Former Virginia Sen. Richard Black is making a splash on the Telegram channel of Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya. A 2-minute 45-second segment of one of Senator Black’s Schiller Institute presentations was posted on Kadyrov’s channel today and as of 3:15 PM EST, has 332,000 views and 2,644 comments.
The video is accompanied by the following text (machine translated from Russian):
“Former US Senator (sic), retired Colonel and Vietnam War veteran Richard Black shared his vision of Washington’s goals in unleashing a hybrid war against Russia. According to the ex-senator, the main reason for attempts to weaken Russia is the desire of American business elites to take possession of our country’s rich natural resources.