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swampyankee said:
Possibly if they don't get paid. Certainly, there are many historical examples of mercenary forces doing just that. Even if they do get paid.
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Extremely unlikely I know but imagine if the West outbid Russia for Wagner's services - they are a mercenary organisation after all, so should theoretically align themselves to the highest bidder...
 
RogerdeLluria said:

View: https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1674396645994164226
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So ....... their former iteration (i.e. the USSR) pioneered space flight .... made several key breakthroughs in theoretical physics... amassed an arsenal of >5000 nuclear weapons ......inspired fear/respect across the world....... and now seems to think it's OK to murder their own people with sledgehammers and believes that imperialist-influenced insects are going to attack them. OK, that's not utter lunacy. At all. No wonder Putin misses the 'Good Old Days.....'
 
Dirty money is still money. Lots of that is those banks overthere. And swiss banks need now it not to fold. Now.. do we see a pattern here? When its over they still will being a rich. If russia fails they will be in camp ukr faster then you can say Zürcher Geschnetzeltes.
And being nutral as advertised. Untill you fill their banks up.
 
Thats the point. Russia never is, was and never will be the Ussr. It just a faint come back of a once populair boyband. The wait is on untill the sons of moskovits start dying. Prig scared the crap out of them. It is a bit more real now. Apparently the russian news is not that dependable. Who knew?
 

Maybe we should say "adding to" instead of "making a" name? That whole banking NaZi money in WWII kinda set the tone, IMO.
 
As life in Russia returned to normal after an armed rebellion by a mercenary group, tensions were rising in and around its neighbor Belarus, where the exiled leader of the force and some of its fighters were settling in.

Moving to Belarus was part of the deal the Kremlin struck with Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military company, to end last weekend's rebellion that rattled Russia's leadership.

Prigozhin and his fighters escaped prosecution and were offered refuge in Belarus by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who said his country could use their experience and expertise.

That doesn't sit well with the Belarusian opposition and guerrilla activists, who called Wagner fighters "a threat to the Belarusian people and (the country's) independence," and promised action.

"We're categorically against stationing Russian mercenaries in Belarus and are preparing a 'warm' welcome to Wagnerites in Belarus," said Aliaksandr Azarau, leader of the BYPOL guerrilla group of former military members, speaking in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from outside the country.

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He didn't specify the facility's location, but Azarau said construction of a site for Wagner mercenaries was underway in Osipovichi, a city 230 kilometers (142 miles) north of the border with Ukraine, with Belarusian soldiers involved.

Residents of the city of 30,000 told AP they were rattled by the developments.

"There's military equipment in the streets and Belarusian servicemen — all residents are discussing the arrival of Wagnerites and, frankly speaking, we're panicking and are not happy about being neighbors with them," Inga, a 43-year-old doctor in Osipovichi, said by phone.

"I have teenage daughters. … How will we live next to thugs, pardoned murderers and rapists?" said the woman, who spoke on condition of that she not be fully identified out of safety concerns.

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Guerrillas from BYPOL told AP they will resist Wagner fighters being stationed in Belarus and "stage acts" of sabotage at sites where mercenaries are housed.

"We will actively resist this, using all possible means," Azarau said.

NATO members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, who share a 1,250-kilometer (775-mile) border with Belarus, said they will enhance security along the frontier because of the Wagner forces.

Belarus leader welcomes Wagner forces but others in the country see them as a threat

As life in Russia returns to normal after an armed rebellion by a mercenary group, tensions are rising in and around its neighbor Belarus, where the exiled leader of the force and some of its fighters are settling in.
apnews.com
 

I would rather state that the USSR was the russian empire using communism as an ideological weapon.
 
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