ISIS having to work hard to prove they were the ones who did it, since Putin is so excited to blame Ukraine
I remember a The Onion video back around 9/11 that had a satirical interview with someone from al Qaeda who was pissed off at the 9/11 Truthers who thought that the US government staged 9/11 after all the work al Qaeda did to set it up.
googles
Thanks for the link. Hilarious!
The source sucks, but I liked the title. Of course Putin is trying to blame Ukraine in some way.
It is an interesting strategy that IS deployed, to delay the release of their videos.
This article then goes on to describe other videos (released from the Russian side, I presume?) that are horribly abhorrent:
Some of the videos of the interrogations suggest that the men were tortured by Russian security services. One of the clips, circulated by Russian bloggers, appears to show members of the security forces cutting off the ear of a man who is later interrogated over the attack and then stuffing it into his mouth. Another appears to show security forces beating a suspect with their rifle butts and kicking him as he lies in the snow.
Russian independent media noted that the officer who apparently cut off the ear of the suspect was wearing patches that indicated his support for neo-Nazi groups and appeared to have contact with the far-right Rusich paramilitary group, which is active in Ukraine. The patches included a black sun and a symbol resembling the Totenkopf – or death’s head – worn by several Nazi divisions.
Given his supposed opposition to Nazism, Putin only had to look for select members of his own population, within his own borders, to find and route out Nazis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group
EDIT - an afterthought: And President Drink Bleach and his MAGAs support Putin.
Nazism is only bad when it's a small group in Ukraine with essentially no power. And, of course, Nazis in a country run by a Jewish president allows him to play the antisemitic side too.
One of the clips, circulated by Russian bloggers, appears to show members of the security forces cutting off the ear of a man who is later interrogated over the attack and then stuffing it into his mouth.
I have serious doubts that there's actual research backing up the idea that this is actually an effective way to get information out of someone.
There's research that indicates it doesn't work at all. They'll just say whatever is needed to make it stop.
"Yes! I'm actually Ukrainian! Zelenskyy and I planned it over lunch!"
An MI-6 agent, a CIA agent, and a KGB agent are all talking, claiming to be the best at finding a target when they need to. So they come up with a competition, where they release a rabbit into a forest and have to track and retrieve it.
The MI-6 agent goes on first, and after a week comes back, accepting failure.
The CIA agent goes next, and after 3 days comes out and declares there is no rabbit, or it escaped into another country.
The Russian agent goes last, and after 6 hours calls the others back to inform that he succeeded.
When the other two agents arrive, they find a bear chained to a chair, badly beaten and bloody, wearing a set of bunny ears and saying "I am a rabbit. I have always been a rabbit. My parents were members of a rabbit group..."
A torture victim would admit to smoking weed with Mohammed, and punching orphans with Hitler.
Sorry, Vlad. Can't pin it on Ukraine anymore.
"Videos show that Ukraine's terror partner, IS, executed the cowardly act. This proves that Ukraine is a terror state that will stop at nothing to destroy Mother Russia." -- Vladimir Putin or one of his sycophants, probably.
Or the IS video is a deep fake up out by the imperial west to try to cover up the Ukrainian terror attack.
Maybe, if the goal of Ukraine is to risk losing international support just to be able to... kill a few civilians? Sounds like a very risky and convoluted plan to achieve nothing good.
Putin is afraid of ISIS in Afghanistan after Russia consistently lost their asses in Afghanistan for years. Putin is going to pretend ISIS doesn't exist because he knows he can't win against them either.
Putin is incapable of defending Russia from an enemy that lives in the stone-age. He does not know what he is doing and needs to be replaced with an actual leader.
They captured all 4 shooters? Alive? Give me a break!
Pretty sure they are on to blaming it on the CIA. I just feel bad for whatever random fall guys they picked up to pin the blame on.
They're trying hard to blame Ukraine. This undermines that.
Hmm. I don't know. So, I don't know if Russia is blaming other parties, but it might not be all that unexpected. Remember earlier in the war, when you had the "firehose of falsehood" strategy playing a larger role? Like, Russia had an information strategy that didn't have one consistent narrative, but a number of dueling, not-fully-supported narratives.
You're right to the extent that it means that there isn't one extra-specially really compelling story, but I think that Russia is probably more-willing to promote competing narratives than any other country that I'm aware of.
It may be that the Kremlin's real concern is less building support for the conflict with Ukraine, but rather countering political pressures to act strongly against IS right now. IS engaging in glorious jihad is just a headache from the Kremlin's standpoint that they don't really want to deal with right now -- which, frankly, I can understand, as Russia's plate is kinda full. If the Kremlin doesn't respond, then it probably isn't gonna go over well domestically. If they do, then they gotta use some resources that could be used against Ukraine.
In World War II, US pre-war plans for the event of a concurrent conflict with Nazi Germany and Japan involved deferring war with Japan as long as possible. Japan had very limited ability to really affect the long-term balance of power; one could fight Japan whenever, and in fact it was advantageous to build up a larger naval force first, but Germany had potential to knock over major powers; one wanted to act sooner rather than later there. Politically, Japan attacking the US at Pearl Harbor created a political problem for the US over political pressure to act against Japan rather than Germany (though, in the event, that was resolved in a week when Hitler declared war on the US for his own reasons).
My guess is that the Kremlin likely doesn't really want to deal with Russians outraged over Moscow being kicked in the teeth and pushing for action now. All else held equal, the Kremlin probably does want to act against IS...just not to prioritize it relative to Ukraine.
Some of the videos of the interrogations suggest that the men were tortured by Russian security services. One of the clips, circulated by Russian bloggers, appears to show members of the security forces cutting off the ear of a man who is later interrogated over the attack and then stuffing it into his mouth. Another appears to show security forces beating a suspect with their rifle butts and kicking him as he lies in the snow.
Oh buddy this is just the tip of the ice berg. The pain they have coming to them will be beyond next level.
One of them was beaten until his eye fell out, then they cut off his genitals, and had doctors patch him up and install a catheter so more can come his way. It's not gonna be pretty and these guys will also get no mercy.
That's OK, he'll pay some people to take some hostages then wipe them and the hostages out to the last man, just to show how serious he can be.
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.