"The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental"
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Kadyrov’s line is built to do two jobs at once: deny randomness and manufacture inevitability. “Attempted assassinations” is already a dramatic phrase, but the real payload sits in the flat understatement that follows: “were not accidental.” No one thinks an assassination is an accident in the everyday sense, so the phrasing feels pointedly redundant. That redundancy is the point. It lets him avoid naming perpetrators while still insisting on a conspiracy with intent, resources, and persistence. The vagueness is strategic; it invites the audience to fill in the enemy of choice, then rallies them against that imagined network.
As a statesman in a war-scarred Chechnya, Kadyrov is speaking from a political environment where violence is not background noise but a governing tool. By framing the attempts as deliberate, he casts himself as the central obstacle to someone else’s agenda. That’s self-justification disguised as diagnosis: if people are trying to kill me, I must be doing something consequential, and the opposition must be illegitimate, not merely rival.
The subtext is also disciplinary. Declaring that the threats are purposeful cues a security state response: tighter controls, harsher crackdowns, fewer civil liberties, more loyalty tests. It turns personal danger into public policy. And it preempts skepticism. If future violence occurs, it’s proof of the plot; if nothing happens, it’s proof that vigilance worked. Either way, the narrative closes around him: embattled leader, targeted survivor, necessary strongman.
As a statesman in a war-scarred Chechnya, Kadyrov is speaking from a political environment where violence is not background noise but a governing tool. By framing the attempts as deliberate, he casts himself as the central obstacle to someone else’s agenda. That’s self-justification disguised as diagnosis: if people are trying to kill me, I must be doing something consequential, and the opposition must be illegitimate, not merely rival.
The subtext is also disciplinary. Declaring that the threats are purposeful cues a security state response: tighter controls, harsher crackdowns, fewer civil liberties, more loyalty tests. It turns personal danger into public policy. And it preempts skepticism. If future violence occurs, it’s proof of the plot; if nothing happens, it’s proof that vigilance worked. Either way, the narrative closes around him: embattled leader, targeted survivor, necessary strongman.
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| Topic | War |
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