• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Those are two separate events…

    The false flag apartment bombings were carried out by actual Russian security services - not Chechen assets, or militants.

    On an related unrelated note, some of Russian agents who took part were comically stupid. If you aren’t aware of the Sims vs SIM card mix-up, do yourself a favor and look it up.

    Edit: as pointed out below, the Sims vs SIM card was not part of the 1999 false flag operation, but a more recent one (2022). My bad.

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      7 months ago

      The Sims comedy hour was a separate event from the other two, it was a 2022 attempt to frame Ukraine for terrorism.

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        7 months ago

        I bet this is the first actual terrorist attack on Russia that was not perpetraded by Putin. I mean, even a clock and so on…

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      7 months ago

      They botched one of the apartment building bombings worse than “The Sims card” thing. They had announced one of the bombings before doing the actual bombing.