Several assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing at least 40 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media, which couldn’t be independently verified. It wasn’t immediately clear what happened to the attackers after the raid, which Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin described as a “huge tragedy” and state authorities were investigating as terrorism.
The attack, which left the concert hall in flames with a collapsing roof, was the deadliest in Russia in years and came as the country’s war in Ukraine dragged into a third year.
On the contrary, that’s another timeline where everyone gets conquered by the Belgians.
We had only a one in a million chance of avoiding that, and this is the only way.
Look, I don’t want to be that guy but I whole heartedly welcome our Belgian overlords.
I disagree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium
So moderately worse than what most of the world was doing in that era. Really only behind my country by like 50 years.