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Could have been a double whammy. There were people in the theater Putin wanted killed. He just got 80% of the supposed vote. 20% of Russians apparently don’t like him as there was no one else officially against him.

He now looks like this great leader in solving the attack. Russian intelligence paid them to kill some dissidents. Run to Ukraine to give more credit to a war that is unpopular after nearing 3 years.

I don’t care about the ratios but Russians are still losing men and equipment. It’s not a good look regardless if they “won” in Ukraine. Now they can make the excuse to use more excessive force besides WWII type munitions. They have non nuke bombs that could obliterate all of Ukraine in days. Counter productive, but they could.

mell says

Russia would like nothing more than capture a US or Ukrainian operative in flagranti and demonstrate to the world how evil the West can be (and maybe rightfully so).

Capturing a Ukrainian operative, yes, but not necessarily a US operative. As we have seen from the bombing of the NordStream pipeline, neither of the victims (Germany and Russia) wants to formally accuse the US of the terrorist act (really act of war) because neither wants to declare war on the US. Some of the deep state operatives (like Nuland) at the pay of the banksters are the ones trying to escalate conflict and ignite WWIII. The chaos-makers even try to throw Israel under the bus by initially having ISIS claim responsibility, as everyone in the diplomatic/intelligence circle knows that the handler of ISIS is Israel state intelligence services.

NuttBoxer says

Coincidentally(don't believe in them in these circumstances), the armed personnel being referenced above showed up to work un-armed that day. Wouldn't put it past the Kremlin, but motive is unclear at this time. And as I pointed out, many US intel/military people are saying it's Ukraine and CIA. What's their motivation to lie against their own country, and possibly former colleagues?

I agree that the people speaking out against (rogue) CIA and Ukraine elements are not lying. While false-flag operation by a modern state is always a possibility, I don't think Kremlin did it this time: Putin could have easily escalated after the drone bombings of Moscow buildings and the cross-border attacks into Russia proper that's been happening in the past year, no need to create a mass casualty event in a concert hall and risking being exposed by the shooters after they are caught. The guards being unarmed that day is likely the result of general low state of alertness/arming in a country that does not allow citizens to carry guns everywhere. The normal policemen in UK are not armed either, quite unlike in the US. In a country where private gun ownership rate is low to nearly non-existent, having police/guards carrying fire-arms at all time would actually increase the overall-risk (having guns stolen or grabbed and turned against the police/guards themselves).

I don't know exactly what it is, but there was some sort of armed force working that building who came to work that day without their guns. Definitely worth looking into.

RWSGFY says

Obvious: cut your aid to these Jew ISIS Ukies because Jew Nazi Ukies was't working.

LOL! Notice, the banksters are trying to throw Israel under the bus by initially having ISIS claiming responsibility for the mass killing. Everyone in the diplomatic/intelligence circles knows that the handler for ISIS is Israeli state intelligence services. I have been saying it for quite a while now, the latest scheme among the bankster cabal seems to be escalating conflicts and harvesting allies'/useful tools' bank accounts. We have been seeing that since the strict enforcement of jabs in Israel a couple years ago, the "accidental" bombing of Afghan translators and abandoning the other collaborators to vicious Afghan street violence/vengence, goading Ukrainians to attack Russian-speakers then Russia itself, bombing of the NordStream, etc.. All these developments are signaling that the banksters are trying to kill formerly privileged "allies" and "useful idiots" so their bank accounts can be harvested too. i.e. the gullible allies, especially the psychopaths/sociopaths among them, worked for a promise of money but most of the money never left the bank. Fundamentally, every single human being can be farmed like a cattle (behind every predator is another bigger predator); it's only the shared humanity and empathy for one another that prevents people from eating each other alive. Should have been obvious after the insider-scams like Bernie Madoff and hundreds years history of false Messiahs.

WookieMan says

Could have been a double whammy. There were people in the theater Putin wanted killed. He just got 80% of the supposed vote. 20% of Russians apparently don’t like him as there was no one else officially against him.

That makes little sense. If Putin wanted to kill a specific person, he could send his intelligence service to have the person suicided at home or in the car, like that Boeing whistle-blower's alleged suicide in his car in South Carolina before scheduled court testimony. 80% of popular votes is a very high rate; not a single US president has received 80% of popular votes in general election. Even if Putin wanted to get rid of the other 20%, shooting at random in a concert hall is likely end up killing far more supporters than the opposition.

He now looks like this great leader in solving the attack. Russian intelligence paid them to kill some dissidents. Run to Ukraine to give more credit to a war that is unpopular after nearing 3 years.

Russians mostly know who did it: the (possibly rogue elements of) CIA and other DC swamp-lead (globalist bankster) intelligence recruiting useful idiots on the ground. Putin doesn't want to declare war on the US so can't officially place the blame where it belongs; that actually doesn't make him look great in the eyes of Russian ultra-nationalists. That is likely the reason why the Nuland-Kagan gang of Neonazis/Neocons have planned the terrorist attack to begin with: after the scheme to use more western-leaning elements to overthrow Putin has failed, time to agitate the ultra-nationalists to overthrow Putin if he doesn't escalate the conflict. There is little chance of succeeding there either.

I don’t care about the ratios but Russians are still losing men and equipment. It’s not a good look regardless if they “won” in Ukraine. Now they can make the excuse to use more excessive force besides WWII type munitions. They have non nuke bombs that could obliterate all of Ukraine in days. Counter productive, but they could.

The war in Ukraine over the past two years has proved that it's impossible to defeat Russian army (and harvest Russian treasury like during the over throw of the Tsar by bankster-financed communists a century ago) without direct and formal US military invasion (even then, "success" would be thermonuclear war killing almost all bank account holders all over the world, along with most banksters themselves, and the humanity in aggregate). So the latest scheme seems to be aggravating the Russians enough that they would take over more and more parts of Ukraine, Poland, Baltics, etc., wiping out bank account holders there while making a new Russian empire spread out too thin again and ungovernable. The "success" of this scheme is once again at the cost of millions of deaths.

If you read through the OP, Americans mostly know who did it too. At least the intelligence and military do, and they aren't pointing at Russia or Isis...

Reality says

Even if Putin wanted to get rid of the other 20%, shooting at random in a concert hall is likely end up killing far more supporters than the opposition.

Not true. Think BLM here in the states. We know where they are. Neighborhoods they are in. If it were necessary were could easily stage an attack. We do the opposite and let them rage.... But if we wanted to eliminate BLM there are violent and non-violent ways. Russia used a violent way. Obviously I have no proof, but there's no point in the US or CIA in killing civilians in a Russian theater. Nor Ukraine.

100% of us don't know Russian society on the ground TODAY. If there's a neighborhood/area where Russia/Putin knows a lot of people don't like him, AFTER A RECENT "ELECTION" where 50% of them didn't vote for Putin in that area, what do you think is going to happen?? There's a reason to every attack besides being a sociopath.

He hires out Islamic terrorist, makes sure there's no armed guards and kills a bunch of people that were against him. How could the US or Isreal unarm the guards if that's there job??? They run to Ukraine and he blames it on them because there's still a lot of Muslim in Russia. It's a win win from his perspective. Rallies the populous, doesn't dig at the Muslims and can blame Ukraine.

Also 80% is statistically impossible in any culture voting wise if there's an opponent, as was the case in Russia. Out of 10 of your best friends more than 2 for sure don't like you, but you all still hang out because the other friends like each other and you get along well enough. Putin had ZERO opposition on the ballot and STILL lost 20% of the vote. When it comes to a dictator actually putting election results out and 20% didn't pick him, if true, that's a problem.

Putin has more than 2 friends that don't like him.... that's my point. It's not hard to find an area of opposition and knock a bunch out even if there were pro Putin people there. The pro Putin people stay on board because the terrorist fled to Ukraine. Putin is the hero and caught them. Ukraine bad so keep fighting. Trust me, you don't see or hear from real Russians online or TV. They're puppets. No different than our media and websites.

"Occam's Razor is weak in these Putin haters, Cricket." Putin has nothing to gain by provoking himself. He has plenty of provocation, too much in fact, from NATO et alia and the banksters trying to start WWIII. If anything, he is showing restraint.

Which is weird to say about a KGB dictator...

NuttBoxer says

Which is weird to say about a KGB dictator...

Putin was a relatively minor member of the KGB.

Remember, George H. Bush was head of the CIA as CIA director, and it was after his presidency we started engaging in endless wars and our presidents all enacted the same fucking policies regardless of who became president with the only exception being trivial social issues which really don't matter.

richwicks says

George W. Bush was head of the CIA

You mean the older Bush, W's father.

Patrick says

You mean the older Bush, W's father.

Yes, I do. I corrected it and thanks for pointing it out. That's odd, I didn't mistake the two, I'm just not used to typing "George H. Bush".

NuttBoxer says

Scott Ritter has just given his take on the Moscow terrorist attacks yesterday

He says there is a lot of evidence pointing towards Ukraine and the CIA being behind itRealScottRitter

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/flying-garbage-tuesday-june-4-2024

Russian state media platform Tass (their version of PBS) ran a story yesterday wordily headlined, “Former US intelligence officer says was not let leave US to attend forum in St. Petersburg.” Yesterday, Biden critic Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, a former UN weapons inspector, and a frequent Russia Today columnist, was intercepted by police in New York just after boarding a plane to St. Petersburg. The police pulled his passport.

Scott has constantly been a painful thorn in the Biden Administration’s paw over the last couple years, as a vocal critic of the Ukraine Proxy War. In March, for example, in the aftermath of the Crokus City Hall attack, Scott told Judge Napolitano, “We have become the terrorists. I hope people understand that. We are a terrorist nation.”

Par for the course. I hope Scott has another passport before they Assange him...

personal

So because Ritter is a pedo, everything he says is a lie? I assume that's your logic. But if that's true, why did the US take his passport? He's lying about Ukraine right, so shouldn't they just do exactly what you did, call him a liar and move on..?

You see how ridiculous you sound, of course you don't...

Now let's go onto to the next piece. Please detail anywhere, any quote where I said I support Putin, denied Putin is a pedo(seems likely he is). If you can't, I'll report your comment as personal because it's attacking me, not the idea, and is completely unfounded. @Patrick, this type of behavior is very common here, and should be seen as a personal attack as well. Slandering someone's character with zero proof.

Now if we were going to speculate on who supports pedo's. I'd say your statement makes you the most likely pedo supporter, as you said Pizzagate is suspected, not proven.

WTF does Scott Ritter know these days to be cited as some sort of authority? He has been out of the military for decades. Believe it was the first Gulf War (30+ years ago!!) when he was a junior officer before he went to work with the anti-Semites and thugs at the United Nations as a weapons inspector.

Face it - Ritter is only popular because he has been shitting on America for decades and is pumped up and promoted by Islamists and Commies.

Patrick says

Yesterday, Biden critic Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, a former UN weapons inspector, and a frequent Russia Today columnist, was intercepted by police in New York just after boarding a plane to St. Petersburg. The police pulled his passport.

And they did it again:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/hit-men-and-heifers-thursday-august

“FBI raids New York home of former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter: 'Ongoing federal investigation’.” The sub-headline added, “The raid came a day after Ritter posted a photo of himself with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” So, be aware of the possibilities whenever you pose for selfies.

Ritter has been a thorn in the U.S. government’s paw ever since the former U.N. weapons inspector protested the Iraq War, and correctly predicted the U.S. would never find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was right, and he won’t shut up about it. ...

Recently Ritter has turned his attention to the U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine, of which he has been a relentless public critic. His efforts have not gone unnoticed. Two months ago, FBI agents, citing vague directions from the U.S. State Department, stopped Ritter in the airport on his way to an economic conference in Russia and confiscated his passport, which has probably now been shredded and scattered from a military cargo plane somewhere over the lower Antilles. (We aren’t sure yet.)

Yesterday, the FBI raided Ritter’s modest home in Bethlehem, New York. It must thave been much less exciting for the agents than raiding Mar-a-Lago. As Fox noted, the raid came one day after Ritter met with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., although any connection between the two events remains murky. Your guess is as good as anyone else’s.

It’s not clear what they were looking for. The FBI won’t say, citing “ongoing investigation,” but Ritter told reporters the case involves alleged violations of FARA (the Foreign Agents Registration Act).

FARA is the same law the government invoked to prosecute General Mike Flynn during the Trump Administration (although General Flynn was only charged with ‘making false statements to FBI agents’). FARA is also the same law the government has not charged Hunter Biden with, even though the evidence is so clear that Hunter’s gun-violation judge even asked the government about potential FARA charges against President Cabbage’s son.

Presumably, FBI agents were looking for evidence in Scott’s home and the trunks of his cars to support some kind of FARA indictment.

The persecuted are the oracles pointing toward truth. Satan frowns.

socal2 says

WTF does Scott Ritter know these days to be cited as some sort of authority? He has been out of the military for decades. Believe it was the first Gulf War (30+ years ago!!) when he was a junior officer before he went to work with the anti-Semites and thugs at the United Nations as a weapons inspector.

Face it - Ritter is only popular because he has been shitting on America for decades and is pumped up and promoted by Islamists and Commies.

Ritter is a pedophile to boot. I don't understand why p-netters are suddenly defending a pedo. They didn't defend, say, Podesta. Weird.

Is it another case of this:



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