Chris Doss wrote: To answer the question, the issue is not Chechen independence per se, but what "Free Ichkeria" did with its independence and what it is believed it would do again given the chance; devolve into a militant Islamist failed gangster state specializing in banditry, a kidnap/slave trade industry, ethnic cleansing, and the depredation of its neighbors, up to and including armed invasion. That is unacceptable.
Reply: If it is unacceptable to you, then I would advise you not to live in any such state, including Somalia, Afghanistan in the 1990s, etc. If you are saying that Yeltsin or Putin had the right to make war on the Chechens, clearly you are mistaken.
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