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‘This Really Looks Bad for Vladimir Putin’: Dougherty on Moscow’s Concert Hall Attack

‘If this is happening on his watch when he is supposedly the protector of Russia, it just pales in comparison’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

DOUGHERTY: “Yeah. You know, I think it’s kind of complicated, Erin, because, immediately, people who know Russia are going to think of previous incidents, terrorist attacks that were used, exploited by President Putin, to take action. It could be cracking down on society, more mobilization, whatever it is. And they go back, and I covered all of them, 1999, you know, back to 2002, 2004, et cetera. So, that’s one side of it. But the other side of it is this really looks bad for Vladimir Putin, because it is a major attack. And if this is happening on his watch, when he is supposedly the protector of Russia, it just pales in comparison. So, I think, you know, the most important thing now is that we have to watch is, who are they going to blame for this? That’s number one. And then blaming somebody, what will they do with that? How will they exploit and use that blame?”

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