• Match!!@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    the Wagner group is active across this region, typically hired by juntas that displace the western-allied governments and pay the Wagner group for security by granting Wagner control over some resource extraction

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      That’s kind of a chicken and the egg thing - mercenary groups are probably bad for stability, but on the other hand they’re not really operating in regions that weren’t pretty unstable in the first place.