Putin accuses Ukraine of 'resorting to terrorist methods on instructions of West'

Anadolu News Agency ^ | 3/19/2024 | Elena Teslova

[marcusmaximus]

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Turning to the announcement of a number of Western embassies in Russia about a terrorist threat alert, Putin called them "frankly provocative."

"All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society," he said.

Head of the Central Election Commission Elle Pamfilova said on Monday that the terrorist threat alert was meant to decrease voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election.

[marcusmaximus]

Putin’s solution will be to build more mosques in Russia.

[EEGator]

We have no idea what Russia did, or did not, look in to.

Did you expect Putin to come out and say mea culpa?
Or say we tried but failed?

[marcusmaximus]

Putin built the mosques for the terrorists.

[marcusmaximus]

Build more mosques in Moscow. That’ll fix it.

[Zhang Fei]

This is one reason people who say dictators who start wars to stay in power are wrong. War is an all-consuming exercise, uses up tons of resources that have to be taken from the civilian economy, That stokes discontent.

Resource diversion aside, war requires attention that is diverted from internal security. Praetorians sent to the front lines can’t protect the palace. Every ruler has internal rivals who will goose step and kiss his ring right up to the moment the ruler gets his coup de grace.

While there’s an outside chance Putin knew of this attack and instructed his men to let it through in hopes of pinning it on Ukraine and therefore goosing recruitment for the war, odds are it’s just a consequence of his securitate using all of its manpower and time protecting key supply nodes from Ukrainian spies supplying information to drone operators. Ultimately, wars are destabilizing in the domestic milieu because the state’s hard power is focused on fighting an external enemy while internal rivals are plotting, planning and marshalling their resources to make a bid for the throne.

This is why conquerors often pause even though their armies could make further gains. They need to weed out over-ambitious generals hoping to become rulers in their own right and stabilize a ship of state made unstable by the rise of victorious military commanders (e.g. Prigozhin) with men loyal to them personally. The alternative is to gain huge empires that are then commandeered by military commanders who take power while wiping out the ruling families under whose aegis these gains took place. Alexander and China’s First Emperor are just two examples of great conquerors whose ruling families were killed to the last with their demise.

[Navy Patriot]

Both.

[GBA]

Says the man invading his neighbor and launching missile and drone attacks against them? But his neighbor is the terrorist? Hahahahaha … right. That would be seriously funny if it wasn’t so serious and seriously deranged, too.

May God have mercy on you Vlad. Got the feeling you’re gonna need His Mercy even more than we, the people, here do.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Remember that something like 15% of the population in "Russia" is Muslims, almost entirely in places forcibly annexed into its' empire by Moscow. Including 50% of the population of KAZAN, the namesake city on the Volga of one of our most prolific Putin promoters. Chechens especially resent rule by Moscow, and have done stuff like this before. Could it be ISIS? Yes it could.

What is NOT is Ukraine. No military or economic payout to be had. Muslims are insane, driven by their religion. Ukrainians are not.

False flag by Putin? Wouldn't rule it out. We'll see how it all plays out.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

This is one reason people who say dictators who start wars to stay in power are wrong. War is an all-consuming exercise, uses up tons of resources that have to be taken from the civilian economy, That stokes discontent.

Not in Russia. Russians are religiously conditioned to sacrifice their very lives to advance the policies of their Tsars. They even have a famous opera about it.

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/repertoire/opera/susanin1/

[dfwgator]

Russians have a ‘cursed capacity for suffering’.

[MeganC]

“Zeepers hardest hit.”

Nope. More like fifty dead Ruzzians are hardest hit.

[Zhang Fei]

[Not in Russia. Russians are religiously conditioned to sacrifice their very lives to advance the policies of their Tsars. They even have a famous opera about it.

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/repertoire/opera/susanin1/]

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Imperial cults are organized and funded by ruling houses in hopes of legitimizing and prolonging their rule. Roman rulers were semi-divine, as were the ruling houses of Alexander and China’s First Emperor, at least in the way they depicted themselves to the hoi polloi. Their falls from power were no less spectacular or bloody. Effusive expressions of loyalty under duress or via material inducements are different from what people do when unbound.

[marcusmaximus]

Where’s Putin?

[marcusmaximus]

Where’s Putin? Why won’t he address his citizens to reassure them after the attack?

[Kazan]

Are you opposed to religious freedom? Probably since you support Zelensky destroying churches in Ukraine.

[marcusmaximus]

8 hours and no statement by “Putin”.

[Kazan]

You think Putin is dead AGAIN?!

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Imperial cults are organized and funded by ruling houses in hopes of legitimizing and prolonging their rule.

You've just described the Mongol empire, the paradigm which Moscow copied to overcome all the other cities in the forest zone of what had been Kievan Rus. In 600 years it hasn't changed all that much.

Look into this "Eurasianism" cult that is influencing Putin now.

[dennisw]

“Tell Putin to stop building mosques in Russia.”

Putin has a thing for the Muslims same as Hitler did. Putin has been sucking up to Iranian Mullahs forever. Hitler admired them and deployed some Balkan Muslims in WW2.

[dennisw]

“Tell Putin to stop building mosques in Russia”

Internal migration within Putin’s effed up Rus empire, has brought hordes of Muslims to the Moscow region. They do lots of the grunt labor there such as construction work. So must be loads of mosques now in greater Moscow.