You know, if the world blows up over some Skinhead deciding to off an irrelevant Russian Dissident on the Bridge outside of Red Square as a presumed favor to the FSB or Uncle Vladimir, I for one am going to be pissed off. Of course, it would go a long way to proving me right about conspiracy theories -- In that scenario, Boris Nemstov is really just the Putinesque version of Jody Foster, and the guy who pulled the trigger in this case knew how to shoot.
Still, it's interesting in a lot of ways. I got a note from my editor over at Veterans Today -- we're not a blog anymore, we're an online publication, and I have a very supportive editor -- wanting to know where the hell was some copy, last thing she got from me was some whimsy about bears. Ok, so I wrote this...
I suspect Putin had no clue this was coming, and was probably pissed off when it occurred. Man is a notorious micromanager and now he has to manage an investigation and a cover up simultaneously. Do they think he can just bend time to make more of it? And why the hell would anyone shoot the guy? He was about as significant in Russian affairs as Dan Quayle is in American politics...
Perhaps it was over the guy's arm candy. Not only is she an international model, she's both gorgeous and Ukrainian. And even though the shooter was right behind them, she didn't see the killer. Silenced pistol, close range from a car, yeah...I can almost believe that.
