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Nuclear War over Chechnya?

posted 10 years ago by scholz-217-588025
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Does anyone else notice how prophetic this movie was in predicting real life world issues that we have had to deal with in the last ten years or so? Especially with regards to Putin's Russia? The Whole chain of events that lead to the confrontation aboard the Alabama all started when the US and it allies imposed sanction on the Russia Federation for human rights abuses when fighting the war in Chechnya? Could not a similar situation have developed when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008? Or their annexation of Crimea in 2014. Most terrifyingly, it was a very a real possibility that attacking Russian allied Syria (under the Assad Government) in 2013 could have led to world war 3. Chechnya is the land that produced the Tsarnaev brothers. Also, it has seen massive protests by its people against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in the last few days. Sure, things were not exactly the same 20 years ago when this movie was made, but the issues are the same! Is it really worth antagonizing a nuclear armed country over a region(s) that very few Americans could find on a map? Especially a region such as Chechnya that is of little importance to the United States and its allies. Just my take.

[–] Harold_of_Whoa 10 years ago

Is it really worth antagonizing a nuclear armed country over a region(s) that very few Americans could find on a map? Especially a region such as Chechnya that is of little importance to the United States and its allies. Just my take.

If you stick with that approach long enough, eventually there won't be any "allies". Just my take.

The good news (from your perspective) is that your approach seems prevalent at the moment.

"Morbius, something is approaching from the southwest. It is now quite close."

[–] franzkabuki 10 years ago

Oh yeah, the brutal genocide Fascist Russia has been perpetrating in Chechnya is of "little importance" because moronic Americans can't find it on a map! Nevermind that they can't find the USA on that map, either. And what's wrong with the anti-Charlie protests?

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] scholz-217-588025 10 years ago

The Charlie Hebdo protests were against free speech and other western values. And sorry, but Chechyna is not worth a nuclear, or any, war over for that matter. Also, the Chechyan separatist themselvces have proven to awfully brutal themselves. They have committed numerous terrorist acts against civilians including the bombing of school full of children in 2004 (Beslan School Bombing).

[–] herbsuperb 9 years ago

Does anyone else notice how prophetic this movie was in predicting real life world issues that we have had to deal with in the last ten years or so?

Indeed. Not only prophetic, but also of course not without precedent in history. World War 1 destroyed millions of lives, and started because of a political assassination, which caused a large country to attack and subjugate a smaller one, which in turn invoked multiple military alliances, and nobody stopped to think what might happen. Not EXACTLY the same scenario, of course. But it speaks to human failings in very much the same way.