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Why hasn't the Wagner Group been labelled as a State Sponsored Terrorist Group? [1]
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Date: 2023-05-09
I labelled Blackwater [etc] in the same way.
I despise mercenaries, basically they are hired thugs and killers. Private military contractors; what a disgrace of a phrase.
Wagner Group, made up of ex military with nothing better to do, and convicts promised a reprieve if they serve for six months. These same convicts then go on to repeat the harm they were imprisoned for in their own communities.
When two home-grown warlords decided to squabble over Sudan and its mineral wealth, what was the Wagner Group up to?
Stealing their gold.
Elsewhere in Africa
Russia’s Growing Footprint in Africa’s Sahel Region
Despite Russia’s military struggles in Ukraine, Moscow has not cut back its ambitions in the Global South. Over the past year, Russia has doubled down its focus on Africa’s Sahel region, a troubled part of the continent that spreads roughly from Senegal to the Red Sea. Through the infamous Wagner mercenary group, Moscow is inserting itself in countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso and is taking advantage of Western policy missteps, growing anti-European sentiment, and longstanding failures of international and local actors to address the root causes of regional instability.
They also have entered the field of wealth management
And there you have it, mercenaries posing as “management consultants,” under the trading name of “PMC Wagner Center.”
Is this another instance of white male privilege?
White mercenary groups are labelled Military Contractors/ Management Consultants?
Anyone else is labelled a terrorist group.
Just wondering./s
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