[Sacajaweau]

This was a terrible hit on Russia. The world was with them. Russia does a pretty good job of keeping the muzzies at bay.....cuz they go after them.

We're different. We go after them AFTER they commit a crime. Boston is a good example.

[Veto!]

More complex than that. Putin is cozy with the Chechen leader he installed, Ramzan Kadyrov, who totally runs the show …Putin gives him billions, and Kadyrov squashes Islamic uprisings mercilessly. Money talks, as usual. Recently, The New Yorker ran an excellent two-part series on Chechnya today, titled "Putin's Dragon":

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/putins-dragon

The Second Chechen War, which the Russians launched in 1999, in an effort to curb not only Chechen separatism but the threat of militant Islam, wound down a decade later, with special operations carried out deep in the craggy, wooded hills of the Caucasus. These days, the rubble is gone. The city’s skyline is punctuated by the glass towers of Grozny-City, a collection of skyscrapers that house offices, luxury apartments, and a five-star hotel. Grozny is quiet and bland, with well-paved boulevards running through its center; there is still a faint air of menace—men in black uniforms stand with automatic rifles on many street corners—but the city’s flashier attractions, like a man-made lake with a light show, seem whimsical and family-friendly.

In 2011, Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov who rules the republic as his own private fiefdom but remains unquestionably loyal to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, showed off the Grozny-City complex at his extravagant thirty-fifth-birthday party…. Asked where the money for the celebration came from, Kadyrov told reporters, “Allah gives it to us.”

Long, beautifully written piece for anyone interested in Putin and/or Chechnya today.