• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Why doesn’t it seem like a false-flag? Who could benefit from this, politically, more than Putin? Remember the Reichstag fire.

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        8 months ago

        Wut. He’s already in power and just won another six year term.

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          8 months ago

          He’s been in power for a long time but he’s run an authoritarian regime. He relies on the suppression of a depoliticized majority of the population. The idea here is that he wants to make a move towards totalitarianism: mobilize more of the population towards the war effort. Squeeze those depoliticized folks to force them to declare their loyalty to the regime.

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      8 months ago

      ah yes, gay = bad, how progressive of you

      edit: would you call Putin Ukrainian as means of insulting him?

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      8 months ago

      Doesnt matter if its false flag or not. Pooptin is gonna use it as ammo against Ukraine.

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      7 months ago

      The best way to tell if it’s a false flag operation is to see how much this event will be spread in the Russian media.

      They’ve lost tons of equipment and had bombings deep in Russian territory, mostly affecting their oil production which could be perceived locally as Russian military inferiority.

      So when this starts being on blast for every channel and frequency - you can be sure it’s a false flag.

      If they bury this like any other Russian military failing, then it’s probably real.

      Edit: ISIS claims responsibility, but Russia is still trying to blame Ukraine, which is kind of a false flag?