[martianagent]

I could care less. I don't accept all "self determination" especially by insane Islamics. The Russkies needed to kick their ass take their gas (and oil). And this they did. As it is too much of the world's oil is under Muslim control

It just isn't that hard to figure out the Russian position on this one. Other than for the sacrafice of about 20 million Russians around 1943 - 1945, the holder in due course of all the oil in chechiniya would have been good old Uncle Adolf, and the chechen untermenschen would all be soap and lampshades. The idea of the chechens simply walking off with all that oil and saying "Thank you, have a nice day" after all that probably doesn't make much sense to Russians. Hell, it doesn't make any sense to me.

[dennisw]

See post #32 for info on what was historically Chechen turf.

CLUE: There was no oil there.

[RussianConservative]

Chechins side with Nazies and become allies, for that Stalin exile whole lot of them. Grozny built by Russians and Georgians, it not Chechin city, no Chechins lived in city until Russians built cities. In 1992 Chechins arm by Arabs and clear 400,000+ Russian (including Cossaks from Cossak land in northern plain), Georgians, Jews and Armenians from Chechnya. Those they did not out right kill. That almost third of Chechyn population.