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HISTORIAN PALDEN JENKINS FROM GLASTONBURY ABOUT THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE
CHECHENS
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999
From: Palden Jenkins mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Chechnya's hidden history
I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the 'best kept secret' concerning
the Chechnyan wars of the 1990s, which can explain some of the background
behind the mayhem there. It's this....
The Chechens (as an international criminal organisation, not specifically
the people of Chechnya) had become the world's largest criminal outfit, who
broke the unspoken 'rules' of big crime by dealing in materials (such as
nuclear materials) which other outfits would not. Their wealth in the
early 90s, according to my information, was equivalent to that of *all
mafias and drug groupings put together*. Thus, the Chechen wars fall into
a similar category to the Gulf War of the early 90s, for which a major
motivating factor was that, if Saddam Hussein gained control of Saudi
Arabia, by invasion or threat, he would effectively be able to control the
world economy.
Now, crime outfits and renegade dictators have a place in the world economy
if they stay within certain bounds, since they're useful to banks and the
global finance economy because they can amass vast pools of money which is
not accounted for legally, which then can be used in international business
as a pool to borrow from for useful big-capital purposes. However, the
Chechens, by not 'playing the game', and by threatening to destabilise the
world economy, as well as by threatening other crime-rings (particularly
the Russian mafias, but also the established international rings), had to
be dealt with.
The Americans and other Western interests couldn't do it, and the Chinese
rings couldn't do it, for strategic-geographical reasons. So, in the
earlier 90s, to curry Western favour, the Russians undertook to do it - but
they failed. They thought that, by reducing the Chechens' wealth and
strength somewhat, and by soaking up some of their funds in military
action, the Chechens would quieten down. They didn't. So, under pressure
from the West, from Russian mafias, from the ex-Soviet army, and from other
sources, they've gone into Chechnya again more recently - and not without
intended provocation from the Chechens (in Dagestan and
Azerbaijan). Trouble is that, now, the West isn't so sure this is the best
way to go....
The Chechens have a centuries-long heritage of crime - and there are some
parallels to the Sicilians in this regard. Both groupings have been on the
edge of many empires, and in a strategic position to exploit them for
criminal and semi-criminal purposes - both milking off wealth, and
supplying useful commodities and services. The Chechens gained strength
even back in the times of ancient Greece and Rome, though they rose
properly during the time of the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad - arguably the
world's richest ever civilisation - a thousand years ago. They profited
from Byzantium, the Mongols, Kiev, the Khazar empire, Persia, the Ottomans
and, in later times, the growth of the Russian empire.
Like the Armenians in business and trade (whom the Turks massacred a
century ago), the Chechens went global in crime. They have a long heritage
of smuggling, adventurism and mayhem! Hence the importance to Russia of
controlling the Balkans - rather like USA has to control its Mexican
border. The Chechens grew *very* rich on the drugs-for-arms deals during
the Soviet Afghan wars of the 1970s-80s, and during the period of rivalry
between the Muslim and Western blocs in the 1970s-80s, and they also took
on specialities in smuggling dangerous substances, rare breeds and other
special commodities which other crime rings wouldn't touch. In the
disintegrating USSR, they creamed off much of the wealth which the Russian
mafias were trying to gain. They even threatened the Russian mafias in
their own main territory, Moscow, and were close to winning effective
control of the Russian economy.
Thus, the Russian offensive on Chechnya has bigger and wider implications -
Chechnya is a bigger issue than just being a troublesome local republic in
the Caucasus. And now the Chechens have growing influence in the Caspian
oilfields (re: oil pipelines and corporate security), which are a newer
globally-strategic resource.
I think this information might help your readers understand the situation a
bit more. As with Sicily and the Mafia, the whole population of Chechnya
isn't involved, though it can be construed to be silently, perhaps
passively, complicit, over many centuries - and it's so deeply ingrained
that Chechen people cannot dissemble the grip the crime rings have on the
country. After all, it's jobs for the boys, and a boon for the local
economy. The Russian idea is to lay waste their operations base and render
the Chechen criminals into exiles, and to soak up some of their excess
wealth. Stalin (a Georgian) deported them all to Siberia at one stage -
increasing the enmity between Chechens and Russians. There are other, more
local and cultural agendas too. All this also explains why other Muslim
countries aren't helping the Chechens: the Chechens have been as much
trouble to them as to anyone else, and they'd prefer not to get involved!
Here endeth a little lesson in hidden history! There's more to all this
than meets the eye! I would theorise that the Russians are trying to force
the Chechen people, through cruelty, to go against their own criminal
elements, and to cease acting as a host to them.
If anyone has any additions or amendments to this analysis, I'm interested
in hearing from you.
Palden Jenkins mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glastonbury, England.
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