Eluminate said:Actually there is more then just oil in chechnya...
its a drug smuggling/trafficing region also people being used like in
columbia stolen for ransom also territorial cohession and deterance of any other group to start the same spiral. Lots of good reasons here not just oil.
Oil is small part of it. Kazakhstan has huge oil reserves but it was allowed to separate with no ill will.
The reality is thus in 20 years chechens wont exist in ethnical sense there is about 470-370k left and I feel that they will be reduced until any and all threat to the Russian state is anihilated to surety.
This is for any of you participants...what an interesting site!! I just discovered you as I was searching for more detailed information about Chechniya after the two Russian airliners crashed (8/25/04), and the speculations about "terrorism" began. I see no new postings on this site since February of this year. Are you all still having this dialogue or has it ended for some reason? I would really like to hear your views about what the Chechen situation means in terms of global systemic change at this point in history. Some of you have alluded to such issues when you discuss the resistance to change in some of the Islamic nations vs. the compatibility of the more basic Islamic religious interpretations. Yes, the issue of oil, imperialism and whether or not that is a political approach now in death throes is also of great interest to me. Thank you for any response about these concepts. Eroica