Posts by frozenbison42

stormylynx14 said:What does your average American actually care about in Chechnya? Are Americans just collectively suicidal or something?😕 You really can't draw any parallels here to World War II, where the US was facing an existential threat, or even Afghanistan, which was just one of those imperialist quagmires you get when a dictatorship runs out of better things to do.

In my circles, people usually just label this kind of thing as "chauvinism." But let’s be honest, there are much more pragmatic reasons at play here. I’ll have to check in with my relatives—they definitely have a better handle on the specifics than I do—to find out what those actual motivations are.

Let me clean this up a bit... They shouldn't be taking children. It was just plain stupid. And honestly, we can't just gloss over the fact that the deaths of 3,000 people at the WTC were just as devastating.

Steven Ruiz said:Nah, they’ve never been on my good side—they’re just flat-out wrong, honestly.

You've got a point there. I'm originally from Georgia, and back home, we all spoke /absolutely beautiful/ Russian. (I mean, am I even in the right place? 😉)

If they're looking for people who don't know a word of Russian, they might find some isolated little towns out in the middle of nowhere. But good luck finding those; it's a long shot.

ladybug said:The terrorists actually got exactly what they wanted—they successfully pivoted the entire public spotlight toward Chechnya. Now, a lot of Americans are thinking it might be better to just let the Chechens go, provided it stops the violence...

I don't think you really understand the American spirit, ma'am. 😉 Sometimes, this nation is more than willing to pay in blood just to make sure the enemy feels the sting...

I wouldn't be surprised if those terrorists turned out to be foreign agents.

hobbit said:What a total disaster.

The people who came up with this whole school concept have basically screwed over Muslims everywhere.

Actually, no they didn't, hobbit. In several other places—places I won't even bother naming specifically—this has been going on for years already.