Posted on 03/22/2024 2:03:58 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed warnings about a potential terror incident in Moscow just days before gunmen attacked a concert hall in the city on Friday.
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Earlier this month, the US embassy in Russia issued a security alert warning about a potential terror attack in Moscow and urged people to avoid crowds, monitor local media for updates, and be aware of surroundings.
"The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours," the March 7 security alert said.
Nothing happened in that exact timeframe, and Putin addressed the warnings a couple weeks later, criticizing the warning three days ago as "provocative."
TASS said the aim was to intimidate and destabilize Russian society and quoted Putin on March 19 saying "the recent provocative statements of a number of official Western structures about the possibility of terrorist attacks in Russia."
"All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society," Putin said, according to TASS.
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"All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society," Putin said, according to TASS.
The neocons are shooting for WW3.
Before the election.
And as I said in Kyiv three weeks ago, this supplemental funding will ensure Putin faces some nasty surprises this year.
I think Putin dismissed it because the Biden administration warned him to be on the lookout for domestic white extremists from the US which, of course, is out biggest domestic threat too.
The old disinformation trick.
CIA would not know about that. / s
Yup
I’m betting it was Disgruntled Wagner Group veterans.
False Flag:
Rosgvardia special forces arrived at the building an hour after the shooting started.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1771238889253962202
If the West and the CIA don’t want to get accused of terror attacks, their spokespeople shouldn’t be rolling around talking about “nasty surprises” and “asymmetric warfare”.
One step closer to all hell breaking loose in a full blown WWIII.
Wagner Group veterans aren’t likely to blow up and shoot their own people.
"nasty surprises" and "asymmetric warfare" - Western spokesterror people.
Of course they would.
During their 400-mile march toward Moscow, the Wagner fighters shot down six Russian aircraft: five helicopters and an Ilyushin Il-22M Coot aerial command post and radio-relay plane.
Putin is obviously going to blame Ukraine. I think Ukraine doing this is highly unlikely. They would not do this because it would be bad optics for Ukraine. (I know, speaking of optics with regard to such a travesty may seem callous, but wars are often callous.)
My next thought is this was a false flag attack by Putin so he could blame Ukraine or the US. The fact the US gave warning means that would not work against the US, but still could work against Ukraine. Reichstag fire anyone?
Another thought is this was Hamas or Hamas sympathizers who were upset Russia voted against the cease fire between Israel and Hamas in the UN.
Yet another thought is it was some anti-Putin faction in Russia. After all, a lot of powerful people including Putin supporters were likely to be at such an exclusive venue.
Again, definitely not the US. If it was us, why would we have tried to warn Putin?
Sure our intel services have a decent idea who did this, but Putin will probably again ignore any info we give Putin as propaganda.
Just spit balling here. Any thoughts about the above or other ideas?
Oh, should have added another thing pointing to false flag is a lot of anti-Putin people may have been there, and then Putin can blame Ukraine. Two birds with one stone. And he is that ruthless.
Smells like that but other possibilities exist. See my posts https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4226185/posts?page=15#15 and https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4226185/posts?page=17#17
And someone now has egg on their face.
He should have taken it more seriously. He certainly could have investigated it quietly to verify it or not.
Just like Stalin dismissed all the intelligence that the Nazis were going to attack on June 22. He thought it was the Brits trying to provoke the Soviets into the war.
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