westman was obsessed with writing shit in russian cyrillic regardless of whether or not it was russian though. i don’t think westman was fixated on putin’s russia, necessarily. also you missed the FSB patch on the sleeve of the KMFDM shirt westman wore. i honestly think it’s supposed to be…

…ideologically confusing to trap people into seeing a cause they want to see. it makes the conversation around it impossible to have coherently. you have to understand that the writing on the guns was likely intended to make everyone see the cause they want to see in it

also see that they write two characters identically

aaaaand

Past the point. Many Islamist terrorists don't speak or read fluent Arabic - and get radicalized in other languages using terrorist slogans / memes / terms in Arabic mostly as logos and visual symbols.

i just truly don’t think the FSB or anything involved with the Russian state was involved in radicalizing westman. i really do not think westman knew anything about jamming. westman knew how to provoke reactions and pull a trigger and that’s about it

Past my point as well. As many thousands of professionals, I'm concerned about the systemic global online proliferation of fascism / imperialism symbols and narratives by Russia more than about DIRECT recruitment of individual terrorists abroad by FSB (which is a real thing as well).

the fascist and imperialist symbols aren’t just directed by russia. that would be much more simple than reality