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Man arrested with explosives near Paris airport was part of vast Russian sabotage campaign

www.lemonde.fr Man arrested with explosives near Paris airport was part of vast Russian sabotage campaign

The 26-year-old Russian-Ukrainian was arrested in his hotel near Charles de Gaulle airport on June 3, after an accident while making explosives. He was planning to target a hardware store north of Paris, as part of a sabotage campaign orchestrated by Moscow.

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Why do I keep reading "lemonde" as "lemonade"
- They have refreshing articles maybe?
I don't understand how shit like this does not already warrant to enact article 5. Russia sends literal sabotage units to us to physically destroy shit, as well as assassination squads to murder people. Those are and should be seen as direct attacks to our countries.
- Because nobody wants to start WWIII. And you shouldn't want that too.
  
  So just bow to our new Russian overlords. Got it.
  
  Sink one Russian warship per attack. Russia doesnt seem to mind losing ships.
- I like not having to survive a nuclear apocalypse, thank you.
  
  Better than the slow cooking & societal collapse through climate change.
- What would be the benefit of open war against Russia, especially if NATO were to start it? I see absolutely nothing.
  
  There's a lot of room for additional sanctions against Russia too. The EU is still importing fossil gas and nuclear fuel, for example. Countries like Cyprus and the UK can probably still freeze additional Russian funds. [...]
  
  The best sanctions we could impose is a complete shutdown of all of Russia’s Internet access. You’d see massive reduction in disinformation across the web.
  
  How would NATO start it after Russia repeatedly attacked us?!
- because politics, that would anger china and we've made the absolutely galaxybrained decision to make ourselves basically entirely reliant upon that one country to survive :)))
  
  More like because Russia still has nukes.
- You're reading a news article, and everything is instantly clear to you. Great work, Holmes. Now please list the evidence for us Watsons.
i guess the evidence of massive coordination by Moscow was at the end of the article?

this would be a most flagrant act of war against France if so, no?
Anyone have a paywall-free link?
- France arrests Ukraine-Russia national with explosives on terror charges - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-arrested-russian-speaker-possession-explosives-near-paris-airport-bfm-tv-2024-06-05/
  
  Not the Le Monde article, but also not paywalled.
  
  Jesus, the only reason they caught him was because he blew himself up making bombs? How many others are out there?
- Yo. https://archive.ph/vegLz
  
  You have 45.17% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.
If the best that a vast Russian sabotage campaign can do is to send idiots to try making TATP in a hotel room, they're worse off than I thought. The only advantage that stuff has is that it's very easy to make, but if you're in a position to need things to be that easy you're not in a position to control it well enough to avoid having it blow up in your hands. And aside from losing some fingers it's not really something you want to do in a hotel room where everyone's going to hear the loud bang and your screams of pain.

If it's any kind of campaign it's stochastic terrorism, I guess.

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