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Lots to cover with respect to Friday’s mercenary terrorist attack in Moscow. Why do I call it “mercenary”? Because it appears that the perps had no ideological axe to grind and were hired for a relatively paltry sum and carried out indiscriminate killing at a public gathering of civilians. Based on the video evidence released so far in the public domain the planning for this op was not the work of skilled professionals — e.g., they used the same vehicle to travel to and from the attack site, their movements inside the building demonstrated unsophisticated Close Quarter Battle skills and they had poor muzzle discipline, which means they had minimal rifle training.
The Russians got a jump on the investigation because one of the concert goers coldcocked one of the shooters, and the shooter was captured alive. The Russians also followed the escape vehicle and nabbed four of the suspects as they skedaddled for Ukraine. The western media is doing its damnedest to push the storyline that this was an ISIS attack and dismiss the possibility that it could have been Ukraine. But the initial questioning of the suspects revealed men of limited intelligence — i.e., guys who are not too smart — who told a cock and bull story that they were recruited via a telegram channel by an anonymous source who offered to pay them the princely sum of $5000. There also is no good explanation why a band of Tajiks were hightailing it for the Ukrainian border. At a minimum that shows a belief that they would find safehaven if they could get across the border. They certainly did not behave like diehard jihadist warriors eager to sacrifice themselves and go to Paradise and cash in the reward of 72 virgins.
I think the Islamic terrorism claim is a red herring and designed to shift attention away from the other indicators that some in the West, at a minimum, had foreknowledge of this attack. How else to explain the March 7 warning by US Embassy Moscow for American citizens to steer clear of event, such as concerts? And then, as I wrote yesterday, the US State Department was quick to issue a claim exonerating Ukraine for any role in the attack. The fires were still raging at the Crocus facility. That means only one thing — the State Department had intelligence indicating who carried out the attack. But the U.S. apparently did not share that with its Russian counterparts. That lapse alone is simply going to stoke more suspicion in Moscow about Western involvement.
But we already know one thing for sure — that the West has been involved with facilitating a series of terrorist attacks against Russians since the start of the special military operation. What else do you call the artillery and missile strikes on Russian civilians in the Donbass,] and in Belgorod, with munitions that were supplied by the United States and other major NATO countries? At a minimum, that makes western powers an accessory to an act of terror.
Friday’s senseless slaughter of civilians in Moscow serves no broad, political purpose, nor does it advance Ukraine’s military prospects in anyway. It is important to note that the attack has rallied world sympathy for Russia, including some conciliatory comments out of Washington by National Security spokesman John Kirby. However, it is also important to note the President Joe Biden has said nothing, and has made no contact with Vladimir Putin to express sorrow or empathy. Quite a contrast with Biden’s actions in the wake of the news that Alexey Navalny, a political opponent of Vladimir Putin, had died. Biden was quick to express his fake grief for the death of Navalny.
It appears that the growing death toll from the attack was not caused by bullets, but by smoke inhalation. I still have seen no report explaining how the fire got started. Some speculate that it was caused by a Molotov cocktail. I’m sure those details will be coming out in the next few days. It is also clear from President Putin’s demeanor during his speech today that Russia will retaliate against those responsible for this attack.
I do not think that this act of terrorism is going to change Russia’s military strategy and plans for Ukraine. News from the front shows that Russian forces are continuing to advance all along the front in the Donbass, and are pushing the Ukrainians back towards the Dnieper River. The position of the Ukrainian military is becoming more precarious with each passing day.
As far identifying those responsible for organizing and funding this attack, I have no special insight. I am confident that Russian investigators will be able to trace the origin of the firearms, assuming the serial numbers have not been erased. At this juncture, I am inclined to believe that the West knew something was going to happen based on intelligence out of Ukraine, but did not have specifics other than this was an operation approved by Ukraine’s intelligence service. Is it possible that some British and/or American intelligence officers had an inkling of what was going to happen? Yes, I think that is highly likely. The one thing I know for certain is that this attack is going to strengthen the will of President Putin, the Russian general staff, and Russia’s intelligence service to put an end to NATO meddling in Ukraine, and the ability of NATO proxies to attack the Russian people. Whoever approved this badly miscalculated and will pay a terrible, but well deserved, price.
So what do you think? Western directed or rogue operation?
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Putin and others made mention that Ukrainian border guards were alerted that some Tajiks would cross the border and to help them. I assume this is from radio intercepts.
The war is simple now. Russians will advance to the Polish border after the front line collapses this summer. The French troops are in Odessa to help with the evacuation of whatever they can salvage.
Watch this 11 second report from a Brit on the Donbas front.
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The West had the “ISIS did it” hoax ready immediately to cover up Ukraine’s responsibility, so I towards Western backed.
Lots to cover with respect to Friday’s mercenary terrorist attack in Moscow. Why do I call it “mercenary”? Because it appears that the perps had no ideological axe to grind and were hired for a relatively paltry sum and carried out indiscriminate killing at a public gathering of civilians. Based on the video evidence released so far in the public domain the planning for this op was not the work of skilled professionals — e.g., they used the same vehicle to travel to and from the attack site.
This operation sounds so sloppy, you would expect that the FSB or police would have been on to it and would have been able to prevent it. The fact they didn’t can be interpreted in a number of ways. Plain bad luck. Possibly. Incompetence or sloppiness on their part. Maybe Or was it more sinister? Did elements of the Russian security services actually permit it to go ahead for their own purposes. Pinning this on Ukraine would certainly be beneficial for the Russian Government. Maybe, even, a casus belli for a War Declaration against Ukraine. Certainly, they were very quick to detain the suspects, which contradicts their previous inertia.
Hopefully, the investigation will shed light on these matters. Or not.
Their movements inside the building demonstrated unsophisticated Close Quarter Battle skills and they had poor muzzle discipline, which means they had minimal rifle training.
At the last count, 133 had been killed and 140 injured.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68642162
Johnson also mentions that most of the deaths are likely due to smoke inhalation, not bullet wounds. So the disparity between the numbers of killed and injured would have been even greater without this factor. So Tajiks obviously conform to Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings. If the Mass Shooter is of White European or East Asian ancestry, the number of killed will exceed the number of wounded. Otherwise, it’s the other way about, with Black shooters having the lowest kill ratio. Low IQ is not conducive to battle skills or good rifle skills.
If it can be pinned on Ukraine, then this likely implicates MOSSAD and Israel as well, something that Johnson does not care to mention.
There have been lots of MOSSAD operatives in Ukraine aiding the Zelensky regime. Maidan Ukraine is very much a Zionist project, from Nuland to Zelensky, the little actor who dreams of Ukraine being a “big Israel”
As well as “training” the Ukrainian army and general intelligence work, it is likely to have helped Ukrainian “special ops”. The most prominent of the last , which Johnson again does not mention, have been the assassination of Russian civilians well inside Russia itself: Darya Dugina’s being the most known.
Israel has a very long history of state-sponsored terrorism and assassination, as anyone reading Ron Unz’s articles can verify. It now has an obvious motive to promote attacks on a Russia which is now openly hostile to it since Gaza. When the perpetrators of this attack are identified, expect MOSSAD involvement in training and supplying them. Will the Russian Government have the balls to call them out ?
No no no they were all just cooks and one was a mechanic. All a misunderstanding.
That’s a DouthAfrican voice
Obviously, a Ukrainian attack. In the middle of a war, a military already willing to bomb civilians is of course going to use terror attacks. Budanov has gained power within the Ukrainian hierarchy and the only thing slowing down his use of terror was Zaluzhnyi, a professional soldier, who has been pushed out. It’s going to get a lot worse and when the fingerprints of the Cia show up on this, the retaliation will be brutal.
Interesting that they claim to have been recruited and paid electronically so the actual string-pullers aren’t identifiable. The recruiters claim to be ISIS but could be anybody. ISIS have attacked Iran and in Syria as well as other places and seem to further US and Israeli interests for the most part. This current crop of terrorists appear to be village idiots. If one is doing it for the money then they should calculate how likely it is they’ll survive to spend it. Something like this seems more like a one way ride. If what Putin is saying is true about the Ukrainians being told to expect some Tajiks then that certainly implicates them. Otherwise the recruiters may have double-crossed their hirelings, expecting them to have gotten killed. Government policies won’t change, they simply ratchet up internal security while public attitudes harden, the war isn’t affected by deaths at a concert. So who really benefits? Is this someone’s idea of a feel good strike against Russians?
What if green-lighting the attack was why Vicky Nuland was pushed out?
When the US immediately came out and said ‘it wasn’t Ukraine’ before any information was obtained you know that Ukraine and the CIA were involved. Now the only question is will Putin take the kids gloves off and desecrate what’s left of Ukraine and receive Jew Zelenskyys head on a silver platter.
This was a cowardly act if there ever was one.
Why did the Brits summon shadow President Obama to Downing Street last week?
Was this to give a warning to America that the Brits had something big planned, and didn’t want another replay of Nord Stream where they went rogue and then had to remove Truss from office to placate angry people in Washington?
The Brits have already made it clear that they have ongoing black ops that operate outside the NATO architecture–hell, they boast about it on websites. Kerch Bridge, Bucha, Nord Stream, it all fits.
I think you mean South African. Certainly not British.
I doubt very much that this is an Anglo South African. There were many South African Jews, however. Some may have ended up in MOSSAD and been shipped over to Ukraine to help little Zionist penis-player Zelensky.
All of this assumes that this is a genuine video of a real medic in Ukraine’s “International Legion”. Like the Ghost of Kyiv and the “Bucha Massacre” , it could just as likely be a fabrication. As one Russian writer has said;” From the start, Russia has been waging a military campaign, but Ukraine has been waging a media campaign.” This is what actors do, never mind Zelensky. Even very bad actors like Justine.
I agree, it seems like a Ukrainian attack.
Using free lance Tajiks forces Russian security services to broaden their net. It looks like a desperate move since it will do more harm than good for the Ukrainians and their Western backers. There is no obvious reason for the FSB to do it, the Kremlin could have credibly declared martial law any time in the last year.
My questions include: Ramadan or Purim, Tajik or Azeri? These could all be peripheral aspects. What is the ethnic makeup of the victims?
A half-decent Unz conspiracy theory would be a nationalist Russian faction intentionally getting Tajiks in trouble under cover of Ukrainian blood lust, leading to mass deportations back to the ‘stans. If these hypothetical schemers were clever they would drop a few bogus clues to implicate Mossad, MI-6, CIA and others.
The shooters look ever more like patsies, not masterminds; most of the casualties
were caused by the fire, so: Violation of building code or prepositioned incendiary?
We are not anywhere near the bottom of it, but opportunity implicates
the (((owner))).
Yes it’s a South African accent.
She wasn´t “pushed out”, she´s laying low for a time.
It’s funny how they have ousted the conventional commander to replace him with a spy chief and then you get shadowy shit like Crocus.
The Ultra nationalist factions are probably aware that their own particular goal is to split the RussFed. So a temporary alliance with Central Asian Muslims in order to trigger pogroms of Muslims suits them. As much as it suits the CIA and Zelenskyy.
Two cheeks of the same arse.
There are reports that they poured a “flammable liquid” on the floor and seating. When those synthetics burn they put off deadly smoke. That would account for the deaths by smoke inhalation.
this is bibi sticking a finger in the russians eye by leaving an israeli state intelligence services calling card. but more an attempt to make biden look like the incompetent fool that he is. the owner of the crocus is trumps azeri billionaire friend and bibi wants trump back in the whitehouse.
the russians are demanding the intelligence from the u.s., that caused them to issue their warning from their embassy. this is further proof that the whitehouse is not in control of kiev or tel aviv, rather tel aviv runs both.
the cookie monster may be having her revenge for being forced to fall on her sword. don’t be surprised if she ends up as trumps secretary of state, as she easily shape shifts from demoncrat to ratpublican, that is if there is an “election” or a world left to hold one.
I agree that there is a detectable South African element to the accent. My guess is that the guy is a South African expat who has lived elsewhere for several years, long enough for his accent to fade somewhat.
“The Brits have already made it clear that they have ongoing black ops that operate outside the NATO architecture–hell, they boast about it on websites. “
I’m sure they do, and it was just an oversight that you forgot to give us the links…
A senior American officer literally encouraging terrorism against civilians …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/04/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-planning-russia-war/
https://archive.is/voNgX#selection-2441.0-2455.269
Can’t say Ukraine didn’t take Milley seriously, can you?
Holy shit, a uniformed officer got himself on record saying that?
Generally they publicly tend to disapprove of selective uniformed Special Forces as a little too radical, let alone borderline plausibly deniable terrorism.
Lmao you’re always around, like a sand fly, to defend the “honor” of the Brits. Maybe you should put me on mute?
Britain advocated “projecting force” into Russia 18 months before Milley. They wanted the long-range ATACMs from Washington last summer for this very reason. Biden didn’t give them up and Britain had a fit. They’re still having a fit.
And yes, the Brits have boasted that their JEF sabotage unit doesn’t play by NATO rules. Funny how the Russians started making nuclear threats against Britain (and only Britain) right around the time NS2 was destroyed. The Russians knew.
Somehow, I prefer to believe what the Russian investigators claim they’ve found about the killers. The Russians claim the suspects they arrested immediately after the bombing are Ukrainians.
I prefer not to believe what a lot of pundits and conspiracy theorists claim about the killers.
The SAS and MI6 don’t work for Britain. They work for the City of London, and ultimately the Rothschilds.
It’s ok if your mindset is that of a lad, whose only reward is a pat on the head for being a good team player in a global match.
Never mind that 2000 years of history is being squandered away on the British Isles.
Mercenary indeed.
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Why not. Follows the same plan as this.
2000 years of invasion, land theft, usury, slavery and genocide. I think that’s the part Britain takes pride in. Naturally the Rothschilds had nothing to do with that 🙄