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Who said anything about a successful invasion?[/quote]
Well, I thought we were discussing politics, not sandbox games.
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'Sandbox games' describes splendidly what the Americans...

Who said anything about a successful invasion?



Fair enough. Point taken. I repeat, however, that it would have been very easy for Sweden, Japan, Belgium, France, Laos (don't doubt it: a...

So far you have not been able to produce a single answer to this question. That means your set of answers does not contain any answer (at the time of writing), or the set is empty. Null. Nil. Zero....

Funny, it looks like it is empty actually.[/quote]

Curiouser and curiouser. Am I going stupid or are you going cryptic?

The first question here is "where would they do that". If you have a non-empty set of answers, then there is indeed something to be said about the morality of the filthy war mongers such as the...

It isn't, at least not vastly. Whence came this idea that I am making the case for the Americans and their footling coalition?[/quote]

Well, did you not say that the Russian government was...

Can't find any recent figures (any help here?). Shouldn't matter though, should it? Ethnic Chechen or not, they all have to live there: no minority has the right to impose itself simply by virtue of...

It isn't, at least not vastly. Whence came this idea that I am making the case for the Americans and their footling coalition? Job lot of bad 'uns as far as I can see. If one good thing has come out...

Another difference: the Chechen state, when it was granted pretty much sovereignty, ended up attacking Russia. [/quote]

The last thing I'm doing is defending Maskhadov and Basayev.



They...

Is that so? I thought the Chechens taken 'en masse' were quite keen on it. But really I don't know. I am, after all, a bear of very little brain.[/quote]

Validata is an independent polling...

Read it a few times I have but see a connection with my question I cannot.[/quote]

Explain I shall.

Quite simple really: if we're making a comparison between Spain and the Basques and Russia...

Well, there are points of comparison: both nations are 'new' democracies; both have dealt very badly with a long-standing problem.

The Spanish government ain't sanctioning kidnap on the streets of...