The treacherous Ramzan Kadyrov is about as big a snake as you can ask for. He fought against the Russians in the First Chechen War and sided with Russia in the Second Chechen war and became president of Chechnya after his father, who was president before him, was assassinated in 2004, most likely by Russia.. "A Russian daily, Gazeta, reported that according to a poll conducted by the independent Levada Center, only 33 percent of Russians believe that Kadyrov can be trusted, while 35 percent believed that he cannot. Asked whether they thought Kadyrov could normalise the situation in Chechnya and end the bloodshed there, 31 percent said yes and 38 percent said no."
Chechnya's a prime example of Putin's modus operandi. The Russian troops decimate the population, the Kremlin installs a bootlicking puppet government to suppress whatever's left of the local population and when push comes to shove they will use your traditionally hostile population as cannon fodder. He did this in Chechnya, he's going to do the same to Ukraine and afterwards Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia will follow.
Also the military interventions in Georgia in 2008, Crimea in 2014 and Syria in 2015, Syria went very well for him and became a testing ground for Russian weapons and tactics that it can now bring to bear in Ukraine.
