When you need a terrorist attack in Russia to justify something foul, “Who you gonna call?” If history is any judge, you should look no further than Putin’s FSB. They have gotten the job done many times before, and as long as Putin is at the helm they are ready and at the chief’s disposal.
…video images show the alleged ISIS assailants walking throughout the venue shooting their victims with ease.
The absence of any Russian armed security forces or checkpoints suggest the FSB facilitated an “open door” for the soon-to-be Islamic martyrs.
Russia’s national guard took an hour and a half to respond to the massacre.
Notably, no Americans were injured or died.
Why? Putin needed US intel to look — but not too closely.
Even the rounding up of the usual suspects appears contrived.
__ Mark Toth, Jonathan Sweet NYP
Putin’s FSB has used Islamic agents in the past for assassinations and terror attacks, to pave the way for otherwise unpopular Kremlin actions.
Images and videos are being released on Telegram showing alleged ISIS terrorists being tortured.
It’s a tad too obvious — and likely misdirection.
Why Putin probably did this is the easiest question to answer.
He needed an elaborate false-flag operation to justify doubling down on his faltering war in Ukraine — and to further mobilize and put Russia on a full war footing.
Putin’s FSB Behind the Scenes
If Putin now goes forward with a large-scale expansion of war mobilization and escalation against Ukraine, he will be supporting the argument of the authors above.
Putin’s War on Slav Brothers Opened the Back Door to Russia’s Enemies
Now that most of Russia’s military fighting forces are facing western Europe, Russia’s back doors to Muslim Asia and China are wide open to attack. Moscow struggles to maintain a stalemate in the Ukraine invasion, losing thousands of working-age and fighting-age men every week. It is a Putin clusterfoque of immense proportions that will take a great deal of covering up, if Putin is to survive. Or, if Russia is to survive with or without Putin.
In Other News
At the NextBigFuture blog, Brian Wang has been discussing the global collapse of fertility rates among women in the developed world. His latest posting on the topic concerns the development of artificial wombs, and discusses what possible impact artificial wombs may have on the ongoing fertility crisis.
The artificial womb would have more cost than a standard incubator. Let’s simplify and assume 9 months of neonatal care at even less cost than intensive care of $1000 per day. This could be like $10k for the IVF to start and then $1K per day for the womb. This would be $270k for the procedure once it is a relatively mature process.
If there are humanoid robots, the cost might be reduced to $30-50k.
If we only have half of the number of needed babies to sustain the global population of 8 billion in 2060 or so. We are at 75 million per year instead of 150 million.
This would mean scaling up IVF by 5000%, mastering the development of the new artificial womb technology, having the artificial womb work not just on premature animals but on humans, extend from 20-28 week operation to 0-36 weeks, mass produce to about 100 million units.
NextBig Future on Artificial Wombs
The thinking on global fertility is a bit muddled, even among the most clear thinking analysts. If humans would learn to focus on “quality” rather than on “quantity,” the issue would be much easier to analyze.
What does the human future actually need?
First of all, there is no perfect population number for humans on planet Earth. Humans need to maintain trade, innovation, prosperity, and decent living conditions for humans and for the evolving ecosystems of Earth. To do this, terrestrial societies will need ample numbers of intelligent and healthy humans able to work with sufficient degrees of freedom to construct a resilient future.
That could be accomplished with 1 billion humans or with 10 billion humans, if the quality of the human substrate were adequate for the task. It is not politically correct to focus on human quality metrics — such as IQ, executive function, autonomy, etc. — under current political regimes.
Current political regimes on the planet are terminally corrupt, and devoted to the endless compilation of power and wealth by small elite fractions at the very tops of political and economic hierarchies. That might be sustainable if the rise to the top were a result of merit, rather than corruption and criminality. Unfortunately, most of the topmost elites around the world reached the top through criminal and corrupt means.
This means that any large-scale action taken by these criminal elites will not be done for the benefit of the human population at large, but rather for the benefit of criminal elites themselves. This is true for all large-scale actions including actions on “climate,” actions on “fertility,” actions on national sovereignty and “spheres of influence,” and actions with regard to patents and technology adoption on a large scale.
As for artificial wombs, such technology may prove to be extremely helpful for the sake of preserving genetic variety among populations that have proven competence and innovation, but have been unable to sustain their numbers due to the well-known issues of demography that are diminishing fertility among educated classes.
Human intelligence arises from particularly harmonious genetic symphonies which arise from time to time, and from place to place. These promising genetic ensembles should not be lost, if it can be helped.
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