Putin recognised the mistakes made in Chechnya. Remember the Chechen extremists were attacking Russian civilians in a devastating manner. Beslan, where they were responsible for 300 children being murdered. This is not an apology for the campaign in Chechnya but Putin had some sort of justification for using the sword against Grozny (albeit heavy handed and misjudged) which is just a little different from the heavy handed and misjudged wholesale slaughter of Iraqis (after murdering over 500,000 of their children in sanctions) as punishment for not selling their oil in petro dollars ('not followed the rules').
Putin recognised the mistakes made in Chechnya. Remember the Chechen extremists were attacking Russian civilians in a devastating manner. Beslan, where they were responsible for 300 children being murdered. This is not an apology for the campaign in Chechnya but Putin had some sort of justification for using the sword against Grozny (albeit heavy handed and misjudged) which is just a little different from the heavy handed and misjudged wholesale slaughter of Iraqis (after murdering over 500,000 of their children in sanctions) as punishment for not selling their oil in petro dollars ('not followed the rules').
"For weeks on end, Nato bombed swaths of Serbia..."
Swaths? Come on..!
I’d go even further: Madeleine Albright, and the US, are far worse than Putin. In my mind, no comparison.