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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm kind of worried about what Kadyrov will do without Putin. I hope if Putin goes, that R.A.K. goes with him (interesting that Kadyrov's initials mean "cancer" in Russian) Hopefully he and his TikTok army will become irrelevant, or better yet, maybe the TikTok army will turn against him once the cash spigot is off.[/quote]

Patronymics are not used in Chechen so it's quite irrelevant.[/quote]

Нохчийн мотт ахь буьйц?[/quote]

Why are you posting in Mongolian?[/quote]

Chechen[/quote]

This thread got weird [/quote]

Yeah, weird, because it translates from Mongolian to "Do you want to be a dog's brother?"[/quote]

LOL! It literally means "Do you speak Chechen?"

I never thought Ramzan was smart enough to hack Google Translate, that's wild. [/quote]

Check it and see for yourself, dog's brother.[/quote]

I didn’t get that result through Google translate, but it did tell me that нохчийн (Noxchiyn, the word for the Chechen language) is the Mongolian word for “nail polish”

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It's oddly hilarious that so many Chechnyan and Mongolian words have identical spelling but wildly divergent meanings.

On another note, it's also interesting to see that some of Ramzan Kadyrov's biggest Chechnyan rivals are showing up arm in arm with Ukraine.  If/when Kadyrov stumbles or fails, he's setting the stage for a takeover by his rivals.[/quote]

As for Kadyrov/rivals, I really would not be so sure. Kadyrov has such an iron grip that it's impossible to know what kind of opposition he really has, except I know multiple people who denounced Kadyrov the second they and their family permanently left Chechnya, and people who have nothing/no one left to lose. There's also a share of the people who legitimately accept being integrated within Russia for no reason other than 20 years of war being exhausting.

The Chechen battalions in Ukraine are mostly from Chechen diaspora, and in the event that some have switched sides, it is at an extremely high risk to their families back in Chechnya.

There's also the fact that the Chechen diaspora tends to romanticize independence, especially those who are generation removed from the first Chechen war. For example, the Dudayev battalion. You see Chechens from Turkey and Western Europe refer to Dudayev as this legendary folk hero, when in reality he was as authoritarian and corrupt as anyone else and did not set up a functional government. He would have been a dictator, just a good looking and eloquent dictator. Dudayev was basically central casting for a revolutionary. So you can understand why somebody with no conscious memories of the 1990s would idolize Dudayev as like an edgy, cool revolutionary..[/quote]

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