We'll see who's laughing on April Fools.
Posted on 03/29/2022 10:38:19 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Al Jazeera spoke to Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen dissident and survivor of the two Chechen wars, about the conflict in Ukraine and the accuracy of historical parallels. Abdurakhmanov is a prominent blogger and critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. He left his country in 2016 after he faced threats from Kadyrov’s cousin, Chechen politician Islam Kadyrov.
Since the start of the invasion, some observers have been saying Ukraine will be a second Chechnya, Kyiv – a second Grozny. What do you think about these parallels?
I don’t know about Kyiv yet, but Mariupol and Kharkiv certainly look like Grozny during the war. This is inevitable because Putin has adopted Plan B after the blitzkrieg to take over Ukraine did not work out. So now he is burning methodically the Ukrainian land, destroying cities and killing peaceful civilians in order to exhaust Ukrainians and make them surrender.
Do you feel there are differences between the Chechen wars and the war in Ukraine?
The picture coming out of Ukraine is different, maybe even positive. The Ukrainian army is powerful and is putting up strong resistance. We didn’t have anything to defend ourselves with from air strikes, so we just had to hide. Ukrainians are not hiding, they are able to take down fighter jets.
We faced a monster without any resources to fight it. The arms we had were either taken or bought from the Russians. We did not have artillery or armoured vehicles.
There is also a colossal difference in support. No one in the world supported us.
How will the war in Ukraine end, in your opinion?
... if Ukrainians continue the way they are fighting now and continue to have the same international support, I think they would successfully resist and even go into counter-offensive.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
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The boys on The Duran were speculating that when the Ukes realize that the American neocons used them as cannon fodder, they’ll go the way of the Chechens and become great pals of the Russians.
Wishful thinking.
Is now the appropriate time to return to Poland the lands forcefully and unjustly taken from Poland and given to Ukraine at the end of WW2?
Once the LDNR militia liberates Donbas and the Russian strikes soften everywhere else, the Chechen scenario is inevitable. Ukrainians from the east are going to denazify the rest of the country, just like Chechens deterrorized theirs.
The Polish want it, their railroads are running trains with maps including these parts and the cities named in Polish manner. The problem is that the Galicians hate the Polish more than they hate Russians. Also the Polish are going to ethnically cleanse them, unlike Russians. Can you imagine Polish tolerating Bandera avenue, related statues and a school program where Hitler is a liberator?
Chechen islamonazis. Ukrainian nazis. If only could get Russians to help take out Hezbollah and make it a 3fer.
No, that was 75 years ago. Leave the borders as they are.
The Ukraine has about 33 times the population that Chechnya had, even more land area, and qualitatively (as the article points out) an overwhelmingly better defense (a real professional military force), as well as a gigantic advantage in International support.
The only things that the Ukraine and Chechnya have in common is their enemy, and it’s tactics. The scale of the resistance is somewhere around 100 to 1,000 times as great.
Russia is on the way to becoming a vassal State of China.
We'll see who's laughing on April Fools.
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Angry Putin Stooge Troll is always angry.
LoL!
Schwab stooge is always stoogey.
I a-gonna enjoy listening to soydeutsch cry about his energy bills...
Another day ruined for the Putin Stooge.
Funny how Ukrainians defending their freedom is upsetting you.
Poor crybaby.
Unlike you I have money.
The Chechens figured out that the neocons were using them for cannon fodder.
The Ukes will figure it out, too.
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