Posted on 03/25/2024 4:41:57 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed American warnings of an imminent terrorist attack and urged leaders of the country’s security services to focus on catching Ukrainian spies instead.
Three days later, Islamic State gunmen rampaged through a concert hall outside Moscow, killing more than 130 people in the deadliest episode of terrorism in Russia in decades.
As Russia marked a national day of mourning on Sunday, the bloody assault on one of the nation’s best-known entertainment venues threatened to undermine Putin’s carefully cultivated strongman image and raised questions about the ability of the authoritarian state he has built to deliver on its promise of security for the Russian people.
It is a challenge that comes as Russia wages a costly war of attrition against neighboring Ukraine and struggles to prevent Ukrainian forces from striking targets deep inside Russian territory. Kyiv recently has managed a series of hits on oil refineries across Russia, disrupting production.
The return of Islamist terrorism is also a challenge for the Kremlin because it is at odds with the vision of the world presented in Russian propaganda—that Russia, in an alliance with developing countries and the Muslim world, is waging an existential struggle against the American-led West.
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Appeasing Islam and building them mosques never works.
Seems to me having public executions of the assailants might recoup some of that strongman image.
One minute Zeepers are posting articles saying the attack was a Putin false flag.
The next minute they are saying that’s what terrorist do.
The most confused bunch of morons I’ve ever observed.
Picture of you in the mirror, handsome 😂
No martyrs?
Not ISIS.
It was The Big Guy’s CIA.
CIA spin story
Hear, hear!
beshatting his adult diaper in rage, aka “blitzin’ da Depends”.
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