Re: [Salon] Today's 13-minute interview on WION, Indian television: Russian FSB says US, UK and Ukraine behind Moscow attack / What’s the truth?

The most self-defeating act Ukraine could commit would be to sponsor a terrorist attack on innocent civilians, even in Russia. That would be a great way to lose Western support. Why doesn't that logical and rational point penetrate the mind of a pro-Russian observer? Perhaps because Putin and the FSB have resorted to terrorism many times. And the rejoinder will be: "What about Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Guatemala...?" A democracy produces accountability and oversight, sometimes delayed, but telling. 

Bret Stephens in the NY Times today points to other false flag operations conducted by Putin and the FSB to present his own conspiracy theory that this was possibly a Russian false flag operation. That is no more plausible in this case than is the crazy notion that the US and/or Ukraine is behind the attack on the concert hall. Russia made enough enemies of extreme Islamists in Syria and elsewhere to have become a terrorist target. Perhaps we should be celebrating the fact that the US embassy warned the Russian government of the possibility of an attack. Maybe there is more decency in that act than a paranoid authoritarian government could ever imagine.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 8:34 AM Gilbert Doctorow via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/todays-13-minute-interview-on-wion

I am very pleased that WION, India’s premier English language global news broadcaster took the initiative and discussed with me the significance of the statements yesterday to Russian television by FSB boss Alexander Bortnikov.

Bortnikov alleged that the the United States, the United Kingdom and Ukraine were the plotters and planners of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in a Moscow suburb. What is the scenario of the crime emerging from the investigation being conducted by Russian intelligence services?

See: Moscow Terror Attack | Russian FSB says US, UK and Ukraine behind Moscow attack | What's the truth?





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