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Putin - Foul Play in St. Petersburg Attacks?

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The insidious murders today in St. Petersburg come at a very interesting time. Over the past week or so there have been widespread anti-corruption protests all over Russia directed towards Putin and the current Russian government. Is it possible that Putin or his top oligarchs wanted a diversion by either (1) planning the attack (2) Allowing the attack to proceed.

Just wanted to see if anyone had thoughts on this. It is also very possible that it was in retalition for Russia's support for Assad or the same old Chechynan seperatists that have been doing terrorist attacks in Russia for decades.

The timing of it just seems too perfect for Putin....
 
I have no problem believing that Putin is evil enough to do what you propose, however, I would want to hold out hope that not even Putin would actually be that evil even with more than enough evidence to the contrary.

I feel it was a full blown ISIS inspired, if not directly ordered, terrorist attack.








On a side note, there's a CT subforum that may be a better place for speculative threads like this one that are not based on anything but conjecture. But, that isn't my call.
 
I have no problem believing that Putin is evil enough to do what you propose, however, I would want to hold out hope that not even Putin would actually be that evil even with more than enough evidence to the contrary.

I feel it was a full blown ISIS inspired, if not directly ordered, terrorist attack.








On a side note, there's a CT subforum that may be a better place for speculative threads like this one that are not based on anything but conjecture. But, that isn't my call.

I agree. It was probably ISIS or Chechnyans. However, over the past 4 or 5 years Autocrats have been falling left and right. Arab Spring, and especially frightening to Putin must have been Ukraine which was right next door.

I could see him justifying something like this by saying to himself that: Russia could be headed for Civil War and we have to unify the people. What better way to unify people then a common foreign enemy.
 
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I agree. It was probably ISIS or Chechnyans. However, over the past 4 or 5 years Autocrats have been falling left and right. Arab Spring, and especially frightening to Putin must have been Ukraine which was right next door.

I could see him justifying something like this by saying to himself that: Russia could be headed for Civil War and we have to unify the people. What better way to unify people then a common foreign enemy.

A wag-the-dog scenario is always a possibility when discussing what the Russians are capable of doing.
 
A wag-the-dog scenario is always a possibility when discussing what the Russians are capable of doing.

I too raised an eyebrow when I heard about this bombing.

It is all theory and politics of course, to suggest that the Russian government and Putin in particular could be capable of conducting domestic terrorist attacks against it's own people in order to bolster itself...

The problem is, this is not the first time that such an idea has come up regarding Putin:

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

Yuri Felshtinsky, Litvinenko, David Satter, Boris Kagarlitsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky, and the secessionist Chechen authorities claimed that the 1999 bombings were a false flag attack coordinated by the FSB to win public support for a new full-scale war in Chechnya, which boosted Prime Minister and former FSB Director Vladimir Putin's popularity, and brought the pro-war Unity Party to the State Duma and Putin to the presidency within a few months.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

According to the theory, the bombings were a successful coup d'état organised by the FSB to bring Putin to power. Some of them described the bombings as typical "active measures" practised by the KGB in the past. David Satter stated, during his testimony in the United States House of Representatives,

"With Yeltsin and his family facing possible criminal prosecution, however, a plan was put into motion to put in place a successor who would guarantee that Yeltsin and his family would be safe from prosecution and the criminal division of property in the country would not be subject to reexamination. For "Operation Successor" to succeed, however, it was necessary to have a massive provocation. In my view, this provocation was the bombing in September, 1999 of the apartment building bombings in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk. In the aftermath of these attacks, which claimed 300 lives, a new war was launched against Chechnya. Putin, the newly appointed prime minister who was put in charge of that war, achieved overnight popularity. Yeltsin resigned early. Putin was elected president and his first act was to guarantee Yeltsin immunity from prosecution."[157]

The legitimacy of any of this is massively debatable... But you can't say any of this doesn't raise an eyebrow or two.
 
The insidious murders today in St. Petersburg come at a very interesting time. Over the past week or so there have been widespread anti-corruption protests all over Russia directed towards Putin and the current Russian government. Is it possible that Putin or his top oligarchs wanted a diversion by either (1) planning the attack (2) Allowing the attack to proceed.

Just wanted to see if anyone had thoughts on this. It is also very possible that it was in retalition for Russia's support for Assad or the same old Chechynan seperatists that have been doing terrorist attacks in Russia for decades.

The timing of it just seems too perfect for Putin....

I don't think this is false flag. More likely just some stupid terrorist that has just set his cause back even further by responding to evil with evil.
 
It is possible, but the more likely scenario is this was exactly what it appeared to be.
 
The insidious murders today in St. Petersburg come at a very interesting time. Over the past week or so there have been widespread anti-corruption protests all over Russia directed towards Putin and the current Russian government. Is it possible that Putin or his top oligarchs wanted a diversion by either (1) planning the attack (2) Allowing the attack to proceed.

Just wanted to see if anyone had thoughts on this. It is also very possible that it was in retalition for Russia's support for Assad or the same old Chechynan seperatists that have been doing terrorist attacks in Russia for decades.

The timing of it just seems too perfect for Putin....

No. I think it was probably a chemistry student that dropped his homework.
 
The insidious murders today in St. Petersburg come at a very interesting time. Over the past week or so there have been widespread anti-corruption protests all over Russia directed towards Putin and the current Russian government. Is it possible that Putin or his top oligarchs wanted a diversion by either (1) planning the attack (2) Allowing the attack to proceed.

Just wanted to see if anyone had thoughts on this. It is also very possible that it was in retalition for Russia's support for Assad or the same old Chechynan seperatists that have been doing terrorist attacks in Russia for decades.

The timing of it just seems too perfect for Putin....

I don't see what Putin would gain by doing this. :confused:
 
Which is more likely a World War 3-
Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and Syria
vs
U.K., EU (NATO), U.S.A., Canada, Australia (Basically all owned by the Windsor family)

or

That Trump & Putin are some how working together as the Democrats want the world to think?
 
I have no problem believing that Putin is evil enough to do what you propose, however, I would want to hold out hope that not even Putin would actually be that evil even with more than enough evidence to the contrary.

I feel it was a full blown ISIS inspired, if not directly ordered, terrorist attack.

Do you mean with ISIS the CIA, Mossad, MI5, Mi6 etc created ISIS?
 
Do you mean with ISIS the CIA, Mossad, MI5, Mi6 etc created ISIS?

No, no, no. As usual Pin d'Ar, you have utterly botched the facts.

The lizard people are manipulating you into discrediting the truth. Mere mortals are too unsophisticated to "manufacture" such groups.

:roll:
 
No, no, no. As usual Pin d'Ar, you have utterly botched the facts.

The lizard people are manipulating you into discrediting the truth. Mere mortals are too unsophisticated to "manufacture" such groups.

:roll:

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