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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Not seeing anything yet but it can be hard to get accurate news reporting from a country that kills subversive journalists and is in a war. I think most are assuming it's either an internal or external paramilitary group related to the war in Ukraine, or domestic terrorists related to the recent elections, I think targeting a concert is more likely the latter but we'll see which group takes responsibility if any.

But Russia will immediately blame it on Ukraine and the west anyway lol

Likely despite US intelligence warning about imminent terror attacks in Russia earlier this month.

Maria Zacharova (Kremlin) seems to think the most important thing right now is that the whole world condemns the attack, which I find to be a kind of weird priority since the thing just happened and we have no fucking clue what is going on.

You can still condemn it even if you don't know exactly who's behind it.

Absolutely! It wasn't my intention to insinuate that you cannot. My point is that she was very quick to come out and demand it be done. Of course terror attacks should be condemned. All I'm saying is that the Kremlin has some weird priorities when there's an ongoing attack. Almost like they're trying to control the discussion and steer it towards something else.

Yeah not an extemely useful propaganda plot device at all then. You're not with the terrorists, are you? You better stand up and clap your hands and stomp your feet in sympathy.

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Maria Zacharova (Kremlin) seems to think the most important thing right now is that the whole world condemns the attack

nah I don't condemn anything. Either it was some pro-ukranian group (fair, bring the war to russia!), or more likely, some covert op from the fsb so that this russian cunt in charge can order a new drafting...

It is never fair to murder civilians. I don't blame Ukraine if there is terrorism and insurgency due to the occupation of eastern Ukraine, that's firmly Putin's fault. But that also doesn't make it ok.

And suddenly here you are standing together in sympathetic unity with The Kremlins. It's hard making people see propaganda when they have become so desensitized to it

Let's hope Putin will find some way to finally stop the forces of evil defiling his land after this.

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The article mentions the US warned of an imminent attack last month and the Russian state dismissed it. Russia also has a history of utilizing false flag operations to start shit, so I’m leaning towards that atm (before more details come out)

I mean… Putin did get into power by running false flag terrorist bombings on his own country, so there’s that angle too.

Yea, but to stay in power all he has to do is rig the elections, so that theory doesn't really make sense. I am not saying that a false flag attack is out of the question, but if it is a false flag, the reason for doing it is probably not to keep Putin in power.

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