Wagner isn't really "private military", it's a GRU org. Being a mercenary, or employing mercenaries, is officially illegal in Russia, but their "private" status is only a facade so it doesn't matter. The smoke screen does work, so the countries can declare Wagner "transnational" terrorists instead of declaring the GRU a Russian terrorist organization.
It's also like how Prigozhin is a Jew, while the Wagner self-declared Nazis of Rusich shit talk the Azov guys for being "fake Nazis" (apparently not believing Azov claims how they're just Social Nationalists and not any National Socialists and all their SS symbolica is a coincidence) as they're "serving a Jew", unlike them, since they themselves know the real Wagner boss is Wagner (Utkin), who's a GRU man, and an open Nazi like them. While Prigozhin is not much than an useful idiot crook cook, being a very public persona of a career criminal clown oligarch, who believes he can and will succeed Putin if he only takes an Ukrainian town of 10,000 after longer than the Battle of Stalingrad, meanwhile Wagner himself works in shadows, literally as he hasn't even appeared in public for many years now.
if he only takes an Ukrainian town of 10,000 after longer than the Battle of Stalingrad,
And has blasted the area so much and had to resort to so much trench warfare it actually resembles a WW1 battlefield (complete with the casualty figures to match). I will never not laugh bringing up that fact, because it makes the Vatniks seethe.
It has the looks but rarely the numbers. I've seen only one section of no man's land actually covered in bodies like it's Somme or something.
And the whole talk of "human waves" is a misundersting because they send small groups of maybe 10 guys, sometimes as few as 3 or 4, just constantly and repeatedly in places. You can call it "waves" but not really "human waves" which is for actual mass attacks. Russian phrase for something like that is instead "sending meat", similar in meaning to the English "cannon fodder".
There are many places with many bodies remaining inside or stacked just outside the trenches, though. And they may all start rotting all at once pretty soon.
If true, expect any opposition to the regime to be branded as "incited by Wagner".
If it's not true, expect the same thing.
I figured as much, the idea of the Wagner Group repealing the Declaration of Indpeendence and the Act of Union is pretty entertaining.
Joke or Gay Op, one or the other are the only options.
Wagner isn't really "private military", it's a GRU org. Being a mercenary, or employing mercenaries, is officially illegal in Russia, but their "private" status is only a facade so it doesn't matter. The smoke screen does work, so the countries can declare Wagner "transnational" terrorists instead of declaring the GRU a Russian terrorist organization.
It's also like how Prigozhin is a Jew, while the Wagner self-declared Nazis of Rusich shit talk the Azov guys for being "fake Nazis" (apparently not believing Azov claims how they're just Social Nationalists and not any National Socialists and all their SS symbolica is a coincidence) as they're "serving a Jew", unlike them, since they themselves know the real Wagner boss is Wagner (Utkin), who's a GRU man, and an open Nazi like them. While Prigozhin is not much than an useful idiot crook cook, being a very public persona of a career criminal clown oligarch, who believes he can and will succeed Putin if he only takes an Ukrainian town of 10,000 after longer than the Battle of Stalingrad, meanwhile Wagner himself works in shadows, literally as he hasn't even appeared in public for many years now.
And has blasted the area so much and had to resort to so much trench warfare it actually resembles a WW1 battlefield (complete with the casualty figures to match). I will never not laugh bringing up that fact, because it makes the Vatniks seethe.
It has the looks but rarely the numbers. I've seen only one section of no man's land actually covered in bodies like it's Somme or something.
And the whole talk of "human waves" is a misundersting because they send small groups of maybe 10 guys, sometimes as few as 3 or 4, just constantly and repeatedly in places. You can call it "waves" but not really "human waves" which is for actual mass attacks. Russian phrase for something like that is instead "sending meat", similar in meaning to the English "cannon fodder".
There are many places with many bodies remaining inside or stacked just outside the trenches, though. And they may all start rotting all at once pretty soon.