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According to the affidavit FBI submitted to get a warrant for searching the devices of the satanist O9A* affiliated matricide accelerationist Kasap, who was caught less than two weeks after he murdered his mother in early February, was in contact with a number of people and was, among other things
This is being spun two ways:
Russians are saying approximately: This is typical SBU work, they find some expendable extremists and give them advice to kill and cause chaos, this is just like the Crocus attack
media is quiet about the foreign angle now, and probably indefinitely but I imagine later it could be spun as Muscovite trolls seeking out vulnerable teenagers and egging them on to kill to frame the glorious SBU
The real story is probably the budding teenage satanist was
Guy may have swapped his plates but was still using the same cell phones so absolutely NGMI tradecraft.
*Order of Nine Angles. Some sort of satanist cult, or more likely by now very loose online group.
I have a pretty low opinion of the Ukrainian government's risk-assessment and strategy generally but even they surely wouldn't try to assassinate Trump, right?
Best case scenario, they get President Vance who is no Ukraine supporter.
Worst case scenario, shooting war with the United States?
If this really is an SBU operation, they've taken leave of their senses and are running on pure emotion.
I don't think so either. At this point I'm pretty sure SS has to be using jammers. (BTW Putin has been reputedly jamming the shit out of area around his limo since early 2010s so it seems someone knew about FPVs back then)
I think the scam angle is more likely.
Could also be jamming remote triggers on IEDs, but good security regardless.
How do they run their own comms I wonder.
Good question. I'm not a signals expert, but perhaps jamming everything except a narrow band for their own comms. The comms band is cycled regularly (daily?).
Same here but I think it's hard to do stuff like that, or at least was hard.
Also in Ukraine they're not doing that..
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