#Ukraine: "Private Military Companies" and the Kremlin. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
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#Ukraine: "Private Military Companies" and the Kremlin. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wagner-group-who-is-yevgeny-prigozhin-russia-mercenary-private-military-company/
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| 0:56.8 | The so called Wagner group, but about a multiple of Wagner groups with different names |
| 1:02.8 | throughout the infrastructure in Moscow. |
| 1:06.2 | What does this tell us about the way Russia conducts war in Syria, in Ukraine, and along |
| 1:13.2 | the Sahil, the shore of the Sahara from Niger, where they're in conversation, Central |
| 1:20.6 | Africa, where they deployed all the way to Sudan? |
| 1:23.6 | Jeff, have we learned anything that we need to know about going forward, these private |
| 1:28.2 | armies of oligarchs, all circling around Putin as if he is a hero? |
| 1:35.8 | Well, we found, John, of course, this is a kin to warlordism, and by my count, what |
| 1:41.6 | I've talked to others, there may be as many as 14 private armies, what they call PMCs, |
| 1:48.5 | now operating in the Russian Federation, ostensibly, Mr. Schoiger, the Minister of Defense |
| 1:54.3 | has his own PMC, also some of the different states of the Russian Federation really have |
| 2:00.0 | their own private militaries in many ways. |
| 2:02.4 | Shetch Neon, Kedirov, is a classic example of that. |
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