The shooter's identity has been confirmed. He was part of the coup to oust Erdogan not long ago and was essentially exiled and guess who gave him refuge? None other than the USA - through the CIA.
This is a legitimate and serious provocation of Russia, particularly since Obama moved 4000 US Troops to the Baltic region in the last week with heavy machinery on it's way.
It's not a coincidence that this has happened on Electoral College vote day now that the coup to get electors to flip on Trump has failed, the next step of the Clinton/Globalist war machine is to get their war NOW. Their time is almost up and if the USA and the world are to be dragged into WW3 the time to strike and make it so is NOW.
Once Trump gets the official EC win (in progress and well on his way), Putin will be able to keep his cool knowing a real shift in power is coming VERY SOON.
Putin WILL play 6D chess and not go ape shit. If Trump gets the EC vote, it buys Putin time. The next key date is Jan. 20th, 2017.
If Putin fails to respond as the Globalist/MIC want (they want him to fight back and play in a big sandbox of war) they WILL ATTEMPT A TRUMP ASSASSINATION.
If that happens AMERICA IS GETTING A THIRD TERM AND THIS SHIT GOES INTO FLAGRANT FOR ALL TO SEE WW3.
Sorry about the caps but some of this seems so crystal clear to me I cannot stress this enough.
This coup IS NOT OVER. Until Trump is inaugurated the world is gazing into the horrid black abyss that is WW3.
His inauguration by no means ends the threat, but god dammit it's a start. AND PUTIN KNOWS IT.
While it IS possible for the US to end up going to war to defend NATO ally Turkey, a demonstration in Turkey's complicity in the assassination of a Russian ambassador would almost certainly lead to a "No" vote by NATO and probably an attempt by the UN to mediate. Not that either of those orgs are salutary or that either attempt would be beneficial, but more that under this structure it's going to take some time for the global bureaucracy to agree on such a war. Probably more time than Obama has left.
It's being treated as an act of terrorism, which is exactly what it appears to be. Everyone on the planet pretty much acknowledges that a 'terrorist' can come out of pretty much anywhere. Including a US Army Major. So insofar as 'assigning blame' goes, Islamic terrorism is literally the LEAST helpful kind of act to use to blame a scapegoat.
If there is a false flag here, I think maybe Putin was unhappy with his ambassador for some reason, arranged to have him and the shooter killed, will use the opportunity to demonstrate both power and reason, and thus jockey for a larger share of the global political leadership.
I agree that there are several ways this all could still go pear shaped, but what I am saying is IF THIS WERE some kind of false flag attempt to provoke war, it would be shaking out differently. The assassin would appear more politically motivated and a lot less religiously motivated. Putin would not be so quick to jump on Islamic Terror, which as we ALL know is all but impossible to cast blame on Turkey much less the US.
If I were laying this out as an intelligence scenario, I would lay out some 'triggers' to indicate that the situation was changing. The primary intell trigger I would look for here is if blame starts seriously shifting
AWAY from "Islamic Terror" then it has the potential to become a great deal more serious.
For as long as it remains focused on Islamic Terror, "the world" will remain relatively safe. Maybe Turkey itself will have some problems depending on how THEY respond to this. If this starts to become more political than religious, or worse a state sponsored thing, then it could end up somewhere in a really ugly war.