Posted on 09/16/2001 5:56:05 PM PDT by FReethesheeples
Using "Scenario Analysis",
It is POSSIBLE, but hopefully not LIKELY, that Russia could have been active or complicit itself in the attacks.
The scenario goes like this:
Putin is certainly correctly WARY of the Southern CIS former Republics which are Moslem, as well as of Chechnya, which cased him untold grief. Moreover, Afghansitan was the USSR's "VietNam" and Putin is well-advised to want to avoid a SECOND catastrophic quagmire there, with Russia as the USSR, having been eventually terribly humiliated there previously.
However, Putin, himself a former top KGB Officer, and capable of complex strategic plots (the Russians are the best chess players in the world), has presided over a nation which less than 24 hours BEFORE the WTC-Pentagon attacks, "Locked-in" with MiGs a U.S. spyplane (for, next step, shooting down)& within the PAST 24 hours has been reported as sending bombers/fighters to probe the U.S.'s strategic defense perimeter.
Are these actions, as reported on Drudge last week & yesterday, the actions of an "ally"?
ALternative:
Drudge Report posted erroneous articles, which has happened before and /or the hostile incidents were less than they appeared to be.
In any event, one must wonder what the hell Russia is up to if the two recent separate Drudge Report accounts are accurate, which I cannot in any way warrant.
NOT a statement of fact.
Nor does it seem to be a LIKELY scenario, just a "Worst Case" scenario, such as the U.S. military, and initially Shell Oil, which invented "scenario analysis" as a powerful analytic tool of strategic planning, would use in such advanced planning.
These are unusual & HOSTILE acts.
Ususally I enjoy sarcasm, but NOT in your case:
these hostile actions by the Russian airforce are either real (reported "MiG voice recordings" are not alien sightings, chump) & verifiable or were fraudulently reported on Drudge, CL.
Speaking on behalf of the New Galactic Order, Planet Mars denounces the action in the strongest of language and pledges support to the US, including military help.
Bash Martians will ya? We know where you dream.
And where does the money go & come from?
Undoubtedly, bin Laden was a BIG part of it.
It seems improbable that bin Laden acted WITHOUT (non-Afghan) State Support, i.e., he acted with State Support.
Which State(s) supported bin Laden, then?
Bin Laden, or someone, DID, apparently short insurance stacks before Tues., profiting BIG-Time from falling equity prices on insurance and re-insurance stocks.
BIG TIME Stock "SHORTS", possibly yielding BILLIONS of dollars in profits to the terrorists themselves &/or their accomplices, including State(s)(?).
And where does the money go & come from?
Undoubtedly, bin Laden was a BIG part of it.
It seems improbable that bin Laden acted WITHOUT (non-Afghan) State Support, i.e., he acted with State Support.
Which State(s) supported bin Laden, then?
Bin Laden, or someone, DID, apparently short insurance stacks before Tues., profiting BIG-Time from falling equity prices on insurance and re-insurance stocks.
BIG TIME Stock "SHORTS", possibly yielding BILLIONS of dollars in profits to the terrorists themselves &/or their accomplices, including State(s)(?).
MiGs are identified flying objects, NOT UFOs.
At least lets have precision in terms if we are engaged in flame wars.
FReegards, & ;^)
Morevoer, the most IMPROBABLE & "far out" of scenarios have proven to have occurred in the past 12 years, e.g., most notably the fall of the USSR.
FReegards, & ;^)
Morevoer, the most IMPROBABLE & "far out" of scenarios have proven to have occurred in the past 12 years, e.g., most notably the fall of the USSR.
Who has been very very angry with us recently, humiliated even?
That said, I think two recent UN conflicts are most relevant. One, removing us from the human rights commission and, Two, the latest Race relations commission (or whatever it was called). Somehow, these two events come into play.
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