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2015-11-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian Private Military Companies As Licensed Tool of Terror

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-27 02:08|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 This is completely different from, say, Blackwater, et al.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-11-27 08:55|| 2015-11-27 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Being ordered to be a volunteer has a long history in Russia...

Posted by Steve White 2015-11-27 10:15|| 2015-11-27 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I would venture a guess that a poorly reported and poorly understood Moslem insurgency is at work in the Ukraine and that is why the Russians are on it.

To make an omelet or in this case Moslem expansion, you either bust a few heads or scramble a few eggs.

I am growing more and more p.o.ed about how we were so completely mislead about Chechnya by the media.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-11-27 11:47|| 2015-11-27 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 The people who run Information Napalm are soldiers in the Ukrainian Army, part of the Maidan movement, and have long been providing their view of Russians, whether their information can be proven or not.

Not saying they're right or they're wrong. They just don't like Russians much, like most of Rantburg's readership.

Posted by badanov 2015-11-27 11:59|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-11-27 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I think I take a more pragmatic view of Russia. It's kind of like a bear. Keep a gun trained on him to keep him from getting too aggressive. Then leave him alone, stay away from him and you're not likely to have too much trouble. Poking him with a stick is not smart. And if he sees countries like Serbia and Syria as cubs, it's best not to mess with them either.

As for Putin, I recognize that he is a ruthless dictator with murderous instincts. But somehow he doesn't scare me anywhere near as much as Baraq Obama.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-11-27 12:30|| 2015-11-27 12:30|| Front Page Top

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