A reasonable author can believe in a conspiracy, especially given cloudy environs like the fall of the Soviet Union. But to state the conspiracy as if it had been demonstrated and accepted as fact is to rightfully earn oneself the scorn and derision commonly given conspiracy mongers, especially when the attacks were publicly announced by the perpetrators of the attacks before they began.
We don’t know if the FSB was behind the Odessa fire, but we do know the FSB has killed lots of people under orders of Putin, and that is not a conspiracy theory.
I agree that this column veers into conspiracy theory, but since when have FReepers been so dismissive of false-flag theories?