He’d think it would serve to make D’s who are emphasizing current round of bombs eat their words, stoke fears of civil unrest/partisan violence & create fear days before the election. /1
Putin bombed his own people in ‘99 in order to consolidate his power.
He killed 293 Russians, over a thousand more before using the attacks & his handling of the aftermath to boost himself to the Presidency. 2/2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_a…