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TEASER: Inside Putin's Medieval Court
Angry Planet
Wagner and the Russians in Syria
When the Russians went into Syria in 2015, it was envisaged and also sold to the Russian public as being purely an arm's length air power operation. It quickly became clear that Syrian military was in a catastrophically bad state; needed some kind of additional forces. So they thought, well, okay, we're going to use Wagner, which up to now has simply been used as a deniable force in the undeclared conflict in eastern Ukraine in the Donbas. This way, even though Wagner is at the time 98% made up of Russian passport holders and the rest being sort of a few abkhazians and some similar,. But the point is we can say, no
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