The Second Chechen War: Inside Putin's First Invasion

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[@user-dg9pu4pe9d]

Needs dehydrated marshmallows.

[@EmilyJelassi]

I love Magic Spoon, but they’ve discontinued the original cinnamon 😭 I tried the cinnamon roll and I just don’t think it tastes like cinnamon. Simon, please persuade them to bring it back!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@stanislav3806]

They don’t ship anything to the Eu so it’s sadly a useless sponsorship for all Europeans

[@ivanmascot]

this time it was not invasion, in ukraine from "international law" pov it is, but here he was destroying separatists, - arab terrorosts vakhabists that flooded ichkeriya and brought vakhabism to chechen islam

[@taavidude]

I want to add 2 more important names: Alexander Litvinenko: He was a former FSB agent who was killed in 2006, poisoned with Polonium for writing a book about how the 1999 apartment bombings were a false flag attack by FSB. Anna Politkovskaja: She was a journalist who was shot and killed in 2006, for exposing Russian war crimes during the Second Chechen war.

[@es68951]

And another. Zelimkhan Khangoshvili: Murdered by FSB in 2019 in Berlin, a hero who fought the Russian savages in Chechnya.

[@КостикК]

@@es68951 It's you Chechens, savages with a wild mentality. You forgot how you Chechens in 1991-1994 killed and raped ethnic Russians, just because they are Russians. You freeloaders all your life sat on the neck of Russians and ate Russian subsidies.

[@Silver_Prussian]

The coping machine that had no actual evidence and just spew bullsh*t for years showing how much he care for russia. Like the guy divorced his wife with whom he had kids with and married a ballroom dancer then run of the england He latter made ridiculous allegations with no f*cking evidence he accused putin of being pedophile and latter wjen nobody believed him and was calling him out litvenko on his bullsh*t one of his friends said the following Litvinenko still had the mind-set of a security officer and "could not understand the difference between truth and operational information." Basicaly admitting he was pathological liar

[@tsartomato]

Politkovsjata was killed by kadyrov for writing about kadyrov. No one in ryssia is allowed to say anything bad about kadyrov or chechens will invade your home beat you up and record your apology on camera. Not KZbinrs not pop stars not elected or nonelected government people no one is safe from chechens you can google thousands of videos with apologies

[@emilnarud5955]

Days without Poles whining about Russia: 0

[@badluck5647]

Putin on Chechnya: State unity is more important than self-determination Putin on Donbas: Self-determination is more important than state unity.

[@MrWompz]

You know, never really realized the irony in that. Pretty interesting.

[@wfb.subtraktor311]

Putin on anything: What is expedient to me and my agenda must be the truth.

[@IAmTheOnlyLucas]

Putin: “We must invade bcuz 10,000 years of Dumbass children attack from Kiev regime”

[@cesticvaljda]

Same goes with west when speaking about Ukraine and Serbia.

[@demetrio3351]

Oh no it was Serbia who started all the bloodshed, shame on them

[@channel_no_longer_active]

Akhmad Kadyrov's betrayal of Chechens forces had a lot to do with Russian victory I. 1999 as well. Today his son Ramzan Kadyrov rules Chechnya as a vassal kingdom.

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Ramzan has had some disputes with Putin over the Russian military banning beards for it's soldiers so you never know how long he will remain the Kremlin's lap dog.

[@stc3145]

Without Putin there is no one to pay for his villas, yachts, supercars and women.

[@ZeroResurrected]

Not defending Kadyrov or Putin but I’d say betraying terrorists who decapitate prisoners, kidnap civilians, including children and bomb civilians isn’t a bad thing. The Chechen rebels were vicious and barbaric

[@pozzyvibes6997]

​@@ZeroResurrected The irony is that the Russian state does all of those things...

[@LoLMasterManiac]

@@ZeroResurrected you are a lying pro-putin shill, take your 15 roubles, comrade

[@randalpumpkin2788]

This channel has been putting out such high quality videos lately, it's honestly incredible that your content just keeps getting better and better. Kudos to you and the Blazement crew

[@paulmitchell6485]

This is pro US propaganda

[@michaelgallagher3640]

​@@paulmitchell6485 ...Enlighten us Smart Guy.

[@tsartomato]

@@paulmitchell6485 this is not pro us propaganda this one is pure fringe conspiracies

[@wvr653]

​@@paulmitchell6485 Agreed

[@KpK1Cioby]

I wonder how many of these videos about how badly the US lost or killed civilians he made.

[@trololo_zhirnota]

Kadirov was assasinated not by a car bomb, but by bomb placed on a stadium. There is even footage from local news depicting the incident.

[@joeyr7294]

Really loving this newer colony of Simons empire! Thanks for the content as always Simon and Co. 🍻 Edit: been a while since a magic spoon sponsored vid

[@adamp2426]

Who simon?

[@darkchocolate1083]

@@adamp2426 The Narrator of this channel.

[@DabbleDo]

The second Chechen War is sponsored by Magic Spoon, got it

[@Funko777]

Lol What's next? The holocaust is sponsored by Volkswagen? ......wait

[@yannick245]

​@@Funko777 It was the _"KdF-Wagen"_ back then. The _"strength through joy car"._ _"Kraft durch Freude/Strength through joy"_ was a German state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany.

[@michaelbuettner1487]

This bald guy is a joker

[@GregBartlesbyProductions]

Love this channel, Biographics, and Geographics as well. Always high-quality production and informational value, with Simon being the cozy host to settle in with. Great work as always!

[@vic5015]

Casual Criminalist and Into the Shadows are good too. Material on those gets pretty dark at times, though.

[@twonumber22]

@@vic5015 Are those more Simon channels? I'm already subbed to about a dozen or so, so of course I need more Simon.

[@ilajoie3]

@@twonumber22 Simon's got so many channels that it's a 50-50 chance that any video you watch is connected to him

[@bazooka712]

@@ilajoie3 The CIA of content creation 🤣. Colored revolutions -> colored videos

[@newtagwhodis4535]

Thank you for making this amazing content Simon and crew. I have grown and learned very much from them. Great work.

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Interesting fact there are many young Chechen men following in their fathers' footsteps by fighting against the Russians as volunteers in Ukraine.

[@vic5015]

They known what Russia is doing and will do in Ukraine if the world lets them. Additionally, at least some probably hope losing in Ukraine will weaken Russia enough for Chechnya to try to liberate itself again.

[@SpardauDebesi]

When you know the terror that soviets or now Russians bring... In the first month's there where busses coming full of Georgian men ready to fight same with Chechens. Pretty much everyone that was ever harmed by Russians are now fighting them in Ukraine. Shit if Poland and the baltics weren't in NATO I have no doubt they would've send there army's not just volunteers.

[@badluck5647]

Chechnya is also a great source for Russian conscripts and mercenary companies to fight against the Ukrainians. I'm sure Russia giving their disgruntled minorities battlefield experience and PTSD won't bite them in the ass later.

[@Dizle81]

More are fighting on Russia's side though

[@dartfather]

​@@Dizle81 It is expected that more will fight for Russia because the citizens of a country will toe the government's line.

[@WVPlayer]

Would love to see a video on the West Virginia Mine Wars, largest insurrection in the US post-Civil War

[@anthonydesisto2328]

You mean Jan 6 wasn't the worst? Lmao.

[@crazychase98]

That was not an insurrection because it was not really against the gov those where fights of corporation against corporation . that's like saying every crip and blood or mafia war against another gang is a insurrection. Most of the killings where mafia style hits and shoot outs anyway

[@Comm0ut]

@@anthonydesisto2328 It wasn't even close but outside WV Americans don't care about labor rights.

[@janihaavisto79]

Thanks Simon and crew of Wargraphics. I really enjoy listening these episodes. And Simon's dry humor is unmatched.

[@ivandankob7112]

That’s the comfort of peaceful dealing with your own business you are enjoying, good videos just add flavors to it Greetings from Ukraine 🫡

[@rickchagouri-brindle6520]

Great video, Simon, but a couple of inaccuracies, the most significant of which was that Putin was NEVER the head of the KGB. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of president Boris Yeltsin.

[@tsartomato]

a couple? the entire video is qanon bullshit disproven by western sources and blatant lies that go against every historical record

[@JonathanFirth]

He was the director of the FSB (effectively the successor agency to the KGB 2nd Chief Directorate) from 1998-1999.

[@tsartomato]

@@JonathanFirth he spent less than a year there he was sent tgere byboligarchs and all he did was deal with skuratov and steal some money but shuffling papers around and increasing beureucracy. He wasn't even a colonel he got that as a pity to fit the position all real directors are generals he didn't deserve it he was just given it

[@es68951]

It was just a misunderstanding -- Simon didn't mean _that_ KGB, he meant Putin was the head of the Kids Groping Bureau

[@tsartomato]

@@es68951 federal service for babyeating there's footage

[@nolongerblocked6210]

After watching yesterday's video about Ukraine/Russia I started thinking it'd be nice if you covered all of Putin's invasions. So obviously I was happy to see this today, this was a great summary

[@tsartomato]

it was terrible collection of flat earth conspiracies pukin invasions started with sakartvello

[@ivanmascot]

chechnya is not invsaion it;s separatists chechen terrorists and arab terrorists

[@boojeboy1]

Why? So you can see even more propaganda?

[@DrMrPersonGuy]

​@@boojeboy1 russia apologists fuming

[@DogeickBateman]

@@boojeboy1 Fitting soy rage from a guy called Mental Jiu-jitsu

[@wukanimation]

I highly, *highly* suggest you cover the First Chechen War. It was a clusterfuck of epic proportions for everyone involved and had major ramifications on the Chechen populace, all the Caucasus, and the development of extremism in the Muslim world.

[@soheil527]

that was the overspilling of jihadists sentiments from Afghanistan after soviet defeat

[@tsartomato]

extremism was the reason for the first war. ichkeria president lost control and terrorist were printing fake money selling drugs and doing terror every single month for 30 years

[@schaihmansur8298]

@@soheil527 no. There were not that many foreigner in Chechnya. My whole family maybe saw 4 Arabs there and that was Hattab and his group. They had an Center for ideological indoctrination in Chechnya. Their idea was to take over the government bit by bit but they were very unpopular.

[@E001-f8g]

@@schaihmansur8298 Muslims fight and sacrifice, then ٍtraitors come and rule the state and call them extremists This is the story in modern times.

[@E001-f8g]

well Some of these Chechen Muslims are fighting today in Ukraine. Will you call them extremists ? Or do they today not disagree with your opinion , so you will call them heroes? The hypocrisy and contradiction of man has no end

[@pgbrown12084]

I have vague memories hearing about this as a child but I've never actually looked into it. This whole situation is just horrifying from start to finish. And the most terrifying part is that this could happen again now in Ukraine.

[@tsartomato]

this video is ultimate bullshit and quanon flat earth conspiracies read some real sources at that time pukin was a nobody the state was at its weakest in history and could not organize 911 inside job

[@ilajoie3]

Started by the same power hungry autocrat

[@blugaledoh2669]

@@ilajoie3 you do realises the Chechen were terrorist.

[@ItzCoopzFtw]

It's already happening now in Ukraine. Bucha is the example.

[@blugaledoh2669]

@@ItzCoopzFtw That true, Ukrainian soldier kill “collaborator” in that village.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Yes! thanks for this simon! So informative!

[@reecedrury4145]

Lol magic spoon....bring back memories of childhood. I'm sure cereal wasn't that expensive when I wad a kid...

[@Agerskiold]

Very informative! Thanks 👍🏼

[@figgehn_]

21:17 - Car bomb? I was under the impression that it was during a cermony in a stadium placed under the stands

[@smeister6274]

Instämmer. Vet inte var bilbomben kom ifrån, men det stämmer inte. Trevligt att se dig här förresten, bra barndomsminnen :)

[@Ominious]

It was the stadium. Even to this day when you visit the football stadium in Grozny, there's a dozen police officers patting you down thoroughly. They even pried my powerbank to check if it wasn't an explosive. And Ramzan was there as well, watching the game.

[@JFDA5458]

That photo of Putin in the opening sequence, so different to the man we see now. Also it's SCUD, not SCUB missiles.

[@tintinsmythe5837]

Body doubles and clones

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

Most of my college roommates (my second diploma was in the mid-2010’s) were Russian- one of them (born in the mid-80’s) mentioned at one point that even decades later most Russian landlords will NOT rent to Chechens due to the apartment bombings that happened. I don’t remember what we were talking about for that remark to come up but he didn’t go into much detail about why at that point.

[@chemiKalz]

And ironically those bombings were done by Russians

[@davescott7680]

Sounds like they'd be better not renting to the FSB.

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

@@davescott7680 Yeah, but tell that to a Russian back in the 90’s. Doesn’t matter who actually blew those apartments up, it still resulted in that belief. Or he’ll, try it today, since they don’t have the same access to free and uncensored news media that we do in Europe and North America and anyone following this channel now knows just how much Putin has been propagandizing over the years.

[@belsempai2671]

The "we only rent to slavs" ads existed long before the apartment bombings. And still exists. Which is why when Russians started immigrating last year, there are were a lot of "we only rent to non-Slavs" memes made by Kazakhs, Kyrgizians and probably other neighbours as well. But that's just memes, in reality they showed hospitality.

[@КостикК]

@@belsempai2671 Russians do not rent apartments to migrants from Central Asia, not because they are racists. This is revenge for the Russian genocide arranged by representatives of these Central Asian peoples. Plus, these migrants, the Central Asian peoples, while in Russia, violate the rules and social norms in Russia, rape Russian women, sell drugs, and commit crimes. If you settle migrants from Central Asia in an apartment, they will drag another 20 fellow countrymen, destroy the apartment, make noise and interfere with neighbors because of this, the landlord will have problems with the police. Because of this, Russians do not rent apartments to migrants from Central Asia.

[@lajoyalobos2009]

The sheer contrast of the seriousness of the video's content and then: Magic Spoon!

[@EAcapuccino]

I was re-watching the 1st Chechnyan war yesterday, now this is here Been looking forward to this - sort of - Only when you're not involved or anywhere near it is when you don't comprehend the untold misery and death it beings to civilians and soldiers alike 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Линчик-ю1и]

where is the first chechen war video?

[@EAcapuccino]

@@Линчик-ю1и Same channel - Warographics - easy to find From a few months ago

[@Линчик-ю1и]

@@EAcapuccino can you please send me the link I can't find it

[@EAcapuccino]

@@Линчик-ю1и I said first But it's not technically called that kzbin.info/www/bejne/lX6ZqYyBa6ydrqM

[@cj3ogrady]

Your ability to pronounce the names of people and places in those regions is outstanding.

[@bigatomicsloth3369]

I love all Simon's videos and all his wonderful editors and writers, but" Scub" almost killed me I laughed so hard 😂 I have to finish the video now 👋

[@atomicdeath10]

Magic spoon is like $11 a box at Walmart where I live. I will stick with Capt Crunch for that price.

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

Dude, you at least had to talk about the Russian Theater incident when discussing this particular war.

[@multiyapples]

Rest in peace to those that passed away.

[@mattiemathis9549]

Today I found out: Simon has a war channel. I’m mind blown or maybe brain blazed.😂😂😂😂

[@SRW_]

Are you sick of eating the same old cereal?! Danny: yes!! Simon: danny we talked about this!!! No peanut butter flavour until we get 3 scripts a day!!

[@patrickhasachannel]

I find it shocking that Russia (as a political entity, not a cultural one) is perfectly content with slaughtering its or scarring its own military one generation at a time. I'm American so it's not like we've unlocked the secret to breaking the cycle but still...it genuinely feels like the answer is right in front of our faces

[@Funko777]

The secret ingredient is: life is cheap in Russia and always has been

[@Silver_Prussian]

How are they ,,scareing their own military ?

[@patrickhasachannel]

@@Silver_Prussian well Georgey, by sending an entire generation of young men to die in a needless war with no factual motivation other than political ambition and posturing, Putin is crippling the future of Russia. Are hundreds of thousands of battle-scarred troops good for Russia? For their economy? For the culture? The Kremlin frames this conflict as a righteous, anti-fascist cause, but the only person to really gain anything of substantive value here is Putin. He has all the control he wants because the billionaire oligarchs give him money to do what they want. It's literally Stalin all over again

[@andarara-c1p]

@@Silver_Prussian by paying low effort trolls like you

[@milosmilictrob2046]

And I still find it shocking that Americans bomb civilians more than any other nation in the world calling it "rightful". I also find it shocking that for some reason Russians are seen as "murderers" but Americans are seen as "Liberators" even tho they have flattened multiple countries and killed millions since WW2.

[@Mrmoore727]

Eating cereal and watching one of Simon's 100 shows is what I call a good time

[@-Liquid-]

I was in Georgia and also visited the Caucasian regions. Really wonderful people. It is important to note that the police are very different from civilians.

[@uncleobscurenobody8861]

No matter what country, cops are always violent scum

[@samking7213]

Great channel. Excellent content. I would love to see your take on Australian and New Zealand involvement in the Vietnam War.

[@oldworldpatriot8920]

I love Australia….they’ve always had Americas back and never get credit for it.

[@samking7213]

@@oldworldpatriot8920 we owe a huge debt of gratitude to the US for having our back in WW2. My Grandfather was a RAAF airman in the Pacific but was attached to the 307th Bomb group flying in mixed crews of Aussie and American crews.

[@Iamthestig42069]

Do an episode on the cleanup of unexploded arms from WW1 and WW2 that is still ongoing to this day.

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

Agreed! Or maybe just the entire blitz in general. They’re STILL finding old bombs in London and Berlin when they do construction work. (He does have a good video on land mines on his Into the Shadows channel, though.)

[@Iamthestig42069]

@@SoundShinobiYuki farmers in France are still plowing up shells from ww1. A blitz episode would definitely have to be separate since Europe in general is still dealing with it from both wars not just London from ww2

[@dkupke]

Them: Putin wants peace, he was provoked into Ukraine! Me: Lets ask Chechnya about that.

[@tsartomato]

let's and you will see what this video is bullshit conspiracy that can be disroved with wesetrn soruces in 1 click

[@andy91091]

Chechnya was never an independent state though. 🤷🏻

[@rediii9239]

And Georgia and Syria and Iraq

[@rediii9239]

And Georgia and Syria and Iraq

[@4363HASHMI]

Liberate Chechnya

[@uncleheavy6819]

As a Brit, every time Simon gets as far as Dag in Dagestan, my mind inserts Dagenham.

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

I think it's a local nickname for the area.

[@damiensadventure]

Magic spoon makes me feel like a badass..buy this cereal. Not an ad. Its just good af

[@aldindubo]

This guy is pretty much straight up reading the Wiki page about this conflict. I have noticed very similiar things about his other videos. Theyre all just the Wiki pages

[@pyromanemane8036]

Nobodey cares about youre potato juce.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

The total loss of human life, including both combatants and non-combatants, is estimated to be over 60,000.

[@schaihmansur8298]

Way more. 2002 report alone was more than 200k that Bullshit with 60k came out 10 years later. Kadyrow himself said 300k…. His ministers was the one who at the beginning of 2000 said over 200k and then in I think 2010 on Russian order said 60. fuck Russia

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

Love the channel, but would still like to request a video on the Spanish Armada of 1587-1588. I know you guys focus on more contemporary stuff, but your perspective on this would be interesting, to me at least!

[@demetrio3351]

Great video! Really amazing, what a hell and a constellation of parallels between Chechnia and Ukraine from the point of Russian way of war waging…

[@tsartomato]

there are no parallels because this all is a bullshit conspiracy if you want a similar invasion go for 2008 invasion of sacartvello and this video just says 5g causes vaccinated autism 911 was inside job

[@ironpro1511]

Video 6 of suggesting Simon to do a Syrian civil war video or perhaps more Btw, amazing video

[@alomaralsulaiman6501]

Agree

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

Is that war still going on, or did it finally actually end at some point? (Genuine question. I don’t closely follow the news, so while I remember the media storm when it started, I never found out what happened once it fell off of the top stories after a year or so!)

[@ironpro1511]

@@SoundShinobiYuki The topic itself is complicated, but the war itself is still going (sadly), since the Ukraine war, the media has mainly reported on it, so it is normal that you dont see a lot of news

[@potatoman8194]

He will probably paint FSA as the good guys

[@DrMrPersonGuy]

Most estimates put the amount of civilian casualties in these wars at 100,000-200,000, making them over 95% of all casualties

[@ravenmusic6392]

It's often between 50,000 and 100,000. 200,000 is a very high end estimate, and military casualties numbered as high as 30,000 on both sides in the conflict

[@DrMrPersonGuy]

@Raven Music what makes it "very high"? Being unpleasant? Estimates go up to 350,000. And the Chechnya's actual military losses are tiny compared to that.

[@ravenmusic6392]

@@DrMrPersonGuy So the GVBF has the highest acedemic estimate which is 80,000 killed for the second conflict. Chechen military casualties were 15,000 killed and an unknown wounded while Russian casualties were 8,000 killed

[@pooneil]

As much as I used to complain about the adverts, that cereal looks really good; I just ordered some with the code!

[@mn73211]

Wow 30 years of the same play by play for Russia on how to engage with the world around them and nothing has changed at all

[@Dizle81]

They learned from the best

[@tsartomato]

yeah first make a qanon conspirological video and then claim it's all the same

[@Valleygirl210]

I like how Simon is so passive aggressive toward Russia and is trying to pain literal chechens in a good light LOL

[@elcuete]

Chechens are good people and warriors at heart. It's kadyrovs bitch ass who's a traitor and an intimidator

[@luden1577]

Propaganda as it is

[@Joaquin546]

@@luden1577hopefully all oppressed people in Russia are freed from putler

[@r.yuksel9774]

Russia knows how to put themselves in a bad light, they don't need someone else to do it

[@luden1577]

@@r.yuksel9774 with such propaganda efforts you can change Russia for any other major country and see the same results of portraying them as “pure evil”

[@deaks25]

Given Putin has gone on to use the same basic playbook in Georgia and Ukraine, I think it's safe to say Putin considers the tactics and methods used in Chechnya to be perfectly justifiable. In hindsight, looking at Chechnya and Georgia, Putin's true nature is rather obvious and the so-called Peace-Dividend was always going to be something of a fallacy.

[@WeAreMovieMakers]

Magic Spoon contains the sweetener Allulose, which has not been approved in Europe or Canada.

[@myrlyn1250]

Every time I see that picture of Ramzan Kadyrov it reminds me of a neighbor I had growing up and I think "Psycho! Run away!" 😅 He probably scares himself in mirrors.

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Which picture? Cus a lot of the time when I look at pictures of Ramzan Kadyrov I am struck by how much he looks like some kind of grown-up child. If I didn't know his reputation I'd assume that he's some kind of hyper autist with that neckbeard playing fortnite religiously into his 40s. He really does look terrible... and not in the Ivan the Grozny way, pun fully intended.

[@maxsportsman2416]

Dear Simon now do a video about NATO war crimes of Serbia & Iraq

[@rogerout8875]

Name just 1 city we leveled with rockets and artillery, indiscriminately killing civilians and leaving behind mass graves for people to find?

[@mytiliss682]

@@rogerout8875 Falluja

[@rogerout8875]

@@mytiliss682 wtf?? Show me a picture of Fallujah looking like Mariopol or Bakhmut?? And please send a link to the mass graves we left for people to find.. Don't worry, I'll wait.

[@juliankraus1011]

When you can not dispute the facts that debunk your personal narrative nor stand them either, you do "whataboutism". Classic tactic among hypocrites.

[@Chechen_voice]

​@@rogerout8875 Dude, when someone mentions their crime they say like: “Look at America, she killed more people than us, so we are good”😂 justifying their crimes with other people's crimes.

[@GareginRA]

Wow. This is a really in-depth analysis. Great job!

[@tsartomato]

it's bullshit flat earth 911 inside job conspirology none of this qanon bullshit is true the state was ruined and pukin was nobody terrorists were bombing russia for 30 years every single month and investigation showed every single detail with separate investigations from usa

[@elcuete]

Now search Groznyphile here on KZbin (extensive brutal footage)

[@LuisAlfredoRomeroR]

You are awesome man, thank You.

[@PitboyHarmony1]

Maybe you should do a video on the thermobaric bomb (also called a vacuum or aerosol bomb - or fuel air explosive). They seem pretty interesting and unique.

[@austinredenius2724]

He did. MOAB massive ordnance air burst

[@austinredenius2724]

Or mother of all bombs

[@krazymir]

I love the channel. Small correction: scud, not scub

[@general_romanbarkov]

Did people forget the fact that Chechen terrorists attacked Dagestan a region of Russia?

[@general_romanbarkov]

@@4363HASHMI ya thats what happened and Chechyna is now a peaceful place with beautiful mosques

[@hs3633]

@@general_romanbarkov Take your "peace", those mosques alongside the Russian hero and general don-don Kadyrov and shove down your throat.

[@Ц1ечой95]

Did people forget that russian terrorists bombed flats in moscow blaming it on chechens so they can break the peace tresty? Also what has the islamic deserter group to do with the chechen army at that time. It was a defected group acting on its own so to put the blame on the whole chechen goverment under maskhadov is pruely done so to have a reason to break the peace treaty

[@Chechen_voice]

​@@general_romanbarkov Chechnya has never attacked Dagestan, you fool. These were people who entered the territory of Dagestan, and Chechnya had nothing to do with them, and those who attacked Dagestan did not represent Chechnya in politics or anywhere else

[@kol-b5z]

Chechnya did not attack Dagestan, stop lying. President Maskhadov condemned the actions of terrorists and offered cooperation with Russia in their suppression.

[@a.w.3996]

Love you're guys channel , dutch greetings and keep it up.

[@sriharshacv7760]

So the Chechens heavily underestimated the Russian ability to harm themselves if it means destroying Chechenya?

[@soheil527]

and you hindus were ruled by by less than 100000 british and no proper rebellion

[@j2times2006]

Things were about to get a whole lot worse..... But now cereal!!! 😂

[@williamlloyd3769]

Kings and Generals KZbin channel just published a video - Circassian Genocide - How Russia took over Caucasus Documentary. Video goes over the 50+ year Russian actions taken to take this territory. Brutal.

[@NKVD_Enjoyer]

skill issue

[@bradforddeel1299]

Magic spoon is great except its $10 a box here in the US and its only enough for 1 decent size bowl lol

[@FrontLinePub]

It's interesting how the excuse to invade Chechnya was very similar to the US excuse to invade Iraq. It's like they gave us an example of how to sell a new war.

[@madzihove]

Only if you could explain how Iraq did something similar to the US like a military force invading Russia from Chechnya else you do not know what you are talking about.

[@juliankraus1011]

More like Afghanistan. Iraq was invaded under false pretenses.

[@calmbeast1329]

​@@madzihoveiraq invasion was even worse... because iraq was a sovereign nation...chechnya wasn't....

[@NKVD_Enjoyer]

only diffrence is the chechens were actualy terrorists cuting heads of unlike the iraqis

[@DORIANUPDEGROVE]

Don't forget vietnam

[@DoctorDork]

Thanks for doing this video. I've always needed more context on this war.

[@ShengYu1995]

Technically the Chechen wars is not an invasion like it is in Ukraine. Chechnya never was recognized as sovoreign nation, yes they had de facto control after winning the first war, so it is Putin just weeding out separatists in his own country.

[@aburoach9268]

the Taliban recognized it 🤣 But this conflict was somewhat anti colonial

[@LoLMasterManiac]

Chechenia isn't putin's own country, his country is Russia. Chechenia is an occupied country by russian imperialists and communists.

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Ok CCP shill.

[@viktorias63]

💩💩💩 russian terrorist apologist

[@Ц1ечой95]

Factually it is an invasion

[@Alino17]

Thank you. This is an unique, even agile hystory - jounalism work. You seem very at ease with the dramatic material and your format. This you offer is one of the real few things KZbin is great for. I reccomend you Zachar Prilepin's book 'Pathologies" about Grozny siege seen by a Russian military (where you may also understand why Ukrainians tried to kill him a few weeks ago putting explosives in his car).

[@josh656]

TFW when you’re a Russian POW and the Chechens start talking about making a skin suit.

[@Coyote-wm5op]

I grew up in the US so I really don’t know much about this. Very interesting ironic this was going on while the Balkan wars were happening.

[@Yupppi]

Checnya - Russia's Vietnam. Funny how Russia's narrative and strategies haven't changed over the decades. Shocking how Russia's leadership and people don't learn.

[@TheSMR1969]

It wasn't Russia's Vietnam, Russia won the second war, US failed in Vietnam and never returned, the same government that defeated the US is still in power. It's hilarious how so many people believe anything that's anti Russia

[@Lashb1ade]

Thermobaric/Vacuum bombs are way older than the 1990s.

[@gussampson5029]

I mean, they did invade Dagestan... Russia can't just let that happen. You can criticize the how but it really had no choice but to go to war.

[@tsartomato]

this whole vid is garbage there were terror attacks every single month for 30 years and fake money and drugs all western sources denounce this conspirology and at the time pukin was a nobody. only when he became a proper dictator and closed all rpess he invaded sacartvello 2008

[@zamsuthalim]

the extremist invade dagestan without asking permission from maskhadov because they want to take over chechen gov bit by bit

[@hs3633]

Poor russists... if they only had any other choice then to go a war

[@Ц1ечой95]

Bullshit not true at all they knew that these were a group of defected islamists acting on their own that had nothing to do anymore with the chechen army under the chechen government led by president maskhadov. Thats why they started to bomb their flats all over russia. They terrorised their own country, blamed it on chechens. They got exposed later but the ones who exposed the bombings were poisened, murdered etc. Litvichenko died 2006. He worked as former fsb. Go check his documentary

[@drumpfisidiot5021]

Love your material Simon. I hate complimenting anything a British person does but you really do a good job.

[@rkithan2864]

Wow.. No mention of the Baslan school massacre??

[@tsartomato]

or you know every other terrorism that happened ebery single month for 30 years this video is conspiracy and blatant lies. all western sources support the first war and don't call 911 inside job

[@zamsuthalim]

lol ask any russian mother of beslan,they will say that russian army is responsible for bombing and opening fire just like what they did in theater

[@annalehman93941]

They just think it's ok to killing russian children because, you know, they are russian. Nothing changed since Third Reich

[@dethrocker]

The colourful and happy advert intro into the subject matter is rather jarring 🤣🤣🤣

[@a.N.....]

at 22:13 putins little hands poking out of that over sized jacket makes him look like a knockoff action spy action figure. dont get me started with the two clones on the right either, small faces.

[@hashemkaeraky6395]

I like how he casually switches from reporting on warcrimes to cereal commercial😅😅😅😅😅

[@steffenberr6760]

Something about watching Simon advertise products 🤣🤣🤣

[@hach7882]

Gotta love how he said Russia attacks civilian targets, what about Nato and America in Iraq, Yugoslavia etc? Next Simon will say how deplated uranium ammunition and bombs are not a health hazard, just go and see ex Yugoslaviab rate of cancer on territory bombed by Nato with same bombs during 1999, if you insist on painting one side as evil don't ignore same things from other side.

[@kol-b5z]

Whataboutism... The difference is that American war crimes are investigated, criminals get their own. Has one Russian been punished for crimes in Ukraine for the whole year ?

[@NoobKing-lz2hb]

​@@kol-b5zwas anybody punished for the war in Iraq

[@unknown20s92]

@@kol-b5zor Vietnam

[@stevenjames6830]

@@kol-b5zyeah right

[@Slava_Ukraini1991]

why are you so offended when someone points out that russia did bad things?

[@dhm7815]

Thumbs up for your cereal ad.

[@christopherstmarin]

Don’t like the way he said even then Russia had no problem bombing civilian targets. He says it like we are morally superior like we haven’t bombed cities and civilians. From WW2 till now we’ve bombed the hell out of cities. I’m no Putin fan but just don’t be a hypocrite please

[@typical_tupolev3924]

3:36 where have we seen this again lmao

[@sebresludolf9611]

*Chechens deserve respect for their valiant resistance to a military Superpower, If only their population was in the 10s of millions they could have easily defeated and kept their independence from the Russians.*

[@mariano98ify]

Nah bro, they were fundamentalist Islamic, where the Sharia was the law, hell even the current ruler backed by Putin is more moderate than the last Chechen government, if Chechens were a democratic society the world might have backed up them, but being a landlocked country with not port and less than the size of the Donestk, Russia yes or yes will win.

[@phantomkrieger2744]

Shame the fathers of the current members of Russia’s “TikTok battalions” betrayed them and operated as mobile kill squads

[@vic5015]

So​​​me are, some aren't. Unsute if Kadyarov is secular

[@sebresludolf9611]

@@phantomkrieger2744 true

[@vic5015]

​@@mariano98ify If oil or natural gas is ever discovered in Checnya, you can bet the US will get involved.

[@Mr.Cerera69]

Talking about war and promoting nutrition food. The one you need during it its times. That one hell of promotion! 😅😅

[@robinmangala3536]

This war affected me as a kid & I’m not even Chechen, but a black African. I saw the picture of innocent death civilians on the web & I’ve met traumatised Chechens in Belgium. I feel bad for the innocent people. My hate towards Russia increased significantly just because of this senseless war.

[@georgeousthegorgeous]

If not for this war we would have as much terrorism in Russia as there is in Syria or Afghanistan now. 20'000 chechens died out of million and there's absolute order and safety on the Caucasus rn.

[@blugaledoh2669]

I don’t. Let not forget these were the same people who terrorised and enslaved people. They were rules Islamic extremist.

[@shihtzu291]

Too be fair Robin Mangala make no mistake the Chechen's were just as bad and evil as the Russian's in both of the Chechen war's! Islamic terrorism were rife. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦

[@sujac664]

Thanks for giving your perspective... I'm wondering if you still have family and friends in Africa (I'm assuming you live in Belgium now) and have any insight into the general consensus of opinion/feeling about putin and russia? Thanks Robin

[@robinmangala3536]

@@sujac664 i was born in Belgium & I live here, but both my parents are from RD Congo. Which country are you originally from? I genuinely & sincerely hate Putin/FSB & the Russian politicians, but I don’t hate the Russians that hate Putin & the war. He Invaded Abkhazia, North Ossetia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Ukraine, Transnistria & he’s still walking free while having killed so many people. That’s crazy…

[@SuperpowerBroadcasting]

Great video! The West should have given serious support to the Chechens

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Not worth it. The Chechens aren't part of Western civilisation nor do they want to be, they're part of Islamic civilisation. As far as I'm concerned that's something that should be held at an arms length (unless of course you are Muslim in which case idk go ahead I guess)

[@soheil527]

they did for several years. but after 911, bush stopped support to all jihadist movements and chechnya collapsed soon after that

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

@@soheil527 frankly in my opinion giving any kind of armed support to a resistance that has Jihad in or around the title should NOT happen

[@tsartomato]

bullshit video. go read western independent sources first this 911 was inside job is blatant lies and conspircy for 30 years there were terrorist bombing every single month. every single month. every single month. do the math while crying about just 1 attack. your chechens bombed marathon in boston or was it also pukins little green men?

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

​@@soheil527 There were also tons of reports that US troops were fighting Chechen volunteers in the mountains of Afghanistan. Whenever US troops met fierce resistance and skilled fighters they presumed Chechens were present. This phenomenom was investigated, and almost no Chechens ever traveled to Afghanistan to fight - it was entirely mythology with a helping hand from the FSB corroborating fake reports to help plant the seed of distrust.

[@andyyang3029]

Amazing video as always, Putin looks so young in those pictures wow

[@rbar5702]

Chechen “rebels”? Like rebels who did 9/11?

[@KW-qd1bi]

Am I trippin or has this channel not published a video on the first chechen War? I know Simon has a million channels so it could have been on one of those or it might not have been released yet

[@SiggiTh]

"There is no spoon"

[@Shahi-bangalah_1352]

Samir al suawelim aka Emir khattab-the Legend of chechen wars

[@alanseymour1252]

All this talk of Checnia, and still I have no idea where it is on Earth. Is it in Africa? A single political map showing its location would have been absolutely amazing.

[@IndigenousRealGuy]

Southern Caucasus. North of Georgia.

[@scottabernethy100]

It's in the Northern Caucases, the mountain chain that separates European Russia from the Middle East, between the Black and Caspian Sea's.

[@Tomi-oe5mz]

You can, you know, google it or something..

[@Motofiend]

There is a typo when you talk about the Scuds. You put scubs.

[@ShadyAli17]

Conservative Christain Right in Russia vs Islamism in Chechneya, if I was a westerner atheist of Christian background probably would have sided with the Chechens. But as an Arab of exislamic background, if i would have to choose would prefer Conservative Christians over Islamists. Nothing in the world is worse than Islamism maybe only Communism is as bad.

[@aburoach9268]

this war was not about religion but territorial control over a tiny piece of land It's more of an Anti Colonial ethnic conflict, Not a Religious one And besides Islamists do Rule Chechnya, they just are Pro Russian

[@LoLMasterManiac]

1. It is you Arabs that brought your Islamic religion to the Caucasus and forced it upon us. 2. Russia isn't "conservative Christian", it's a post-soviet post-communist secular society. 3. No country sided with us, we were left on our own against Russian imperialism. 4. I am an ex-muslim myself and that's why I don't support you Arabs, cuz you are the source of problem to us, non-Arab people that were forcefully converted to islam in the past.

[@tsartomato]

there are no conservative christian right in russia 1000 clowns in bathrobes out of millions of atheists and muslims half the country lives under saharia law and ignores federal laws

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

It really is an asinine choice. Do ya support the devil or the devil 2.0?

[@kol-b5z]

What is the problem with choosing Chechnya instead of Islamists ? And it's very funny how people call Russia a conservative christian RIGHT (😂) country. Literally the first country where 90% of the government was openly gay, where feminism was the first to win and where churches were bombed by the government and priests were killed.

[@russellhamer8690]

Wow for once Loving the magic spoon thang as I rapidly approach 55 ... Yes a spoonful of sugar may be the way for victoriana medicines but Not the best way ta start ya day in the 21st century..

[@jwe5138]

Peace love and reconciliation

[@jeffreymontgomery4091]

MAGIC SPOON???? YES!!! Like me old Magic 8 Ball but edible?? I'm down!!!😊

[@rashedusman9717]

If chechens held their ground without much outside suport what could they have achieved with the kind of support that ukrainians get? I think it was a shamefull decision of western countries to allow russians to do what they did in Chechnya,but at least they finally grown a spine and started to support Ukraine.

[@soheil527]

george bush decided to end support after 9/11.

[@Chechen_voice]

​@@soheil527 support has never been

[@ZayndiYusupov]

There was a support from the west but not to Chechnya, the support was toward Russia in form of huge sums of money all the while pretending on cameras that they care about chechens. Now let the west deal with the beast they have kept alive.

[@ThePhiphler]

I liked the "Scub" missile picture in the video.