I have started my education about the war between Chechnya and the Russian Federation and I have learned many things.
First of all you are right, the KGB is inactive. I was wrong and they are now called the FSS. These are the people who round up Chechen males and send them to concentration camps or sometimes execute them without a trial.
I have also learned Chechens have been fighting Russia for over 150 years. This makes me think it is not about terrorism but a long-term nationalist battle.
I also learned Mr Stalin deported hundreds of thousand of Chechens from their homelands in the 1950s and sent them to Siberia. I can see where some people would be upset about this and want to fight back even if odds are long and fight is tough.
I also see where the Chechen Army defeats small Russian units every day. A man from the AP named Yuri Bagrov writes about this a couple times a week. I would post the article here but I don't want to be assassinated by FSS like Mr Fusion was.
On another post you equated the KKK with people from North Carolina. I don't think that is fair or appropriate in the 21st century. As a foreigner you are not expected to be aware of these things, but in America some people see that kind of thinking as racist.
Westerby
Well you obviously have not learned much or well. Keep trying. We have years and years on you, but you can eventually get it. I hope.
These are the people who round up Chechen males and send them to concentration camps or sometimes execute them without a trial. I have also learned Chechens have been fighting Russia for over 150 years. This makes me think it is not about terrorism but a long-term nationalist battle.
Though autrocity happen, true, there is no concentrated effort, otherwise all Chechins long dead. As for 150 years, it is 150 years that Chechins raid and slave on Russian Tarek Cossaks (Tarek land is north half of modern day Chechnya). Did you know Chechyns Stalin allie in 1920s to murder Tarek Cossaks and in exchange Stalin as minister of minorities rewrote map and give them Christian land and Christian city Grozny? Probably not. Well now you learned. Chechins also take slaves from Orthodox Ossessions, Georgians, Abkhazians too and Muslims Daghistanies and Azerbajanies and Inguishians...why all neighbors dispise Chechins. You have much to learn and make many leftwing assumptions based on half truth and PC BS taught in West....keep trying.
Here you are on this thread pretending to be some dumb ignorant kid. Big mistake to do it under your Jomini screen name. Gee, it's so hard to figure out...
Fusion fancies himself a student of military strategy and, wow, here's someone with the screen name "Jomini" carrying Fusion's torch. (Hmm, I wonder if he's also registered under Sun Tzu and Clausewitz.) Like Fusion, Jomini admires that brilliant strategist, General Giap.
I used to really enjoy Fusion's posts. I took them as delicious satire on several levels and thought they were wicked funny. I suppose it was what I read into them, not what you wrote into them. C'est l'internet.
Now here you are trying to get a rise out of us with this tripe. And after some of us stuck up for ol' Fusion. You are beyond the pale, sir.
Well, Jomini-Hominy, kiss my grits. (If you're a real tarheel you know what hominy is.) I'm done with your games.