I'm spinning nothing, just adding some information to the debate, which you are attempting to make personal. I haven't investigated, but it's just possible the Chechen muslims sent against Georgia were not sunni but shia; I can't imagine Russia being able to persuade sunni fanatics to fight each other. Using the shia-sunni divide to advantage is more probably more likely.
Russia is Christian about as much as 3rd Reich was.
I see a strawman.
RUSSIA THE WEST AND THE SUNNI-SHIITE TRAP
excerpt:
Today, there are still many issues on which the U.S. and the West stand on opposite sides of the barricade from Russia. Now, however, the twilight socialist-capitalist ideological struggle is absent. The only ideological aspect to new divergence (and competition of interests) is external to the immediate Russia-West relationship––and is “religious” not economic.
Specifically, it consists of the Islamist theo-ideology and the growing polarization between Sunnis and Shiites across the Muslim world. While the U.S. and the West tend to come down on the side of the Sunnis, Moscow tends to side with Shiite Iran, its allies in Syria, and the Shiite opposition in Bahrain. This trap is complicating efforts to coordinate Western and Russian policy on the revolutionary situation in the Muslim world in addition to the related global jihadi revolutionary alliance...
“I haven’t investigated, but it’s just possible the Chechen muslims sent against Georgia were not sunni but shia; I can’t imagine Russia being able to persuade sunni fanatics to fight each other.”
Georgia is a Christian nation, one of the oldest in the world.
“I’m spinning nothing”
You sure do, you post pictures of Putin with ROC priests to push forward “he is a Christian” nonsense, you post his pictures with Obama to generate “He is against Obama, so he must be fine” feeling, you bring up Islam, when in fact it is irrelevant in case of Ukrainian crisis.