• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      After the State Department told their Russian counterparts directly, they then told the world – via a public security release for State Department employees in Russia, with only the specific target withheld – on March 7 what they had told the Russians privately immediately prior:

      https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-avoid-large-gatherings-over-the-next-48-hours/

      I got the link from media articles that included it in post-attack coverage, which I first got from Lemmy immediately after the attack, and just now retrieved it all from my history, which means it was out there and well known.

      It also means that in today’s episode of Stroke or Drunk? Putin is back again as a confused contestant. From today’s WaPo article on the same subject:

      The Russian leader himself publicly dismissed U.S. warnings just three days before the March 22 attack, calling them “outright blackmail” and attempts to “intimidate and destabilize our society.” Archive link

      Are you calling Vladimir Putin a liar? Are you saying he isn’t trustworthy? Are you implying strongly that his brain is being turned into mush by tertiary syphilis and he is delusional, unable to navigate even a simple calendar? Are you asserting that Vladimir Putin doesn’t know today from yesterday, or tomorrow from last month?

      Because it sounds like you are.

      Seeing what you’ve written makes me trust media more, and Putin less. Is that what you want? Because that’s what you got, lol.