Ever considered the more plausible scenario over the elaborate fantasy one?
Turkey is full of p’d off Islamists. Has been for years. A bit like Syria. And Russia.
Assad, Erdogan and Putin can be as hard as they like but like all sociopathic strongman leaders they’re not really interested in dealing with their domestic islamonazis.
The need to ignore an Enemy Within unless it becomes expedient to do something very showy “pour encourager les autres” and demonstrate STRONK is essential to the longevity of any dictatorship, a point Orwell made.
So these guys trained in Turkey and went to Russia, probably had help from cells inside Russia, and were heading to Belarus when they got caught.
Wannabe STRONK man Lukashenko is now wet his bed because his own ministers have said these terrorists were heading to Belarus not Ukraine. He doesn’t want Putin to think he’s complicit.
Of course he’s got islamofascist cells in Belarus and of course he does nothing about them because he’s too focussed on licking Putin’s rear and scaring his people out of sticking him up on a lamp post to sweat the small stuff.
Overall, NATO doesn’t have a dog in this fight.
It’s a cast iron certainty that the intel from NATO about islamofascist cells hitting Moscow targets imminently that the US sent to Putin came from Turkey in the first place, and the USA was only relaying the intel.
Makes you wonder, did Turkey warn Moscow as well as the USA.
If they did, Putin either screwed up or worse figured, let it happen and blame Ukraine/USA.
If Turkey didn’t, then you get a good sense of what the STRONK MAN NEW WORLD ORDER would be like. Think Burke in Aliens, screwing eachother over to get a trivial percentage.
That sounds rather far fetched. I have considered a third party who would benefit from a war, even nuclear, between the West and Russia. Certainly not China. I keep coming back to MO and who operates like this. This reeks of a typically stupid, incompetent, and incredibly reckless CIA act.