Offering to send the Wagner group to provide security for the mines and drilling platforms in exchange for a percentage of the take is hardly a charm offensive. It’s the Mafia making a protection deal.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=what+Wagner+does+in+Africal&form=ANNTH1&refig=041bb71b2f0f45e98aa01a469b0913c3
Sounds like it, doesn’t it?