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They did not speculate but outright pointed the finger at Putin and there was no doubt to be found in their posts.

I'm just astounded by how fast people chose the "Putin dunnit" explanation whilst the terrorist attack was still underway and people gunned down, without anyone of us realistically having any kind of meaningful intel.

I'm not patronizing anyone as I currently am as much in the dark as anyone else. Just questioning how people made up their mind so quickly with little to no information.
You’re just making shit up now. Which is ironic, seeing as you’re positioning yourself as a lone voice of rationality here. Re-read the first page. Literally nobody states the false flag stuff as certainty. It’s all speculation. And it’s pushed back on immediately.
 

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Fecking hell. You should probably extricate yourself from that particular echo chamber.
Its every second comment on twitter "israel/mossad somehow did this. Why dont Isis ever attack Israel?".
 

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Reading around on Reddit etc (I know, I know) speculation is still rife that this attack is a false flag, designed and carried out by Russia to tighten support for further mobilisation and an escalation of action in Ukraine, likely as well pinning blame on their collaboration with the west.

The attack in context just makes no sense to me.

Surely, given recent events, a false flag of that nature wouldn't involve a group of armed gunmen storming a theatre in this way, in an attack that carries all the hallmarks of an ISIS style terror attack we've seen before?

Surely a false flag would rather be an escalation of what we've seen before, i.e. missile, bombings or drone attacks on targets inside the russian border, potentially inside Moscow. That would be much easier to fabricate and blame on Ukraine and as a result the West.

This is a tricky storm for Putin to navigate that's for sure. How he plays this is going to tell us a lot.
 

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Do you think America is a "good guy"? Or England ? Is it fair to view these states as evil given their past form?
I didn’t mention America or England in any of my posts?
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.

While I personally consider Putin as an authoritarian thug from a bygone era, he has a certain idea of Russia, and in his own twisted way cares about his country and its people. Does it mean that I agree with him or his methods? No, of course not.

As of being evil, the Western democracies have proved to be as destructive on an international scale, if not more, as Putin's or Xi Jinping's dictatorships. It might still not dawn for a lot of people in the West who live on the sunny side of the current world's order, but that's how the global South and the Wretched of the Earth feel.

There's no good guys in this story.
You’ve got a weird chip on your shoulder about someone saying the Russian regime are bad guys.

I don’t know if you’re trying to make a wider point about democracy versus dictatorship, East vs West, whatever….you’ve run round the houses in a few posts on it now so I’ll say it plainly and let’s have done with it:
Putin is a prat, has a long history of being a prat, is being a prat at present and will probably be a prat in the future. You can’t be surprised when people associate him with pratishness.
What sort of simpleton sees nation states as good guys or bad guys?

One thing’s for sure though. Putin has recent, personal, form for wrongdoing that eclipses anything those other countries have done over the same period of time. Hence, as @T00lsh3d says, he is seen through a different lens.
Thankyou, some semblance of sanity has entered the room
 

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Why the CIA would warn Russia if the source was within the FSB, the FSB would already know
more obvious answer would be their sources/work against ISIS directly

in terms of why they warned Russia. Aside from the standard, it could also have been to get ahead of the game with regard to any Russian rhetoric of trying to blame Ukraine and/or the West for the attack.
 

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I didn’t mention America or England in any of my posts?
I didn't say you did but you used the term good guys so was just curious who are the good guys according to you?

What sort of simpleton sees nation states as good guys or bad guys?

One thing’s for sure though. Putin has recent, personal, form for wrongdoing that eclipses anything those other countries have done over the same period of time. Hence, as @T00lsh3d says, he is seen through a different lens.
Toolshed used the term good guys so take up your first point with him. As to your second point how recent are we going? Is Iraq and Afghanistan part 2 included or we going back to part 1? Is the support for what Israel is doing recent enough?


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.
I agree with your points generally and yes a lot of the discussion here is probably meant for the general CE thread.
 

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You’re just making shit up now. Which is ironic, seeing as you’re positioning yourself as a lone voice of rationality here. Re-read the first page. Literally nobody states the false flag stuff as certainty. It’s all speculation. And it’s pushed back on immediately.
After re-reading the first page, yeah I admit that I went overboard when saying that there was no doubt in their posts. I guess I was just irked by the speculations while people were dying.

I didn’t mention America or England in any of my posts?
You’ve got a weird chip on your shoulder about someone saying the Russian regime are bad guys.

I don’t know if you’re trying to make a wider point about democracy versus dictatorship, East vs West, whatever….you’ve run round the houses in a few posts on it now so I’ll say it plainly and let’s have done with it:
Putin is a prat, has a long history of being a prat, is being a prat at present and will probably be a prat in the future. You can’t be surprised when people associate him with pratishness.
No, I don't. Putin is a bad guy. A very bad one.

I'm not and that's not the point I'm trying to make.
 

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more obvious answer would be their sources/work against ISIS directly

in terms of why they warned Russia. Aside from the standard, it could also have been to get ahead of the game with regard to any Russian rhetoric of trying to blame Ukraine and/or the West for the attack.
My quote was not about why US warned Russia

My quote is about a poster that said that maybe the US found the information within their FSB informants.....And then proceed to inform the FSB. What it doesn't make sense because if the FSB already knew as the US took the information from them why re inform them back
 

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According to FSB they where trying to cross the Ukrainian border and had contacts within Ukraine. It might have been a ISIS attack but we all know how the Russian propaganda machine will spin it.

 

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Fecking hell. You should probably extricate yourself from that particular echo chamber.
Ha.I see it from three very different accounts. I just think anti-zionism is becoming mainstream. That will include loads of crazy theories, and we are seeing judaism already being conflated with zionism.
 

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I didn't say you did but you used the term good guys so was just curious who are the good guys according to you?
I said (specifically referring to the Russian regime) do you think they’re good guys?
If you’re digging for me to say that the West are the good guys so you can clobber me with Iraq, Afghanistan etc etc then I’ll have to disappoint you. The west do plenty wrong and their motives for involvement have been rightly questioned. That being said, none of it compares to Putin’s “denazification of Ukraine” bullshit (to bring us back to the original topic)
No, I don't. Putin is a bad guy. A very bad one.

I'm not and that's not the point I'm trying to make.
Sound, let’s leave it, life’s too short
 

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I said (specifically referring to the Russian regime) do you think they’re good guys?
If you’re digging for me to say that the West are the good guys so you can clobber me with Iraq, Afghanistan etc etc then I’ll have to disappoint you. The west do plenty wrong and their motives for involvement have been rightly questioned. That being said, none of it compares to Putin’s “denazification of Ukraine” bullshit (to bring us back to the original topic)
I'm not diggin for anything. I asked you a few questions, no need to imagine my motives.
 

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My quote was not about why US warned Russia

My quote is about a poster that said that maybe the US found the information within their FSB informants.....And then proceed to inform the FSB. What it doesn't make sense because if the FSB already knew as the US took the information from them why re inform them back
You don’t want to out the informants do you?
 

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My quote was not about why US warned Russia

My quote is about a poster that said that maybe the US found the information within their FSB informants.....And then proceed to inform the FSB. What it doesn't make sense because if the FSB already knew as the US took the information from them why re inform them back
I don't have any knowledge that makes me believe it is so but it isn't far fetched to think parts of FSB might know something and that that information doesn't reach the relevant people at the top of FSB because of the nature of the organisation. Wouldn't be unthinkable in any intelligence service, and especially not in the security services of a failing nation.
 

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I have no idea either, yet.
It begs the question what is ISIS and who does it serve.

I remember a lot of people here buying the zionist propaganda in October by the mouthful and once it comes to light that it was completely unfounded it so happens that the zionist are doing what they accused others of, as is their MO, and their owned/influenced media keeps silent.

I suspect this is going to be a lot more complicated than "oh, they did it, you can go home now folks".
Is this some degree of dog whistling or just a really poorly articulated post?
 

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They did not speculate but outright pointed the finger at Putin and there was no doubt to be found in their posts.

I'm just astounded by how fast people chose the "Putin dunnit" explanation whilst the terrorist attack was still underway and people gunned down, without anyone of us realistically having any kind of meaningful intel.

I'm not patronizing anyone as I currently am as much in the dark as anyone else. Just questioning how people made up their mind so quickly with little to no information.
How are you "astounded"? The main questions on people minds when ever anything like this happens is whodunnit and why. Putin has previous so of course its part of the speculation.
 

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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.
Good job I never said the attack was funny then isn't it?
 

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Russia is releasing footage of initial interrogations with the shooters. They seem to be saying they all done it for cash offered by some preacher on telegram...
 

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Amazed they let themselves be captured. Now they can look forward to the rest of their lives being raped and tortured in a Russian prison.
 

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As of being evil, the Western democracies have proved to be as destructive on an international scale, if not more, as Putin's or Xi Jinping's dictatorships. It might still not dawn for a lot of people in the West who live on the sunny side of the current world's order, but that's how the global South and the Wretched of the Earth feel.
I find these statements extraordinary. As if the "global south" and "wretched of the earth" had a united position formulated in a St.Petersburg office.
 

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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.
I don't know.....
 

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It begs the question what is ISIS and who does it serve.

I remember a lot of people here buying the zionist propaganda in October by the mouthful and once it comes to light that it was completely unfounded it so happens that the zionist are doing what they accused others of, as is their MO, and their owned/influenced media keeps silent.

I suspect this is going to be a lot more complicated than "oh, they did it, you can go home now folks".
Oh dear...
 

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Yeah, like people who just murdered 100+ people would be captured like that.
 

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You're not alone thinking this. I expected far more resistance from those alleged shooters instead of being arrested so easily.
Yeah… heavily armed men aren’t going down without a fight. They probably wouldn’t spill all their plans and motives instantly either. I guess this was all an inside job after all.