Can you recognize the absolute distortion of perspective it takes to look at Russia invading Chechenya to prevent its independence, destroying its capital to force it to surrender, and then say "well at least Russia rebuilt it after they conquered it!"
>NATO countries are encouraged to reflect on their own shit and stop nagging us
Your country invaded a NATO-friendly nation on the border of NATO. You are not being "nagged" when that country's government calls the world for aid and the world, shocked and appalled at the actions of your bloodthirsty regime, responds.
Look, I won't even attempt to convince you any further - either your government will collapse and the harsh rays of sunlight will expose the truth for you, or your government will continue to close its doors to the outside world until what you believe won't matter at all anyway. I don't imagine I have the rhetorical ability to break through your distorted worldview myself.
You lost this war in 2021. At this point, it's just a question of how many Ukrainian and Russian lives you will waste before accepting it.
They never had any kind of economy other than dwindling oil extraction, but also robbing trains passing through, stealing gas from pipelines, sending false bank transfers (why they were still hooked up to Russian banking system) and taking people hostage for ransom. All of these things are documented in much detail.
Cosmopolitain city of Grozny has successfully expelled most of its pre-war non-Chechen population (including the family of my cousin) and had open slave markets selling whoever they could get ahold of.
Maybe they had a chance if Russia would continue to crumble, but by 1999 Russia got some of its shit together. Ichkeria did not have any economy but had a plenty of armed men, so they just decided to attack the neighbouring province of Dagestan. Putin used this as an opportunity to solve the issue of Ingushetia. Perhaps a more peaceful transition was possible, but with amount of armed jihadists in it, that seems not likely.
I have specifically asked a known Russian historian, Evgeny Norin, an author of at least three books touching the subject, whether Putin has used any kind of provocation or false flag to start Chechen War 2, and the answer was basically what I wrote above. He also told a story of a girl in Voronezh, a daughter of a local businessman, who was kidnapped by Ichkerians for ransom and is still available on social networks, avoiding showing her hands on photos since she does not have some of the fingers intact.
But of course, here am I the zombified and uncivilized Russian who knows nothing about this topic, whereas you are much better informed having read some cherry picked material in the democratic press. My historial probably a paid or intimidated Putin's puppet, whereas your journalists are up to the best practices of fact checking. You also have much better potassium than we do.
Meanwhile, NATO could avoid bombing Yugoslavia entirely. It could also avoid losing Mosul to ISIS and then turning it to fine piece of rubble, not in any way less well done than Grozny or Mariupol (which is also being rebuilt as we speak).
I hope one day Russia and Russians find a way to contribute hope to the world, instead of sad and pointless destruction.
That would be a noble expectation, but you could predict that it will not be uphold. Maybe because it is not possible in practice, or at least highly implausible.
Russans, in general, are people. People go to war when told to do so by their superiors. People rationalize what happens in the moment, to reflect on it and be outraged later.
If you were doing that in a good faith, good for you, but as you can see that's not how the world works.
Actually many do not.
https://www.reuters.com/world/e7urope/where-have-russians-be...
They absolutely do not if they want to be considered of good moral character.
More Germans opposed Nazism than Russians oppose Putinism.
"It has been estimated that during the course of World War II 800,000 Germans were arrested by the Gestapo for resistance activities. It has also been estimated that between 15,000 and 77,000 of the Germans were executed by the Nazis."
Nothing comparable exists in Russia. You like Putin more than Germans liked Hitler.
Might have as well thrown in some other classic Russian quotes about Chechens having "no morals, nothing to distinguish them from wild beasts" (that one is from 1824).
Of course you're blind to how Russian imperialism creates and perpetrates this condition, blinded by imperial greed to acquire and hold onto the lands, while being always brutal, after all they are all "beasts" and "criminals", Chechens, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, whoever else the eye of a conqueror falls onto. Happy that the other countries dropping bombs somewhere else give you a carte blanche to bomb hospitals and apartment buildings methodically and with glee. Being proud of bringing more suffering into this already troubled world.
What do you do? I've described the context.
If you do nothing, Ichkerians will hostage or rob more people and your popular support will dwindle because of your inaction and somebody more eager takes your place.
I am patiently explaining it to you for some reason, whereas in context of Iraq, Lybia and Syria this is completely moot.
The day that Russia stops sabotaging elections, bribing officials, and murdering innocents is the day that Russia will be accepted openly.
Why is that?
At least, Russia has rebuilt Grozny since then, whereas NATO just left Serbs to their own devices.
Neither do Russians care that much what people of the EU feel. We have our own mental resources to reflect on the shit we made, so the NATO countries are encouraged to reflect on their own shit and stop nagging us. And take your NGOs with you.
Meanwhile we still have a war to win, or at least to end.