got, you know, the russian army? well, turns out it is helpful, handy sometimes to have guys who don t necessarily claim as your national military. for example, there is a bit after civil war under way in sudan right now. might be weird or at least sort of difficult for the russian government to explain why it was deploying regular russian military troops to assist one of the sides fighting in the civil war in sudan. it is much less controversial for the russian government if instead this random, for profit, private army turns up there, the wagner group. so they turned up to promote russian interests in the sudanese civil war with the russian government able to say oh, we ve got nothing to do with it. they ve done the same thing in sudan, libya, mali, syria. wherever russia wants to exert armed military influence, but they don t want to explain that s what they re doing with their regular military. also of course ukraine. prigzen s wagner group had a lot
russian government to explain why it was deploying regular russian in military groups, to assist one of the sites fighting in this civil war in sudan. it s much less controversy for the russian government. instead, this random, for profit, private army turns up there. the wagner group. they turned up to promote russian interests in the sudanese civil war with the russian government being able to say, we ve got nothing to do with this. they ve done the same thing in sudan, in libya, in mali, in syria, wherever russia wants to exert armed military influence, but they don t want to explain that that is what they are doing with the regular military. also, of course, ukraine. prigozhin s wagner group has had a lot of attention for its battlefield succession, successes in ukraine. but it s not like the wagner is fighting as an independent force. prigozhin s wagner mercenaries are basically a private augmentation, an adjunct to the
don t necessarily claim as your national military. for example, there is a bit after civil war under way in sudan right now. might be weird or at least sort of difficult for the russian government to explain why it was deploying regular russian military troops to assist one of the sides fighting in the civil war in sudan. it is much less controversial for the russian government if instead this random, for profit, private army turns up there, the wagner group. so they turned up to promote russian interests in the sudanese civil war with the russian government able to say oh, we ve got nothing to do with it. they ve done the same thing in sudan, libya, mali, syria. wherever russia wants to exert armed military influence, but they don t want to explain that s what they re doing with their regular military. also of course ukraine. prigozhin s wagner group had a lot of attention for battle field successes in ukraine but
this group the wagner group got 125 miles from the capital they were fighting for. is that what your reporting shows. certainly. what happened is prigozhin made a serious miscalculation that will cost him deeply. he said he was attacked and that produced casualties and that instigated this action. but our study is something else. that when putin made the decision to absorb the wagner group into the m.o.d. as of 1 july, that in a sense would strip prigozhin of the power base he had, the political influence and military influence he would have.