[se99tp]

I think this reveals more about the nature of the Kremlin's methods used in its foreign policy. It is probably not shocking for long-term observers but nevertheless it shows once again cruelty of the regime.

[4rcane]

I call BS. Maybe 9/11 was done by US government because this is their nature for foreign policy

[cardinal4]

The headline makes no sense..

[PIF]

The GRU maybe, FSB nope -> BS

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[VitacoreVision]

US National Insecurity: The Art Of Blaming Russia (For Everything)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-24/us-national-insecurity-art-blaming-russia-everything

[mkjessup]

If we’re going to believe this guy, why wouldn’t we believe the allegations made by Edward Snowden?

One person’s patriot is another person’s turncoat.

[McGruff]

There’s two side to every story:

Not surprisingly, the Russians have furiously dismissed the claims by their former spy. ‘This theory about the plane being deliberately blown up on Putin’s orders can only come from someone with a sick mind who is intent on revenge,’ snorted one Russian intelligence source.

‘Look at Karpichkov’s background — he has fallen out with all his old sponsors whether in Moscow, Riga or London, and probably the CIA, too. No one trusts him, and he invents far-fetched nonsense. Linking it to the apartment block explosions — well, these were also absurd claims for which no proof was ever produced.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3374231/Did-Putin-plant-holiday-jet-bomb-killed-224-Russians-s-outrageous-theory-ex-KGB-agent-claims-dossier-proves-Kremlin-orchestrated-atrocity-justify-waging-war-Syria-decide-yourself.html

But if it suits your agenda you’ll believe anything.

Wonder how many times this conspiracy theory will be posted.

[nomad]

BULL! I`m far more likely to believe that koranimals did that than The Kremlin. Next I suppose this guy is going to say Putin has been murdering Christians and other ‘infidels’ across the ME, or dropping arms to these unicorn groups.

[Kudsman]

Where did “New World Standard Critique” come from? It’s not a news source I recall seeing before. Is there proof of what is being asserted or just conjecture?

[BobL]

Given the strength of their military and their just-completed modernization of their nukes, the Russians DO NOT need a pre-text to project force anywhere in the world. No one’s going to stop them (especially considering the hollowed-out state of our military).

They did not kill their own people, no need.

[trebb]

Riiiiight - as if anyone needs a "Gulf of Tonkin" moment to justify going after terrorists....

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Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB [Power]
Alexander Litvinenko & Yuri Felshtinsky

This book, co-authored by Alexander Litvinenko, the victim of the notorious 2006 London polonium poisoning, attempts to demonstrate that modern Russia's most fundamental problems do not result from the radical reforms of the liberal period of Yeltsin's terms as president, but from the open or clandestine resistance offered to these reforms by the Russian special services. It was they who unleashed the first and second Chechen wars, in order to divert Russia away from the path of democracy and towards dictatorship, militarism, and chauvinism.

The authors alleged that the Russian apartment bombings and other September 1999 terrorist acts were committed by the Federal Security Service. Litvinenko and Felshtinsky wrote that the bombings were a false flag operation intended to justify Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power.

Originally published in 2002
(223 pages)

http://www.libertypublishinghouse.com/Blowing_up_Russia_E.aspx

[odds]

The way this article is written suggests to me that the Russians started military operation in Syria after the mentioned Russian passenger plane was shot down. Obviously that is not true.

The Russians were doing well so far as public opinion (not western government stance) in the west was concerned. In launching attacks in Syria, the Russians didn’t look for ‘western consent’.

The Russians, as far as I recall, had initially extended their full support to fight ISIS as part of the International coalition led by the U.S. in early months of ISIS becoming known, remember? That however went nowhere because the U.S. and coalition were only bombing ISIS sporadically in Iraq. ISIS’s main nerve center has been Syria.

No doubt the Russians also went to Syria to keep Assad in power. That is no mystery. We have done everything to portray Assad as the awful guy whilst doing absolutely nothing meaningful about ISIS.

So, did Jordan burn the Jordanian pilot to attack ISIS? Did French government operatives, speaking fluent French, kill all those people in France recently for France to up their bombing of ISIS? Did ISIS really behead those American hostages? Did ISIS really fight the Kurds in Iraq, kill and enslave Yazidis? Maybe it was the Russians or Assad all along!

Anything is possible, though the article reads like a James Bond movie, where the Russian spy defects to Britain, and the Brits save the world from imminent disaster.