The Peanut Gallery: Islamic State Likely Culprit in Moscow Terrorist Attack - ISW
March 23, 2024
Welcome to the Peanut Gallery! Today Ukraine blew up more of Putin’s stuff!
Please remember that I know nothing.
ISW assesses that the Islamic State (IS) is very likely responsible for the Crocus City Hall attack.
IS Amaq’s News Agency took responsibility for the attack on the night of March 22, claiming that IS fighters attacked a “large gathering of Christians” on the outskirts of Moscow, “killing and wounding hundreds and causing great destruction...before they [the attackers] withdrew to their bases safely.”
IS media organs make deceptive or false claims only ”infrequently” and carefully and try to maintain “high credibility” in their communique in order to define clear ideological objectives and maintain fundraising streams. IS propaganda enables the group to fundraise and disseminate its guidance to lower-level commanders and supporters--IS risks discrediting itself within the competitive Salafi-jihadi community by falsely taking credit for very high-profile attacks.
The conduct of the attack itself is also consistent with previous IS attacks, including the 2015 Paris terror attacks. The IS fighters in the Crocus City Hall and some of those involved in the 2015 Paris attacks exfiltrated the target and subsequently evaded security forces for a time.
There you have it folks—by word of a military think-tank: ISIS did it. Fuckin’ aye...
--AND from the audience with a steel chair! SWINGS the Guillotine of Islam!
Death count’s up to 133 (how’s that for a pivot?). Many more may be left trapped beneath the rubble.
Putin was supposed to protect Russia from this sort of thing. That’s the one job a totalitarian leader needs to perform. If a citizen has neither security nor freedom then they have nothing, and when people have nothing, they tend to get uppity. At least most people do. Russians however...they seem prone to “cowardice”.
ISIS hit them because they could. They hate Russia almost as much as they hate the United States (2nd place again, bitch.), and the fact ISIS could pull this off is both terrifying and embarrassing. For the Kremlin. Because the US apparently has these mo’fuckas on lockdown.
Y’all catch how much lead-time Washington handed the Kremlin? America knew the when and where, yet Putin laughed the tip off. The CIA has a better understanding of the security situation in Moscow than the FSB—that is now a fact, a fact which should horrify Putin.
Russian sources accused Ukrainian actors of reportedly conducting a successful drone strike against a Russian oil refinery in Samara Oblast on the night of March 22 to 23.
Here’s another fun fact: Russia’s domestic security situation is dissolving.
Footage published on March 23 shows a large fire and a smoke plume rising from the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery in Samara Oblast.[28] Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces successfully struck the Kuibyshev refinery and unsuccessfully attempted to strike the nearby Novokuibyshevsky refinery.
First Moscow, then a hit on the BSF’s communications hub in Sevastopol, and now two refineries. It’s been quite a shit twenty-four hours for Putin, hasn’t it? And this comes after a long series of catastrophic losses. Last I checked, Russia's refined crude output was down some 11%.. Remember, it doesn’t take the complete destruction of something to cause collapse, only a bit of erosion in a well chosen place.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of Putin's exploded money machines...
Time to update this thing with two more entries! Soon. Tomorrow. Tonight’s getting late and I’d like to look into the damage to Kuibyshev refinery before I start busting out the markers. I want to put a big ass ‘X’ through that thing, but I also want to see some more proof. I’d also like to add sources for all the other markings, and maybe spruce up the page a little bit.
Russia is reportedly delaying the delivery of two S-400 air defense systems to India, likely due to limitations in Russia’s production of S-400 systems, an increased need for air defense systems to protect cities and strategic enterprises in Russia from Ukrainian drone strikes, and a reported souring of Russian relations with India.
Ha! If those things haven’t been commandeered by now then I’ll eat my hat.
This shit’s more serious than it looks, though; several Russian oil ships idle off the shores of India, unable to dock because their fuel is priced at more than $60 / barrel. India didn’t start enforcing that rule again out of the goodness of their heart, either. They’re pissed—pissed that Russia is screwing them on what was promised. And they’re showing their displeasure by taking it out on Putin’s wallet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on March 23 that will release individuals from criminal liability if they are called up for mobilization or sign military service contracts.
Good news, dissident! You now have options! You can either go to prison (where they will starve and beat you in front of a ballpoint pen and a military contract), or sign this-here contract with the Russian military!
Russian authorities continue to militarize children in occupied Ukraine as part of efforts to Russify Ukrainian children and create a resource for Russia’s future force generation needs. (..) Russian authorities have approved the creation of the Luhansk Cadet Corps under the Russian Investigative Committee (Russia’s rough equivalent to the American Federal Bureau of Investigation), possibly before 2025.[61] Lysohor stated that Luhansk Cadet Corps will teach Ukrainian children about pro-Russian concepts including their “debt” to the Russian “Motherland.”
Please give Ukraine what they need to bring this war to an end.
‘Q’ for the Community:/r/TheNuttySpectacle!
So the CIA is creepily omniscient. What are your thoughts on the extent of their capabilities? How keen is their hearing?
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