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  • Putin's inner circle isn't buying his claim that Kyiv is connected to the Moscow terror attack, Bloomberg reported.
  • Putin continues to say that Ukraine had a role in the attack, which was claimed by ISIS-K.
  • He thinks that pushing the theory is beneficial for galvanizing support for his war, per Bloomberg.

Many Kremlin insiders disagree with President Vladimir Putin's claims that Ukraine may be connected to last Friday's terror attack in Moscow, Bloomberg reported.

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[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My speculation is that it was actually Putin... who wanted a reason to blame Ukraine, because he doesn't give AF about Russians. But the false flag operation was so badly designed that ISIL-K could easily claim responsibility, because it fits their MO, and would make them relevant in the public eye.

This has been A cup of tea and a fancy tinfoil hat with Roger Damnermack.

*Smooth jazz starts playing*\

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Isis K doesn’t have much motive to claim an attack they weren’t behind, from what I’ve read. Salafist jihadis are decently competitive and vie for the mantle of being the “premier” group that will bring about an Islamic caliphate. They need to come across that way to potential recruits and funding sources to achieve their aims and getting caught claiming responsibility for an attack they didn’t actually do would undermine that credibility in their circles.

I think Isis did perpetrate this and Putin is trying to keep the focus on Ukraine because the alternative is to potentially bring into focus how it easy it was for a bunch of Jihadis to waltz into Moscow and perpetrate a brutal attack because the Russian security apparatus has its hands completely full with Ukraine at the moment.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

A grand rule to live by, for sure.

[–] silliewous@feddit.nl 6 points 6 months ago

Nah, at most he knew about it in advance and didn’t prevent it to be able to blame Ukraine.

But I don’t know what the point of the article is. Of course the inner circle know it is BS. They don’t care and have never cared about all the BS stories told to the public. They only car about their money and not losing it.