An explosion was reported today against a metro train in the northern Russian city of St. Petersburg, killing at least 11 people and wounding 45 others. Russia’s Anti-Terror Committee has reported a second explosive device was found and defused in the city.
Russian officials and media are being careful not to assign blame just yet however, or even say that it was definitely an act of terror, though the fact a second device exists certainly suggests that was the case. President Vladimir Putin said it was too soon to know, and that the investigation will consider all possible causes for the incident, including terrorism.
The Western media wasn’t nearly as contemplative about the nature of the incident, with CNN, BBC, and Sky News all initially labeling it blowback for Russia’s involvement in Syria, and before long speculating, without any evidence, that the entire incident was a false flag operation by the Russian government.
So far there has been no claim of credit for the attack, if it indeed was an attack, and while Russia is promising to beef up security around its transportation infrastructure, they appear to be being very careful about false attributions of responsibility in the meantime.
Please pray for that beautiful city. The one I use to dream about living in. I’ll make it there someday.
St. Petersburg is, indeed, a beautiful city, Comrade Hermit, and I hope and pray that your dream of living in that city will soon be realized. God bless you.
Main stream media and Washington will be loathe to admit Russia faces terror threats from some of the the same actors as the U.S.
Russia’s main cities have had almost a vacation from terror problems the past 6 or 7 years. This was due in part to excellent security measures, putting an adequate band-aid on the Chechenya problem, and reaping the benefits of many years without direct interventions in foreign wars (at least not beyond their immediate frontier )
Now that they’ve re-entered the intervention business, they will be back on the priority list of international terror groups and their followers. These kind of attacks will be unavoidable. The game just got very real.
Putin owes a great deal of his teflon to effectively improving the security situation compared to the late 90’s & early 2000’s after the epic theater and school attacks. If things go back to the way they were, it will be by far the greatest threat his regime ever faced.
It’s a tough decision. Intervention & proxy wars are a drain and inevitably bring these consequences. Yet with Russia on the sidelines, the US and it’s G7 partners continued selling Russia as a threat while accelerating both military and political attacks on states with economic & foreign policy sovereignty who do business with Russia.
There is very little time to decide between changing course and watching the last domino’s fall, or going all-in and accepting the political risks of years of terrorism at home.
Hello??! You’re confused, you’re mixing the Russian Federation gov’t. with the USG. This isn’t the defunct USSR we’re discussing here .. that entity totally collapsed in 1990 and the Russian Federation replaced it.
The nation that’s been intervening in the internal affairs of other countries is the same one that’s invaded nearly 7 countries without the consent of their leaders, and that’s NOT Russia. That leaves the USA as the major culprit.
I suggest you do some research, not in the MSM, but in independent media sources, before you put any blame on Russia.
I never said Russia is the serial interventionist. In fact I noted that post-Soviet Russia has benefited from NOT involving itself militarily in conflicts scattered all over the world. However that has changed with the Syria mission, though it’s only one conflict. it will remind the Islamists that they have beefs with Russia too and will put Russia higher up on the terror priority list (with a good chance the terrorists will have some help form the US, G7 & Gulf Kingdoms) .
The US & it’s allies have successfully conditioned a critical mass of their populations to accept the perpetual intervention-terror cycle and even perceive some virtue in it! it remains to be seen if Russia can achieve this domestically. Putin owes a lot of his support to delivering on his promise to bring security. A return to something that resembles the spree of bombings, raids and hostage takings will be much harder ride out than economic sanctions or stunts by western-backed agitators.
Hardly surprising that Western mediaganda is busy blaming Russia for the explosion. And Trump condemned the attack? That proves it, he’s a Russian puppet!
Just Liberal Logic.
Russian officials and media are being careful not to assign
blame just yet…
A Smart move on Putin’s part. Not so for the USG corporate
MSM which has already put the blame on ‘radical’ Islamists
from Kyrgyzstan.
Sounds like the MSM has inside information. Perhaps from
Curveball, the Iraqi mole who claimed Saddam had WMDs.
So the US “news media” immediately know everything about an attack in Russia, and blab about it as they always do? How can people bear to read/listen/watch the fawning corporate media? have they nothing else in life?