This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Where are the divisions in the Muslim world over the fight Russia has taken to Ukraine?

Where do long memories still shape

today's beliefs about the nature of the Russian invasion? Cato's Mustafa

Accio comments. The ex-Soviet Union had a pretty famous run-in with a Muslim dominated country in the late 1970s.

Maybe you heard about it.

And so I wonder what where the Muslim world is generally because there are a lot of high

Muslim population countries that are very close to Russia and Ukraine, where are they in this invasion of Russia into Ukraine?

That's a good question and I think the answer is complicated because if you had asked me what is the Christian

opinion in the world about the Ukraine-Russia crisis I would say well what Christian opinion right most Christians in the West

obviously support Ukraine and I think that's the right thing to do but if you ask the

Serbian church or I mean the Christians in Moscow, I mean the Russian church, they are obviously on the side of Putin.

And there is that sort of complexity in the Muslim world as well. There are some Muslims supporting Russia. I mean the

Muslims living in Russia. Also the Chechen militia have become famous or

infamous because it's a brutal group actually led by a dictator,

Chechen dictator Ramzan Khaldro, who's a puppet of Putin.

So he joined the war on the side of Russia and that became quite newsy.

But there are also Muslims who are fighting on behalf of Ukraine against Russia and they include first of all Chechen opposition Muslims.

They actually hate Russia because or Putin's regime basically because actually destroyed Chechen, you know Chechenia, ruined trauma

Chechenia in the 90s in early 2000s during the war there very similar to the

Ukraine actually situation and then there are familiar with that sometimes, but there are Crimean Tatars, these are Turkish speaking or

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