Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Dear Ukraine, Are You Sure You Want To Be Bombing Chechnya?

From Reuters, October 29:

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov promised on Tuesday to take revenge for a drone attack that caused a fire at a military training academy in his south Russian region.

Ukraine has frequently struck Russia with drones in the course of the war, but Tuesday's attack appeared to be the first against Chechnya. There was no immediate comment from Kyiv.
"They've bitten us - we will destroy them," Kadyrov told reporters in a video published by Russian state news agency RIA.
"In the very near future we'll show them the kind of vengeance they've never even dreamt of," he said....
....MUCH MORE
 
I think he means it.  Earlier in the war one of his commanders had to be talked out of marching on Berlin. As noted in August when Kadyrov got his hands on a Tesla truck:
 
https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/tesla-cybertruck-machine-gun.jpg 
Credit: Ramzan Kadyrov | Telegram via Teslarati
 
There's something a bit surreal about giving a photo credit to the warlord/President of Chechnya but then the Chechens are crazy mofos and Teslarati may have been concerned about the country's intellectual property enforcement policies.
The article says Musk "has not commented on how or if Kadyrov actually “received” the Cybertruck from him." while Turkey's Andalou Agency is headlining their story with:
Elon Musk denies giving Cybertruck to Chechen leader
Ramzan Kadyrov pulls off apparent new prank, thanking Musk for 'sending' him Tesla Cybertruck