Russia is now blaming Western intelligence for Friday's terrorist attack in Moscow.
Yup, just a good ol' escalation toward WW3 right there!
Russia on Tuesday sought to shift blame for the Moscow concert hall attack onto Ukraine and its Western backers, despite the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the killings of at least 139 people.
The Kremlin's security services have been scrambling to explain how gunmen on Friday managed to carry out the worst attack in Russia in over two decades.
President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that ‘radical Islamists' conducted the bloody assault, but suggested they were linked to Ukraine, two years into the Kremlin's offensive on the country.
The head of Russia's FSB security agency Alexander Bortnikov said Tuesday that while those who had ‘ordered' the attack had not been identified, the assailants were heading to Ukraine and would have been ‘greeted as heroes'.
‘We believe the action was prepared both by the radical Islamists themselves and, of course, facilitated by Western special services, and Ukraine's special services themselves have a direct connection to this,' Bortnikov was cited as saying by Russian news agencies.
Of course, the United States was the one warning Russia in early March that this attack was imminent, even putting out a warning to U.S. citizens in Moscow to avoid large gatherings.
Ukraine has denied any involvement, whereas Western allies say ISIS-K, a branch of the terror group in Afghanistan, is responsible.
You know, Afghanistan, which America handed back over to the Taliban with billions in high-tech military equipment as a bonus.
So … yeah.
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