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March 23, 2024
Media Snippets Related To The Crocus City Hall Attack

Terrorist attack in Crocus: over 60 deaths, more than 100 wounded

MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. Unidentified people have conducted a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region. According to the latest figures, more than 60 people were killed, and another 100 were wounded.

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Gunmen kill more than 60 in concert attack near Moscow, Islamic State claims responsibility

MOSCOW, March 22 (Reuters) – Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers near Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” was to perform to a full house at the 6,200-seat the Crocus City Hall just west of the capital.
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Islamic State, the militant group that once sought control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack, the group’s Amaq agency said on Telegram.
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The United States has intelligence confirming Islamic State’s claim of responsibility for the shooting, a U.S. official said on Friday. The official said Washington had warned Moscow in recent weeks of the possibility of an attack.

“We did warn the Russians appropriately,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, without providing any additional details.

Russia has yet to say who it thinks is responsible.

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DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics – 2:55 UTC · Mar 23, 2024

A month ago (to the day!) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Victoria “F the EU” Nuland promised that aid to Ukraine would allow it to “accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective” and that Putin is “sure to face some nasty surprises.”

Nuland left her post as the Deputy Secretary of State 10 days prior to this video. Moscow civilians were killed today in an act of terrorism (asymmetrical warfare).
Embedded video

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Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill – 8:08 UTC · Feb 16, 2023

Now that the ISIS patches showing up in Armed Forces of Ukraine photos/videos are trending, it’s a good time for me to retweet this thread from last year. The writing was on the wall.

Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill – 10:08 UTC · Oct 12, 2022

Now Al Qaeda & other Salafist Jihadist groups are reportedly entering Ukraine to fight Russia directly. Coincidentally, last week an ISIS recruiter the Taliban captured said he received funding via Ukraine. The Taliban only released this video domestically. Subtitles by a friend:
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Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom – 21:01 UTC · Mar 22, 2024

Sanctions didn’t work. Billions in weapons didn’t work. Unwavering support didn’t work. Counter-offensive didn’t work. Non-stop propaganda didn’t work.

Rules-based terrorism is all they have left. It won’t work either. It just shows how evil and desperate they are.

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Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom – 21:42 UTC · Mar 22, 2024

Was the CIA behind the terror attack near Moscow?
   Yes 74.7%
   No 25.3%
89,899 votes·14 hours left

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Koba @Roberto05246129 6:22 UTC . Mar 23, 2024

The identities of four of the six alleged terrorists who carried out the shooting at Crocus City Hall have become known.
1) Nasridinov Makhmadrasul 37 years old
2) Ismonov Rivozhidin 51 years old
3) Safolzoda Shokhinjonn 21 years old
4) Nazarov Rustam 29 years old.
All of them are citizens of Tajikistan.

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Al-Qaida/Taliban-linked media campaign frames Islamic State Khurasan as foreign, Tajik group – Eurasianet – Oct 18, 2023

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Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg – 23:25 UTC · Mar 22, 2024

I have been explaining for years that the US and Israel are behind ISIS.
See it now?

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As said previously: Russia. Is. At. War.

Posted by b on March 23, 2024 at 07:26 UTC | Permalink
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Thanks for the cleaning b,
commentators a suggestion:
when one or more trolls intervene or impersonate other commenters:
if NONE of us react*, reply, etc., he’ll just have wasted his time and will probably commit suicide in despair very soon,
here’s a clear case of non-action triumphing and improving our daily lives,
think about it: don’t feed the troll !
(it’s not a problem for commenters whose identity has been stolen to report it, just do it without replying to the troll)

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Mar 24 2024 12:51 utc | 601

Posted by: S | Mar 24 2024 12:48 utc | 602
“Massive attack”??
One person died, 4 wounded, 90% of the missiles were intercepted and one small building was destroyed that had no military significance.
Indisputably, it was a ‘de minimus’ attack regardless of your ignorant, incoherent t moaning.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 12:53 utc | 602

The organisers of this story are, of course, in Kiev, but “the customers” are not. Customers sit much further away. Such customers can only be dealt with systemic solutions, and not with emotional outbursts. If my hypothesis is correct, then we are confronted by one of the parts of the deep state that goes beyond the national policy of the United States and Great Britain. These are cynical, dangerous, absolutely without reflection people who are fighting for their survival.

Dmitry Evstafiev, political scientist, on air SolovyovLIVE

Posted by: ostro | Mar 24 2024 12:58 utc | 603

I feel like this is how things must have felt during the Cuban Missle Crisis: we are a hair’s breath away from catastrophic consequences on a global scale.

Posted by: thecelticwithinme | Mar 24 2024 12:59 utc | 604

In addition to my post #588 on the post by Dmitry Medvedev in his TG channel,
A comment by Yuri Podolayaka, a war blogger and expert.

Taking into account the fact that Medvedev usually says things that cannot be announced (for one reason or another) officially, March 22, 2024 has become a definite Rubicon. Before this, there were options to negotiate something with someone. Now another stage begins…
By the way, in the Caucasus they also tried to negotiate at first. Until they killed or imprisoned all the leaders.

Posted by: ostro | Mar 24 2024 13:12 utc | 605

b | Mar 24 2024 12:41 utc | 600
Thanks b

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 13:12 utc | 606

Regarding possible inconsistencies in the “narrative” around Crocus, one should keep in mind that in true “deep state” operations, they always have two groups: (1) a team of professionals who disappear after and (2) a team of bumbling patsies who gather all the media attention…
Also it is “interesting” that ISIS has found Moscow but is still looking for Israel or the United States, the latter of which has a wide open border…

Posted by: Moonraker | Mar 24 2024 13:13 utc | 607

“If forestalling economic collapse was their goal, bravo, you’ve made it inescapable and accelerated the timetable. Take a bow Jake Sullivan, Nuland, Blinken, and the faceless apparatchiks of the State department and CIA shitheads. Take a bow morons.”
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 24 2024 12:51 utc | 604
Yeah, I really can’t understand the Empire’s strategy-I have two ideas:
1. The Empire is so desperate in the near term that they need to eat Europe’s pie to survive a little bit longer economically even though they realize , long term. it is a recipe for disaster.
2. The crazy aggressive policies are but part of the Big Picture where the PTB want a reset, Global govt. But to accomplish that feat they must first ‘destroy the village in order to save it”-ie making the geopolitical and economic situation so dire the Serfs will gladly accept whatever ‘final solution’ the Empire decrees.
Do you have any ideas on this issue?

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 13:14 utc | 608

Re: Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 12:53 utc | 606

“Massive attack”??
One person died, 4 wounded, 90% of the missiles were intercepted and one small building was destroyed that had no military significance.
Indisputably, it was a ‘de minimus’ attack regardless of your ignorant, incoherent t moaning.

A “massive attack” doesn’t always need to involve death.
What is this I read?

BREAKING: Ukraine’s military intelligence confirms the destruction of two more Russian “Large Landing Ships” – Yamal and Azov. They were both part of the Black Sea Fleet.

Azov & Yamal eh.
What is left of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet anyway?
Are Russia going to do anything about this?
Going by past inaction, no, Russia will not respond in force to further destruction of the Black Sea Fleet (what is left of it).
Why not?
I have no idea. But it’s a strange way to go about winning a war – allowing immense destruction of naval assets by a country without a navy!

Posted by: Julian | Mar 24 2024 13:17 utc | 609

badjoke@517…..makes interceptors with their fancy ‘i can see you, you can’t see me weapons’ useless no? And really AWACs is that not a target? Is there an SMO where Russians dying or not? As I have said numerous times, FUKUS suffers? How? Imaginary financial collapses? Big joke, it’s war everyone makes money, unfortunately, for those making the money someone has to die….great business, no?
Cheers M
…..it might even appear Russia is pissed off…..so, big deal.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 24 2024 13:20 utc | 610

How about the perpetrators using the shooting as a distraction (already mentioned by others in the bar) tried to re-enact the Kemerovo mall fire?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/deadly-fire-in-russian-shopping-mall-kills-64-many-of-them-children/2018/03/26/ee105122-30d2-11e8-8abc-22a366b72f2d_story.html
The importance of the Kemerovo case is that it is a real case that happened already, and could be the source of info in order to predict how it would play out, given RF building regulations, the usual negligence, terrorist’s actions, etc.

Posted by: RandomLurker | Mar 24 2024 13:20 utc | 611

The habit of many is to focus on the attacks and the deaths, all of which are regrettable, rather than to see the bigger picture.
Russia has faced terrorism from “Muslim” sources before in the Chechen wars. The Russians are obsessive about getting to the bottom of their investigations. Unlike the West, the conclusions of these investigations won’t be used for political purposes. They will make that known if they determine it was not Ukraine or the CIA. Unlike the West which has no international credibility, Russia has a well-earned reputation for being a responsible actor.
Larger things are happening here. Macron’s sudden bizarre war stance. The NATO obsessions with Odessa and Transnistria. This terror attack. The recent increases in Belgorod incursions.
Ukraine long ago stopped trying to defeat the Russian military. They are focused on meta goals like disruption and chaos. As the English expression goes, “When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.”
Make no doubt, despite a handful of posters, the Russians are winning (to borrow a term from Trump) “Bigly”. If the Russians were not winning, there would be no need to hit gas refineries or wage mass killings. Until this point, the ammunition-starved Ukrainians have “expressed” themselves by shelling Donetsk city squares and schools. Attacking those refineries (about which we have zero doubt Ukraine is responsible) took planning, resources, etc. Those weren’t random acts of violence.
The Ukrainians and their NATO friends are no longer trying to regain or hold onto territory. Everything seems oriented toward hurting Russia by any means possible.
As often happens, this leads to more love for Putin inside of Russia and more heroes like Shaman who stand up for the victims. Russian society is getting closer and has more solidarity.
When did the Imperialists ever do something self-serving that was not also long-term self-destructive?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 13:21 utc | 612

Legitimate
#rumors
Judging by the analysis of the events of the last three weeks, someone is deliberately provoking a rise in temperature in the Ukrainian crisis.
This means that:
1. Events will bubble up for a couple of weeks and then return to normal again.
2. The Ukrainian crisis is waiting for maximum intensity, tragedies will be massive, and permanent.
Be careful. The junction is very close…
The source explains that the Ukrainian crisis has reached a certain impasse, where the directors need a new promotion for two things.
1. Knock out money to further finance the crisis.
2. Reset the Ukrainian crisis before the Taiwan case begins.
https://t.me/s/legitimniy

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 13:23 utc | 613

@canuck #606:

“Massive attack”??
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Indisputably, it was a ‘de minimus’ attack regardless of your ignorant, incoherent t moaning.

Another dumbfuck, I see.
Let’s follow the entire sequence of comments.
Innuendo (Mar 23, 20:11):

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The raid is massive. The enemy has about ten missile carriers in the air.

Unnamed (Mar 23, 20:25):

Posted by: Innuendo | Mar 23 2024 20:11 utc | 374
Strangely vague, as these Telegram messages often are. (Which channel is this from by the way?) Are the missiles being fired at Russian targets (in Crimea and the Black Sea?) or against Ukrainian targets? Who is the “enemy” with “missile carriers” in the air?
The two first sentences suggest that it’s Russian air defenses (but also the air force) that are operating, which would suggest Ukraine is the one firing missiles. But I don’t know where Ukraine would get ten “airborne missile carriers” (whatever that refers to, I guess to either bombers like the Tu-22M or ground attack aircraft like the Su-24?) from at this point.

Unnamed (Mar 23, 20:33):

I realize now that this might have been simply a made up Telegram post just like the one about the Kremlin (if this one was also fake, it was a lot more convincing, and it was also smarter to leave out the channel name so there was no easy way to authenticate it). It’s a shame that you “barflies”, or whatever it is you like to call yourselves in this little cult, throw around the “troll” moniker so liberally (against for example me and Shadowbanned, who you don’t have to agree with but who are not trolls) and then don’t have much ammunition left for whoever is spamming the board with misinformation now.

Lev Davidovich (Mar 23, 20:41):

Posted by: Unnamed | Mar 23 2024 20:33 utc | 382
When a troll posts an obviously fake report and you dive in and make yourself look silly, we ‘barflies’ tend to keep quiet.
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Unnamed (Mar 24, 3:36):

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Mar 23 2024 20:41 utc | 389
“Massive attack” on Sevastopol now officially confirmed by Russia itself. Looks like the “obviously fake report” posted by a “troll”, which I according to you “barflies” made a fool myself by diving into, was right on the mark (despite my own misgivings). Maybe you “barflies” on your high horses aren’t as smart as you think you are.

Lev Davidovich (Mar 24, 8:42) (emphasis mine):

Posted by: Unnamed | Mar 24 2024 3:36 utc | 547
There is nothing reported by Tass on a massive attack on Sevastopol.
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Oh footnote. Of course you’re Slava Ukraine fascist Nazi bastard, genocide cheering troll. And I was correct about you all the long. Not that that is important. Let’s hope b promptly blocks your bullshit. Goodbye trolls.

rk (Mar 24, 9:08):

TASS calls attack on Sevastopol “massive”.
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S (Mar 24, 10:17), citing the TASS article on the attack:

Condition of two people injured in air attack on Sevastopol stable — city governor (TASS, March 24, 2024)
On Sunday night, Sevastopol became a target of a massive air attack as a result of which one person was killed and four were injured
SEVASTOPOL, March 24. /TASS/. Two of the four people who were injured in an air attack on Sevastopol remain in the hospital, their condition is assessed as stable, the press service of the city governor told TASS.
“Of the four [those injured in the attack], two were taken to hospital, their condition is stable,” the agency’s source said.
On Sunday night, Sevastopol became a target of a massive air attack as a result of which one person was killed and four were injured. The city governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that the government of Sevastopol will provide all necessary support to the relatives of the deceased.

I have no opinion on, nor am I interested in discussing whether this attack was massive or not. Lev Davidovich claimed “There is nothing reported by Tass on a massive attack on Sevastopol,” then launched into a tirade, smearing Unnamed. I simply pointed out that Lev Davidovich’s claim was false, that TASS has indeed described the attack as “massive.” That’s all.

Posted by: S | Mar 24 2024 13:31 utc | 614

Just curious about what the record is for the number of comments for a single thread on Moon of Alabama? I’ve seen a few 600+ threads in the 1 3/4 years that I’ve been reading, well mostly skimming because I have full time employment and other details of my life to attend, and maybe recall a couple that went over 700 posts. I’m not asking because I’m trying to be a smartass or to slam anyone but truly out of curiosity. I do analysis and synthesis (mostly the old brain way) for a living so its interesting to see the patterns of people who have been on MoA the entire time I’ve been viewing, those that come and go, especially those that come in hot and strong (by the number of posts and “leadership” qualities) and then go away. I sometimes wonder what happens to certain people; did they just get too busy with the rest of their lives or discouraged not to post anymore or get hit by a car or what? It would probably be an interesting sociological study if such science wasn’t mostly captured by entities that want to use the results for some self or masters’ gain. Take care…

Posted by: DakotaRog | Mar 24 2024 13:36 utc | 615

The sheer amount of posters here who debase themselves by consistently falling into petty personal insults after their arguments face some confrontation and critique is embarrassing.

Posted by: boneless | Mar 24 2024 13:36 utc | 616

The Ukrainians and their NATO friends are no longer trying to regain or hold onto territory. Everything seems oriented toward hurting Russia by any means possible.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 13:21 utc | 616
Maybe, once again, they are trying to change the calculus of the conflict?
First it was Johnson and the commitment to war, with showering the UAF with weapons, and aiming at victory. FAILED
As things now stand the RF will win, as it is dictated by the calculus of the conflict.
Therefore the aim is now to force the RF to stop. The French and other EU military presence on the ground along the Dnieper signify that if you Russians want to get through you will have to spend much more blood and treasure. At the same time the Belgorod attacks and terrorist acts aim at what Zelensky said in his statement, roughly that ‘Putin should better try to protect the citizens instead of going after us’.
No idea if it will work – I am just trying to interpret their actions.

Posted by: RandomLurker | Mar 24 2024 13:38 utc | 617

The telegram post by Legitimate that I quoted is what its all about.
With the terrorist attack, the shooters look to be little more than dumb mules, same as drug mules.
The perps, at the top of the ladder that doesn’t matter if it leads through ukraine or anywhere else is the UK-US equal allegiance.
Religious extremist or simply knuckle dragging goons, the shooters appear to be Tajik nationals. Ukraine citizenship/passport is meaningless as everyone that goes there to fight gains citizenship I believe.
Ukraine embassy in Tajikistan was actively recruiting. But what interests me in this line is Stoltenberg’s visit to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.
Perhaps just coincidence and perhaps not.
I guess a little more will come out during the Russian investigation.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 13:43 utc | 618

@canuck #606:
“Massive attack”??
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Indisputably, it was a ‘de minimus’ attack regardless of your ignorant, incoherent t moaning.
Another dumbfuck, I see.”
Posted by: S | Mar 24 2024 13:31 utc | 618
When a interlocutor in an argument stoops to employ profanity and ad hominens to support their side one can be confident that that party lost the argument.
BTW: S if you want to profane properly, ‘dumb fuck” is two words not one as you mistakenly presented.
Have a good day, S.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 13:50 utc | 619

Julian | Mar 24 2024 13:17 utc | 613
Wikipedia suggests that these were the last two remaining ships of that class in the Black Sea Fleet. 3-4k tonnes ships. If true, it’s not only a massive material loss, but the complete loss of a specific capability.

Posted by: robin | Mar 24 2024 13:51 utc | 620

@619 commenting on the internet is a waste of time. I see it as a minor vice that I sometimes fall into. All that happens is that I get sucked into arguing with strangers over topics that neither I nor them have any control over. And all that writing and effort vanishes into the ether after a few days or at best a few weeks.
I remember seeing some early internet meme that went “arguing on the internet is like the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you’re still a retard”

Posted by: Chessmaster Z | Mar 24 2024 13:52 utc | 621

@Julian 613
BREAKING: Ukraine’s military intelligence confirms the destruction of two more Russian “Large Landing Ships” – Yamal and Azov. They were both part of the Black Sea Fleet.
I will wait for independent confirmation which there is no sign.

Posted by: Old Sovietologist | Mar 24 2024 13:57 utc | 622

German Minister of the inner in wake of ‘for sure ISIS attack’: hightened risk of islamic terrorism in germany.
Despicable.

Posted by: kspr | Mar 24 2024 14:00 utc | 623

commenting on the internet is a waste of time.
Posted by: Chessmaster Z | Mar 24 2024 13:52 utc | 625
Not at all. I moved to a different country thanks to comments on sites like MoA.

Posted by: Michael A | Mar 24 2024 14:02 utc | 624

canuck | Mar 24 2024 13:50 utc | 623
Once the username pirate begins operating, best not to waste time in those sort of arguments as usernames become meaningless.
You could be arguing with the real S from from Russia or some clown in San Francisco or wherever that is laughing its head off.
b has given the thread a bit of a cleanup but the same pirate will still be operating.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 14:03 utc | 625

“Julian | Mar 24 2024 13:17 utc | 613
Wikipedia suggests that these were the last two remaining ships of that class in the Black Sea Fleet. 3-4k tonnes ships. If true, it’s not only a massive material loss, but the complete loss of a specific capability.”
Posted by: robin | Mar 24 2024 13:51 utc | 624
Wikipedia?
Really!

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:05 utc | 626

“canuck | Mar 24 2024 13:50 utc | 623
Once the username pirate begins operating, best not to waste time in those sort of arguments as usernames become meaningless.
You could be arguing with the real S from from Russia or some clown in San Francisco or wherever that is laughing its head off.
b has given the thread a bit of a cleanup but the same pirate will still be operating.'”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 14:03 utc | 629
Thanks for the counsel, Peter; I will attempt to follow your direction.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:06 utc | 627

https://t.me/Lunay14/16039

The situation in Sevastopol, three arrivals of Storm Shadow missiles at once.

Posted by: anon2020 | Mar 24 2024 14:10 utc | 628

@robin 624
Even if they have been destroyed it doesn’t matter because the Russian’s now no longer use them to supply their southern forces.
Meanwhile it looks like the Russian’s have just hit largest gas storage facility in Ukraine: the Bilche-Volitsko-Uherskoe underground gas storage facility. It can store four times more natural gas inside than Germany’s largest storage facility.
I know which hit is more important as to the future of the conflict.

Posted by: Old Sovietologist | Mar 24 2024 14:14 utc | 629

Questions about Crocus theater. How did the fire manage to spread so quickly?
Posted by: the pessimist | Mar 23 2024 23:00 utc | 462
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Fabrics and interior finishes in theaters are usually made of flame retardant materials in the west. What isn’t necessarily made of flame retardant materials is the roofing insulation and roofing membrane.
If I was planning to torch this building the first thing I would do is shut off the sprinkler main.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Mar 24 2024 12:09 utc | 591
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The Russian building codes are quite tough
Posted by: ostro | Mar 24 2024 12:23 utc | 595
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most likely the explosion or the thing that started a large fire was already there, placed by another team.
Posted by: rk | Mar 24 2024 12:27 utc | 596
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The building collapse was not done by these four and most died from the building collapse not the shooting. The four shooters were only in one part of the building for ten minutes and it’s a huge building. You would not even be able to get to the roof and back in 10 minutes.
Posted by: pq | Mar 24 2024 8:30 utc | 547
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If it looks like an op, smells like an op, it is likely an op, I posted on this thread earlier.
It takes a while to plan this, including getting maps, blue prints of the building, planning the materials, transportation, route planning, rehearsing movements, timing, etc. The takedown of Osama Bin Laden was rehearsed in a replica of his house in Pakistan not far from my condo in NE North Carolina. The neighbors in Hertford County NC do not talk to strangers. The replica was taken down shortly after the op.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Mar 24 2024 14:14 utc | 630

Posted by: boneless | Mar 24 2024 13:36 utc | 620

The sheer amount of posters here who debase themselves by consistently falling into petty personal insults after their arguments face some confrontation and critique is embarrassing.

Very true.
I have come to realize that most of the insults, shouting and indignant pleas for censorship come from an overriding emotional attachment to a very simple, superficial, narrative. This results in a stubborn unwillingness to distinguish ‘what is’ with ‘what should be’ and puts the dialogue on separate planes. Important developments regarded as unfavourable are discouraged in discussions and any mention of unpalatable facts is seen as endorsement and hence perceived as a personal slight.
Also closely related are the brash, unequivocal predictions which clearly have no basis and that no one actually believes, least of all the authors themselves. The latest were about an upcoming invasion of Alaska and an attack on Washington DC.

Posted by: robin | Mar 24 2024 14:17 utc | 631

canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:05 utc | 630
Perhaps you have a different source?
If Wikipedia is wrong about this, I will personally come here and acknowledge your rightful skepticism, if that is what you are implying.

Posted by: robin | Mar 24 2024 14:21 utc | 632

@canuck #606:
….
Another dumbfuck, I see.

You call other people an dumbfuck?
You ? You do not know the history of your own country and judge others?
Is Syrskuj a Russian for you who kills other Russians?
Is Danilov a Russian for you who kills other Russians?
Was Vlasov for you a Russian who kills other Russians?
Is there an analogue for Vlasovites in a other languages?
I have seen how Chechens want/go to die for Russia and I have seen Russians fleeing from this Russia.
And now I see a clown playing the hero…
regards you d….

Posted by: theo | Mar 24 2024 14:22 utc | 633

Posted by: S | Mar 24 2024 13:31 utc | 618
My last post was for S | Mar 24 2024 13:31 utc | 618
and not @canuck #606

Posted by: theo | Mar 24 2024 14:27 utc | 634

Old Sovietologist | Mar 24 2024 14:14 utc | 633
I have read that the strikes were on the airfield being set up for F-16s, which is apparently also a transit hub for a lot of equipment, plus there is facilities, both underground and above ground for storage.
I assume there would be large numbers of Nato personnel at a site like that and it looks to have received a double tap.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 14:27 utc | 635

Posted by: Gonzo | Mar 24 2024 10:23 utc | 569
The fire has loads of time to spread since no firefighter will enter the building.
<=Maybe but it seems the fire was pre planned, its source hidden and not ignited until the choas of the shooting occurred? its not about the spread of the fire, but about the source of its ignition and the means of its propagation. The damage in the 9/11 attack resulted from the work of already in place sulfur cutter tools <=tools used in the demolition of tall building.. Acco Hengst | Mar 24 2024 14:14 utc | 634 posted the following Posted by: rk | Mar 24 2024 12:27 utc | 596 most likely the explosion or the thing that started a large fire was already there, placed by another team. Posted by: pq | Mar 24 2024 8:30 utc | 547 The building collapse was not done by these four and most died from the building collapse not the shooting. The four shooters were only in one part of the building for ten minutes and it's a huge building. You would not even be able to get to the roof and back in 10 minutes. maybe the investigation of the source and course of the fire will identify the persons responsible.. ?

Posted by: snake | Mar 24 2024 14:27 utc | 636

“It takes a while to plan this, including getting maps, blue prints of the building, planning the materials, transportation, route planning, rehearsing movements, timing, etc. The takedown of Osama Bin Laden was rehearsed in a replica of his house in Pakistan not far from my condo in NE North Carolina. The neighbors in Hertford County NC do not talk to strangers. The replica was taken down shortly after the op.”
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Mar 24 2024 14:14 utc | 634
I am of the opinion that Osama bin Laden was already dead years earlier from kidney failure.
“The president of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, said yesterday he thinks Osama bin Laden has probably died from an untreated kidney disease.
“I think now, frankly, he is dead, for the reason he is a patient, a kidney patient,” Gen Musharraf told CNN. Contradicting US intelligence officials who say they do not know if Bin Laden has suffered from kidney problems, he said he knew the al-Qaida leader had taken two dialysis machines into Afghanistan.
“One was specifically for his own personal use. I don’t know if he has been getting all that treatment in Afghanistan,” Gen Musharraf said.”(1)
1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/19/afghanistan.oliverburkeman

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:28 utc | 637

Posted by: Old Sovietologist | Mar 24 2024 14:14 utc | 633

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Even if they have been destroyed it doesn’t matter because the Russian’s now no longer use them to supply their southern forces…

Allright. But what would they use to deliver large numbers of troops and material to hostile shores?

Posted by: robin | Mar 24 2024 14:30 utc | 638

“…I think all of us are dismayed and surprised by just how fucking stupid.
If forestalling economic collapse was their goal, bravo, youve made it inescapable and accelerated the timetable. Take a bow Jake Sullivan, Nuland, Blinken, and the faceless apparachiks of the State department and CIA shitheads. Take a bow morons.”
Doctor Eleven | Mar 24 2024 12:51 utc | 604
Thet are not acting rationally on behalf of any ‘national interest.’ They are practising neo-liberal policies which lead to the destruction of industry in relatively high wage countries and the export of capital to places where it can secure better returns.
To understand why Europe is collapsing economically-if it is- one has to realise that it is governed by agents of a class which benefits from apparent collapse.
What is quite obvious is that no European country is run by a government which sees the ‘national interest’ as anything more complex than following the instructions of the hegemon and, within the narrow limits left to manouevre, favouring the interests of the owners of large capitals.
There are those who refuse to see what is obvious and invent all manner of alternative explanations- The City, Satanism, Jews- in order to deflect debate from concluding that the capitalist system is neither inevitable (a function of human nature!) nor desirable and that in order to improve our condition it must be replaced.
(cue anti-communist rants and other detritia from Cold War culture.)

Posted by: bevin | Mar 24 2024 14:30 utc | 639

“canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:05 utc | 630
Perhaps you have a different source?
If Wikipedia is wrong about this, I will personally come here and acknowledge your rightful skepticism, if that is what you are implying.”
Posted by: robin | Mar 24 2024 14:21 utc | 636
Perhaps you are right-I do use Wiki for boring stats like PPP, GDP of countries but I am skeptical of their ‘judgement’ articles as they are have Western bias.
I retract my earlier post to you.
Have a good day.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:31 utc | 640

DakotaRog@619….quite often, outside a sensational event, theatre attack, once the pages roll over a certain number, like hitting 400+ comments, most are a pissing match of personal attacks or opinions on opinions……also known as boredom.
As for what happens to commenters, everything you listed, and then life can just be that…..it is always a struggle, a fight for survival, day in day out……and everyone’s level of interest commitment is different, we humans are prone to distraction.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 24 2024 14:32 utc | 641

bevin @643
As ever spot on.
https://www.902.gr/eidisi/politiki/359410/kke-kai-i-kne-estisan-mploko-kai-anagkasan-na-gyrisei-piso-treno-me
Members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its youth organization KNE stopped a train carrying American tanks from the port of Alexandroupolis to Bulgaria.
They stood in front of the train with banners and flags and forced it to stop: they demanded that it turn back and “that the US-NATO killers get out of Alexandroupolis and the entire region.”
The action was successful: the train with tanks returned.
One for the anti-communists to froth over.

Posted by: Old Sovietologist | Mar 24 2024 14:38 utc | 642

Bigoted yahoos are the primary cheerleaders of endless war.
Posted by: Pq
bigotry is the taproot. That is why it is so upsetting to see so many posters before 10-07 and (well fueled) after, pinning the blame for truly Western machinations on a particular religion or sect. Those truly responsible begin to point their shaking fingers at the cover story culprits of AIPAC. Certainly not “patsies” in this case, but a useful laundromat now taking up another task as blame monkeys for the acts of a genocidal state’s strings which are pulled by the U$A in these desperate times.
Bigoted morons who ascribe unlimited power to the protocols of Zionism are not clearing anything up except their limitations, defects and shortcomings. Or else simply honest and earnest disinformation spreaders. Once again, disappointment sets in regarding the low/no brow nature of propaganda, with some respect garnered watching the methodologies employed by the obvious trolls, so completely numerous at times of trouble. Get your hearts and minds straight, drop the hate. Otherwise, what is worth fixing?

Posted by: Not Ewe | Mar 24 2024 14:41 utc | 643

“There are those who refuse to see what is obvious and invent all manner of alternative explanations- The City, Satanism, Jews- in order to deflect debate from concluding that the capitalist system is neither inevitable (a function of human nature!) nor desirable and that in order to improve our condition it must be replaced.
(cue anti-communist rants and other detritia from Cold War culture.)”
Posted by: bevin | Mar 24 2024 14:30 utc | 643
Kindly please illustrate a successful Communist country.
USSR, Yugoslavia, those Communist states failed; China is a hybrid -part Communist and part capitalist -and if I remember my Marxist dogma correctly, eventually the ‘Communist State withers away”. Well the Chinese state is not ‘withering away’ whatsoever -it is more centralized and controlled taking freedoms away from individuals and companies alike with the 1984 like ‘social credit scores’.
“Key Takeaways:
China’s social credit system gives individuals, businesses, and government entities a credit score based on their trustworthiness.
A bad credit score comes with penalties like reduced access to credit and fewer business opportunities.
Corporations seeking to fix a bad credit score must submit an application to do so.” (1)
1. https://velocityglobal.com/resources/blog/chinese-social-credit-system/#:~:text=China's%20social%20credit%20system%20gives,score%20based%20on%20their%20trustworthiness.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:42 utc | 644

Meanwhile it looks like the Russian’s have just hit largest gas storage facility in Ukraine
Posted by: Old Sovietologist | Mar 24 2024 14:14 utc | 633
That is close to the strike area and currently no one said it was hit.
Apparently the strikes hit the “gas exchange point No. 3” ( en.topwar.ru/238967-rossijskie-resursy-nazyvajut-osnovnye-celi-utrennego-raketnogo-udara-po-zapadnoj-ukraine.html )
The ukro DTEK company says today that it “has lost 50% of its generating capacity” and Kharkov mayor cries that all substations in Kharkov and a thermal power plant were destroyed

Posted by: rk | Mar 24 2024 14:45 utc | 645

Bigoted morons who ascribe unlimited power to the protocols of Zionism are not clearing anything up except their limitations.
Posted by: Not Ewe | Mar 24 2024 14:41 utc | 647
Explain to me how belief in the contents of that book implies “bigotry”?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 24 2024 14:48 utc | 646

something going on here not sure …please ajudge yourselves
The strangest moment in the entire story of the militants’ oath to the banned “Islamic State” is in the photo itself. Terrorists raise a finger on their LEFT hand – the one that is “dirty”, used in processes related to defecation, and which should not even be touched by another Muslim. That is, “haram”, is forbidden.
At the same time, the photo itself (in its entirety) is not mirrored. There are three options – either the militants somehow wrote the Arabic letters in the opposite direction (which is unlikely), or the flag was photoshopped onto an already mirrored image, or those who were involved in ensuring the ISIS version did it in such a hurry that they allowed such a serious and obvious jamb.
Yuri Kotenok
@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Mar 24 2024 14:49 utc | 647

“When [an] interlocutor in an argument stoops to employ profanity and ad homin[em attacks] to support their side[,] one can be confident that that party lost the argument.
BTW: S[,] if you want to profane properly, [“]dumb fuck” is two words[,] not one[,] as you mistakenly presented.
Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 13:50 utc | 623”
I agree with the main statement about ad hominem attacks, but when you’re correcting someone else’s spelling, you might want to proofread your own before posting, so you don’t end up looking like a dumbfuck (which can be one or two words depending on locality).

Posted by: Dalit | Mar 24 2024 14:49 utc | 648

“Bigoted morons who ascribe unlimited power to the protocols of Zionism are not clearing anything up except their limitations.”
Posted by: Not Ewe | Mar 24 2024 14:41 utc | 647
“Explain to me how belief in the contents of that book implies “bigotry”?”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 24 2024 14:48 utc | 650
No, no , no not another 400 post blog a thon on ‘The Protocols of Zion”!!!!

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:52 utc | 649

robin@642
They won’t. I think they gave up on the idea of large-scale amphibious landings very early in the SMO.
Btw I tend to agree with Zachary Keck’s assessment from 2014.
https://thediplomat.com/2014/06/why-d-day-would-fail-today/

Posted by: Old Sovietologist | Mar 24 2024 14:53 utc | 650

“something going on here not sure …please ajudge yourselves
The strangest moment in the entire story of the militants’ oath to the banned “Islamic State” is in the photo itself. Terrorists raise a finger on their LEFT hand – the one that is “dirty”, used in processes related to defecation, and which should not even be touched by another Muslim. That is, “haram”, is forbidden.
At the same time, the photo itself (in its entirety) is not mirrored. There are three options – either the militants somehow wrote the Arabic letters in the opposite direction (which is unlikely), or the flag was photoshopped onto an already mirrored image, or those who were involved in ensuring the ISIS version did it in such a hurry that they allowed such a serious and obvious jamb.
Yuri Kotenok
@Slavyangrad”
Posted by: Jo | Mar 24 2024 14:49 utc | 651
Good catch Jo-when I was in Fez in 1986 eating with Muslims at their homes I first learned about ‘the dirty left hand’.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:54 utc | 651

bevin@643….so you don’t believe there is a Cult of Mammon? Those that move assets around to create more …hmm, Mammon. At the expense of ‘we, the people’. All we have in many western countries (US not included) is a Socialist security net for the wage slaves while usurious elite feast on their backs.
You mention they; moving assets, they; selected governing positions (no I don’t trust free and fair elections, it’s a personal conspiracy thing). Would you please identify “they” who is at the controls. ‘They’ must be human, identifiable, yes?
If you can’t identify, them, what’s yours guess…..I don’t personally know who your ‘they’ is, but I can look at the top unelected governmental positions, the boards of directors, the CEOs. Perhaps the ‘theys’ really are visible, identifiable entities in control, or perhaps there’s ‘thems’ that control the ‘theys’. Having some faces and names would sure help dispel any myths that have sprung up over the years.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 24 2024 14:55 utc | 652

Kindly please illustrate a successful Communist country.
Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:42 utc | 648
That is a very typical US response. The Soviet Union had its problems, but the main problem for it was fending off the Holy Roman Empire which amassed against it. Churchill and Truman were already plotting war against the Soviet Union before Nazi Germany was defeated. So much Soviet man hours had to go into defense. And with such a powerful force that could attack at any moment there is going to be a certain amount of paranoia.
NK the same. Virtual all labour had to go into defense to Keep the Americans at bay.
Cuba, tiny island in the US back yard.
With US coming out of WWII with 75% of the worlds wealth and using that to attain hegemon status – then to own the trade currency meant sanctions had bite.
Vietnam once it booted the US out has consistently increased the living standards of its people.
But in terms of increasing living standards and pulling people out of poverty, China is the standout.
Apart from that, off topic for this thread.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 15:05 utc | 653

There is more to this than simply a terrorist attack … it was symbolic and a dire message to the Russians.
A common punishment for partisan attacks on the Nazi’s in WW2 was to round up entire villages in a barn, torch the barn and shoot anyone who managed to escape.
Every Russian knows this … most in the west don’t. This is the equivelent of killing jews with gas.
People don’t understand that the nazi’s objectives for WW2 in the east was not only the genocide of the jews but also slavs and the nazi’s waffen SS weren’t just Germans but ideologically driven men from all over Europe on a crusade to wipe out “jewish bolshevism”.
It doesn’t matter what passports these terrorists carried to the Russians … it was an attack symbolizing genocide against the Russians and right now the heart of the nazi world and ideology is in western Ukraine. That’s where their revenge is going to be focused but I also wouldn’t be surprised if Russian sleeper cells are awakened all over the west.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Mar 24 2024 15:19 utc | 654

…but I also wouldn’t be surprised if Russian sleeper cells are awakened all over the west.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Mar 24 2024 15:19 utc | 658
——————–
When someone talks about “Russian sleeper cells”, their thinking doesn’t go further than Hollywood films.

Posted by: ostro | Mar 24 2024 15:24 utc | 655

Russian war correspondent Marat Khayrullin made a detailed post about the British trace in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack. I’ve translated and posted it on the Week in Review thread: Part 1, Part 2.

Posted by: S | Mar 24 2024 15:26 utc | 656

“but when you’re correcting someone else’s spelling, you might want to proofread your own before posting, so you don’t end up looking like a dumbfuck (which can be one or two words depending on locality).”
Posted by: Dalit | Mar 24 2024 14:49 utc | 652
Fun fact, when you are discussing language you would normally quote someone using double quotes. For example, he said “dumbfuck”.
But you when you are referring to a word such as ‘dumbfuck’ you use single quotes instead. Starting a sentence with ‘but’ is allowed in less formal writing.
By following these simple rules it allows other posters to see that you’re not just some dumb fuck posting on the internet. Your polite sophistication will allow you to stand out above the crowd and its infantile dumbfuckery.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 24 2024 15:28 utc | 657

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 24 2024 15:05 utc | 657
With all due respect Peter-Communism is, theoretically, a good idea; however, in reality, Communist ideology combined with human tendencies is and always will be a disaster.
Capitalism- and I’m not talking about modern Western countries, which have all abandoned capitalism tenets (see 2008 Bank bailout; no anti trust for Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft etc; Obama giving the Unions prece3dence in GM’s 2009 bankruptcy; Covid keep the big stores open and close the little stores it goes on)so it now is not Capitalism it is Fascism-yet capoitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than another ‘ism’ in the history of the world.
I did work in Vietnam in 2010-2011 and its not as rosy picture as you might think.
The Vietnamese government asked me and another company to take over a 50 square mile gold claim where the gold was being mined thorugh placers in the river.
See in the 90’s the Vietnemese govt. only gave 1 mile of river to be mined by individuals so as to enrich the people and keep out the big firms-a nice idea , of course. This was in the Central Highlands.
But in the reckoning Chinese ‘mafia’ for lack of a better word took over the river and mined using mercury unwisely polluting the river. We would not use such barbaric practices.
Well me and my small 3 member team we recruited another 10 or so Vietnamese labourers and we started sampling the river bed. It was hot but great fun until day 6 when a policeman came up and arrested me and my boys.
I showed the policeman (who has unarmed and on a motorcycle) my permit from the Vietnamese government-that didn’t help.
They took us to the police station 60 clicks away but let us go after I called the Canadian Embassy and threatened to fax the Embassy the govt. letter. My team , I hate to say, were sobbing at this time-I was just mad.
That night I asked our hotel man., the owner, what the hell happened? He told me the Chinese mafia control the local police force such that the federal govt. has little power in the central Highlands. So we went back to Saigon where I bought our government guy dinner at a wonderful French-Vietnamese restaurant.
When I delicately broached the subject of jurisdiction he just smiled, I could tell he was humiliated.
Next day we headed back to Toronto and abandoned the 50 square mile patch; needless to say I’m not that enamoured with the Vietnemese communism.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 15:36 utc | 658

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 15:36 utc | 662
First hand knowledge. Thank you.

Posted by: lex talionis | Mar 24 2024 16:08 utc | 659

A potential handler of the Crocus terrorists has been named – Abdullo Buriyev. The Turkish security services had earlier labelled him as a handler of the Afghan branch of ISIS “Wilayat Khorasan”. A man with similar data flew from Turkey to Russia after the terrorist attack in Istanbul in early 2024. The detained terrorists also said that their acquaintance Abdullo helped with the purchase of a car for the attack.
@ukraine_watch

Posted by: Jo | Mar 24 2024 16:39 utc | 660

No, no , no not another 400 post blog a thon on ‘The Protocols of Zion”!!!!
Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 14:52 utc | 653
I’m still drafting the first part of my book series. Just you wait …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 24 2024 16:49 utc | 661

I read somewhere that the gunmen actually cut off exit points so nobody could escape. Ten minutes is quite a long time for such an incident. There were a few thousand people inside. Could it be that they were waiting for the roof to collapse to maximise deaths? But it didnt so they fled?

Posted by: HERMIUS | Mar 24 2024 16:49 utc | 662

Good luck finding a successful *anything* country where success is defined as relatively technological, peaceful, and enduring.
There is a line in the Witcher TV show, which I believe is borrowed from the original books, that states rise and fall throughout history as an expected and common phenomenon.
In the past 150 years, we have convinced ourselves that lines on maps have permanence and staying power. Most of history disputes this perspective.
I think Putin has the right idea. Where there are Russians (East Ukraine, Transnistria, Konigsberg) there are interests of the Russian state. After all, a “nation” is not an area or a flag. A nation is a “people”.
This of course disqualifies modern America as a nation that is an assortment of disparate people with wildly different histories, cultures, and values. Unlike Russians, who put the Russian state first, many Americans openly loathe their state and their state’s history.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 24 2024 16:50 utc | 663

Activity in Sevastopol and Lviv. Just for a bit of clarification. (No ships are reportd hit)

About the combined strike of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol and Crimea
The very next day after the terrorist attack in Moscow, Ukrainian formations carried out a massive combined attack on the Crimean Peninsula, in which at least 12 tactical aircraft were involved.
Nine aircraft (presumably Su-24M and Su-27) took off from Starokonstantinov, two MiG-29 from the Uman airfield and another Su-27 from Mirgorod. After reaching the line in Zatoka , Novaya Odessa and Snigirevka, Storm Shadow/SCALP, ADM-160 and Neptune missiles were launched.
🔻Sevastopol was subjected to the most large-scale attack. Two missiles tried to hit the warship parking lot. The targets were shot down, but debris fell in the area of the pier in Sevastopol Bay; no serious damage was recorded.
▪️The use of SCALP cruise missiles was noted at the ship repair yard. The warhead of one of the missiles did not fire, and the second hit the pier. There is currently no data on the nature of the damage, but the absence of any smoke may indicate that the fire was quickly localized.
❗️This time the AFU began to strike the civilian infrastructure of Sevastopol. The targets were two apartment buildings and two municipalities. The hits killed one civilian and injured four others.
▪️Two more Storms were used to attack a building previously used by the Black Sea Fleet in the central part of the city. However, it was empty, so apart from physical damage to the infrastructure, there were no casualties.
▪️The same can be said about the Cossack Bay area. Ukrainian channels talked all night about monstrous arrivals, but the rocket fell in a field not far from the special operations forces training ground. There were no casualties.
🔻Black Sea came under attack in the west of Crimea. First, the Ukrainian Armed Forces intended to hit the barracks with four aircraft-type drones. The UAVs flew at an extremely low altitude, but were shot down by air defense crews.
A little later, several Neptune anti-ship missiles were fired from the Odessa region, which were shot down on approach to the Black Sea by Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft.
🔻In the central part of Crimea, Ukrainian formations attacked an oil depot in Gvardeiskoe in the morning with drones flying at an extremely low altitude. Six of them were destroyed by the crew of the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division.
Three more fell on the territory of the energy facility, causing a fire. But the main oil tanks were not damaged, which made it possible to extinguish the fire quickly and without casualties by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
▪️The enemy also tried to hit the deployment point of the 126th separate guards coastal defense brigade in the Perevalny area with missile weapons. Thanks to air defense units, nine missiles were shot down.
📌 As you can see, the AFU tried to hit several targets at once. This can be clearly seen in the geography of the raid: starting from the west of Crimea and ending with the central part and Sevastopol. In total, over 40 missiles and drones of various types were used.
Once again, the AFU used decoy missiles. Unfortunately, not all targets were intercepted. However, timely measures taken made it possible to reduce the damage from attacks both on the Black Sea Fleet and in other units on the peninsula.
The saddest thing is that civilians were injured in the attack and became the target of a targeted attack by the enemy.
rybar

***
Meanwhile part of the Russian missile strikes were very close to the Polish/Ukraine frontier. Notably a double Tap strike on the Stryri airfield. (several Kinzhals), and that one missile overflew the border for 39 seconds (Poland dixit), and other air activity was heard 15 km from the Polish side.

It is noteworthy that many of last night’s strikes were were centred on Stryi.
14 kilometers from the Stryi military airfield there is the largest gas storage facility in Ukraine: the Bilche-Volitsko-Uherskoe underground gas storage facility.
It can store four times more natural gas inside than Germany’s largest storage facility. The largest storage facility in Ukraine with a design capacity of 17.05 billion cubic meters. It can accommodate a significant part of the gas that could not be pumped into underground gas storage facilities in the EU. It is known that European countries have been using this facility on the territory of Ukraine for gas storage since August 2023.
Two Majors

Both re’X’ed by Geroman.
***
Assumption; that the Russians are now going to hit ANY arms transiting the border, rather than waiting until they are deployed nearer the frontlines. Possibly the recent Macron fumble about French troops being sent into Ukraine makes this necessary. (Although I reckon that one reason for sending 2’000 troops to Ukraine is that they will be used to expain away the deaths and casualities already suffered by the French and the French Foreign legion.
Other strikes on electricity grids etc, will also have the effect of limiting future arms transport from the Waste by rail.

Posted by: Stonebird | Mar 24 2024 17:00 utc | 664

@644 Canuck
Depende do que você chama de “sucesso”.
Só pra te dar um exemplo bem extremo:
A educação e a saúde da pequena a pobre Cuba é, na maioria dos aspectos, superior a daí do Canadá (e imensamente superior a daqui do Brasil).
É não nos esqueçamos também de todas as guerras, sanções e bloqueios que foram impostas à estes países
Aliás, uma pergunta: qual o país capitalista deu certo?
Depende também do que podemos definir como “comunista”… mas este é um longuíssimo debate..

Posted by: Soviético | Mar 24 2024 17:06 utc | 665

E sobre o definhamento do estado… tenha calma… é um processo lento…
Se não me engano, foi Zao Ziang que falou de uma NEP de 100 anos..

Posted by: Soviético | Mar 24 2024 17:19 utc | 666

Zakharova mocks Faeser’s statement about IS responsibility for the attack on a concert hall near Moscow
The Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, damaged by flames, March 24, 2024.
GRIGORY SYSSOYEV / Sputnik
Russian Foreign Office spokeswoman Maria Sakharova countered on Telegram against the statement of German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who previously stated that, based on current knowledge, the terrorist militia “Islamic State” was responsible for the bloody attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk. In her reaction to this statement, the Russian diplomat wrote, in an apparently mocking tone, among other things:
“A deep analysis. A powerful thought. A powerful intellect.”
Sakharova asks rhetorically when Faeser will be equally convinced about the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
“Within a year and a half, Germany did not come up with an official version regarding the damage to its own assets. It did not even think of the Islamic State.”
The Russian authorities and President Vladimir Putin had previously hinted at a Ukrainian lead in the attack that left more than 130 dead.

Posted by: ossi | Mar 24 2024 17:28 utc | 667

@664
Quanto às “tendencias” ou à ‘natureza humana’, o próprio Bevin já expressou o quanto está questão é falaciosa.
Resumindo:as “tendencias” humanas são historicamente e socialmente definidas e nós mesmos já somos velhos o bastante para termos presenciado sérias mudanças nesta “natureza”.

Posted by: Soviético | Mar 24 2024 17:43 utc | 668

“the pessimist | Mar 23 2024 21:23 utc | 413
No, these are death throes per the Soviet Vistula-Oder offensive in 1945 w/ local variations. And that’s all they are.
Any insertion of NATO troops in theatre would be solely to facilitate evacuation of Ukrainian troops and would require Russian acquiesence. Russia is clearly unwilling to give its acquiesence, hence the terrorism.
Nuland hasn’t been relevant since Nov. 2022. The Brits are the operational tip of the speare.
It is amusing reading posts from people that use their own emotions to discern what is behind leadership decisions.”
Posted by: Nagillum | Mar 23 2024 21:48 utc | 407
Yes, the City is leading the parade.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 24 2024 18:56 utc | 669

Excerpt from:
Moscow Terror Attack — Rogue Ukrainian Op or Western Backed?
23 March 2024 by Larry Johnson
https://sonar21.com/moscow-terror-attack-rogue-ukrainian-op-or-western-backed/

“…It appears that the perps had no ideological axe to grind and were hired for a relatively paltry sum and carried out indiscriminate killing at a public gathering of civilians. Based on the video evidence released so far in the public domain the planning for this op was not the work of skilled professionals — e.g., they used the same vehicle to travel to and from the attack site, their movements inside the building demonstrated unsophisticated Close Quarter Battle skills and they had poor muzzle discipline, which means they had minimal rifle training.
“The Russians got a jump on the investigation because one of the concert goers coldcocked one of the shooters, and the shooter was captured alive. The Russians also followed the escape vehicle and nabbed four of the suspects as they skedaddled for Ukraine.

Posted by: Will Seymore | Mar 24 2024 21:38 utc | 670

Posted by: bevin | Mar 24 2024 14:30 utc | 643
I call it the cult of Fredrik Hayek. Of course he called it the economics of fascism.

Posted by: badjoke | Mar 25 2024 7:12 utc | 671

Posted by: S | Mar 24 2024 13:31 utc | 618
I’m almost flattered by the lengths you went to in order to highlight my fallibility. Not quite as detailed as Sy Hersh’s NordStream expose or b debunking the Bucha false flag, but a perturbed level of selective recall, some might say a bit longwinded with a few insults added in. It reads like you graduated top of the class from the Victoria Nuland School of Diplomacy.
It’s not for me to question your character judgement and you’re free to choose your own company, but here’s your boy innuendo posting again in support of Sam.
@SAM
Devastating, right?
The main question is how in the world Russians cannot manage the interceptions of those Storm Shadows… I mean especially in Sevastopol or Crimea where they know it’s a 100% target! 
This is where nothing should ever pass…
Posted by: Innuendo | Mar 24 2024 22:04 utc | 126
Sam is real hot-rod, prior to innuendo backing him up, he shows up and insults MoA patrons as “Putinistas” and tells us that unlike Russian intelligence service, he knew two weeks ago by watching Obama on tele that there’d be a terrorist attack; but he only shares his ‘foresight’ 48 hours after the terrorist attack, while becoming the latest to crow about the (relatively small) attack on Sevastopol. The insult towards barflies was reminiscent of your man unnamed in his non hijacked post, so zero apologies to him. Just as no one demands an apology from you for defending these ‘contributions’ from people who insult patrons of this bar. That is your misguided right. I wouldn’t want to liberally label any of your boys as a troll and risk getting another one of your boring solicitor’s letters, so I’ll keep thinking of another term to describe their uncannily similar contributions and I’ll leave it to other contributors who have already called them out as trolls.
Thanks for your open thread contribution. An interesting article.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Mar 25 2024 9:03 utc | 672

Conclusion: Most acts of sabotage by Ukraine and SBU were supported by US/UK weapons and/or logistics support.
RFU OP: Tajikistan and Khorasan Deception Part 1
Some preparatory labor reviewing decades of facilitating the war on terror by Western states.

Posted by: Oui | Mar 26 2024 14:55 utc | 673

Today in March 2024 I see big headlines about how US “warned” Putin of an upcoming terror attack, but (“bad”) Putin “ignored” warnings by (“good”) US. Some of these 2024 reports also falsely state that back in 2013 Putin never warned US about two dangerous Chechen brothers, immigrants to the US, who in April 2013 bombed the Boston Marathon causing 3 deaths (incl. an 8 yr old boy) and many lost arms and legs. The opposite is true. Putin did specifically warn us about the two Chechens well before 2013. He publicly stated this right after it happened. On 4/22/2013 BBC reported that US agreed they were warned about the Chechens, but concluded they were “no cause for concern”: “The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after a request from a foreign government, US law enforcements officials have confirmed. But agents closed the case after finding no cause for concern. In an interview on Russian television, the mother of the two suspects said the FBI had been in contact with her son for several years. It is not known which country made the request, but the BBC’s Paul Adams in Washington says it is likely to have come from Russia.”….“Boston bombings: Suspects’ Chechen connections.” BBC uses the term “request” but in any case US obviously had plenty of warning, put FBI on the “case.” US isn’t a normal country. It has open borders, wants a constant flood of “newcomers” who’ll receive free room and board from US taxpayers. For US elites, it’s a plus if Americans are blown up because elites can say they need more tax dollars for weapons.

Posted by: susan mullen | Mar 29 2024 4:34 utc | 674

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