THREAD: Now that it's been revealed that Russia is preparing to to conduct a false-flag operation as pretext for further invasion of Ukraine the world should know about when Putin did this before. In 1999 he orchestrated terror attacks that he used to justify war in Chechnya 1/ Putin had been appointed as Prime Minister of Russia in early August, 1999 and he agreed to run for the presidency. Even though he was the appointed successor to Boris Yeltsin his odds of being elected were low. Dramatic events would soon change the situation in his favor 2/