Chechnya threatens to arm Mexico against US

[DigitalDrifter]

Oh please do !

The Russian satellite state of Chechnya has threatened to supply weapons to Mexican rebels to aid a conflict against the United States, in a move that has been quickly quashed by the Russian Kremlin.


Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov, the speaker for the Chechen parliament, reacted angrily this week to the U.S. Congress which on Monday agreed to a non-binding resolution that called on U.S. President Barack Obama to supply lethal aid to Ukraine .

Abdurakhmanov said that the U.S. had no right to urge Russia to behave in a certain way to its near neighbors and questioned the legal status of territories like California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.

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In a published statement on the legislature's website Tuesday, he said that Chechnya would begin the delivery of new weapons to Mexico and mentioned the arming of "Guerrillas" in the region. He urged the U.S. Congress to abandon their "imperialist ideas of grandeur."




The southern Russian republic of Chechnya has been given a significant amount of autonomy after wars between separatists and Russian soldiers in the region but has not gained full independence from Moscow. Its own parliament, currently led by the pro-Moscow United Russia party, was established in 2003 and regularly meets in the Chechen capital of Grozny.

Moscow, meanwhile, has downplayed any ideas that the Chechen speaker may have had. An official response from a Kremlin spokesperson on Thursday said that any possible arms supplies to Mexico would be inconsistent with Russian law, according to the Russian Interfax news agency.

Timothy Ash, the head of emerging markets at Standard Bank, told CNBC via email that he thought the threat to be "not very serious."

"I doubt Mexico would want to damage its own relationship with the U.S. by playing to this agenda," he said.

In 1848 , the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo put an end to the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War with the agreement that meant Mexico ceded several territories to its northern neighbor.

The threat comes the same week as the U.K. has sent extra military support to one of its overseas colonies, the Falkland Islands, amid concerns that it is facing increased risk of attack from Argentina, backed by Russia.

Two troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and a new surface-to-air missile system have been sent by the country to the remote islands in the South Atlantic, known as Las Malvinas in Argentina.

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[iamwhatiseem]

 

[charwin95]

Chechnya? Shit they cannot even feed themselves relying heavily on food aid. Let alone arming Mexico. Mexico is already flooded with arms courtesy of arm smuggling from USA.

 

[Billo_Really]

I say we give back Texas as a gesture of good will and as insurance in neutralizing any violent ambitions the Mexicans may be entertaining?

 

[Billo_Really]

Americans need to ask themselves this question...

"What's more important:

a) the Nazi junta in Kiev?
b) or all life on planet earth?"
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Because, that is what is at stake.

 

[Missourian]

Americans need to ask themselves this question...

"What's more important:

a) the Nazi junta in Kiev?
b) or all life on planet earth?"
​

Because, that is what is at stake.

Whatever you say Neville.

 

[Maxx]

I say we give back California as a gesture of good will and as insurance in neutralizing any violent ambitions the Mexicans may be entertaining?

Fixed it for you.

 

[dannyboys]

Fucking 'BRING IT!!'

 

[Billo_Really]

Whatever you say Neville.

Germany didn't have over 10,000 nukes pointed at us and capable of hitting us in less than a half hour.

 

[Billo_Really]

Fixed it for you.

No, no, no, that's where I live!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They're just following Obama and Holder's lead here. Obama armed Mexican drug gangs

 

[Billo_Really]

Fucking 'BRING IT!!'

Grow up!

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Chechnya threatens to arm Mexico against US"

This idiocy belongs in Conspiracy Theories.

 

[Mad Scientist]

America already arms Mexico against America.

Fast and Furious.

 

[2aguy]

Chechnya? Shit they cannot even feed themselves relying heavily on food aid. Let alone arming Mexico. Mexico is already flooded with arms courtesy of arm smuggling from USA.

actually that isn't true...that is a gun grabber myth....most guns in Mexico come from
Europe and China.....

 

[Maxx]

Chechnya? Shit they cannot even feed themselves relying heavily on food aid. Let alone arming Mexico. Mexico is already flooded with arms courtesy of arm smuggling from USA.

actually that isn't true...that is a gun grabber myth....most guns in Mexico come from
Europe and China.....

Yes the myth that Mexican drug cartels would pay 1200 dollars each for a neutered semi auto us civilian version military style rifle is absolutely fucking stupid.

Liberals know nothing about guns, therefore don't know any better.

 

[2aguy]

Here is where Mexican drug cartels get their guns....

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/ryan-mauro/where-drug-cartels-really-get-their-arms/2/


When all is said and done, only 17 percent of the guns seized by the Mexican authorities from the drug lords were actually traced back to the U.S. The incorrect assumption that 90 percent of the cartels’ guns come from the U.S., though, continues to be regularly cited by the media and officials. The highly-respected STRATFOR intelligence company agrees that the statistic is incorrect. The group likewise explained that only 3,480 guns were traced back to the U.S., which equals 12 percent of the total arms seized by the Mexican authorities in 2008 and less than 48 percent of those sent for tracing.

“According to the figures presented by the GAO [Government Accountability Office], there is no evidence to support the assertion that 90 percent of the guns used by the Mexican cartels come from the United States—especially when not even 50 percent of those that were submitted for tracing were ultimately found to be of U.S. origin,” STRATFOR concluded.



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In addition, it simply doesn’t make sense for the Mexican drug cartels to make the U.S. their primary point of gun acquisition. As Howard Nemerovwrites, “Why would cartels spend over $1,000 — plus a background check and smuggling risks — for a decent American semi-automatic rifle, when they can buy 4-5 fully automatic AK-47s for the

 

[2aguy]

And here is Stratfor....on the issue of cartel guns....

Mexico s Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth Stratfor

 

[whitehall]

I wonder which side Barry Hussein will take. The ATF already gave the Mexican drug cartels a good start with 3,000 illegal weapons in that laughably screwed up "operation fast/furious".