PREVIEW: AFRICA: RUSSIA: Conversation with colleague Caleb Weiss of FDD in Africa re the Russian African Corps (aka Wagner Group) and its lack of rules of engagement with Islamists and suspects in East African states Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. More ton

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PREVIEW: AFRICA: RUSSIA: Conversation with colleague Caleb Weiss of FDD in Africa re the Russian African Corps (aka Wagner Group) and its lack of rules of engagement with Islamists and suspects in East African states Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. More tonight.

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0:00.0	This is John Batcher, conversation with Caleb Weiss of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.
0:05.6	He's in Africa.
0:07.4	About Ico-Was breaking up and three states Burkina Faso, N, and Mali going their own way, engaging with the Africa
0:16.2	Corps.
0:17.2	Used to be called the Wagner Group.
0:18.2	He's her Russian mercenaries.
0:20.5	And I asked Caleb about rules of engagement by the Russian mercenary since they're now combating
0:25.7	the jihadis.
0:27.1	Previously that was the US and NATO looking for jihadis.
0:31.6	Caleb's answer is blunt.
0:34.0	Rules of engagement for the Russian forces and the word massacre come together.
0:38.0	Is Caleb Weiss, the foundation for the defense of democracy, the Africa Corps, aka the Wagner Group, aka Russian
0:46.1	mercenaries in West Africa.
0:49.5	More of this later tonight.
0:50.5	Yeah, I think the question would be, do they actually have ROBs?
0:56.0	By all indications that the Africa Corps, former, you know, Ex Wagner, if they have any ROsEs it is insanely lax.
1:03.4	They've been behind several massacres not only in Mali but also in Burkina Faso.
1:08.3	They are worse in some degrees in jihadis of massacring entire villages on mass just for, you know, maybe tentatively being tied to al-Qaeda.

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