You can’t see how one is different to the other considering Putin and co never tell the truth, always obfuscate and misdirect and have form repeatedly for staging attacks on their own people?
I didn't say that the CIA would warn Russia; rather, I mentioned that the CIA had accurate warnings about an attack. Did you assume that the US Embassy's warnings originated from the Nickelodeon channel?
Ok. Ill chew it for you
The Discovery channel is my bet.
That's pretty funny when you posted that tweet suggesting it was the Israelis.
You don't need to assume that the US had the intelligence - we know that CIA had the intelligence because they passed it to State and the US Embassy in Russia spells it out in pretty unambiguous terms the following warning for US citizens:
First of all, a terrorist attack is never funny. When a Likud senior party member says in pretty uncertain terms over and over that Russia will pay for it, are you dismissing Israeli involvement out of hand? Why? They've done plenty worse in Gaza.
Source ?
How do you think the US Embassy warning came about?
Just curious why you presume the source of the information was the CIA ?
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It is always attractive to imagine that everything has two sides (for many people it's just black and white, or good and evil, or God and Satan).
They had pretty specific warnings, and the US embassy even publicized the warnings about large events and concerts. I guess at least this time Putin wasn't orchestrating it. It's abundantly clear that the Russian security apparatus is entirely focused on maintaining Putin's regime rather than ensuring national security. It's reminiscent of Beslan, when the FSB apparently knew about the terrorist attack four hours before it happened and the local police weeks before.
I take it you never really were in a situation when you had to run for your life.
ISIS isn't really a coherent organization anymore. What you have now are decentralized cells or lone wolf types who get radicalized online. The last attack in Europe was apparently a 15 year old kid who stabbed a Jewish man earlier this month after releasing an ISIS pledge video just before. Last year, there were a couple of lone wolf attacks in Belgium and France as well.
They speculated it might be. Apparently you think it might be, since you're not ruling anything out.
That’s right. A kid in Zurich almost killed a Jewish man with a knife. Swiss citizen with Algerian roots. I think they are still investigating as to how he got radicalised.
Surely we can still say Hurr Hurr, Russia and Putin evil anyway without actually knowing the full detail…..they’ve kind of got form for it at this point
Yes, you can.
The details aren’t available yet but when they are a lot of people will view them through the lense of the Russian state being evil. And in my opinion quite fairly, given their past form. I’m not sure why you’re so opposed to this to the point of being sarcastic about it. Do you think they’re good guys that care about their people?
Do you think America is a "good guy"? Or England ? Is it fair to view these states as evil given their past form?
Can you tell us more about Amir Weitmann's role as a "Likud senior party member"?
I personally don't give a rat's ass about what other people think of Russia or its current leader. Especially the ones who hold Russia as some kind of mustache twirling villain, being evil for the lulz.
Never heard of this before...that's crazy.
Yes, there were people speculating that it might be a false flag op...weird one to deny. The tone of your posts is weirdly patronizing when all you're essentially saying is 'we don't know anything at this point, so I'm not ruling anything in or out'. Hardly the musings of a geopolitical oracle...
What sort of simpleton sees nation states as good guys or bad guys?
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I was drawing a comparison from earlier when people were made to believe that Hamas had done all sorts which was found to be unfounded and then it turned out the zionists did those things (raped hostages, or those they subsequently murdered). And in that scenario the truth did not come out (and hasn't yet, fully) in the immediate 24 hours following. I guess there will be more to this than just ISIS taking ownership.
Apparently the warning was completely unspecific. Which gives them some plausible deniability. Again, there's too little information at the moment.
They did not speculate but outright pointed the finger at Putin and there was no doubt to be found in their posts.
Fecking hell. You should probably extricate yourself from that particular echo chamber.
If think it makes more sense to think in goverments, regimes and actions in decades. Democracies at least have some fair methods of regime change. Totalitarian states dont. But anyway we are going into whataboutism.
