Episode 78 - PWC Wagner
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
This episode covers the events on the 7th to 8th of February in Syria, where American-led coalition forces, in a counterattack, while defending their base, basically annihilated a large number of Russian soldiers from the Private Warfare Company “Wagner”. Now, there already have been news about the “what” part, but I delve into the “why” and deeper reasons of the whole thing, on the Russian side. Both, why would people go and fight, who owns the “Wagner” and all the other, quite deeply philosophical stuff. Ugh. This is a hard one.
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| 1:03.0 | We are still working hard on all the regular episodes, but on the night from 7th to 8th of February, |
| 1:14.2 | something so weird happened that I just have to speak about it. |
| 1:15.5 | It's a tragic event, but it makes you think. |
| 1:19.2 | So this episode will be dedicated to explaining what exactly happened in Syria from 7th to 8th and why did it happen. |
| 1:30.3 | So, let's start with the what part first. |
| 1:34.3 | You see, in Syria there are these control zones near the Ephrodis River. |
| 1:40.3 | In one of these zones there were Kurdish democratic forces together with their American instructors. |
| 1:47.0 | And apparently, there were some Bashar Assad's forces supported by Russians, who decided that, hey, the Kurdish people and the Americans are sitting on an oil factory. So, they started messing up their forces because they had decided that, hey, in our zone, we don't really have any oil. |
| 2:08.6 | So let's just, you know, make a quick one, sort of a grab bag of things, and run over and, you know, take this stuff away from the Americans. |
| 2:19.5 | The intelligence obviously noticed what was going on, because there was massive kind of |
| 2:25.3 | concentration of forces, about 80 kilometers southeast from Deir Azor, one of the city, |
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