r/InternationalNews • u/ObjectiveObserver420 South Africa • Mar 23 '24

International Hamas denounces Moscow terror attack

https://english.palinfo.com/news/2024/03/23/316342/
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u/YouThunkd Mar 23 '24

Genuinely, what would the CIA or Mossad gain from killing only 40 random civilians in Moscow? The men themselves were from a region that has been under Russian rule for centuries now, and has been thoroughly re-pacified over the past few decades. I just don’t see what gain the West could even get from killing them.

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u/MkarezFootball Mar 24 '24

Make the world hate Muslims again, since there's "shocking" support to Mulims on the Israeli aggression

Pressurize & threaten Russia to tone it down with Ukraine

Add chaos to geopolitics & the whole situation

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u/YouThunkd Mar 24 '24

Russia is a nuclear power, if the west threatens them with violence like this it’s like giving them a blank check to do what they please in Ukraine.

I could see the Muslim point, but I don’t know how much a terrorist attack in Russia could sway wider western opinion.

When you consider both of these together, it looks a lot less likely that the west could be directly behind this one. Beyond that, Russia has been hugely active in combatting ISIS throughout the 2010s. So it makes sense for ISIS to target them specifically.

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u/jmore098 Mar 24 '24

Pressurize & threaten Russia to tone it down with Ukraine

That's a Hamas strategy. Randomly killing dozen/hundreds of citizens to get the other side to tone it down.

What a brain dead strategy. Sigh, some people don't learn.