You are far too smart to have actually believed that.

It must be motivated reasoning for someone who rejects Seymour freaking Hersh because he allegedly relied on a single source, to blindly believe these laughable claims.

Does anyone actually believe that the FSB would openly talk about "door to door terror"? This sort of thing is always couched in euphemism, at least since Lenin and Robespierre. Even the Nazis talked about "special operations" when they were talking about exterminating people.

Speaking of the FSB, I'm going through that biography of Putin by Western journalist Philip Short. It claimed that when the FSB stormed the Beslan school where Chechen terrorists were holding hundreds of children hostage, they protected children by using their own bodies as shields.

As before, Putin announced publicly that the first priority was to save the lives of the hostages.In private, he ruled out any compromise. That night, units of the FSB’s elite Alpha force were flown to Beslan to prepare to storm the building. (...)

Amid the pandemonium that followed, Alpha unit commandos charged forward without even having time to put on their bulletproof vests, protecting the children with their bodies as they helped them out of the burning building, often at the cost of their own lives. Ten special forces officers died, including all three unit commanders, and 30 were seriously wounded.

You are far too smart to have actually believed that.

It must be motivated reasoning for someone who rejects Seymour freaking Hersh because he allegedly relied on a single source, to blindly believe these laughable claims.

Does anyone actually believe that the FSB would openly talk about "door to door terror"? This sort of thing is always couched in euphemism, at least since Lenin and Robespierre. Even the Nazis talked about "special operations" when they were talking about exterminating people.

Speaking of the FSB, I'm going through that biography of Putin by Western journalist Philip Short. It claimed that when the FSB stormed the Beslan school where Chechen terrorists were holding hundreds of children hostage, they protected children by using their own bodies as shields.

As before, Putin announced publicly that the first priority was to save the lives of the hostages.167 In private, he ruled out any compromise. That night, units of the FSB’s elite Alpha force were flown to Beslan to prepare to storm the building. (...)

Amid the pandemonium that followed, Alpha unit commandos charged forward without even having time to put on their bulletproof vests, protecting the children with their bodies as they helped them out of the burning building, often at the cost of their own lives. Ten special forces officers died, including all three unit commanders, and 30 were seriously wounded.

You are far too smart to have actually believed that.

It must be motivated reasoning for someone who rejects Seymour freaking Hersh because he allegedly relied on a single source, to blindly believe these laughable claims.

Does anyone actually believe that the FSB would openly talk about "door to door terror"? This sort of thing is always couched in euphemism, at least since Lenin and Robespierre.

Speaking of the FSB, I'm going through that biography of Putin by Western journalist Philip Short. It claimed that when the FSB stormed the Beslan school where Chechen terrorists were holding hundreds of children hostage, they protected children by using their own bodies as shields.

As before, Putin announced publicly that the first priority was to save the lives of the hostages.167 In private, he ruled out any compromise. That night, units of the FSB’s elite Alpha force were flown to Beslan to prepare to storm the building. (...)

Amid the pandemonium that followed, Alpha unit commandos charged forward without even having time to put on their bulletproof vests, protecting the children with their bodies as they helped them out of the burning building, often at the cost of their own lives. Ten special forces officers died, including all three unit commanders, and 30 were seriously wounded.

You are far too smart to have actually believed that.

It must be motivated reasoning for someone who rejects Seymour freaking Hersh because he allegedly relied on a single source, to blindly believe these laughable claims.

Does anyone actually believe that the FSB would openly talk about "door to door terror"? This sort of thing is always couched in euphemism, at least since Lenin and Robespierre.

Speaking of the FSB, I'm going through that biography of Putin by Western journalist Philip Short. It claimed that when the FSB stormed the Beslan school where Chechen terrorists were holding hundreds of children hostage, they protected children by using their own bodies as shields.