilty party.
6) Overall, in a very large sense, getting four guys who are fathers of young children to take this action bespeaks the involvement of some major state actor, and frankly, it’s above Ukraine’s paygrade.
The Putin plan for military success:
-first you blow up your own pipeline
-then you blow up your own bridge
-then you shell your own nuclear reactor
-then you flood yourself by blowing up your own dam
-and for final victory, who massacre your own concert hall
(or maybe, just maybe, Russia didn’t do any of this to themselves)
And the countries that claim Russia did it to themselves are actually the guilty ones.
More BS on the same scale as “Putin blew up his own pipeline”. The stupidness of people to believe nonsensical garbage is astounding. This attack is negative to Putin and Russia in every way. We all know which country lives by the false flag.
I doubt it. I also doubt Ukraine had any involvement.
But this falls under “not my problem”, regardless.
That was presumably just stupidity.
lol
this was NOT an inside job and it wasn’t Ukraine either!
geeez it was just Muslims doing what they always do!
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