If it Turns Out to be Terror, Putin Can't Risk His Reputation for Ruthlessness

[irosie91]

It will be interesting to see what Putin's next step will be because it looks like a bomb was placed on the plane.

If it Turns Out to be Terror, Putin Can't Risk His Reputation for Ruthlessness
By The Daily Telegraph

Published: 05th November 2015 08:24 AM

Last Updated: 05th November 2015 08:24 AM

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  Russian President Vladimir Putin | File/AP

MOSCOW: An inexcusable act of negligence that raises questions about Russia's aviation industry, or a vicious terrorist attack explicitly designed to punish the country for the Kremlin's intervention in the Syria?

Whatever brought down the Metrojet Airbus, the worst aviation disaster in Russian history, it has massive implications for the government and the public.

By suspending all flights between Britain and Sharm el-Sheikh pending a security review, David Cameron has given the clearest indication yet that governments believe terrorism may be at the root of the disaster.

If so, President Vladimir Putin and his advisers will have to think hard about how to respond.

Pollsters say Russian public support for the Syrian adventure, though high, is fragile. While many Russians are happy with the abstract idea of "bombing terrorists", few are prepared to take casualties by getting involved in a distant civil war.

However, one reason for that ambivalence is that many Russians don't see Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) as an imminent threat. If Isil's claims of responsibility turn out to be genuine, it may actually boost public support for Mr Putin's war in Syria - at least in the short term.

Either way, he and his government will come under massive pressure to respond, forcefully and visibly, against the perpetrators. Mr Putin cemented his popularity by ruthlessly crushing Chechen separatism following a series of terrorist attacks in the early 2000s. His crude approach to the issue, summed up in his infamous comment that "we'll kill them in the outhouse if we have to", has produced a myriad of documented human rights abuses, but it met widespread approval from a Russian public exhausted by atrocities such as apartment block bombings, exploding airliners and the Beslan School and Dubrovka Theatre sieges

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never thught I'd say this

but I kinda feel sorry for isis

the russians are fucking ruthless in war with their own people, so the islamist.....

I do not believe that PUTIN will demand proof that ISIS DONE IT-----if he
wants to USE the event to go ballistic in Iraq

 

[Two Thumbs]

It will be interesting to see what Putin's next step will be because it looks like a bomb was placed on the plane.

If it Turns Out to be Terror, Putin Can't Risk His Reputation for Ruthlessness
By The Daily Telegraph

Published: 05th November 2015 08:24 AM

Last Updated: 05th November 2015 08:24 AM

• 
  
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin | File/AP

MOSCOW: An inexcusable act of negligence that raises questions about Russia's aviation industry, or a vicious terrorist attack explicitly designed to punish the country for the Kremlin's intervention in the Syria?

Whatever brought down the Metrojet Airbus, the worst aviation disaster in Russian history, it has massive implications for the government and the public.

By suspending all flights between Britain and Sharm el-Sheikh pending a security review, David Cameron has given the clearest indication yet that governments believe terrorism may be at the root of the disaster.

If so, President Vladimir Putin and his advisers will have to think hard about how to respond.

Pollsters say Russian public support for the Syrian adventure, though high, is fragile. While many Russians are happy with the abstract idea of "bombing terrorists", few are prepared to take casualties by getting involved in a distant civil war.

However, one reason for that ambivalence is that many Russians don't see Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) as an imminent threat. If Isil's claims of responsibility turn out to be genuine, it may actually boost public support for Mr Putin's war in Syria - at least in the short term.

Either way, he and his government will come under massive pressure to respond, forcefully and visibly, against the perpetrators. Mr Putin cemented his popularity by ruthlessly crushing Chechen separatism following a series of terrorist attacks in the early 2000s. His crude approach to the issue, summed up in his infamous comment that "we'll kill them in the outhouse if we have to", has produced a myriad of documented human rights abuses, but it met widespread approval from a Russian public exhausted by atrocities such as apartment block bombings, exploding airliners and the Beslan School and Dubrovka Theatre sieges

Continue reading at:

http://www.newindianexpress.com/wor...be-Terror-Putin-Cant-Risk-His-Reputation-for-

never thught I'd say this

but I kinda feel sorry for isis

the russians are fucking ruthless in war with their own people, so the islamist.....

I do not believe that PUTIN will demand proof that ISIS DONE IT-----if he
wants to USE the event to go ballistic in Iraq

If they claimed it, that's all he needs.

If it turns out to be someone else? well they were working together

If it turns out to be a malfunction? well they had an inside man...

 

[HenryBHough]

It's time somebody went ballistic with terrorists!

Too much to expect America's Wimp-in-Chief to even speak the "T-word".