come again. -sorry, what was that? introducing the next generation 10g network only from xfinity. hello i m alicia menendez the future starts now. with ali meridian thank you for joining our coverage as the world watches a crisis unfold in russia it has been a while 24 hours testing vladimir putin s hold on power. the kremlin now protecting the world and it reached a deal with the leader of a mercenary group that has gone rogue. prigozhin the leader of the mercenary group ordered his forces to return to their bases abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading towards moscow the new video showing prigozhin greeted with cheers as he left the city of hours ago. that is where he had taken control of the key russian military facility an act of retaliation after russia s military launched a missile strike on wagner group camps, the kremlin has said that prigozhin would quote go to belarus and wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted, nbc news has not independently confi
sort of rogue rapscallion with a peg leg and parrot. pirates or privateers were often used, they were used by the united states in its early days of formation as private armies, often very cruel that go out, more or less on the states behalf, and operate for themselves. they captured territory they capture plunder and they keep it but at the same time they are also encouraging the states larger narrative. that s how much of the caribbean was ultimately settled. that s how the east india spread the british crown s influence. you had these privateers that would go out with their own private army, they would capture territory for themselves, reap the benefits, pay themselves but then we re also serving larger interest to their sponsor. wagner was very much in that same marginal, wagner operated