Posted on 12/28/2009 7:12:16 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Ramzan Kadyrov, a 33-year-old former rebel turned Kremlin loyalist, said that last year's attack by Georgia, which is a US ally, on the pro-Russian rebel region of South Ossetia was part of a Western plot to seize the whole Caucasus region.
"If they get control of the Caucasus, you could say they'll get control of virtually all of Russia, because the Caucasus is our backbone," Kadyrov said. ....
"The Russian government needs to work out a strategy, it needs to attack," the Chechen president said.
"...Georgia, South Ossetia, Ukraine, all this will go on and on. It's Russia's private affliction. Why should we always suffer if we can eradicate this for good? We are a great power, we have everything - an army, technology. We need to attack."
Kadyrov's father Ahmad was a rebel mufti who switched sides in 1999 with his son at the outbreak of Moscow's second war in Chechnya. Ahmad became president in 2003 but was killed in a bomb attack the following year.
Ramzan succeeded him in 2007, crushing a rebel insurgency, rebuilding the shattered republic and imposing Islamic rule. ....
Kadyrov said the remaining rebels were kept going by Western money and guns.
"The West is financing them," he said. "I officially declare this: those who destroyed the Soviet Union, those who want to destroy the Russian Federation, they stand behind them."
US President Barack Obama has offered to "reset" relations with Russia after a tense period during the presidency of George W. Bush, and Kadyrov said it would be good for Washington if the United States followed more friendly policies towards Russia.
"And if not," he added, "we have a very strong politician of global stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
So says the Kremlin’s Islamist puppet.w
Nonsense. obama wants to destroy America and recreate a socialist/communist state in its place.
Interesting, but considering this guy was a rebel-turned-Kremlin-loyalist, he’s liable to say anything when it’s to his advantage.
Nonsense. obama wants to destroy America and recreate a socialist/communist state in its place.
We don’t want to destroy it. We just want to cut it up and put some of that valuable real estate to productive use. It’s not as if the Russians are using it after all.
Islamic morons are a threat to civilization everywhere.
Yup. Kremlin puppet.
If only it were true. We’ll take the oil, and allow the Chinese to take the women.
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