RAMZAN KADYROV AND “REAL SPORTS” WHAT WAS THE REAL SCARY PART?
When I first read that Home Box Office / HBO / Real Sports
program had pulled off an interview with the Warrior Kadyrov, and make no
mistake, that is what he is, I had to ask myself, “why? Why did Kadyrov agree
to such a stunt? The first thing that popped in my head was the most obvious.
The Tsar! Putin had just completed a four part series, one I wrote about, with
Oliver Stone and Showtime, HBO’s competition. Would the Tsar care if Showtime
and HBO were in competition? I bet he doesn’t even know much less care. So,
what was the reason behind Kadyrov’s interview? Yes, he is out to corner the
Fighting Games world market, but would that selfish goal be enough to be
interviewed? Would Moscow condone the interview if it were just based on the
issue of a Sporting program? Didn’t really make sense to me. Well, then I did what I should have done from
the beginning. I watched the segment on HBO.
GAYS IN CHECHENIA:
Was that it? Was HBO trying to make a point about how Kdyrov
is Homophobic? Really? That was the punchline of the HBO interview? As if he
cared someone labeled him in that way. Hell, the guy wore the statement like a
badge of honor! Chechenia is a land of
ruthless Warriors who loving nothing more than to fight? Did HBO really think
that was news to the rest of the world? Kadyrov is mentally unbalanced? Was
that part of HBO’s message? Again, someone show the nation that didn’t have
this impression already. Chechenia’s “Purge” of Gays was going to ruin
Kadyrov’s dream of owning the world’s Mix Martial Arts Fighting program? To
HBO, that might be the whole point of the program. Is HBO trying to cut Kadyrov
off before his dominance in the sport takes place? Is HBO getting ready to try
to corner the market on broadcasting the major MMA fights? Lord knows Boxing is
on the downward slide and has been for several years and HBO is heavily
invested in boxing. So, what this story about the Homophobic Chechen Leader, or
was it about the future of HBO’s sports and the profit lines?
BACK TO THE QUESTION:
Alright. The issue of why HBO wanted this segment is
interesting to some, but the much more important issue is, once again, why? Why
did Kadyrov allow this spectacle on HBO? Yes, the Tsar knows the fight games
are near and dear to his Pitbull’s heat and perhaps the opinion was, “so what?
Why not let him have the interview”? Nope! I don’t buy it. Timing. The timing
was just all wrong. To have such a controversial interview take place within
weeks of the Tsar’s interview, that just seems suspicious to me. Putin have to have seen some value in the interview.
He had to have some opinion on it impacting his overall plan for Russia. The
only other option is to accept that he just didn’t care. Again, I don’t buy it.
THE MESSAGE:
What is Chechenia? What does it mean to the Tsar? Geographically,
it’s a very small slice of Russia. It’s standing Army is nothing more than a
token fighting force in terms of defending Russia. Or is it? Does it? That
answer depends on who the enemy is? Can Chechenia defend Russia from the US or
China or NATO? No. Not even close. So, why worry about this slice of land? Why
invest so much time and capital on Chechenia? Well, Chechenia is much more
complicated than that. It’s not the geographical location that the Russians
care about. It’s who they are. The gateway of Muslim Fundamentalism into the
heartland of Russia is where? Why did the Russians fight so hard in the two
Chechen wars? Why did Putin work so hard to win over Ramzan’s Father? What’s
the best way to fight Muslim Radicals? With Russian, Orthodox Catholics? No. Why
not develop a way to have Muslim’s killing Muslims? Who better understands the
real drive behind most radical leaders? Power. They all lust for power! Putin
developed a way to get Chechen Rebels to kill Muslim Rebels! Once he had this
process underway, why not extend the concept into the heartland of the enemy?
Why not set the game so that Muslims were killing Muslims on Muslim land, not
Russian soil? Those that love to fight would beg to go to where the fighting is
taking place. Does anyone remember Ramzan’s commitment to sending his Warriors
into Syria? A battle for the control of the Muslim Faith is a perfect distraction
for a land of men who love to fight. “Let him have his interview. Let him have
his fight games. As long as he is killing Muslims and those Muslims are not bombing
buildings in Moscow, who cares”? Are those more or less the words of the Tsar?
What Chechnya is to Russia is tool. What the men of Chechenia are to Russia is
cannon fodder. Something to toss into the meat grinder, a meat grinder they
love to jump into, just as long as the trouble doesn’t land inside Russia
Proper. Did the Tsar even pay attention to the interview? I hope so, because at
the very end, Ramzan said something the Tsar may or may not have wanted him to
so.
THE “WOOPS”?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the interview series Putin
did with Oliver Stone and Showtime. In that review, I made note of Putin’s
comment after watching the movie Doctor Strange Love. Rumors. I talked about
the long standing rumors of the Russians having a type of Doomsday network. As
a matter of fact, it’s a big player in the book I’m writing. So at the end of
the interview with Ramzan, he makes a comment that stopped my train of thought.
‘Even if the government is taken out, the nuclear missiles will still launch’!
What? Why would the leader of such a small slice of land know such a thing?
Just how close would Putin and Ramzan have to be for him to be told such a
thing? Better yet, why did this topic come up? For one thing, they said it took
place at 2am and you have to wonder how much the Warrior Leader had had to
drink by then. Oh…ya….I know…He’s a
Muslim…..He doesn’t drink! Right. I wish I had a bottle for every Muslim I’ve
spent time with that didn’t drink? So, Ramzan was responding to a comment made to
him about the relationship between the US and Russia? Why would he answer in
such a way as to indicate a deep …..deep….secret his good friend the Tsar may
have let him in on? Was it a “Woops” moment? Here is a far more freighting point
to ponder. It’s the same “Woops” the Tsar had with Oliver Stone. Two “Woops”
moments in just two very unusual interviews? We are talking about the most
calculating man in the world today. No. Not Ramzan. Putin! What is going on
here? What’s the message the Tsar is sending to the US? Could it be, he no
longer cares what the US or the West thinks of him? Could it be, in his mind,
the time is come that he does want he wants, when he wants? Ramzan is a very
different type of “Leader”. He is the loyal Pitbull of the Tsar. Can a Pitbull
be trusted forever or do you only keep them around while you need them?
