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Originally Posted by Ustwo
And what did they hope to gain?
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Perhaps they wanted only the same the russians want now, or what the US wanted after 911 - revenge.
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If anything it rallied the Russian people, and if there is one thin history has told us is don't give Russians a good cause for revenge.
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yeah, and the russian revenge leads to chechen revenge which leads to .... and sooner or later we are in the new age of barbarism
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— Albert Einstein
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