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Spetsnatz to deploy to iraq?
By Charlie
...Probably not, but this story raises my eyebrows:
MOSCOW, June 28 — President Vladimir V. Putin ordered Russia's secret services today to find and kill those who kidnapped four Russian embassy employees in Iraq and then executed them, the Kremlin announced in a statement."The president gave instructions to the Russian special services to take all measures for finding and destroying the criminals who committed this atrocity," the Kremlin said, according to the official Russian Information Agency.
The Russian president has made similarly pointed threats before — against Chechnya's separatist fighters and those who have carried out terrorist attacks in Russia. Early in the second war in Chechnya Mr. Putin vowed to destroy the separatists in their outhouses. And four Chechen separatist leaders have been killed in strikes or raids since the second war began in 1999, most recently on June 17 when Russian forces killed the latest leader, Abdul Khalim Saidullayev.
I don't know what "special services" consist of in Russia nowadays, but with remnants of the KGB, SPF, and intelligence services still intact, its probably nothing to laugh at.
Driving on, this story is relevant to the topic.
Chechnya: Basayev Appointment Sends Signal To Russia And BeyondPRAGUE, June 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The man who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school siege, rebel field commander Shamil Basayev, has been appointed vice president of the breakaway republic's separatist government, putting Russia's most-wanted man next in line to become separatist president.
So... the Chechnyan VP is a terrorist. Damn America's imperialism in provoking the worldwide Islamic resistance! I've got a radical solution to this problem. US/Russian relations are pretty cool, but they might be warmed with a renewed security bargain. This bargain could include some of the arms control negotiations that Putin wants, but it should also include a forces swap. We would give Russia's armed forces some US advisors, giving them some of our COIN experience from the last 5 years of battling terrorists. Russia's performance in Chechnya during the first go-round showed that their operations could use some help.
In exchange for this, we would facilitate Russia's bloody vengance against the Iraq Islamists. Russia could deploy a few elite units, SPETSNATZ or otherwise, to help our SF forces doing COIN and our transistion command in training Iraqi forces. Most of the weapons and equipment the Iraqis use is Russian/Soviet anyway.
Just a thought...
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It was a very nice idea! Just wanna say thank you for the information you have shared. Just continue writing this kind of post. I will be your loyal reader. Thanks again.
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The last thing we should give Putin is any concession on arms control whatsoever. Putin has deployed the Topol-M ICBM in sufficient numbers and on a variety of platforms that effectively voids the START arms agreement.
Fine. START was a bad deal for us from the get-go, and should never have been enacted.
We should immediately resurrect and deploy the Midgetman mobile ICBM program and re-deploy the Peacekeeper ICBMs we still have, producing more of them until we replace every Minuteman ICBM in every ICBM silo with a Peacekeeper.
If Putin wants to signal willingness to cooperate with us, he needs to stop enabling HAMAS, Hezbollah and Iran. It's very simple.
Until then, we should strongly consider adding Russia and China to the "Axis of Evil," based solely on their actions in supplying rogue states and possibly terrorists with crucial weapons.