Posted on 06/21/2022 2:15:14 PM PDT by Widget Jr
This is all replicated in Ukraine. Since the company is not registered in Russia, the Kremlin gets to keep is hands officially clean while giving the orders and sanctioning everything the Wagner Group does.
It is interesting how in this conflict the most effective warriors are mercenaries. Very retro. Almost medieval.
Yawn.
No different than Blackwater et al. i.e., CIA “contractors”…
I am so glad the US does everything above-board.
Russia uses Private Military Corporations as substitutes for the Russian Army, pretends they do not exist, and looks the other way.
The reaction to articles like this are very telling.
LOL, he's not that wanted, because it was all nonsense. Team Hillary just tagged some not-too-random Russians with their crimes.
Morally broken...
I am so glad the US does everything above-board.
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above-board
‘above’ has hints of ‘supremacy’
Please be careful
Too many “believes” and disinformation about Blackwater who “reportedly” never lost a person they were escorting/protecting. Two can play this game!
“No different than Blackwater et al. i.e., CIA “contractors”…”
BS. First off Blackwater were DoD contractors, not CIA. Secondly Blackwater was contracted to provide defensive security not conduct offensive operations. Their job was to protect personnel and locations such as convoys and embassies. They did not conduct offensive operations, seize territory or attack enemy positions.
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Oh, facts, logic and reason again!/sarc
There are some, here, that think it’s perfectly acceptable for the invading army to use actual mercenaries, but cry foul when the invaded country allows foreigners to become citizens and then join the military.
Of course, they rejoice, when they are captured and sentenced to death by a kangaroo court.
Conscription means you do not need anything to lure people to join, it also means that you only get the people who could not, for some reason get out of it.
They feared their generals would stage a coup (gee I wonder why they would think that?) and so kept the military down and removed any military leaders they found to be to popular, to effective, to smart, to political and so forth.
#6. Yep. Noticed that. The trolls are trying really hard to get fed.
Despite the West’s best efforts President Assad remains quite popular amongst the non-jihadist population of Syria...as does Russian President Putin.
Just thinking in terms of probability (especially given their proximity to the conflict and the usefulness of having a private entity take on missions which did not fall under the oversight of the military chain of command), about the nature of "legal accountability" and how far it can be stretched (since the US military does indeed have a lot impunity in how it's conducted its affairs in various foreign operations over the past few decades), and the willingness of our government to lie to American citizens if it believes the cost is worth it...I would not be surprised in the least if the allegations that Blackwater committed offensive operations were true.
Will we find out for sure? Probably not until everyone involved is old or long dead.
Poor Hillary! The FBI, they act as Hillary’s private army. She has ties to Ukraine, right ?
All things considered indeed.
First link ...to a James Risen article, lol.
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