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He who lives by the troll dies by the trollOriginally posted by Winston
Man, that's in bad taste. And stupid. But of course, the Left never means any harm to anybody."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
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Not quite. If Alberta ever claimed independence, I doubt Canada would react nearly as ruthlessly as Russia did.
However, one of the reasons for Russia's harshness is because the Chechen independentist movement was hijacked by murderous scum."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
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Originally posted by Spiffor
Not quite. If Alberta ever claimed independence, I doubt Canada would react nearly as ruthlessly as Russia did.
However, one of the reasons for Russia's harshness is because the Chechen independentist movement was hijacked by murderous scum.
Unless I'm very wrong, the scums appeared after the russians used some socialistic tactics in the area.
The weird part is that the russkis use all these resources in an area that is pretty worthless while they without any objection gives up areas with oil etc. dizzy - guess that russian logic is, well, russian.
Don't misunderstand me. For a rare occation I wouldn't mind if hell actually existed and the devil was preparing a nice little tour de chambre for this guy
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Originally posted by Spiffor
Not quite. If Alberta ever claimed independence, I doubt Canada would react nearly as ruthlessly as Russia did.
However, one of the reasons for Russia's harshness is because the Chechen independentist movement was hijacked by murderous scum.
QFT. more or less. Note he said ONE of the reasons."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
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Law and precedent. The SSRs essentially got independence as part of the process by which Yeltsin and the Russian Republic threw off the USSR. Once the SSRs were recognized as it independent states it would have been too big a confrontation with the rest of the world to try to force them back in (and there is always the possibility of maneuvering them back in more subtly) Chechnya was part of the Russian republic, and letting it go would have been a blow to prestige, and a precedent for other areas inside the Russian Republic.Originally posted by BlackCat
Unless I'm very wrong, the scums appeared after the russians used some socialistic tactics in the area.
The weird part is that the russkis use all these resources in an area that is pretty worthless while they without any objection gives up areas with oil etc. dizzy - guess that russian logic is, well, russian.
Don't misunderstand me. For a rare occation I wouldn't mind if hell actually existed and the devil was preparing a nice little tour de chambre for this guy
Nonetheless, despite that, after the first Chechen war, they gave it almost defacto independence - till the Chechen republic supported a razzia into Dagestan. Now one can quibble about whether they really supported it (the line is that Basayev, though defense minister at the time, was acting on his own) I cant blame the Russians for not buying that."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
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I actually considered Basayev to be Cechnya's worst enemy in the whole world.
Note that I said Cechnya's worst enemy, not Russia's."Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
-- Saddam Hussein
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That's why I think of Basayev as Cechnya's worst enemy.Originally posted by cronos_qc
He was an ass... but we dont have to forget that the people of Chenya are suffering."Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
-- Saddam Hussein
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