That would explain why he needs Alchemy for returning . <| sep |> This isn ' t Nate ' s facebook account <| sep |> How the fuck does he breathe with the mouth piece i . never mind , he ' s Batman . <| sep |> Oh , okay . I won ' t say anymore . <| sep |> Scarlett WeAreHairy Jess ATKHairy <| sep |> Dear god , this is the most historically blind pile of Kremlin propaganda I ' ve read all week . Alright off to a good start for civil discussion . First of all , most SSRs were illegally occupied sovereign nations , so there was nothing to agree to . . by the Russian Empire and subsequently by the USSR , which had at that time ceased to exist and was by the way more subtleat least initially at ' illegaly occupying sovereign nations ' since it was technically formed by a group of ' independent ' SSRs . Russia just took over its legal and international status . The agreements I mentioned took place after dissolution and the SSRs were at that time sovereign states , so there was definitely something to ' agree ' on . Secondly , neither Imperial Russia , the Russian SSR , or the Russian Federation has no legitimate right to her internal republics which were the spoils of Russian imperialism prior to the Bolshevik revolution . But Russia actually DOES and it ' s internationally recognized , what are you saying ? This is also nonsense , the Russian Army didn ' t withdraw from former SSRs until the mid 90 s . They had plenty of time and opportunity to relocate any arsenal outside their territory . But this didn ' t mean Russia had the authority to keep any nuclear weapons from there . The USSR had ceased to exist remember ? Russia took over the legal and international status of the USSR at a costthey took over all the debt for example . Any not seized nuclear weaponry had to be carried over to the Russians . You can ' t allow any room for potential oversight when nukes are involved . Russia kept its territories in the Caucasus because it wants the natural resources from there . It has fuck all to do with stability , and everything with how much can we manage to keep in our weakened state . Your SSRs but not internal republics nonsense is exactly the kind of legalistic bullshit that let the Russians keep their plundered land . There was much internal unrest in many of the republics , so Yeltsin created a treaty that would grant autonomy to the internal republics , which was signed by 86 out of the 88 republics , guess which ones didn ' t sign it . So no this was not only because of ' natural resources ' it was a universal problem that was NOT exclusive to Chechnya , plus Chechnya becoming independent would have set a bad precedent , especially as the situation was just stabilizing . Differentiating the USSR from the Russian SSR is a semantic shell game . The USSR was a Russian supremacist empire , acquired by conquest , not the collective of sovereign nations it claimed to be . And it had ceased to exist . I ' m starting to think you ' re reasoning off a false premise here . Not only that but there was a period of Ukrainian SSR power with Krucheva Ukrainian , and Stalin was Georgian although this didn ' t give the Georgian SSR a significant boost so again less of a semantic shell game than you claim . Also you ' re not driving your point home with demonizing language . Giving Gorbachev the Peace Prize is another notch in belt of this travesty of an award . You shouldn ' t give peace prizes to people who order the massacre of civilians in occupied countries demanding independence . And Gorbachev had nothing to do with the actual terms of the dissolution , he was deposed and signed whatever he was told to sign . no comment hereThe prize should have gone to Yeltsin , if anyone , because unlike the KGB psychopath who followed him , he wasn ' t actually an imperialist . This is pretty weird of you to say , weren ' t you staunchly opposed to the Chechen war , something that started in Yeltsin ' s term ? They fit the bill for secession because they are a nonRussian people living in their nonRussian homeland and were conquered by a Czar ' s armies . My entire point is that Russia gets to keep half of what it conquered , because it changed its name twice , and is pretending it only needs to give up what it took under name # 2 . They don ' t . Again unlike you claim the unrest among the internal republics was a big deal and letting Chechnya get away would have set a dangerous precedent , independence of many of the internal republics was geographically unfeasible and it would have driven to a vicious cycle of violence and instability . What I said was not ' historically blind ' it was correct . There were recognized agreements that differentiate this situation from decolonisation and I dont see them adressed in your post , might have to do with them being actually real and that the postsoviet states had the intention to follow them . You believing they should be ignored by the principle that the nonrussian people should be free does not nullify them . Retract your statement of what I said being historically blind here since it ' s you turning a blind eye on these agreements . The Chechen war was Russia exercising its territorial sovereignty over the region , however with harsh brutality that was unwarranted . You can hold different positions on this you can ' t deny that Russia had actual justification in exercising territorial sovereignty and thus in engaging in the war whether you agree with the decision or not . Unlike the colonial empires during the mid 20 th century decolonisation like France . I ' m not trying to convince you , rather I ' m just pointing out that Russia ' s position was a tenable one in the light of decolonisation .