Op-ed: 

What Happened In Moscow...A Different Perspective 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.

“The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings including in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.” - U.S. embassy public advisory alert sent out this past March 7th warning American citizens in Russia to “avoid large gatherings,” due to intel regarding “imminent plans” for an attack by “extremists.” This alert was also sent to Russian authorities as per our “duty to warn” policy even though Russia already had intel of it's own to that effect.

And so the twists and turns in the deadliest terrorist attack in Russia in over 20 years is, as expected, channeling the usual heading known as the “blame game” with Putin first claiming ISIS terrorists were the perpetrators of the attack than switching his story to blame Ukraine instead. And not surprisingly, with Putin's main concern always being to hold onto his iron grip of power, he's now even lobbing accusations against we who tried to warn him of what was expected to come...which sadly it did.

So while our intelligence is, at least for now, going with Putin's ISIS story line...Putin continues to state that he's putting additional countrywide...too little, too late... “security measures” in place. And this comes after his having issued a statement that the four perpetrators of the concert attack have been found and are being detained by the Basmanny district court where they face a maximum sentence of life in prison...and isn't it odd that they're not facing a death sentence. But then again this comes from the man who then tried to switch the narrative by saying that, “They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.”

No Vladimir, I don't think so.

And while Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has rightfully denied both his and Ukraine's involvement in the concert attack...what I believe was a well planned internal massacre masquerading as a terrorist attack...now sees upwards of 140 people having been killed and countless others wounded...the blame in Russian intelligence eyes, at least for public consumption, remains with the “Islamic State Khorasan” or “ISIS-K” as it's more commonly known. So why this focus...because the “Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia” remains, as per Putin, working to identify what they call the “entirety of this terrorist group's support base.” Simply, why would Putin keep the focus thereif he really wants people to believe that Ukraine (or even the U.S.) was involved. In my opinion Putin would not unless this murder of innocents was all pre-planned to either “divert and deflect” the truth away from him via a cover-up so vile that it could change the entirety of not only the Russia v. Ukraine War, but of his regime and Mother Russia herself.

But, before I get into specifics regarding Vladimir Putin, know that “ISIS-K” is the very same terrorist group that murdered 13 American service members at “Abbey Gate” in Kabul during the Biden initiated 2021 U.S. military pullout from Afghanistan. You know the pullout I speak of where Biden not only left a number of Americans behind, but also some of our allies, our Afghan helpers and their families, as well as millions of dollars of key U.S. military equipment behind as well...equipment now in the hands of the Taliban...equipment now being used against the Afghan people themselves and others when need be. So why would “ISIS-K”  now suddenly choose to cause havoc in Russia knowing that her leader is more aligned with known terrorist countries...think Iran, North Korea, etc...than he is with the West. Simply I do not believe that “ISIS-K” was the perpetrator of the Moscow concert attack especially when their stated enemies are the Taliban and the West.

And while what I just stated regarding “ISIS-K” is still something to keep in the back of one's mind as terrorists, at times, need no reason to do what they do...so too is the fact that Putin himself knew in advance of a possible “imminent attack” yet he willingly chose not to add additional security but to pull security away from the “Crocus City Hall”...one of Russia's largest suburban concert halls...a concert hall belonging to a group of companies owned by the Azerbaijani-Russian construction tycoon and billionaire oligarch Aras Agalarov (who happens to own a home/property here in South Florida and is friends with Donald Trump), thus leaving the venue with but minimum security at best. And if that name sounds familiar it's because back in 2016 Agalarov “allegedly” offered Trump’s team supposedly “damaging information” from the Kremlin about Hillary Clinton which led Trump Jr. to hold a meeting at their Manhattan offices, which in turn was the beginning of the Trump witch hunt. An interesting side note if nothing else.

And so the scheduled performers the night of the attack were the Russian “heritage” rock group “Piknik” (“Picnic” in western-vernacular)...a group inspired by western “progressive rock” bands but with a classic Russian twist, and who for this concert were to be accompanied by a symphony orchestra. And “Piknik” was set to play the first of two sold-out concerts when four gunmen in combat gear first opened fire by shooting concert attendees at point blank range while at the same time setting off numerous smoke bombs. Now here is where it gets not only a bit interesting but possibly why I believe this particular concert was targeted, and it falls in line with why I also believe that Vladimir Putin had if not a direct hand in the attack itself, he at least had a hand in covering up the attack's truth.

First some background info on the Russian band “Piknik.” The band's lead vocalist and guitar front man Edmund Shklyarsky, is of the Catholic faith...as opposed to the predominate and Putin favored Russian Orthodox faith... and is not a current “booster,” as he calls it, of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even though, at first, he supported Putin's “Special Operation” into Ukraine. Also know that Ukrainian authorities had previously banned “Piknik” from performing in the country because the group had played a number of concerts in Russian occupied Crimea including in Sevastopol, and who later released the song “To the Memory of Innocent Victims”...a song about those who were politically oppressed under communism. A quite surprising side note for a man who actually received a degree from Leningrad Polytechnic in the construction of nuclear power plants I'd say.

And the reason I bring up Edmund Shklyarsky's Catholic faith is twofold. First, recently deceased Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who vocally condemned Vladimir Putin and who died in an Arctic prison under mysterious circumstances...was for many Russians not only still running “posthumously” to replace Putin as president, but Navalny was also of the Catholic faith. And second, the Catholic faith is now growing in number amongst young people in Russia, and it's young people who, like young people almost everywhere else, that do make up the bulk of Russia's concert goers.

Could the gathering that night of what was thousands of predominately young people... those most likely to oppose Putin at the ballot box...have been the actual planned target of the attack all along...an attack as payback for Putin's 12% loss in votes...a loss to one demanding 100% loyalty...a loss happening even in a “rigged election.” Something to at least think about as nothing is beyond the whelm of the former head of the KGB, the man now calling himself president instead of what he actually is...a bonafide dictator. 

Remember, dictators need absolute power in order to help perpetrate ongoing fear which in turn helps keeps the masses in line, and hence themselves in sole control. And in Putin's Russia there's no place for freedom itself nor even for the entertaining of free thoughts for his is a regime that demands absolute control over one's everyday lives and thoughts...no variations from the accepted norm allowed...ever.

And what better way to keep fear ongoing than to allow a pre-planed attack of violence to take place against those most likely to be perceived as a threat to the regime in power. And what better way to mask it than with Putin's pretty words said...words to the affect that, and I quote,“Those who provided them with transport, planned escape routes from the crime scene, prepared caches, caches of weapons and ammunition... means it's obvious that we are faced not just with a carefully and cynically planned terrorist attack, but with the organized mass murder of peaceful, defenseless people. The criminals were cold-blooded and purposefully going to kill, shoot our citizens at point-blank range — our children.” So said Vladimir Putin in his very own words.

And Vladimir Putin is the very man I believe not only knew that the attack on the concert hall was going to take place and when, he might even have helped in the planning of it courtesy of not only his deliberately pulling security out of the venue instead of his increasing it, but because his above stated words themselves, in my opinion, give it away. How so? Because how else would Putin have known that the victims were going to be shot dead at “point-blank range” instead of randomly being fired upon as is the usual case in mass shootings...how else indeed. Remember, some of the victims were followed into what they thought was the safety of the bathrooms, were picked out and shot dead at “point-blank range” while others were simply ignored. Sounds to me like some were selectively targeted to be killed.

Simply, why would a man as vile and ruthless as Vladimir Putin stop something whose aftermath would surely see a rise in the Russian people's collective fear, the very thing needed to help keep him in power, while at the the same time allowing Putin to place blame on the very enemies he is at war with...as in outwardly Ukraine and in the shadows the U.S.? Why indeed?

 

Remember, ever since the “Iron Curtain” went down there has been an influx of Russian nationals into the U.S. and they are some of the biggest boosters of both capitalism and freedom. And with many still having family in Russia they are able to tell them the truth about a regime trying to hide the fact that Russia is a dictatorship where freedom is not allowed and where the west is continuously lied about. And Putin knows this to be truth, and truth is what all good dictators fear the most of being exposed. Expose the truth and in time the aforementioned dissatisfied 12% grows to 20%, then 50%, and more leading to a possible second “Russian Revolution”...that is if Putin's own war weary military doesn't get to him first.

So while Vladimir Putin continues spewing that “ISIS-K” and/or either Ukraine or the U.S. is to blame for the attack, I think the U.S./Ukraine scenario can safely be put to rest for neither have anything to gain from being party to such an attack. Nor do I think ISIS itself...nor any of its sub-groups...had anything to do with this attack even though ISIS and its offshoots are always the first to take credit for attacks they actually didn't do, after all publicity is everything even in terrorist circles...nor do I think that any Russian “splinter groups” had anything to do with it either. And why...because the fact remains that Putin's hold on power is indeed slipping and what better way to regain what is lost than to create an act so vile that it installs in the masses a fear of things getting even worse if he, a man of war who rules with an iron fist, were to lose power.

Just something to think about...and with that case closed.

 Copyright © 2024 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed:

Leaving Americans and Others Behind 

By Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio  

It's over...or is it. Only time will tell but for now American troops have come home not in tangible defeat per se for we were not militarily defeated, but defeated in that their “sense of purpose” was negated by the powers that be who would not allow them to fight to win. Winning “hearts and minds” once again prevented our troops from rendering the enemy dead, just like it's politics alone that sees us leaving American citizens behind to face what is an unthinkable fate with the media still not calling the guilty to task.

But before I get into that let's turn the clock back a bit to roughly two weeks ago when President Trump was still being blamed by Mr. “Blood on his Hands” Joe Biden for the Afghan debacle. Two weeks ago when America's heroes bravely fought on in the guise of an all-volunteer group of U.S. Afghan veterans who launched a daring and dangerous mission behind Biden's and the State Department's back......a mission they called the "Pineapple Express"...to not only bring some of our “at-risk” Afghan allies and their families to safety, but who “unofficially” worked with our military to... Read entire article here.

Op-ed:

Leaving Americans and Others Behind

By Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

It's over...or is it. Only time will tell but for now American troops have come home not in tangible defeat per se for we were not militarily defeated, but defeated in that their “sense of purpose” was negated by the powers that be who would not allow them to fight to win. Winning “hearts and minds” once again prevented our troops from rendering the enemy dead, just like it's politics alone that sees us leaving American citizens behind to face what is an unthinkable fate with the media still not calling the guilty to task.

But before I get into that let's turn the clock back a bit to roughly two weeks ago when President Trump was still being blamed by Mr. “Blood on his Hands” Joe Biden for the Afghan debacle. Two weeks ago when America's heroes bravely fought on in the guise of an all-volunteer group of U.S. Afghan veterans who launched a daring and dangerous mission behind Biden's and the State Department's back...a mission they called the "Pineapple Express"...to not only bring some of our “at-risk” Afghan allies and their families to safety, but who “unofficially” worked with our military to get these folks into Kabul's airport and onto planes leaving the country. In fact, this mission was actually underway during the suicide car bomb attack at the airport that left over 200 people dead...including 14 members of our military...13 killed instantly and another dying from his wounds...and close to 200 Afghans who desperately wanted to get out before their country was under total Taliban control.

And while some of those who made it into the airport were injured during that terrorist attack, with possibly even a few of them being amongst the now dead, in this case the media gave little mention to the heroic actions of these brave Afghan War veterans who risked their lives to help those who had helped them. Sad indeed but not unexpected from a leftist media all snuggled up cozy in the Democrats anti-America pocket.

But the media, in an all out effort to cover for Joe Biden's self-made withdrawal disaster, did make it 24/7 news when in retaliation for said airport attack, a U.S. drone attack in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border, took out two ISIS-K terrorists...one a “planner” and the other a “facilitator.” And then two Saturday's ago, another military drone struck a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul...a vehicle packed with explosives...preventing what was intel deemed to be an imminent attack on the airport by yet another ISIS-K suicide bomber...another propagandized media coup committed by the most extreme and violent of all the jihadist militant groups now operating in Afghanistan.

And while coverage of these limited in scope retaliations is better than no retaliations at all, they do not make up for all of those killed at the airport nor does it excuse the Fourth Estate for not reporting the truth about Joe Biden's disaster of a withdrawal...a withdrawal that should never have happened...along with their defending and trying to makes excuses for Biden's show of disrespect when the bodies of our 13 brave warriors returned home. After all, Joe Biden kept looking at his watch as if bored while never once taking off his mask to at least show a modicum of respect for those whose deaths add even more blood to his already bloodied hands.

“The Taliban saying is 'you have the watches, but we have the time.' What a sad piece of evidence that that is more true than ever before. …Many of them said he didn't just do it once, he did it with almost every single family, as if ‘come on folks, is this over yet?”             - Afghan Army veteran and 'Fox & Friends Weekend' co-host Pete Hegseth

So if Joe Biden thinks that a few dead terrorists coupled with our troops being forced to depart from what should have been a winnable theater of war will now wipe some of that blood off his hands...it does not...just like it didn't when he was Obama's VP during the Benghazi fiasco.

And with the mainstream media and numerous Pentagon officials continuing to throw a blanket over Joe Biden's ineptitudes as well as his ineffective presidency, they also ignore facts that equate to his “aiding and abetting” the enemy. And those actions include not only his giving the Taliban a list of American citizens and Afghan allies that “needed to be granted entry into the outer perimeter of the airport,” but the fact that Biden in his capacity as commander-in-chief, along with Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of the U.S. Central Command, went along with the Taliban's putting the Haqqani network's Khalil Haqqani...a U.S. designated terrorist with a $5 million bounty on his head...in charge of security in Kabul itself and at the airport. And known to Biden, or at least it should have been, is that the Haqqani network has a long history of working with al-Qaeda...the very terrorist group Biden erroneously claimed was no longer in Afghanistan.

Simply, a U.S. president and a top general actually tasked the enemy with handling security at the very airport where now 14 U.S. troops and almost 200 Afghans were killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber.... traitorous actions indeed.

Continued military blunders of the very worst kind, including Biden's declining the Taliban's offer to have U.S. troops control Kabul during the evacuation coupled with what was “reckless endangerment” of both our military and American citizens, will now and forever be Joe Biden's legacy...the legacy of a man both mentally and physically incapable of being Commander-in-Chief. And this should be obvious to all and not be a partisan driven issue, as both Republicans and Democrats should demand that the leader of the “free world” portray strength, power, and clear and logical thinking to help reassure those in harms way that American ideals are worth fighting for. But with Biden not being cognizant enough to know simple right from wrong, it was easy for his puppet master to manipulate him into giving the Taliban...the enemy...what amounted to a “kill them now” or “round them up to be hostages later” list of those persons he obviously deemed to be “disposables.”

And Biden's claim that this, what was a most foolish of strategies, was not just the best way to keep both Americans and Afghans safe but would help to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, also saw him claiming that this action alone would prevent a “shooting war” between Taliban fighters and U.S. troops. Really Joe, I think not for only those disloyal to our country would dare dream up...read Obama here...and then get a weak mind to initiate such nonsense.

And why do I say this...because there's no other reason for an American president and his top military brass to not only supply the Taliban with the names of our people; to share intelligence information with those we are at war with; and to have our military leave Bagram Airfield...our key base of operations in Afghanistan...in the dead of night without notifying the Afghans...while at the same time leaving most of our military equipment behind making it ripe for the Taliban's picking. And pick they did as the Taliban are now, according to some reports, “hiring” under threat of killing their families, former Afghan army pilots to fly their now appropriated U.S. Black Hawk helicopters from which they're hanging their fellow Afghans still loyal to the Ghani government or those unfortunates who were left behind after having aided our U.S. military.

And even Joe Biden, deep in the throws of dementia, has to know on some level that in his aforementioned “aiding and abetting” of the enemy, that he is not the one running the show for he is mentally not capable of coming up with the very decisions that sold our country out. And while in his almost 50-year political career Joe Biden was always power hungry and greedy, I never before thought of him as a traitor while I always considered Obama to be just that...a traitor with an anti-America agenda who latched onto the one man he could unequivocally control.

Come on folks you know this as well as I do for what we see unfolding with our military coming home in defeat tells us all we need to know for no true patriot no matter their party would ever allow this Afghanistan nightmare to have happened. And the media knows this as truth and has known it all along, yet they became willing accomplices in America's fall. In fact, one case in point can be seen via a June interview with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, where Obama himself clearly stated that he sees Joe Biden as a “continuation of his own presidency,” and that “Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job”...the job of destroying America from within that is. And with the majority of what was Obama's people continuing to work within the Biden administration, Obama's socialist, anti-America, and military defaming policies continue on with Biden's grossly mismanaged withdrawal from Afghanistan proving just that.

And while Obama is not be the visible “front man,” even though he's actually hiding in plain sight, know he is the puppet master for it was he who withdrew almost all U.S. troops from Afghanistan when as president he did so with little to no regard for Afghan’s security, the resurgence of the Taliban or for the expansion of ISIS. So while Obama did not finish his hoped for task Joe Biden is “finishing his job.” And it's a job started when as president, Obama made nice to the Taliban with his announcing our first date of withdrawal back on June 22, 2011, thus making it he and he alone who set the stage for the Taliban's ultimate return to power with Joe Biden bringing down the curtain so to speak, what with his announcing our nonnegotiable August 31st withdrawal date for the whole world world to hear.

So now as the massive airlift out of Afghanistan is over and done, with as many Americans as “who wanted to leave” having left...Joe Biden's lying words constantly being mimicked by the media...we leave behind an unknown number American citizens, a large number of our Afghan allies, a number of British nationals, and many others including some of our brave, hard working, four-legged civilian canine warriors who served at America's side in the "War On Terror"...a war that still sees no end in sight.

And with Biden's recent ever so misguided words that it was time to "turn the page" on the U.S. role abroad and turn it towards a "less interventionist future" thus "ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries"...I guess bringing freedom and democracy to oppressed people is to Joe Biden not a worthy task. But the saddest thing of all is that our mission in Afghanistan ended as it began with the Taliban in control. 

May God Bless our military who truly fought a good and righteous fight...may God Bless and keep safe those Americans and Afghan allies left behind. Case closed.

Copyright © 2021 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

                                                        

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