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yesterday with a lot of people cheering on the wagner fighters as they were leaving, a lot of people congratulating the wagner fighters. they do have a special status among many russians. if they can then sign up to join the russian military, to become tar part of the structure and infrastructure, and something that the military leadership in russia has been pushing for for a while. the defense minister, sergei shoigu, came out a couple weeks ago and said that the private military companies have to sign contracts with the defense ministry. yevgeny prigozhin had said he wasn t going to do that. that was one of the things that also escalated, if you will, the big fight between those two individuals, between the defense minister and yevgeny prigozhin. only one of those things. the question now is what happens to yevgeny prigozhin s gigantic business empire. you are talking about dealings in africa if you are looking at diamonds and also gold and also training african forces. there is a hu
evidence potentially of a chinese military installation. we have seen the people s liberation army, chinese military using ports to start to build out a military footprint they can have an intelligence purpose in a place where the united states has been essentially the security guarantor for the royal family there. and for the government there i think what we are seeing in these leaks is a concern that they are breaking in the other direction when it comes to getting closer to china and russia they want to play both sides this is putting publically what a lot of us have known primarily for years. there is a push and pull when it comes to the gulf countries. they are in the middle of that in another major development now, president xi is sending an envoy, high ranking former am bass to moscow for many years, to ukraine after the first phone call with president zelenskyy.