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And I want, it's me, James, today, and I'm talking to Derm Cosgrove about Wagner,

of Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, and their actions in Africa. This is something that

I've kind of tried to pitch for several years with not much success in the United States.

Media, and I'm sure lots of other people have too. I'm by no means unique in that.

And suddenly, obviously, everyone in the corporate media has become something

of an expert in their actions when things started happening in Ukraine.

And so what we wanted to do here was kind of paint a picture of how they have a long record,

a human rights abuse, and dermits, more expert in Africa. So that's what we're talking about,

but also in Syria, of course. And I just wanted to give some more information. So we recorded this

on last Friday, today's Tuesday, the 1st of August. And we talked a little bit about the coup in

Niger, which has continued. And since we recorded, you've got any progression, who, of course, is the

head of Wagner, the founder of Wagner, the oligarch, who's in charge of that private military

contracting group, made a statement, sort of not exactly saying like, oh, yeah, we did this

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