• @NOT_RICK
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    1059 months ago

    This is nuts. This better not be some bullshit to manufacture consent for war escalation.

    • @thawed_caveman
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      279 months ago

      A lot has been said about Call of Duty MWII, but if your theory is correct then we’ll have to say that, of all things, its plot was prescient. And i’m not ready for that

          • @SkybreakerEngineer
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            39 months ago

            All these things have happened before, and will happen again

            • Ann Archy
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              19 months ago

              Oh come on, Russia wouldn’t lie about anything.

        • @kautau
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          39 months ago

          Yeah, art often finds inspiration from the world, and since the world can infinitely be sad, plenty of art has gleaned inspiration from it. It’s way more sad when world -> art -> world though, we are doomed to commit our misdeeds repeatedly

          • @Zahille7
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            39 months ago

            Art imitates life imitates art.

    • DarkThoughts
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      249 months ago

      I don’t think so. The US actually warned about imminent terror attacks by ISIS in Moscow a few weeks ago.

      • @NOT_RICK
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        119 months ago

        Yeah at this point it seems pretty clear this is a ISIS terror attack.

          • Ann Archy
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            19 months ago

            Or directly funded through back channels.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      From the article:

      The official said U.S. intelligence agencies had gathered information in recent weeks that the IS branch was planning an attack in Moscow. He said U.S. officials privately shared the intelligence earlier this month with Russian officials. The official was briefed on the matter but was not authorized to publicly discuss the intelligence information and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

      The Kremlin didn’t immediately blame anyone for the attack, but some Russian lawmakers were quick to accuse Ukraine and called for ramping up strikes. Hours before the attack, the Russian military l aunched (sic) a sweeping barrage on Ukraine’s power system, crippling the country’s biggest hydroelectric plant and other energy facilities and leaving more than a million people without electricity.

      Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said that if Ukraine involvement was proven, all those involved “must be tracked down and killed without mercy, including officials of the state that committed such outrage.”

      Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied Ukraine involvement.