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Russia to boost Chechnya forces


Russian soldiers have been fighting
Chechen guerrillas for a decade

Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid a rare visit to Chechnya and pledged to send extra troops following the assassination of a key ally there.

Mr Putin described the killing of Moscow-backed Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov as a "lesson" to Russia.

More than 1,000 extra Russian troops will be sent to the Caucasus republic.

Chechen guerrillas fighting Moscow's rule have been blamed for Sunday's bomb attack in the capital Grozny, in which at least seven people died.

The latest victim was a young boy who died of head injuries, hospital
officials said.

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1. Sounds like Russia and America have their hands full these days, 'eh?

[Aidoneus]

2. How bad is it..

They've got around 80,000 there already and a few thousand hired collaborators in Ramzan Kadyrov's death squads, occupying an approximately 60mile x 60mile area of a nation with maybe half a million people ... they're still losing and need more reinforcements. Is there any record of these kind of proportions in any modern military history? Not even the Nazis required this level of force to maintain their occupation in Europe, for at least in their case the use of pure terrorism and massacres by the occupyers worked to largely pacify the occupied lands until the Red Army & underground resistance gained ground. As any decent and proud human nature would naturally respond, all of the bombings, destruction of whole villages, mass kidnappings, "cleansings", and torture camps have only increased the resistance to the point that such massive proportions are necessary yet still ineffective.

Mr Putin described the killing of Moscow-backed Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov as a "lesson" to Russia.

There was a lesson here, but I seriously doubt they'll get it.

[ze_dscherman]

3. Chechnya - a blueprint for Iraq

I do not hope so

[Capt_Nemo]

4. "Staying the course", in Chechnya

what a success...

[bemildred]

5. Yippeeee!

Bring it on. Stay the course.
We are making great progress in Chechnya.
There's light at the end of the tunnel.

I guess we're not to the the "I think those Chechen boys should
be doing the dying for Chechen freedom" stage yet.

There was another story about the lengths that Russian boys
are going to in order to avoid the draft. In the end this is
going to bite Pooty-Poot in the butt.