He's done it a thousand times already...

… but no one states the current situation more clearly than Victor Davis Hanson. Here is only one paragraph among many:

The recent slaughters in Russia were the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back of excusing or explaining away radical Islamic terror. If the Estonians can break away from post-Soviet oppression and free themselves from Russian authoritarianism without slaughtering schoolchildren and blowing up airplanes, then the Chechens can as well ‚Äî but only if they wish to create democracy rather than an Islamic fascist state.