padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
if anyone still remembers the Chechen Wars, attacks like this actually happened quite often, 2-3 times a year for several years
most famously the Moscow theater attack (whence the opening scene of Tenet) and the Beslan school siege
Beslan was particularly gruesome, almost 200 children killed
I don't remember much of any response besides boilerplate "we condemn these atrocities" statements
tho unlike Ukraine or Israel no one in the west, unfortunately, cared about Chechnya. and Russia's war there was so brutal that Putin (remember, still our friend, or maybe frenemy, at the time) wasn't exactly clamoring for scrutiny.
I do wonder if the Chechens/foreign jihadists would still have pursued that kind of sensational mass scale terrorism inside Russia in the age of social media. possibly? it certainly didn't help their cause then.
most famously the Moscow theater attack (whence the opening scene of Tenet) and the Beslan school siege
Beslan was particularly gruesome, almost 200 children killed
I don't remember much of any response besides boilerplate "we condemn these atrocities" statements
tho unlike Ukraine or Israel no one in the west, unfortunately, cared about Chechnya. and Russia's war there was so brutal that Putin (remember, still our friend, or maybe frenemy, at the time) wasn't exactly clamoring for scrutiny.
I do wonder if the Chechens/foreign jihadists would still have pursued that kind of sensational mass scale terrorism inside Russia in the age of social media. possibly? it certainly didn't help their cause then.