| If you would like to have more background information, here is a great thread about Chechen history and Kadirovs rise to power in view of this conflict.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497612331953577991.html I would recommend Kamil Galeev threads to anyone interested in the history of Russia and Ukraine, he has written a ton of threads about a lot of different aspects to the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, which all look very well researched to me. I'm not sure I agree with all of his conclusions though. Here is the meta thread for all the sub threads:
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1498377757536968711 Unrolled twitter threads: 1. Why Russia will lose this war?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497993363076915204.html 2. Information Warfare
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498313116312080384.html 3. Kadyrov's kingdom
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497612331953577991.html 4. "Ukrainian Nazism" - Putin's take
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497306746330697738.html 5. How Putin came to power
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1496711906412933121.html 6. FSB: State Security as the core of Putin's regime
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1496506490202513413.html 7. Valentina Matvienko: a sociological portrait of Putin's elite
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1495790874235744258.html 8. Isn't Ukraine just a separatist Russian province?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1495469553136066572.html 9. Ukrainian Geography
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1495200579919958021.html 10. A crash introduction into ethnopolitical situation in Ukraine
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494334415446577153.html 11. Russian demography
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1493602653586264076.html 12. Russian army
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1493968165717561346.html 13. Why Putin is afraid of Ukraine so much
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492960693737463813.html 14. Russian assabiyahs
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492549093771694082.html 15. The Horde and Russian Imperiogenesis
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492164056962195457.html 16. Why honour matters - The War in Ukraine in American context
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498692916511924232.html 17. Russian parliamentarism
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499048492358111235.html 18. VDV: Why Russia lost this war
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499377671855292423.html 19. Russian exports
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499855858456567809.html 20. Dynamics of nuclear deterrence
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500168838356381703.html |