# Chechen Leader Kadyrov Offers to Send Troops, Peacekeepers to Ukraine **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/682579 "2014-03-01T04:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/682579/1 "2014-03-01T04:36:13Z")
[What could _possibly_ go wrong with this idea?](http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/495326.html) “Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has offered to send soldiers to Ukraine to “protect” its pro-Russian residents from “terrorists” who came to power after the ouster of Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovych.” [snip] “If needed, we will come to help those who have been abused and humiliated by terrorists bred by the West, and we will help them rise from their knees…We are ready to be peacekeepers and soldiers to protect the people.” Why, do you think, might I question the man’s motivations? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/682579/2 "2014-03-01T04:52:36Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > Why, do you think, might I question the man’s motivations? A sad lack of ever-sunny optimism and blind idiot faith :)? Y’know it could be it’s all your fault that unicorns don’t exist - you just have to _believe_ harder ;). ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/682579/3 "2014-03-01T05:02:34Z")
Hmmm, well [this](http://www.ecchr.de/index.php/chechnya.html) seems as good a place to start as any. [Or this.](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_documents/130404_Kadyrov%20Letter.pdf) [Or maybe this.](http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/07/13/russia-bring-natalia-estemirova-s-murderers-justice) ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/682579/4 "2014-03-01T14:56:02Z")
Uh, all I know about Chechens is they make good hit men. But I blame that on Martin Cruz Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/682579/5 "2014-03-01T15:03:43Z")
The newest “Breaking News” banner on CNN is that “…Putin calls for use of troops in Ukraine”. [Cite](http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-politics/index.html) This is going south quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chechen-leader-kadyrov-offers-to-send-troops-peacekeepers-to-ukraine/682579/6 "2014-03-01T15:32:49Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > [Cite](http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-politics/index.html) > > This is going south quickly. No freaking kidding. This could get really, really ugly very quickly.