Moscow Terrorism Attack: Preliminary Takes — Anatoly Karlin

(1) As I initially said, confirmed not a false flag. Large number of Tajiks in Russia x sad Tajik propensity to sympathize with Islamic State = was always the most obvious explanation; not everything has to revolve around Ukraine. Islamic State has amusingly gone overboard insisting on its culpability amidst the wave of online conspiracy theories that it was Ukraine, FSB false flag, Mossad, CIA, etc.

(2) Initial skepticism aside, the suspects are almost certainly the correct ones. Amongst other things, the clothing matches. Don’t think FSB could have all set it up so quickly and competently.

(3) Nonetheless, cutting off their ears/electroshocking them and proudly posting it all on Telegram testifies to the progressive “Wagnerization” of Russian security services, which is an extremely negative development for Russians since any semblance of rule of law and due process in the RF has collapsed in the past two years. They were doing this before but now they post it as well, and within the RF’s pre-war borders, too.

(4) The main social reactions appear to be a wave of anti-immigrant hate crimes from the low IQ normies, and mocking Putin’s lackluster response from the more skeptical higher IQ ones (so much so that they just released a cringe video of what were supposedly Putin’s very intense schedule in the “minutes” after the terrorist attack which journalists just happened to be around to film).

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