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Radio War Nerd EP 384 — Prigozhin's Mutiny, feat. Anatol Lieven

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The History of the Wagner Group

Wagner's beginnings is everything it's such an intelligent story in a way too i mean first of all it's headed by a former criminal that's kind of a classic you know intelligence people using a criminal. The state is sort of half liable half not liable and the whole structure of where this company is both pursuing its own profit but also serving the interests of the state are murky. Wagner was initially founded by a gheru that the military intelligence uh spetznazvar um utkin who was a a very dark character with Nazi tattoos all over him according to reports.

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