Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.
Four knife-wielding prisoners claiming to be Islamic State group militants launched a deadly attack in a penal colony in southern Russia on Friday before being killed and their hostages released, officials said.
The attack left four people dead, while the four hostage-taking prisoners were “neutralized” by snipers, Russian officials said.
The attackers initially seized eight penal colony employees and four fellow inmates, according to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Ser
Why are you certain of this? Please give evidence to back up this certainty. You claimed you weren’t familiar enough with them. Is this some projection?
Here, lets test this, name something that is still widely reported by western sources about Iran, China, Cuba, Russia, or North Korea that serves the purpose of promoting hostile actions, that you know to be false. This should be trivial if you apply a little bit of critical thinking.
Why should I test your certainty if you’re already certain?
Were you lying when you said you were certain? Otherwise, you should be able to produce the evidence that made you certainty.
I’m just going to vaguely gesture at your post history. You’d be referencing specific examples or relevant books or white papers if you had the level of familiarity required to do so.
Sorry, you don’t get to decide what I would do as evidence. You know absolutely nothing about what I would do.
You say that, but the alternative, that you’re only feigning ignorance on the subject and making vague assertions that Russian prisons must so incredibly worse than American prisons when you could actually show or just vaguely point in the direction of actual knowledge on the subject is not plausible.
If I see someone in a wheelchair slip out and struggle to get back in, I’d say I’m certain they can’t walk very well. Yes it’s physically possible they’re just pretending, but it’s so unlikely as to not be useful to include in my understanding.
I made no “vague assertions.” I said it outright. And it is backed up by the fact that Russia’s own police services claim a higher per-capita death rate in Russian prisons than is what is claimed in American prisons. I’d link you to that, but you’d probably make some claim that you’re certain about something or other, again with no evidence before the fact.