1. Let's play Russian roulette. On Friday, the Kremlin praised the Taliban and predicted a safer region under the new management. By this morning, Putin did a 180 ordering an evacuation of Russian citizens and shuttering the embassy citing a very high terror risk.
https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1430583307318833161
2. As @JuliaDavisNews notes, Russian news anchors were almost gleeful as they awaited for the terror attack Putin had signaled would materialize.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1430924501953429510?s=20
3. Even a countdown to the attack which happened on cue.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1430913318613667841?s=20
4. What happened between Friday and today? CIA Director William Burns held secret meeting in Kabul with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
5. Putin is no stranger to the use of a self-serving terror attack. He ordered a terror attack on his own countrymen to gain domestic power, and as I've reported since 2017, ISIS is Putin's proxy force. narativ.org/2017/06/23/a-m…
6. ISIS-K is ISIS. bbc.com/news/world-asi…
7. Afghanistan is a multi-dimensional battlefield with many forces -seen and unseen- each attempting to gain an advantage and some seeking to hurt the US. Why did Russia change its attitude towards the Taliban? Did Director Burns visit to Kabul trigger Putin's about face?
8. It's astonishing to hear H.R.McMaster attempt to blame the Taliban for the attack while taking hits at Joe Biden. McMaster like his former boss certainly knows his way around Russian talking points in the midst of a crisis. Why MSNBC? msnbc.com/andrea-mitchel…
9. You too, Henry Kissinger. narativ.org/2018/11/16/kis…
Russia is still playing the same old game only now we know how it's played and a president who means what he says.
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