An army that does most of its fighting from air, with superior weapons of mass destruction--I wouldn't be surprised.
and
The Russian conscripts are suffering from dangerously low morale ...
* Kind of contradictory.
The Chechens are against impossible odds.
* What was the point of invading Dagestan and provoking the hell then?
For the past six months, 5,000 lightly-armed Chechen warriors fighting on flat, open terrain that favors air, armor and artillery, have held 100,000 Russian troops, backed by regiments of heavy guns and rockets, helicopter gunships, ground attack aircraft, and thousands of tanks and armored vehicles.
* On flat terrain? (Heh!) 5000? Anyways, if I would know, that artillery and air would save my men, I would call in whatever artillery- or air-bourne power available to help me.
that includes banned fuel air explosives,
* Tell it to the Pentagon.
toxic gas, and napalm.
* Plus plasma rifles, sonic boom blasters, heat-guided AK bullets.
Credit should be given where it is due.
* American Express Platinum motto.

John,

What point you ask??? hello..oh boy..you know something, if you don't get it - you DON'T get it.I don't have any time to keep on going back and forth with you, so READ response of someone who was patient enough to get the point across to you..that would be a post by my buddy Gonzo written at 5:26pm...I agree with it COMPLETELY
just READ:

"""Dimitri, Here a way of looking at it. You have a Captain in the field who see that things are not as good as they seem but when reporting to his superior offercer who does not want to hear excuses and just results the captain goes, well things are going as planned and does not mention the negatives. That officer reporting to the General, then passes along the news things are going good plus throws in a few extra possitive things , because hey he wants to look good and be a general also. The General has to go before TV, wants to look like hes in total control and reports what he thinks the public wants to hear. It will be over real soon. I think it is simplistic way to put it. But what the hell. """"

By Kisako ( - 192.114.47.50) on Friday, March 10, 2000 - 06:30 pm:
psst... I think I'll increase my short postions in the ruble!
* Increase the size of Your shorts!



Kissie

I concede that you're exceptionally shrewd and crafty (a sharp little jewess). I doubt if you'll ever have the mental capacity to comprehend the financial implications of what is happening.

John,

Don't bother arguing with Kissie. She's a nobody. She's extremely fustrated and she uses her company's computer to vent that fustration on this board.

John,
Great point by Kissie, about Chechens invading Dagestan at her 6:32pm post..I would love to hear your responce on that..

I knew it Bacon!!!!!!!!!!!
Zi Provoker at its best!!!!!!!!!!!
you kiss that john's behind!!!!!!!!


all american would be jealous...

As long as Russia is fragmented and weak(in perception or reality). Foreign capital and investment will not flow into the country.
* Bacon, You surpassed Yourself! Just think what You've typed!

She's a nobody.
and
... and she uses her company's computer ...
* Nobody can't use (abuse) the company's "fiber". Have You ever seen a fiberoptic cable, Abu Bacon?

Dimitri on ignore...

I T A I N ' T O V E R ! ! !


Friday, 10 March, 2000, 17:25 GMT
Russia admits heavy
losses in Chechnya

Russia admits its losses have sharply worsened this
week
Russia has reported some of its worst losses
since the Chechen conflict began five months
ago, but maintains it is close to taking
complete control of the rebel republic.

Colonel-General Valery
Manilov, first deputy chief of
the armed forces' general
staff, said that 156
servicemen had been killed
and another 157 wounded in the region during
the past week.

He also confirmed that 84 paratroops from a
single company were killed in one incident.

He said that Russian
forces are now battling
against 2,500 to 3,500
rebels in Chechnya,
many of whom were
holed up in the village
of Ulus-Kert near
Shatoi in the mountains
south of Grozny.

Interfax said Russian
aircraft carried out
about 70 raids on rebel
positions in the
mountains on
Thursday, a higher rate than in recent days.

General Manilov said that Chechen
commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab, as
well as Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov,
were in Ulus-Kert.

He said about 1,000 of the Chechen rebels
were "mercenaries" from Arab countries,
Afghanistan, Ukraine, Bosnia and the Baltics.

Blockaded

For the fifth day in a row, crack troops have
been attacking the village of Komsomolskoye,
which was seized by a group of rebels who
broke through the Russian lines south of
Grozny.

The village "is completely blockaded," and
Russian troops are now occupying the northern
part of it, General Manilov said.

He called on Chechen forces led by Ruslan
Gelayev to lay down their arms or die.

Direct rule

Acting President Vladimir Putin has proposed
two years of direct rule from the Kremlin, after
presidential elections at the end of this month.

"Those still holding
arms, in mountain
caves - they must be
dispersed and wiped
out," Mr Putin said.

"After the presidential
election, we could
probably introduce
direct presidential rule
there for a couple of
years."

Mr Putin ruled out
recognising any form of Chechen
independence, saying it needed leaders who
wanted to stay within Russia.

"We should create a local elite which would
understand it is an advantage for Chechnya to
be part of Russia," he said.