Beslan
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Sep 15, 2026
speaker_1HOST
It is essential to discuss this because it really highlights the extreme danger of ungrounded energetic practices.
speaker_1HOST
So in 2004, the town of Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia, suffered one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in modern history.
speaker_0HOST
Just an absolute nightmare.
speaker_1HOST
Armed militants took over 1,000 people hostage in a local school.
speaker_0HOST
Which is just sickening.
speaker_1HOST
If we connect this to the bigger picture, this is the ultimate predatory endpoint of the pseudoscientific belief system he built.
speaker_1HOST
He and his followers approached the grieving mothers of Beslan women who had literally just buried their children, and he looked them in the eye and promised that he could resurrect their dead sons and daughters.
speaker_0HOST
And he didn't offer this as charity.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
They don't care if they hit kids.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
The Beslan school massacre, things like that.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
I suppose Abdullah Al-Sayed would like our tanks to be made of Nerf.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
So they're squishy and you won't have contact.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
They don't care if they hit kids.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
Beslan school massacre, things like that.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
Uh, I suppose Abdul El-Sayed would like our tanks to be made of Nerf, so they're, they're squishy and, and you won't have contact with.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
Finally, the, the argument, the cult of hard work.
J.J. GreenGUEST
But we do know, um, what Russia does is they tap into terrorists as well.
J.J. GreenGUEST
All we have to do is go back to the Beslan attack, um, back in the early 2000s, when this was at the very beginning of Vladimir Putin's career as leader of Russia.
J.J. GreenGUEST
Uh, so they play that game, too.
J.J. GreenGUEST
Now, when you talk about Iran, of course, you know, they are the A-team when it comes to terrorist activity.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
They don't care if they hit kids.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
Beslan school massacre, things like that.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
Uh, I suppose Abdul El-Sayed would like our tanks to be made of Nerf, so they're, they're squishy and, and you won't have contact there.
Jim GeraghtyHOST
Finally, the, the argument, the cult of hard work.
Anna BorshchevskayaGUEST
the presence that it lost in the 1990s.
Anna BorshchevskayaGUEST
And your point about terrorism also is so important because if you look at some of the earlier speeches Putin gave, if we think back about the Beslan attacks, tragedy, specifically in Russia, Putin gave a speech where he basically indirectly blamed the United States for funding terrorism.
Anna BorshchevskayaGUEST
So he does seem to be guided by this erroneous belief that the United States is out to get Russia.
Anna BorshchevskayaGUEST
And this belief appears very early into his tenure as president.
John BatchelorHOST
What I take from your reporting is that Putin learned that that was not the way forward.
John BatchelorHOST
Heavy-handedness was not useful.
John BatchelorHOST
Now, those two lessons, how do they come together in Beslan? What is that four years later? What does he learn in Afghanistan and Chechnya that he applies in Beslan?
Anna BorshchevskayaGUEST
One of the key things he says in the Beslan speech is he said, we were weak.
speaker_0HOST
What are you asking him to say, right? So, the point here is that they're right and they're wrong.
speaker_0HOST
They're right, yes, somebody made a mistake, but what are they, meaning, assuming somebody made a mistake, but what are they presupposing? In order for someone to make a mistake is that there's a right and a wrong answer, which is independent of the verdict of what the Beslan is giving.
speaker_0HOST
Independent of the Pesach, then there is a right and there's a wrong.
speaker_0HOST
That's if somebody can make a mistake.
speaker_0HOST
There's no right or wrong for the Beslan, right? And...
speaker_0HOST
And then also that Lamasa, that even though a Bezdin wants to do the right thing, and they want to pass him correctly, that doesn't make somebody, that doesn't guarantee they're gonna pass him correctly.
speaker_0HOST
And that just because a Pesach Din is separate from, meaning what the Pesach Din is supposed to be, what the one that could reach the Besen is possible.
speaker_0HOST
What am I supposed to do in this situation? In the case of the Gemurah, let's say, and then the question of the metanormative is what makes this the correct thing? In other words, this is what you're supposed to be doing.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
In a trunk in Kayla's room at their home, the Muellers keep a collection of her poems, cards, and writings.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
One of those writings? Kayla's high school paper about the Beslan hostage crisis.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
In her conclusion, Kayla wrote of a pain worse than death, the pain of families left behind.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
Parents who have searched and searched for answers and remains.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
Even her schoolwork focused on opening the eyes of her classmates and teachers to the pain that others endured.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
In a high school paper titled Kidnapping, the First-Hand Experience, Kayla recounted the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis in Russia.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
For three days, militants used gunfire and bombs to take over a school.
Jenny RuffCORRESPONDENT
The siege left over 330 people dead, mostly children.
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