Elections and Terrorism : Carrots & Sticks
Right on cue the hammer falls on the innocents -strategically vital ones, of course. With Putin safely re-selected it was Moscow’s turn again. Fear was reborn and leaders leapt to waiting microphones, scripts trembling in their soft hands. Gunshots and potentially lethal cliches bark from international TV. Selected horrors for armchair voyeurs in Tik-tok-size bites. Anonymous dead bodies counted in the gaps between important speeches. Terrorism rides again: the rich talking tough and the rest doing the dying.
Not for the first time, you could see this coming a mile off. [Read: NATO False Flags Are Back on the Table -EndOfthenews, March 8th.] A series of four Ukrainian missile -drone attacks on Russian oil refineries between March 12th and 15th preceded Friday’s mass-murder in Moscow. To pretend the latter has no relation to the former is to infantalise public perception. Ukraine has already carried Zelensky’s vanity war deep into Russian territory and Muscovites have been targeted before.
The gore-spattered concert-hall is a classic of the genre; the ultimate sales pitch for military escalation. In 2002 ‘Chechen terrorists’ contrived a theatre massacre in -yes, Moscow. In 2015 some Paris concert-butchery was blamed on “IS”. The 2017 Manchester concert-hall atrocity was blamed on “an Islamic extremist”. No prize for spotting the theme; what goes around stays around. Inhabitants of major cities across the Metaverse have just been reminded that war knows no borders and next time, maybe, just maybe… it could be you.
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