‼️ The terrorist attack in Moscow is a planned and deliberate provocation by the Russian special services at the behest of Putin.
☑️ Its purpose is to justify even tougher strikes on Ukraine and total mobilization in Russia.
❗️ The public execution of people in Moscow should be understood as Putin’s threat of an even greater escalation and expansion of the war.
▫️ Peskov’s statement about the “war” shortly before the terrorist attack was just a false start of a carefully planned Kremlin special operation.
✔️ Putin has a lot of experience in organizing such terrorist attacks as a way to strengthen his own power, starting with blowing up houses on the Kashirskyi highway. As then, today’s action of intimidation of the Russians will be the reason for the maximum “tightening of the nuts” in Russia itself.
👉 Obviously, the Kremlin can accuse Ukraine of organizing a terrorist attack and use the shooting of its own citizens as a pretext for even more brutal attacks on civilian infrastructure and the killing of Ukrainian civilians. Today’s attack on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine is another link in the escalation initiated by Putin.
👥 Putin has repeatedly tried to intimidate the West, including using nuclear weapons. So this terrorist attack can be used as another “pretext” for increasing aggression.
☝️ However, the unhindered movement of a group of militants with assault rifles through the center of Moscow, as well as a lot of other indisputable evidence, indicate that the shooting at “Crocus City Hall” was organized by Russian special services. International embassies also warned about the preparation of a terrorist attack.
‼️ It is obvious to the whole world that the terrorist attack in Moscow is another crime committed by Putin to maintain his own power.
OTOH, how long it’s taking for the Kremlin to issue any response does suggest that they were taken by surprise. If they had planned this, they’d presumably have at least some preliminary statement about how they’re investigating it (setting things up neatly for their scripted conclusion).
It took long time to respond to beginning of war. And that wasn’t even Friday evening.
I think it took them a long time to respond to the war because they cocked it up so badly. They were probably expecting to announce that they had taken Kyiv, and then didn’t know what to do when they couldn’t. Looks the same here. They may have been able to prevent this if they listened to the US intel. That may not be a good look for Putin back home.
They always take a pause. Can’t control the narrative in the initial chaos.