"Fighting" with fantasies: what is the special reaction of Putin to the shooting in "crocus" - WP

The Russian trusted his own special services, which did not prevent the shooting in the Crocus concert hall near Moscow. As it turned out, the special services of the Russian Federation better cope with fictional threats - that is, with the opposition than with real terrorists. Max Boot explained the special behavior of Putin in the context of Crocus in the context of Crocus.

Booth noted that the US government warned Moscow that militants of the "Islamic State" (IDIL) plan to carry out a large -scale terrorist attack. Putin reacted in a special way: he said it was "provocation" and "blackmail" that should "destabilize society". That is, instead of resisting real terrorists, he continued to catch fictional "Ukrainian Nazis", - the scientist wrote. According to But, after such a reaction, only two conclusions about Putin's regime can be drawn.

First, the regime does not plan to improve their lives or protect ordinary Russians. Secondly, the President of the Russian Federation is focused solely on the preservation of power and "the achievement of imperial glory for himself as a king of the last days. " "Putin is not interested in serving the Russian people or protecting it against real threats, and his regime is more skilled in suppressing peaceful dissidents than cruel terrorists," the WP article reads.

While fighting with fictional terrorists, Moscow did not notice how she became the enemy of true terrorists from ISIL. The reason for this was the crimes of Russian troops in Syria, - explained Booth. Another enemy Iran was Iran, who is also involved in the fighting in Syria. In Iran, a terrorist attack with 95 victims occurred on January 3, a series of explosions in Kerman when the crowd honored the dead Kasma Suleimani military commander.

The US warned of terrorist attacks and Russia and Iran, but both modes ignored it. "There is some cruel irony in the fact that Russia, which in recent years has been the executor of so many terrorist attacks from Syria to Ukraine, has been struck by terrorists on Friday night," Max Booth stressed in a column for WP. In the Crocus Concert Hall in the Moscow region, a group of armed terrorists broke into a premises where about 6,000 Russians were located.

More than a hundred people were killed as a result of shooting and fire, two hundred were injured. 20 km from the Russo-Belarusian border. During the interrogation, one of the fighters stated that he was promised 500 thousand rubles. For committing a terrorist attack. The man he agreed was like a preacher. Vladimir Putin, as well as the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, expressed confidence that terrorists are connected with Ukraine.