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Two members of a pro-Palestine group broke into RAF Brize Norton and damaged two aircraft, Palestine Action has claimed. In footage posted on social media, the group claims to have entered the base in Oxfordshire and to have escaped undetected overnight. It wrote on X: "Palestine Action break into RAF Brize Norton and damage two military aircrafts.
“Flights depart daily from the base to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. From Cyprus, British planes collect intelligence, refuel fighter jets and transport weapons to commit genocide in Gaza. Not only did actionists manage to break into Britain’s largest air force base… they also escaped undetected. Ordinary people can take direct action to intervene in the genocide.”
The Ministry of Defence has been approached for comment.
This makes wonder if organizations like these are infiltrated by Russia.
At this point western governments has given Russia a huge cover, simply bring a Palestinian flag, and the operation changes from Russian sabotage to protest action
I don’t think so. People of palestine action have faced prison sentences for nonviolent crimes. And they have been active well before Russias fullscale invasion of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Action
https://palestineaction.org/prison-sentences/
This would be a ridiculously ineffective way to waste operatives. Also if there was any plausible links to Russia, there is a strong reason to assume that something would have come up in the “counter-terror” investigations and heavily placated by the British and Israeli government to delegitimize the group.
If we look at actual Russian sabotage we see exploding parcels, drones around military sites, arson attacks…
Nonwithstanding, the fact that two people on an E-Scooter could break into an airforce base, damage planes there and leave undetected will surely be followed closely by Russia and is a huge security failure for the RAF. If people can drive in a fire extinguisher full of paint, Russian operatives could drive in a bunch of explosives and destroy all the planes on the tarmac.
Please Putin do this and I will literally give you a blowjob.