The Wagner Group's Support of the Russian Ministry of Defence

I definitely think there's some element of warlordism going on. And I think that the ways in which they use essentially the resource extraction sectors in order to profit, if you really could try and understand what's going on. It all fed into that sense of American decline, even Western decline and Russian and Chinese strength. If we go back to the point in which Russia intervened militarily in Syria in 2015 and the Wagner group's involvement there,. You can already see in ways of prelude as what will happen in Ukraine.