Russia's Woes

I'm starting to wonder if someone is trying very hard to start a war. Or has the cheese slid completely off Hillary's cracker and she has armed her flying monkeys and sent them overseas? I mean, seriously, WTH?

First, Turkey:

ISTANBUL — Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was assassinated at an Ankara art exhibit on Monday evening by a lone Turkish gunman shouting “God is great!” and “don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria!” in what the leaders of Turkey and Russia called a provocative terrorist attack.

The gunman, described by Turkish officials as a 22-year-old off-duty police officer, also wounded at least three others in the assault on the envoy, Andrey G. Karlov, which was captured on video. Turkish officials said the assailant was killed by other officers in a shootout.

Then Chechnya:

In a special operation, police have arrested four gunmen while killing a total of seven who had attacked police in the city of Grozny earlier, the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced.

On Saturday, a group of militants attacked a police officer and seized his car, after which they looked for another police officer at his home to no avail.

Officers later engaged in a shootout with some of the suspects in downtown Grozny after they tried to pull over a suspect’s vehicle. The tense standoff was caught on camera by witnesses, with police seen raining fire upon the gunmen.

And a report that some big wig in the Russian Foreign Ministry was killed in Moscow:

The head of one of the departments of the Russian Foreign Ministry found shot dead in Moscow, according to the source REN TV journalists. Officially, this information is not confirmed in the department.

His body with a gunshot wound to the head was found in the apartment. According to some reports, the site of two shells from a traumatic gun found. The gun was found under the sink in the kitchen.

The source reports that in an apartment where the body was found, was the wife of the man. At the moment, we consider two versions of what happened: suicide and murder (this is a Google translation~sig94).

This last one sounds very weak, perhaps a fake news items that Weasel Zippers found irresistible. I can't find any other source for this.

If anything does trigger a confrontation, I only hope the Rooskies hold tight until next month when we get a grown up in the White House. I imagine Mr. Putin feels the same way.