Russian ruble weakens as traders see no major measures in Putin speech

Putin's gotten a pass from much of the world on the Chechen question because they use terrorism to fight for their rights, like the PLO and Hamas. However, with Putin's use of terrorists in Ukraine, by using his proxies to kill innocent and peaceful people, he's given up for the Russians, in my mind, any distinction between Russia and the Chechens who are terrorists. One is a state that sponsors terror, and the other is an ethnic and religious group that has many terrorists within it ..In fact, much of Romanov, Soviet, and Putin's history is full of terror against ethnic minorities.

My comparison makes a lot of sense too when you consider that Putin's actually brought paid pro-Putin Chechens to Ukraine to terrorize the people there.

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