Would the United States criticizing Russia for the Second Chechen War or improving relations with Georgia be a good reason?Why would Russians do that? Even during the Cold War in its most tense time Russians couldn't even think anything so stupid. This would lead to WW3 and even Putin knows that.
No, no it would not.Would the United States criticizing Russia for the Second Chechen War or improving relations with Georgia be a good reason?
Would the United States criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya be a good reason?
Would the United States criticizing Russia for the Second Chechen War or improving relations with Georgia be a good reason?
Milosovic threatened such domestic things.What if, instead of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists tied to al-Qaeda, Russian agents tied to Moscow performed the domestic terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, or an equivalent attack? What responses would the Russian and United States Governments take?
Maybe rogue Serbian security elements fit better for the role. NATO Intervention had been not long long ago then. Milosovic Made threats into this direction during that time.What if, instead of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists tied to al-Qaeda, Russian agents tied to Moscow performed the domestic terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, or an equivalent attack? What responses would the Russian and United States Governments take?
Maybe rogue Serbian security elements fit better die the role.
What if, instead of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists tied to al-Qaeda, Russian agents tied to Moscow performed the domestic terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, or an equivalent attack? What responses would the Russian and United States Governments take?
9/11! WAS! NOT! DOMESTIC! TERRORISM!the domestic terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001
I agree with the posters who are saying the premise of this thread is utter nonsense and Russia would never do this. Moreover, it fundamentally misunderstands the rationale behind "terrorism". Terrorism is a perfectly rational (albeit evil) choice of a party acting from a position of extreme weakness. The point of terrorism is to get your enemy to massively overreact so that the terrorists gain popularity. Russia is not acting from a position of extreme weakness. Moreover, if for some irrational reason Russia did this it would be an obvious act of war justifying traditional war measures (bombing blockades up to invading Russia).
What if, instead of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists tied to al-Qaeda, Russian agents tied to Moscow performed the domestic terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, or an equivalent attack?
Why Russians would do that?
No. This is insanely risky,
But... but... but... everyone from Chechen exiles to FSB defectors to Ukrainian TV and digital media to Radio Free Europe to Georgian academia to Russian independent anti-Putin journalists to a Sunni religious leader have ALL assured me that the Kremlin is the true puppet-master controlling outfits like al-Qaeda & ISIS and that the Paris/Brussels/Barcelona jihadist attacks that took place over the last few years were actually false-flag operations carried out by Spetsnaz on Putin’s orders.No, if Russian govenment is not totally insane... After all even in OTL Russia haven't made terrorist attacks against European nations or USA
If the Russians had carried out the 9/11 attacks and been found out we wouldn't be able to have this discussion. This is an act of war, and the only response to it is war. War between NATO and Russian will escalate into a full nuclear exchange and end civilisation in the Northern Hemisphere.