Putin predicts the Islamic State, 1999

ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Daesh) is not a novel phenomenon. It is a salafi-jihadist cult, propped up by the Saudi state and seasoned with US dollars. It achieves certain foreign policy objectives, and is largely out in the open in the modern day. Russia has previously fought off its predecessor- Al Qaeda. Both of the Chechen wars of the 1990s were funded and aided by Saudi Arabia and the US. NGOs such as Medicins Sans Frontiers were documented to have been smuggling supplies to the Chech