(January 27, 2023 at 4:06 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Soledar is strategically important to Prigozhins bank account. He'll have to round up some pows and stolen kids to work the salt mines, but that shouldn't be a problem. Russia intends to build a bunch of labor camps and penal colonies in the occupied areas.
That’s a very good point too. In West Africa they are convincing local dictators to tell European states to leave the area. Than they come in to “support” local governments in their fight against some terror groups. And their payment is usually in the form of local resources especially mining resources. This is called “predatory strategies” and I am surprised to hear that the US waited this long to add them to their lists of terror organizations.
Wagner is clearly destabilizing many parts of Africa and they do this for the predation of some natural resources. + I increasingly believe that they are an autonomous force in Russia. I think that Putin is answering to them more than them answering to Putin. So “What a mess!” I remember the final days of the USSR in the late 80’s. What a mess! Really.
