Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Second Chechen War: Inside Putin's First Invasion" video.

@univeropa3363 In short, Russia brutalized Chechnya twice, and then realized all they had to do was pay off some guy to be the prince.
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@mappingshaman5280 America was not deployed to Ukraine nor were nukes stationed there.
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@Quickandslick Iraq violated the terms of the 1991 ceasefire. Afghanistan unironically triggered Article 5 of NATO. Libya was an intervention asked for by the Arab League, and voted yes by the UN.
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 @blugaledoh2669 But the bodies were on the ground before Russians left. We have the CCtV footage of Russian troops moving the victims to the execution sites.
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@mappingshaman5280 Joining NATO was impossible due to a border dispute with Russia.
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@Silver_Prussian They literally hired one of the former radicals. Ramzan's father declared Jihad on Russia. They "destroyed" the radical elements by switching them to Ramzan's side.
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 @univeropa3363 Chechnya is under control of Ramzan Kadyrov, who is loyal to Putin. At least so far.
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 @ZeroResurrected The thing is that they're the same guys who did all that, they just switched teams.
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@es68951 kek
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@tintinsmythe5837 The US would leave if asked. You really don't get the concept of allies, right? South Korea and Japan need the US positioned there as a counterforce to China and North Korea. Ramstein airbase in Germany is much like Azores in the middle of the Atlantic - a great spot for NATO to run aircraft through.
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Tons of personal belongings ended up on the ground, steel wasn't molten.
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@tsartomato The entire argument falls apart once you recognize that there were no black swan events, just normal things considering the circumstances.
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@Silver_Prussian I've read that argument last year. We now have CCTV footage and cellphone recordings of indiscriminate firing on civilians. There's witnesses. There's people who were brought to basements or alleys to be lined up and shot. Right after it happened there was also a quadcopter drone scouting the area that filmed Russian vehicles and troops hanging around the building where it's possible to see a blue smock on the ground behind a fence, in the same place a man wearing a blue smock was executed. There's a million explanations you can come up with. But the war crimes by Russian soldiers is the one that ties up everything.
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@univeropa3363 They didn't "put a guy in place", they picked one of the terrorists.
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@NKVD_Enjoyer they just bribed the terrorists
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@soheil527 There were also tons of reports that US troops were fighting Chechen volunteers in the mountains of Afghanistan. Whenever US troops met fierce resistance and skilled fighters they presumed Chechens were present. This phenomenom was investigated, and almost no Chechens ever traveled to Afghanistan to fight - it was entirely mythology with a helping hand from the FSB corroborating fake reports to help plant the seed of distrust.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with an IED, you're just used to the negative connotation. Both sides in the Ukraine war have disassembled factory weapons and used the explosives in improvised devices.
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Right, the thing is that Russia was an empire, then became part of a Union, the Union collapsed and had to become a federal republic. Now the issue is, does the republic keep the territory from the empire? Imagine that the US, with troops in West Germany, Philippines, Japan, etc collapsed during the Cold War. Then these countries asked Washington DC to leave. And Washington DC says "No we may have lost control of the US but we want to occupy those lands".
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