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>whereas the actual hard nail Chechens went and fought (and died) in Iraq or Afghanistan
Important to remember that Chechens in Afghanistan was a deliberate FSB psyop to whitewash the Second Chechnya War and the counter-terror operations. Which lead to any white-passing insurgent to be considered a Chechen, or even the presumption of Chechens being present whenever US troops took fire from well-trained insurgents.
The majority of foreign volunteers from CIS countries were actually from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, not the Russian republics of Dagestan or Chechnya.