The US needs to drop its duty to warn policy except for allies.IF The US knows Russia is about to be attacked and Russia doesn't that's their fucking problem.Russia shouldn't benefit from our far superior intelligence services.
fact is that madvlad is unwilling or unable to protect his people. 100+ more dead russians? who cares ... putin of course not.
We are in this tragically ironic time in history where even terrorist organizations cannot get the "credit" they so desperately want for their heinous acts because people are so blinded by bias, other world events and insane conspiracy theories....its almost like a sketch comedy bit at this point. Those responsible may actually avoid repercussions because too many others want to play blame game for unrelated political reasons.
It's kind of dark humor how IS-K has to fight to prove they did it: There's a full video of it apparently and it's graphic, I'm not going to bother with it obviously.
In my defense, Putin's a fucking liar and he's false flagged using Islamist scapegoats before (not the case here but I could see him not lifting a finger or hell even bankrolling it). It's not like we apply the most likely explanation of people falling out of buildings' windows when it comes to Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...volved_in_the_1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
Given how much US intelligence knows about what's going on in Russia, I wouldn't have doubted it after seeing the warnings given few weeks earlier.
You wouldn't have doubted US intel or wouldn't have doubted Putin perpetrating a false flag? US intel gets it wrong all the time. Remember that waterboy that was bombed when ISIS-k killed service members pulling out of Afg and didn't come clean until the NYT called them out? And now we're here, Putin passing the blame onto Ukraine so he either: A) Is a paranoid fuck that thinks is a proxy attack hence blaming Ukraine B) Is a an incompetent fuck that got caught w/his pants down and is making the best out of a shit situation by cynically blaming Ukr. C) Is a cynical opportunistic fuck that caught wind of the op but let it go unencumbered and perhaps assisted in the smoothing sailing of the op. D) Straight up had his services pay some inbred fucks to carry it out thru some 3rd party. E) Spec OPs played dress up and killed civvies F) Ukr/US/Mossad did C, D, or E. Only people who eat glue believe E or F. I'd like to not believe A given the purported route perps were taking towards Ukraine, the purported Ukraine van, and purported Ukraine equipment, nobody wants to believe D because nobody wants to think he'd be that big an asshole. Hanlon's and Occam's say B though Hanlon's could explain A and Occam's could explain C/D given Russia's past actions. FWIW: yes, our intel seems to be deep in ISIS-k's guts given we also warned the Iranians before they got hit in Jan. It's likely we learned after Afg.
They are plenty honest when it comes to others, not coming clean to save their own ass wasn't an intelligence failure I'd reckon.