Chechen battalion of 10,000 Did you know: some Western leaders, together with Saudi Arabia, funded and trained foreign mercenaries in Chechnya in the 1990s - in hopes of splitting the Republic away from Russia? They repeated this tactic in Syria - it was estimated that up to 10,000 Russian passport holders were fighting on the side of the rebels there. The natural next step would be for the chickens to come home to roost ....a deciding factor for the beginning of the 2015 Russian campaign in Syria. Today Chechnya fights as part of the Russian Federation, with Ramzan Kadyrov as its head. And the fight is not against the Ukrainian people - to utilize our conceptual thinking, it is against the age old serpent. 🐍