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Politics & Religion / Re: US-Russia
« on: March 24, 2024, 05:00:03 AM »
Somebody on Twitter.
"One of the questions people are asking is why the IS attacked in Moscow and why now. First, it is not since yesterday. In the case of the Russian Federation, its years of repression in the Caucasus, its intervention in Syria, and its role in Central Asia are among the reasons Russia has been targeted. This news rarely makes the Western web pages, but there are frequent reports in the Russian media of "anti-terrorist" operations by Russian security forces in the Caucasus regions, Chechnya and Ingushetia. Most recently, the FSB conducted 13-hour-long gun battles with armed men in a town in Ingushetia who have no connection to the IS but are anti-government and attacked police posts.
Interestingly, unlike the attack in Moscow, in that case in Ingushetia, Russian authorities announced that they had eliminated IS fighters. Now that the heart of the empire has been struck by IS, things look different. The Kremlin will not admit that security has been compromised, that the group that the Russian army claimed to have destroyed in the ruins of Palmyra is not at the gates of Moscow but has already broken through.
There is hardly a message from the IS as ignored as the one on the Moscow attack. The Russian government has launched a narrative that Ukraine was behind the attack, and the narrative has been building over the past twenty-four hours. Although the organization released footage of the attack itself - very brutal footage showing the brutality of the attack - the Russian Federation is sticking to its Ukrainian thesis and will use it repeatedly. In the meantime, Russia remains exposed to more terrorist attacks due to its inability to deter them."
"One of the questions people are asking is why the IS attacked in Moscow and why now. First, it is not since yesterday. In the case of the Russian Federation, its years of repression in the Caucasus, its intervention in Syria, and its role in Central Asia are among the reasons Russia has been targeted. This news rarely makes the Western web pages, but there are frequent reports in the Russian media of "anti-terrorist" operations by Russian security forces in the Caucasus regions, Chechnya and Ingushetia. Most recently, the FSB conducted 13-hour-long gun battles with armed men in a town in Ingushetia who have no connection to the IS but are anti-government and attacked police posts.
Interestingly, unlike the attack in Moscow, in that case in Ingushetia, Russian authorities announced that they had eliminated IS fighters. Now that the heart of the empire has been struck by IS, things look different. The Kremlin will not admit that security has been compromised, that the group that the Russian army claimed to have destroyed in the ruins of Palmyra is not at the gates of Moscow but has already broken through.
There is hardly a message from the IS as ignored as the one on the Moscow attack. The Russian government has launched a narrative that Ukraine was behind the attack, and the narrative has been building over the past twenty-four hours. Although the organization released footage of the attack itself - very brutal footage showing the brutality of the attack - the Russian Federation is sticking to its Ukrainian thesis and will use it repeatedly. In the meantime, Russia remains exposed to more terrorist attacks due to its inability to deter them."