A large part of putin's ability to gain illycen's weight in that year was because of military merit. In late 1994, in order to maintain Russian rule, Illitsin sent troops to suppress the Chechens, the great deadly chechens who had a blood feud with them. As a result, the Russian army was beaten by the Chechens and suffered heavy losses, becoming the laughing stock of the whole world, especially being laughed at by Europe and the United States, and it can be said that the faces of the Russians were lost.
Once militaristic Russia was reduced to the embarrassment of the whole country, Chechnya negotiated with Yeltsin to win a high degree of self-control, and the oil revenues also returned to the local area. But Chechnya rested for two years and continued to do things, and also went deep into Dagestan to pull this Muslim neighbor to independence. In 1999, Acting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked for war, and Let Yeltsin give him the power to dispatch the three armed forces, killing 1,000 Chechen militants in Seven Days in Dagestan, and the Russian army sacrificed only 59 people.
Chechen chief Basayev was beaten to withdraw from Dagestan and instead committed terrorist attacks on Russia by throwing bombs everywhere and killing many Russian civilians. Putin angrily blocked the border and besieged Chechnya, acting decisively and always suppressing Basayev and rejecting all peace talks.
On October 20, 1999, Putin personally went to the front line to toast the vodka of the senior commander in the tent, and just as everyone was ready to drink, he suddenly put down his glass and said: "I am drinking this wine when there are no more gangsters in this land." The scene was like crying like it was about warm wine chopping HuaXiong.
The European and American sides launched a public opinion offensive saying that your Putin suppression of the Chechens is undemocratic and unfree, and Putin turned his head to scold them and said: "If londoners are blown up in the middle of the night while sleeping, you will not be angry." After scolding the British to turn around and go back to chasing Bassayev, Yeltsin's fractured drunken performance is in stark contrast to Putin's iron-blooded image. Everyone was very convinced, and it just so happened that Yeltsin's body collapsed, so on December 31, the whole country was handed over to Putin. On December 31, 1999, Putin's New Year's message was still playing on the midnight television, and Putin flew to the Chechen front line with his wife to visit the soldiers who were fighting, and the morale of the front line was greatly boosted. The soldiers all said that the new Russian language was good and could be handled. Putin boarded the plane and killed the seven oligarchs internally.
Cracking down on terrorists, outside of chechnya is sweeping Syria in Georgia, he refused to negotiate when hostage kidnappings occurred in the Moscow Theater, and total annihilation of terrorists caused 118 hostage deaths. Putin's authority in Russia is like this little by little, with blood and fire. Putin is equally tough on Ukraine. Russia's buffer zone with North Vietnam is the three Baltic states of Belarus and Ukraine.
Among them, the three Baltic countries are too weak and small, and Belarus is its own people, so the conflict is concentrated in Ukraine, which is a buffer zone, which should actually be farther away. According to the German Democratic Progressive Weekly in March 1991. The United States, Britain, France, and Germany promised the Soviet Union not to expand east of Germany. But in 1999, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO, concentrating the conflict between NATO and Russia in Ukraine.
NATO and Russia support their own different proxies in Ukraine, and the two sides are fighting to the death. In 2014, Russian-backed proxies Yanukovych were overthrown in a fight. Biden was the vice president in charge of Doo-Europe at the time, and he personally experienced the whole process of Yanukovych's overthrow.
Yanukovych's downfall marked a victory or defeat between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, after which Russian intelligence reported a very important thing to Putin. Ukraine is ready to hand over Crimea to NATO to hear the news. All of Russia is deeply stung, Crimea was stolen from the Dadas in 1783 by Russia, carefully cultivated for hundreds of years, this is the Russian dream of the immovable port is the lifeblood of the Russian Navy. In 1954, Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine. After the Soviet Union was collective, Crimea naturally separated from Ukraine, and if NATO controlled Crimea, it would be equivalent to inserting a sharp blade in Russia's chest.
Putin decided to send troops to take Crimea After a full balance In February 2014, Putin took advantage of the civil unrest in Ukraine to take advantage of the military exercises as a cover for airborne assault to Crimea and actually control the area. Journalists held a referendum on March 16, and 97 percent voted in favor of joining Russia, which quickly legislated to agree to swallow Crimea completely.
In the eyes of the Russians, this strategic place was originally a russian most of the people living in my house, and now I have taken it back. In the eyes of Ukraine and NATO, you are naked aggression, you are so rogue, you must pay the price. Russia not only ate Crimea, but also dominated the independence of the Donenessk, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions on April 6 of that year. Among them, the Halkov oblasts were crushed by the shock of the Donisk and Luhansk oblasts at the same time as the successful secession from Ukraine.
Ukraine could not defeat Russia, so it went to NATO to cry. After the signing of the Novo-Minsk Agreement in 2015, the parties ceased fire but recognized the autonomy of the Eastern Donisk and Luhansk Oblasts, which was equivalent to a disguised recognition of Russian rule over Donisk and Luluhansk. That is, in 2014, Putin successfully took Crimea, Donesk, and Luhansk, three places that originally belonged to Ukraine. It has also consolidated its rule through laws and agreements, and Ukraine has nothing to do with it.
Russia has paid a heavy economic price for this, and after being repeatedly sanctioned by the West, it lost $4,000 billion in GDP in six years.