• pingveno@lemmy.mlOP
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    9 months ago

    ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks. My thoughts go out to the victims, their families, and the people of Russia. This is just terrible.

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      9 months ago

      It’s plausible, considering Russia helped the USA in certain Middle Eastern wars conflicts

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        9 months ago

        Russia is one of the primary actors in the Syrian civil war that originally spawned ISIS. This isn’t a “but actually the US” thing, Russia has been balls deep in this shitshow from the start.

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        9 months ago

        Do you think groups like radical Islamic organizations only attack targets when they’re associated with American actions…?

        Russia has a long history of conflict with these types of groups, both internally (Caucuses) and externally (Syria, Afghanistan, etc.).

        A history I might add, that predates American influence in the Middle East, much less the War on Terror.

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          Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss and a comment is just a comment. Russia bad, but they do good things, sometimes (like blocking recent UN resos). So I do not kneejerk default to blaming Russia. I do tend to be more critical of my own country, having dug deeper than the whitewashed revisionist history they serve in public schools, moreso in public schools. So I was actually thinking his my own country directly contributed to the creation of the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Da’esh. If that bothers you, that’s a you problem and nothing to do with me.