re: #130 Dr Lizardo

In some fairness, over the past weeks, the FSB have announced like five or six counterterrorism operations arresting or killing ISIS operatives inside Russia. For instance, this here: reuters.com

They absolutely knew about the threat and were doing what they could to prevent it (in their own hamfisted way) but in this case, they were obviously unsuccessful.

And as the saying goes, intel/security agencies have to get lucky every single time to prevent some massacre or another. Terrorists only need to get lucky once.

Unfortunately for whichever poor sod ends up with jumper leads on his balls, the state is he lives in is a authoritarian kleptocracy whose strongman leader was just “reelected” this past week on a platform of “Only I can protect you!” And since Dear Leader cannot be seen as anything less than an omniscient, omnipotent demigod who is aware of everything and able to control everything, somebody has to take the fall…out a plate glass window onto a box of bullets.