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i agree that this looks like a page from the strategic pamphlet that guides bushworld...for a big mess you need a big response: frame the attack as an assault on the unity of the nation, make it as difficult as possible to think in other terms about the fiasco at the origin---then, if the bushworld pattern holds, attack an irrelevant place, then follow it with another irrelevant place. what matters is the fact of the response, not the logic of it or the objective. a big response is therapeutic. it still has effects--people still support bushwar for that reason.
in both cases, the last thing you want is a public that actually thinks about why such attacks might have happened. putin does not want a public that links russian brutalization of the chechyns with this attack--that brings up the old chickens coming home to roost scenario, and that is bad business for the Leader. movement, momentum, distraction---deaths far away are a small price to pay for keeping a small minded authoritarian in power. worked in the states. putin is not a fool. you go woth the proven technique.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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