Putin May Amp Up Sabotage In Response to UK Missiles in Russia, Officials Say
Posted by chromazgympartner@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 25 comments
Background Context
Ukraine’s Use of Western-Made Missiles: There has been speculation and discussions among Western allies about providing Ukraine with advanced missiles that could potentially be used to strike targets within Russia. This could significantly escalate the conflict by directly targeting Russian military infrastructure or other critical sites within Russian territory.
Kremlin's Possible Retaliatory Actions
- Increased Sabotage and Cyber Attacks:
Hybrid Warfare: The Kremlin may intensify its use of hybrid warfare tactics, which blend traditional military actions with cyber warfare and sabotage. This includes:
Cyber Attacks: Increased frequency and sophistication of cyber operations aimed at disrupting NATO member states’ infrastructure, communication systems, or financial systems.
Sabotage: Targeting critical infrastructure such as energy supplies, transportation networks, and industrial facilities to create economic and logistical disruptions.
- Direct and Indirect Attacks on US Troops:
Middle East Operations: One potential avenue of retaliation could involve direct or indirect actions against US military personnel stationed in the Middle East. This might include:
Proxy Attacks: Supporting militant groups or proxy forces in the Middle East to carry out attacks on US forces or interests.
Military Engagement: Increased provocations or confrontations with US military forces in the region.
Strategic Considerations
Escalation Risks: Russia’s response could further escalate tensions, potentially leading to broader military engagements. The use of hybrid tactics aims to avoid direct confrontation while still imposing significant costs and disruptions on NATO countries.
Political and Economic Impact:
Internal Politics: Domestically, increased aggression and hybrid tactics can be used to bolster nationalistic sentiments and distract from internal issues or economic difficulties.
International Relations: Escalation could strain diplomatic relations further and possibly lead to retaliatory measures by NATO countries, exacerbating global tensions.
Military and Diplomatic Responses
NATO and US Measures: In response to potential Russian escalation, NATO and the US might enhance their own defensive measures and increase support for Ukraine. This could include:
Enhanced Security Measures: Strengthening defenses and cyber security in NATO countries and reinforcing military presence in vulnerable areas.
Increased Military Aid: Expanding military aid to Ukraine, including advanced weaponry and intelligence support, to bolster its defensive and offensive capabilities.
Diplomatic Channels: There may be attempts to de-escalate tensions through diplomatic channels, involving negotiations or dialogues to prevent a broader conflict.
Conclusion
The situation underscores the complexity of the geopolitical dynamics between Russia, Ukraine, and NATO countries. The potential for Russia to retaliate through a combination of cyber operations, sabotage, and indirect military actions highlights the risks of further escalation in an already tense conflict. Both Russia and NATO face significant challenges in managing the balance between military engagement and diplomatic resolution, with potential consequences for global stability and security.
luciferlol_666@reddit
Each time russia fucks around the US should unlock a new toy for Ukraine.
jhstone-0425@reddit
Russia's best response is to pull out of Ukraine and it's all over. They can bargain for Ukraine not joining NATO in the meantime. Oh, and they need to pay for rebuilding what they destroyed or damaged, maybe just with the money held from the oligarchs or whosever money the banks are holding. It's very simple. GET OUT of Ukraine.
lerpo@reddit
May the dildo of punishment be forever unlocked.
sbruno33@reddit
Voodoo dildo
SystemsAnaIyst@reddit
🥴
Spartanfred104@reddit
After witnessing the past two and a half years of this war it's clear that Russia is unable to fight a modern style war. Iff they push Nato to the point where they become directly engaged, Russia as a country is finished.
SpaceballsTheCritic@reddit
Winning is not the problem. The problem is WTF do you do with Moscow once you have it?
Zacisblack@reddit
They have nuclear weapons. Almost everyone would be finished.
Spartanfred104@reddit
Lol, and what does Nato have? Rocks and a bullhorn? Russian military was hollowed out by billionaires, I doubt they have one that even functions let alone able to use it.
qualmton@reddit
How about a nice game of chess?
Fine-Ad-7802@reddit
Ha! Russia is going to try and attack US troops in the middle east again? Did they forget what happened last time? They are so lucky article 5 wasn’t used back then
BringbackDreamBars@reddit
Open question: Do we have any info on how competent Russian sabotage operations are available to us as open source?
This isn't going to be apocalypse end of the world stuff obviously, but consider a scenario of frequent sabotage on rail links, logistic terminals and communication.
I dont see anything serious but "unexplained damage" could be happening quite frequently.
backcountrydrifter@reddit
It’s a lot deeper than most people want to admit
Belt and road: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/chinese-investment-in-afghanistans-lithium-sector-a-long-shot-in-the-short-term/
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/china-africa-and-the-geopolitics-of-lithium
https://ultralithium.com/belt-and-road-lithium-mining/
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-says-plans-formally-join-chinas-belt-road-initiative-2023-10-19/
Wagner PMC groups monopolization of resources via corruption in North Africa is what prigozhn and Putin were fighting about before Putin shot his plane out of the sky.
To the oligarch Prigozhn getting his cut of the slave trade mining rare earth metals and lithium in North Africa was his payment for Putin using his Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_activities_in_Africa
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68322230.
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/what-russias-wagner-group-doing-africa
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/africa/russian-mercenaries-wagner-killed-mali-intl-latam/index.html
Putin made a promise to Xi that he would have his grain and neon in Ukraine that would have allowed Xi to take Taiwan.
Putin took back what he promised Prigozhn to give to Xi when the invasion of Ukraine didn’t go down in 3 days as promised.
Ukrainian SOF teams are now containing what’s left of the Wagner troops in North Africa because the Russian pattern is to commit a massacre/genocide and force a mass exodus of refugees to the EU border to create a humanitarian disaster and tie up resources.
Then point fingers and say how broken democracy is.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/eqKIDQmMDu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFgbado_massacre#:~:text=4%20References-,Attack,shooting%20indiscriminately%20into%20the%20crowd.
https://theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/06/ukrainian-special-forces-sudan-russian-mercenaries-wagner
https://theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/26/hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-praises-donald-trump
It’s a parallel to what the CCP and Russia are doing in central and South America to create chaos on the southern border and why Bannon and then Musk tried to privatize it.
The CCP and Russia have been staging up hundreds of thousands of people in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela for some future variation of a stealthy 5th column invasion of the United States via Texas because Xi still needs farmland to feed 1.4B people. National guard troops take their orders from governors and not the federal government. Trump tested this during the George Floyd protests when he asked the “loyal” Republican governors to kiss the ring and send troops to DC to “shoot the protestors in the legs” because the pentagon reminded him that using U.S. troops against U.S. citizens would be both treasonous and wildly illegal.
https://www.semperincolumem.com/strategic-intelligence/russias-espionage-base-in-nicaragua-signals-expanding-influence-and-intensifies-surveillance-capabilities
https://youtu.be/pFwU8KcUm5o?si=Hhx1ilUqXvtUGkAK
Steve Bannon tried unsuccessfully to privatize a part of the southern border wall but failed due to, unsurprisingly, internal corruption. Had he succeeded they would have a man at the inside gate years ago.
Bannon was arrested on the boat of Guo Wengui who is some sort of convoluted double/triple agent for the CCP.
They are now both in court for a billion dollar fraud. Guo was found guilty.
Every U.S. politician that took Russian political money is desperately trying to figure out how to preserve their political career while the people are figured out that they were sold out to the dictators for some PAC money.
https://x.com/doktor_klein/status/1761524419288056088?s=46&t=mV0svkSiT5eOmQXivn5oFw
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-putins-private-army-ordered-soldiers-to-torture-me
https://thartribune.com/china-now-effectively-owns-a-nation-laos-burdened-by-unpaid-debt-is-now-virtually-indebted-to-beijing/
backcountrydrifter@reddit
The 2017 route 91 mass shooting in Las Vegas was likely cover for MbS (Muhammad Bin Salmad) trying to assassinate his relative that was pushing back against his authoritarian psychopathy and refused to return to the kingdom. MbS had Jamal Khashoggi killed to keep trump and Kushners money laundering kleptocracy history with Saudi in the dark.
https://youtu.be/4DVah3bZlV8?si=LcFZJuhpJzuqc6p5
Kushner assured MbS that there would be no push back from the trump administration and allowed Jamal to walk into an ambush.
https://cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/06/politics/saudi-assassination-plot-allegations
https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.9dc4c758-e2ba-4cbe-b3ef-b424eb4c150a&territory=US&ref_=share_ios_season&r=web
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/jared-kushner-mohammed-bin-salman-visionary-leader
The operation has some specific Russian telltales since MbS likely job shopped most of that terror operation out to his OPEC buddy Putin because he couldn’t chance any family politics by using Saudi operatives.
Saudi being a Sunni honor state requires some additional layers.
The Las Vegas patsy had been buying and flying guns to the Saudi royals (a layer or two down) for years. That was his primary income.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-10-08/ty-article/what-we-know-about-las-vegas-gunman-stephen-paddock/0000017f-e395-d38f-a57f-e7d7d5e70000
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2017/10/4/the-gun-lobby-is-global-from-yemen-to-las-vegas
He just lived in Mesquite and gambled a lot in Las Vegas too. He trusted them so they set him up to take the fall.
All the AR-15 bump stocks and 30-60 round mags and the 24 firearms for one shooter left strewn across a hotel room like Pablo Escobars yard sale was just the Russians multitasking for their own interests. They are greedy and have a pattern of double billing others while working their own objectives.
They incited the gun control mental math for the country music crowd on purpose to double down support for the NRA as Wayne La Pierre’s money laundering for the Russians started showing.
It was an “agents of chaos” play.
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
Maria Butina the Russian spy set the NRA leg of it all in play pre 2016.
https://www.everytown.org/press/reminder-maria-butinas-deep-connections-to-the-nra-%EF%BF%BC/
They mowed down dozens of innocent people, from a hotel floor owned by a Saudi Prince, just to keep the grift alive and well and their Adnan Khashoggi skeleton in the closet.
They coordinated calling 911 to multiple different casino lobbies at the same time to distract and confuse EMS and buy them the 11 minutes they needed for their promised objective.
Jason Aldean was in trumps private box at the RNC convention a few weeks ago completely oblivious that the psychopath he was celebrating is the same asshole that facilitated his generational trauma by laundering money and murdering people for the Russians and Saudis as Jason hid in his tour bus with his wife while 5.56 rounds punched holes in it.
1000 rounds in 11 minutes.
1 supposed shooter
61 dead.
24 rifles but only a handful were shot.
One of which sounds strangely like a 240 Bravo which was about the only weapon not in the room
Why would the lone gunman go through the effort of dragging 2 dozen rifles through a busy hotel lobby and up the elevators on multiple trips to not shoot them?
Then lay them all out across couches and bars like a gun porn Instagram post?
Even if he was insane, any rational person stacks them next to the window he is firing from or the door he is defending.
He took the time to drill and put cameras in the doors and in the hallway as warning/overwatch but was so unprofessional that he just left dozens of rifles and mags laying around well out of arms reach?
He was hell bent on mass carnage but counted the seconds between each series of shots to nearly perfect 1 minute marks to stretch it out?
There are so many parallels that don’t make sense until you add a narcissistic psychopathic donald j trump as the common denominator trying to hide the greatest state sponsored crime spree in human history.
https://apnews.com/article/saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-yemen-war-563c0b2909a6adbc95863b5bb8de51fb
https://smh.com.au/national/adnan-khashoggi-saudi-arms-dealer-sold-superyacht-to-trump-20170607-gwm6pm.html
https://youtu.be/LMVDK4n3aW4?si=5LfnlUjKMKcRdPPq
BringbackDreamBars@reddit
Thanks for jumping in on this, a lot of reading.
backcountrydrifter@reddit
The methodology is pretty consistent across the board and extends into the critical industries as well
FSB useS their cheaper resources to incite chaos that only a psychopath would and then step back and point fingers.
Then usually follow up with some ransomware, grift or con.
Just after the start of the Ukraine invasion there was a handful of unexplained gas plant fires that all share some common ground.
https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2024-03-04/secrecy-around-gas-export-terminals-leaves-public-in-the-dark-on-dangers
https://kfor.com/news/local/oneok-reaches-agreement-on-medford-ngl-insurance-claim-after-gas-explosion/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/freeport-lng-provides-no-timeline-texas-export-plant-restart-2022-11-15/
They were almost certainly sabotage to cripple LNG/ gas exports to Europe to try and stifle the Ukrainian defense.
On the cyber side The Crowdstrike sabotage has Russian roots. The Russian cofounder and CTO departed the company right around the time same time as crowdstrike showed up in trumps 2016 Russian election interference timeline. Guccifer2.0/Cozybear hacked the DNC primaries to ensure that it was either Hillary or trump in the finals because they had Kompromat leverage over both. Hillary less so via Bill Clinton’s Epsteins tapes and Trumps because he is effectively was the other half of Epsteins money laundering for the stolen Russian perestroika money via commercial real estate purchases.
https://globalsecurityreview.com/russian-hacker-group-cozy-bear-hacked-dutch-intelligence/
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/s/ymJx0H8eXB
It also explains why Epstein was chatting up Bill Gates.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-affair-russian-bridge-player-8b2022ff
And why gates took his calls even after Epsteins arrest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html
Epstein had Gates locked him into a blue screen of death.
https://www.crn.com/news/security/crowdstrike-co-founder-dmitri-alperovitch-leaves-to-launch-nonprofit#:~:text=Alperovitch’s%20departure%20was%20a%20personal,his%20Twitter%20and%20LinkedIn%20posts.
https://apnews.com/article/aa1f66a1770d4995a6bada960a7d119e
Crowdstrike shows up again when trump was in Ukraine.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/what-is-crowdstrike-why-was-donald-trump-talking-about-it-in-2019-us-elections-2016-ukraine-election-interference-call-russia-putin/_articleshow/111865514.cms
The wholesale destruction of cities in Ukraine, Syria, Georgia, and Chechnya is a pretty good reminder that the Russian mob doesn’t have a limit.
Epsteins tapes tie trump to Putin and MbS going all the way back to adnan Khashoggi, so Putin will do anything he can to keep it stifled.
He proves it repeatedly to anyone paying attention.
We are now tracing these chains going back to 9/11 and the fentanyl epidemic as well
So definitely don’t let your guard down.
This election is his death rattle one way or another.
Zapthatthrist@reddit
I just hope the Ukrainians are unraveling a lot of FSBs bullshit.
backcountrydrifter@reddit
That’s the thing about Russian lies. They are so prolific that they are breaking down as a function of physics.
Distilled down, Ukrainian Maidan was just standing up to the gaslighting and bullying.
That placed a big wedge and started letting a lot of light in
Putin/FSB is trying to keep it together but it’s like a leaky damn. There is so much pressure behind it that for every hole they plug 3 more pop up.
Nature demands truth. The oligarchs just spent 125 years building an empire on a lie.
We are past the inflection point.
Now everybody just has to decide if they are cool being a blood boy to a billionaire oligarch or if they want to live free.
The truth doesn’t stop rallying either way. It just comes down to how long people are willing to embrace the comfortable con just because it’s comfortable
YourDementedAunt@reddit
Why are we getting an uptick in these AI posts?
wombat6168@reddit
The only way to stand up to a dictator is to push back. Stand and fight . Appeasement did not work in the past it will not work now.
istandabove@reddit
Can’t, NATO do the same 🫢
jugo5@reddit
The West is acting fairly reserved for what is going on around Western countries. When does the USA just say Vlad you already started the war. We are just going to finish it. I don't know how many assassinations the US has committed on Russian soil, but I sure know Russia has killed quite a few people living in Western countries.
SystemsAnaIyst@reddit
In addition to all of the loans, weapon sales, and sweet deals that were made surrounding Ukraine’s eventual, hypothetical rebuild (Monsanto, Cargill, Black Rock, etc)..
Another way that this war has worked out uncannily to the advantage of the US is that Europe is cooked
Not only will the German/French-led EU be weakened by soaring energy costs and the erosion of the welfare state due to uncontrolled mass immigration, and stagnation, but it will also ensure decades of continued dependence on US hegemony, economically and militarily
Vegan_Honk@reddit
Cool if you have suspicion of workers, just have them submit a video saying Putin sucks/is a monster to social media. See who balks
TinuvaMoros@reddit
"The 30 year old NATO equipment is destroying us, I know comrade, let's ramp up our provocation of western nations, that'll solve our great issues and will let Russia prevail!"
My god it's exhausting listening to their insane ramblings.