Given that his grip on Chechnya is a personal one, and unlikely to smoothly transfer to a successor, and maintained by fear, it may do well for Putin to keep him on life support indefinitely, with functionaries relaying “his” orders to followers. Sort of like Warhammer 40K, or perhaps Weekend At Bernie’s.
And you think someone’s not gonna try to opportunistically off Kadyrov if he’s kept in that state indefinitely?
I see Chechnya collapsing into a quagmire again. There’s still a lot of people living there who aren’t fans of the Russian occupation, to put it mildly.
I’m skeptical. I keep reading this exact headline about Putin, Kadyrov and Lukashenko. I’m not saying it’s not true this time, but there have been a lot of false reports in regards to this.
I think the Luka news about hospitalization were true, though. I might be wrong, but IIRC, it was verified by several sources. Presumably he was in the hospital for “normal” reasons, and got better.
Yeah, but the way it was reported sounded like he was about to die.
There’s a very short list of people where i was genuinely happy to hear they died. It’s reserved for people like Saddam or Gaddafi. This guy is very much a candidate.
Kadyrov brought a doctor from the United Arab Emirates to Chechnya because he does not trust Moscow doctors.
Wait what i thought he and Pootin were friends?
