Posted on 12/04/2024 8:31:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Fighters from the Wagner Group have been in CAR since 2018, when they were invited by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra to help tackle rebel groups.
The group’s subsidiaries went on to win contracts to operate gold and diamond mines.
They are also operating in several other African countries but their most significant presence is in CAR.
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Prigozhin and Utkin died alongside others on 23 August 2023, after their private jet came down north-west of Moscow, killing all those on board.
It came two months after their aborted mutiny in Russia. The Kremlin denied speculation it was to blame for the crash.
The Wagner Group has since been renamed Corps Africa, although it continues to operate under the Wagner name in CAR.
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Here’s an oldie but a goody. It is in the context of the “mysterious” death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group who launched a rebellion against Moscow:
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1698739642554626422
The idiot Prigozhin was bought by Europe to revolt against Russia and surprise, he ends up dead. The runtlings of Europe are the stunted, twisted offspring of people too stupid to leave for America and unfit dregs who lived to procreate because they were unfit to sacrifice in two world wars.
I sometimes wonder if fitness standards of the militaries are a way of domesticating the herd by removing and murdering the best and brightest of us.
Wagner didn’t do too well when it tried to take on the U.S. They do better fighting child soldiers and unarmed civilians.
Nobody seems to do too well, when they take on the U.S. military. I think that's one of the reasons most presidents abuse their authority, and use our military like some kind of planetary police force. Several years ago, I came across an article detailing U.S. troop deployments - IIRC, at that time we had troops everywhere from Peru to the former Yugoslavia (it's amazing how many places we have troops around the world, that 99% of the public doesn't know about). I think Mr. Trump (to his credit) respects the Americans serving in our military, and tried to reduce that during his first term - hopefully he will do the same this time around...
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