Looters on the Scene

Kadyrovites means Chechens, in case people don’t know. These are the Chechens who have been raping young Russian conscripts stationed in the Kursk region, which prompted these soldiers to surrender to Ukrainian Armed Forces en masse.

I’m trying to put to rest the extraordinarily bizarre myth that Putin is a Russian nationalist. Putin spent a quarter century facilitating mass migration of Central Asians into Russia and conducting population replacement as he eliminates ethnic Russians through endless wars and mass rape campaigns. I have seen dozens of videos of Chechens doing the most terrible things to Russian soldiers. I’ve never seen anything in the opposite direction. Everybody on the front lines knows that Kadyrovites get whatever they want.

It’s frustrating that so much of the discussion around the events in the region rests on the most exotic fantasies that have nothing to do with reality.

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