Chechnya

So I've dealt with the Soviet Union and Russia in many, many ways.

It's kind of upsetting, obviously, that, first of all, people just didn't pay attention because he started in Chechnya.

Ukraine was not the first.

He got emboldened by the West, not really thinking that much was going to happen.

He needs to flatter Trump and keep Trump independent.

if not fully on his side, at least not fully against him as Trump, and sometimes has taken that position, opposing Zelensky and claiming that, you know, US will stop aid to Ukraine.

But, you know, we saw, you know, your earlier call, I mentioned Chechnya.

We saw the Republic of Georgia.

Black Eight Mirrors says that the archive belongs to Mikhail Babich, deputy director of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, the arms export machine.

Babich is a system man to the very marrow of his bones, prime minister of occupied Chechnya, United Russia deputy, presidential envoy to the Volga, then ambassador to Minsk.

recalled after barely eight months having managed to fall out even with Lukashenko.

Inside the archive, screenshots of chats with an account signed Dmitry Peskov.

Because it isn't being written about, it isn't being reported, not even in the queer press.

It's something that is still hidden, what's happening to the women in Chechnya, what's happening to them in Chile, in Uganda, all across the world, you know, and I think it's important that we try to Tell their stories.

Joelle Taylor, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, so once we moved, once we discovered that it was the Sharnaevs after that week-long manhunt, now we're into triage mode.

We're into looking at, are there follow-on attacks Is there a bigger group of the Chechen expatriate community that is part of a Mujahideen type of warrior force that we're going up against? So once we identified the Sharia brothers and that they were Chechen expatriates and that they were...

Tamerlan was certainly a jihadi, and we were trying to determine jihar.

Clearly he committed a terrorist attack on US soil, so we're treating him like a terrorist, but we need to look at what made him tick.

But I think that still, like, nobody could anticipate that it can go down like this, you know, like, because it's like super crazy.

We know how it is in Russia or in Belarus or in even Chechnya or other places.

But like to see this sort of like transformation, like in a very short time span, it's like absolutely crazy.

And I don't know that we've seen these in other places.

I really want you all...

Where have we been in Chechnya? Thank God, all of us survived and left.

Congratulations to all of you on the 21st of February.

May I ask you a question? Yes.

Or you don't have to, of course.

I wanted to join the army.

At that time, we saw this Chechnya and always said, Sasha, well, how to buy it, or something else, as everyone used to do there.

Well, I said no.

Right

... facing off against the Muslims in Chechnya.

But then we're all, there's no big, there's no big fight-

Yeah

The sequence was titled, In Anticipation of Nuclear Conflict, How Weapons of Mass Destruction Have Become Part of the Geopolitical Game.

It comes as a top Putin lieutenant, Razem Kadyvov, the leader of Chechnya and a war fanatic, call on Putin to contemplate declaring martial law in the border territories and using low-yield nuclear weapons to overcome his latest military humiliations in Ukraine.

Mr. Snyder then says, if the Russians decide to use tactical nukes to give them an advantage in Ukraine...

I believe that Joe Biden is crazy enough to use tactical nukes in Ukraine in response.