Selected by Amarynth for the Saker Blog
https://tass.com/politics/1181913
Also titled as The Little Mouse that Roared – and what a roar.
Chechnya’s head expressed his outrage at the recent sanctions imposed against his family members
GROZNY, July 24. /TASS/. Head of Russia’s Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has banned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from entering the region, he announced at a meeting in Grozny on Friday.
On July 20, the US State Department imposed visa sanctions against Kadyrov, his wife and daughters.
“I invited Mr. Pompeo to visit, but now in front of everyone I am saying that I don’t have the right to do it. <…> That’s it, I am revoking the invitation and announcing the imposition of all sanctions against him that the region has, including blocking all his accounts. They did the same thing to me,” he specified.
The head of Chechnya expressed his outrage at the recent sanctions imposed against his family members. “If I committed a crime, what do my children have to do with it? Where is it written that married daughters are responsible for their father’s sins. What does my wife, who doesn’t get involved in politics or anything, have to do with it? This is ridiculous. They just began their election campaigning,” Kadyrov stressed.
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(Take that! Pompeo)
Kadyrov has a special forces unit of 30,000 fighters, some of whom are ranked the best in the world.
There is an annual Special Forces competition in Jordan each year, and a few years back, the Russian unit from Chechnya won the competition.
Pompeo should know that these warriors lead the MPs in Syria that hold the turf and keep the peace for the Syrian people. And in the war since 2015, they have fought some of the toughest urban warfare doing what elite troops do—target enemy strongholds for air attacks, assassinate ISIS and AQ leaders, go on night missions with Hezbollah’s elite units deep behind enemy lines, and generally demonstrate the superior quality of Russian military.
They defeated the Saudi-paid takfiris in Chechnya and then defeated the Qatari-paid head choppers in Syria.
Pompeo represents a military whose mission it is to spread sexual deviance, align with terrorists and fascists, and commit war crimes against civilians while stealing oil from the people of the country they have invaded.
Sanctioning Kadyrov’s children shows the deep vapidity of American values.
Summing up, Pompeo demonstrates that being #1 at West Point Military Academy carries no distinction. He has become the globe’s horse’s ass. An official disgrace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7WmjP0snzk
Well it looks like Pompeo’s idiocy has now got the whole of Chechnya up in arms.
https://tass.com/society/1182551
“Citizens of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, who supported its head Ramzan Kadyrov after the US imposed restrictions against him, want to be also included in the sanctions list, Kadyrov told Vesti program on Rossiya-1 TV channel.
“Those who see me tell me: “If you and your family are on [US sanctions list] we are also on this list,” Kadyrov said, stressing that “it’s impossible to frighten us and force us to do anything.”
The Chechen leader noted that the US could keep slapping sanctions against him. “I ask them to invent thousands of sanctions against me every day… If they have no other things to do, let them invent this,” Kadyrov said. Chechnya has launched a flash mob in social networks titled “We are Kadyrov’s family” and events in his support are taking place across the republic…….”
Way to go, Pompeo. Hope you’ve fixed all your ”Security details”.
The Chechians won the snipping from a helicopter contest which gave them the overall victory, if memory serves,
Cheers, M
If his family don’t have Foreign bank accounts what is there to worry about? he should just shrug his shoulders
Why make a fuss if the sanctions don’t affect him?
I think it’s a kind of show of contempt on Kadyrov’s part, against this useless and foolish gesture on Pompeo’s part. Kadyrov is not concerned about it personally, I do not think, but had to say something as the leader of his Chechen people in Russia.
Imagine Kadyrov vs. Pompeo in martial art combat. Or Putin vs. Trump.
I don’t think Pompeo would stand a chance, physically or intellectually, against anyone…..unless they were already dead !
I can see both using the ,’smother and suffocate’ tactic. What else have they got ?
Quite similar to what they try to do geopolitically.
Are we in the end game economically/financially ? I do hope so. It feels as if Russia China have landed a giant squid with all its vassal tentacles thrashing maniacally across the deck.
LOL! That was my first thought as well after seeing Kadyrov’s picture with this article. My how America has fallen! Gone are the rail-thin bureaucratic technocrat leaders of yesteryear – emasculated and impotent as they too often appeared – only to be replaced by the current generation of corpulent idiot zombies who puff their fat chests and bellies out to communicate dominance, but instead only scream learned helplessness. Combat’s well beyond the ken for these comic book bullies.
I would pay to see that one!!! Like Thunderdome, two go in, one comes out.
It would finish like in Kwai bridge scene…when Japanese officer gives pow something to “drink”…dont take it personal lil Pompy!
I imagine being a soldier for a force of good must be a lot more morale boosting than being cannon fodder for bankers.
Hello friends. Stay calm and observe Pompeo and his ilk carefully. Do not fall in his trap. Do not allow him to provoke you into reaction.
If you observe him carefully you will see that every time he speaks he is revealing himself. You will see that fascism is not a matter of bygone times in his neck of the woods.
How very mafia-like of “Don Pompeo” to threaten his adversary’s children. Unbelievable that he represents the US State…
This will not end well for Mike Pompeo nor for America in general.
The American Empire will have to learn the hard way what Hitler’s Germany and Napoleon’s France learned: Don’t poke the bear.
If you do, the bear will tear your head off your body.
I like that guy…… Ramzan Kadyrov is maybe the most loyal and – by heart and by sense – independent ally of Vladimir Putin.
Nice move – good propaganda ;-)