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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I feel like people are giving ISIS too much credit here, as if their acts of terrorism have much thought behind them, other than just killing as many people as possible and trying to gain power over civilians through fear.
It's not specifically a Russia thing. Here is a list of countries that have been victims of terrorism by ISIS since 2013:
Iraq
Philippines
Afghanistan
Egypt
Pakistan
Syria
Turkey
Sri Lanka
Russia
France
Yemen
Niger
Libya
Tunisia
USA
Iran
Lebanon
Belgium
Saudi Arabia
Indonesia
United Kingdom
Bangladesh
Kuwait
Tajikistan
Jordan
Spain
Burkina Faso
Germany
Nigeria
Pakistan
Kazakhstan
Sweden
Australia
Benin
Austria
Canada
Israel
Denmark
New Zealand
Mozambique
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Malaysia
India
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There is sometimes (often?) quite a lot of thought behind terrorist attacks. What ISIS is doing makes sense to them.
As for the relationship between atrocities/war crimes and terrorism;
It's to be expected that atrocities and war crimes create violent extremism. It's also to be expected that violent extremists then commit more atrocities. The line from Syria to Moscow isn't straight, but that doesn't mean there's no connection.
That said, I would agree that there isn't much point in trying to rationalize ISIS targets. Even if there is a logical connection that makes sense to ISIS, it doesn't justify the attacks, or make them somehow predictable.