You'd Have Hoped NATO Would've Realised Their Mistake By September 12th 2001.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-chechens-fighting-for-kyiv-say-russian-troops-are-like-cattle-for-slaughter-leaving-the-ground-covered-with-corpses-12773194

But they were still at it in September 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege

Just as they're still at it now.

And Biden wonders why Putin was ready for him.