nyet, gaspadeen,
I trust Puty about as far as I can spit.
But then again, I'm not justifying a dang thing he's done.
I 'm simply condemming holding school kids in schools, using bombs and guns on little girls.
Oddly, the "brilliant" strategist for the Chechens have lost the PR battle with their own stupidity.
Putin can now get away with totalitarian acts, because Russians are scared, and most in the west simply assume the Chechens and Al-Quaeda are the same thing based on their actions.
Most people don't study international conflicts. They don't really care to examine the last decade of Caucasian conflicts,
They just see dead kids on tv, and bad guys in face masks.....
So now,if Putin wasts to establish a formal thugocracy, and really get vicious, he has a internationally televised excuse...congrats dum@ss Chechen's! Brilliant move again....Now Putin can crack skulls in Chechnya, bust his enemies all over Russia, and be a "kinder, gentler" version of Uncle Joe.
Das Veedanya, Novi Roosia....
It's a lot like the Pali's in the West bank.
They don't get it.
When they blow up kids, they tend to look like @ssholes.
If they acted like Dr. King or Ghandi, got on tv showing all the "outrages" ....they would have a state by now....the problem is with sub-national groups, they tend to get violent and killed.
It's not a complete autocracy. Or at least only in the western media.
Lord All Mighty...is this an actual spark of logic?
Let me ask you...
Why would YOU do something so despicable as to turn the WHOLE world's opinion against you, and in favor of your mortal enemy?
Who's benefited from Beslan the most?
Reichstag fire...
To:There is nothing to show that this isn't anything but a small group of Muslim terrorists, probably not even from Chechnya.
"... the Chechens have lost the PR battle with their own stupidity. Putin can now get away with totalitarian acts, because Russians are scared, and most in the west simply assume the Chechens and Al-Quaeda are the same thing based on their actions ... Most people don't study international conflicts. They don't really care to examine the last decade of Caucasian conflicts, They just see dead kids on tv, and bad guys in face masks..... So now,if Putin wasts to establish a formal thugocracy, and really get vicious, he has a internationally televised excuse...congrats dum@ss Chechen's ..."
# 62 by Will_Zurmacht
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Since 1994, when Russia invaded Chechnya, there hasn't been any terrorist attack I've heard about committed by a Chechen; now in a period of weeks, there are three separate high-profile attacks against Russia, all attributed to Checknya citizens.
That doesn't sound like the way Chechnya's leadership works - It sounds like new people to me, someone from outside Chechnya, maybe even a setup staged by Russia itself.
Russia can now do anything they please, as you've noted, Will_Zurmacht.
I don't think Chechnya's leaders would have make that mistake.