Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Yeah my bad. russia’s long term strategy and how their country’s fundamentals are not good

Interesting question. With the losses putin's forces have been experiencing in Ukraine it would not surprise me if they were now scrapping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to artillery systems they have to use. Ukrainians count 44 artillery systems destroyed yesterday bringing putin's artillery system losses to 10,855 since the more widespread invasion started in 2022. I'd have thought putin would have led the attack with the more up to date systems which hopefully are all gone now and the moskovytes are having problems replacing the more modern types.

A very simple answer to your question would be that Putin was involved in it himself. Security services paid no heed to the threat, despite being given advance warning by the US. There were more than 6'000 people in the complex, only very light police presence, and those that were there ran as soon as the shooting started. Police/Military barracks only 4 klms away, yet reinforcements took more than an hour to arrive. Supposed terrorists picked up heading for the Ukrainian border...stinks to high heaven. And yes, you are right about ordinary Russian civilians having concerns about their own( and families) security. Thats something that my Russian spoke about this morning during our chat. There's a lot of worry about their own security and safety now, especially after the attack in the theater. This is the first time that I've heard anything like this.

France’s covert exploitation of its former colonies in Africa is really unedifying and does not reflect well on them at all. It’s basically still the 19th century relationship. Regardless of the Russian involvement which is very recent and relatively small in number. There is huge pushback from the local populations in those regions against French exploitation. And it’s justified. Impoverished economies pegged to the Euro currency having their monetary policy decided thousands of miles away by economies that are alien to them.

There is a uranium mine in Mali which supplies a huge chunk of France’s nuclear power if that comes under threat expect fireworks.

Did NATO just realise that if Ukraine falls then inevitably russia will attack a NATO state next, maybe Poland maybe Romania. Then NATO responds and destroys russian forces and then russia launch their nukes ? Victory for Putin = a nuclear holocaust ?

I haven’t followed this in a couple of days. Just wondering, the 4 Russia have arrested is it likely they carried it out or did Russia just arrest 4 randoms with a Muslim background?

Any list yet of who was killed in the attack on the theatre?

Owners of the theatre who know too much of the shady goings on with Putin and Trump or political and environmental opponents who happened to be in the audience?

There's not much occurs in russia without Putin and fsb involvement.

Oooph... You'd hope that was a 100% successful strike on designated target. You're not walking away from that one!

BBC2 tonight. Enemy in the woods. Ukraine documentary filmed on body cams

I've asked this in the other thread but is there any verifiable evidence that these are the 4 that actually did it?

By verifiable I don't mean the FSB saying that they did it or any confessions that were gathered under extreme duress.

Are there are photos or videos of them from Friday night, in the act, where they are clearly the 4 that showed up in court yesterday? Everything that I have seen from Friday ether has blurred faces or they were too far away to be identifiable.

I am not asking this trying to be some kind of crank. I just don't know what that link is.

That didn't happen in the bataclan attack in Paris, the perpetrators escaped mostly across border into Belgium. Of course the Russian authorities are desperate not to link it to Paris because that rubbishes their link with ukraine and it also says Moscow is no different to a European city to islamists. The Russians always like to think that they are somehow exceptional and not actually the same as other Europeans, that's what they will again anyway when putin imperialist adventure has collapsed

Every night in Kyiv there is a terrorist attack.

I hope it was those captured men who carried it out because if it was 4 random lads then they’re going through the most horrific torture for nothing.

They may not be being tortured physically. All the fsb has to say is say this or else we kill your family and everyone associated with you. Or say this and your family gets 200k and all their debts paid off. There's different forms of coercion over personal physical torture.