Russian Chechen War insight

In the early 2000s, Vladimir Putin successfully turned the tables in the brutal wars in Chechnya. Western mainstream media would have you believe that the civil war was the Chechen people vs. the Russian government. In actuality, it was groups of radicalised Islamists, ideologically and financially supported from the West, with the intention of destabilising the state from within. Sound familiar? In effect, the Syrian campaign was far from Vladimir Putin's first rodeo...

Fact: Current pro-Moscow leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was initially on the other side of the conflict - against the state. How did Vladimir Putin turn this situation around?

The US-based curators of Wahhabist radicals, such as the late Zbegniew Brzezinski, seemingly underestimated the experience of a former FSB Director.