Gunmen in combat fatigues fire at crowds at Moscow concert hall, a big blaze follows

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Gunmen in combat fatigues fire at crowds at Moscow concert hall, a big blaze follows
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This is nuts. This better not be some bullshit to manufacture consent for war escalation.

A lot has been said about Call of Duty MWII, but if your theory is correct then we'll have to say that, of all things, its plot was prescient. And i'm not ready for that

As mentioned in another comment, wouldn't be the first time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings

Yeah, art often finds inspiration from the world, and since the world can infinitely be sad, plenty of art has gleaned inspiration from it. It’s way more sad when world -> art -> world though, we are doomed to commit our misdeeds repeatedly

I don't think so. The US actually warned about imminent terror attacks by ISIS in Moscow a few weeks ago.

Yeah at this point it seems pretty clear this is a ISIS terror attack.

From the article:

The official said U.S. intelligence agencies had gathered information in recent weeks that the IS branch was planning an attack in Moscow. He said U.S. officials privately shared the intelligence earlier this month with Russian officials. The official was briefed on the matter but was not authorized to publicly discuss the intelligence information and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

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The Kremlin didn’t immediately blame anyone for the attack, but some Russian lawmakers were quick to accuse Ukraine and called for ramping up strikes. Hours before the attack, the Russian military l aunched (sic) a sweeping barrage on Ukraine’s power system, crippling the country’s biggest hydroelectric plant and other energy facilities and leaving more than a million people without electricity.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said that if Ukraine involvement was proven, all those involved “must be tracked down and killed without mercy, including officials of the state that committed such outrage.”

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukraine involvement.