Sergey, you seem to have forgotten your support for the Chechens, when Russian soldiers were having their heads sawed off.
Gary, please. This is a complete nonsense.
I never supported Chechen Jihadists. Jihadists are Jihadists everywhere and they deserve nothing but a bullet in their head or explosive blown under them.
I said about excessive and unnecessary brutality of the folks like Kadyrov and the Russian Federal forces toward non-combatants, but I never ever supported Chechen Jihadi Separatists-Terrorists or their political aims. My qualms was the tactics toward non-combatants (like revenge kidnappings after Jihadi attacks), but I never objected to the goal of defeating Chechen or other N. Caucasus Jihadists. I'm glad when such thugs like Basayev and others are blown off the face of this earth. So please don't attribute to me something that I never supported.
Plus, my so called "support" for Chechen Jihadists which was simply criticism of certain Russian tactics toward noncombatants--not the objection to the end goal of destroying Chechen Jihadists--how can it compare with Putin's leadership giving implicit support to Hamas and Hezbollah, like Inviting Hamas rep to Kremlin ?
I'm not the US President, not the Secretary of State or any lower rank American official in charge of the US Foreign policy. I'm just an ordinary private American Citizen of Russian/Ukrainian background concerned about situation in Russia/fmr. USSR.
So how could my criticisms of some Russian tactics in
Chechnya be even compared to Kremlin support to the Islamic terror organizations ? So please, Gary, let's not go to a ludicrous comparison here.
Let's compare apples to apples--not apples to oranges.