{"id":32711,"date":"2024-03-23T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32711"},"modified":"2024-03-23T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T14:56:08","slug":"comments-show-putin-dismissed-western-warnings-of-moscow-attack-as-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32711","title":{"rendered":"Comments show Putin dismissed Western warnings of Moscow attack as &#8216;blackmail&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-2084805718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Western warnings about possible terrorist attacks in Russia as &#8220;blackmail&#8221; days before a mass shooting at a Moscow concert venue claimed at least 60 lives and injured over 140 people, according to Russian media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/comments-show-putin-dismissed-western-warnings-of-moscow-attack-as-blackmail\/\">Comments show Putin dismissed Western warnings of Moscow attack as &#8216;blackmail&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>will be interesting to see how putin spins this.  so far blaming Ukraine, but isis is claiming responsibility<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Putin dismissed these warnings as a Western provocation, the Russian state-controlled news outlet TASS reported on March 19.  &#8220;All of this resembles outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society,&#8221; Putin reportedly said at a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) board meeting.<br>The mass shooting in Moscow occurred three days later.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Western warnings about possible terrorist attacks in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1934,840,402],"class_list":["post-32711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-isis","tag-putin","tag-russia","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32714,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions\/32714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}