I’m not saying Ukraine didn’t do it. They probably did, and not just because the culprits fled toward a “window” on the Ukrainian border. Before 2022, even western news outlets widely condemned the Ukraine as a den of corruption and international terrorism, including ISIS.
However, it is extremely obvious to me that the USA had a hand in directing this terrorist attack, or at least was well aware of it (which is the same when it comes to guilt).
One detail that I got wrong in my initial analysis on the night of the attack was my belief that it was unlikely any of the shooters had visited the Crocus City Hall prior to the attack. One of them had been photographed on March 7:
In light of this new information, it is extremely likely that the attack was initially planned to occur within the 48 hour window initially announced by the US Embassy, but something went wrong with this timeline and the execution date was pushed back two weeks.
Like I previously stated, the US claim that they knew the specific ISIS cell responsible for the attack is an admission of guilt. In Afghanistan, ISAF Information Operations cells specialized in disinformation. For example, falsifying a paper trail to implicate a Taliban member of working with the enemy. It’s completely within the USA’s IO capabilities to carry out a terrorist attack and implicate someone else while masking its own involvement. In other words, they know how to make an innocent person look guilty and a guilty person look innocent.
The specific accusation of ISIS-K being responsible within hours of the attack happened just too fast. Government bureaucracy can’t do anything that fast unless it was a pre-planned response. Really, just imagine yourself as an employee at the US State Department. There’s breaking news of a terrorist attack in Moscow triggering a staff meeting. Someone at that meeting says he has plausible information of who was responsible for the attack, which is discussed and argued about. That leads to a follow-up meeting with involved persons to discuss the theory which is then presented to the boss and then the boss’s boss – which in this case would be President Biden. Are we really supposed to believe all these steps happened within a few hours? No, of course not. There’s no way unless some of the key parties involved already knew.
And just to be absolutely clear, the key details I’m talking about here were not shared with anyone in the Russian government, which is self-evident from their Foreign Ministry loudly protesting that the US Embassy had publicly rambled about an “imminent” terror attack with no corresponding notification or cooperation with Russian authorities.
Social media giants’ lockdown on footage from the event required human intervention and happened too fast to have not been centrally directed, and pre-orchestrated (at least on the government end).
Aside from the weird embassy announcements and extremely fast-tracked “ISIS did it” announcement, I don’t believe it is possible to orchestrate such an attack without triggering US surveillance. Even small transactions between at least 11 different people, plus whatever purchases they needed to make for weapons, bombs, and whatever other tools they needed really could not have gone without notice in today’s global financial system. Even blockchain transactions are transparent. It would be too suspicious to have gone unnoticed.
The American government knows when I buy groceries in Moscow, what I like to eat, and how I got the money I used. I’m not an idiot, I know that they know every detail of my personal finances. So how exactly am I supposed to believe that 11 terrorists did all of this undetected?
Pro-NATO nay-sayers will of course argue “But but that’s how the US knew about the attack and tried to warn Russia.” My point is that the US did not just know, they knew exact details, including the national origin and personal identities of the terrorists, and there’s no evidence any of this was shared with Russia.
I suspect the motivation for this crime was, at least partially, to poison the well and make any normalization of American-Russian relations impossible.
This is the major flaw in any Russian aspiration for future improved relations of the USA. The Democrat and old guard Republican factions passionately hate Russia, and the people who don’t share this feeling are indifferent. There is no outrage or calls for investigation into the incident, and there won’t be any.
Ian Kummer
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