They leveled Chechnya’s cities long before Beslan. The one thing the Russians do not lack is brutality.
> This is just talk,the Russians did nothing after beslen
> when they should have turned a few city’s in Chechnya
> into an another Nagasaki
Believe me, the Russians are not all talk. They hunted down and killed every single one of the terrorists that they suspected were even remotely connected with the Beslan elementary school massacre.
The Spetznaz even wiped out an entire family; men, women, children, dogs, cats. Amnesty International filed charges at the Hague against the Russian officer in command of the operation, and he was orderd by the International Court of Justice to answer charges. He flatly refused and sent a one-word response. “We heard a shot.”
It would be stupid for the Russians to detonate nuclear weapons so close to home as Chechnya, that would literally backfire on them with the fallout.
However, there wasn’t much left of Chechnya when they were done with it, anyway. They conducted a scorched earth, one-sided war in which they ground Chechnya into rubble without so much as a whimper of opprobrium from the Euroweenie or American press.
I was in Russia in January of 2002. The Americans were bombing Afghanistan. They were even using 500 lb “inert bombs”, just big blocks of cement, so they wouldn’t cause any collateral damage. But on the European TV stations, all the newsies were wringing their hands about the barbaric Americans and the savagery being wrought upon poor little Afganistan.
Then I watched an episode of a Russian documentary about the war in Chechny on one of the local Russian TV stations. In this particular segment, they showed the utter destruction of a city.
First, the city was surrounded by tanks, artillery, and infantry. Then it was leafleted by air. Everybody was given 48 hours to report for relocation to refugee camps. All were required to go through checkpoint processing. Checkpoint evaders would be shot on sight.
After the 48 hours were up, the Russian forces commenced with indiscriminate aerial bombing and artillery fire. Everything was destroyed. Factories, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, everything. Then came the tanks and infantry for door-to-door mop-up, followed by giant armored earth moving equipment to bulldoze everything to rubble.
Then they were off to the next town.
Oh, there was no “Marshall Plan” for Chechnya, either.
Not one word from the bedwetters in Denmark and Holland about the barbaric savagery taking place just a few hundred miles away from them.
No, the Russians are not all talk.