Russia's Wagner Group sends bloodied sledgehammer to EU

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 11/24/22 | James Kilner & James Crisp

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries have sent a "bloodied" sledgehammer in a violin case to the European Parliament after members started proceedings to label them as terrorists.

Sledgehammers have become an unofficial symbol of the Kremlin-linked group because its fighters have used them to kill during overseas missions.

In a video posted on one of its Telegram channels, a suited lawyer working for Wagner Group carries a violin case into a bare room and places it on a table.

He lifts the lid of the violin case, showing off a highly polished sledgehammer. The head has been engraved with Wagner's logo and the handle has been dabbed with red paint to depict blood.

[MeganC]

“I think I misunderstood your original post. Forgive me.”

No worries, it’s already forgotten! (-;

[canuck_conservative]

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Obama admitted he droned over 3000 people

So if Obama did something bad, that makes it okay to torture and murder an innocent person with a sledgehammer? You didn't answer this question or any of the questions I asked. You just doubled down on Communist Whataboutism.

[Jan_Sobieski]

who either became FSB, FSB controlled oligarchs, FSB controlled Russian Orthodox Archbishops, or FSB controlled politicians.

After the wall fell and communism collapsed in Russia, the leadership immediately began implementing free market reforms and taxation. Schools returned to teaching the Bible in the classroom setting. Procreation was encouraged, and children were protected sodomites. If these are the former KGB agents, they must be “born again”.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

the leadership immediately began implementing free market reforms and taxation.

Putin has assets close to 200 billion dollars worth, making him one of the world's richest men, if not THE richest man in the world, despite never having a real job other than being a KGB agent and a politician. Russian Oligarchs enjoying those alleged "free market reforms" control vast amounts of the Russian economy through violence, extortion, and outright theft. Large swathes of normal Russians have never even seen a toilet in their lives because of this systematic corruption in the Russian economy, which renders it not a libertarian utopia, but a thirdworld shithole.

The only countries maybe more corrupt and less free than Russia would be China and North Korea.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Anyone who can tell the difference between a T-62 and a T-14 knows that organized corruption in Russia dwarfs anything seen anywhere in the West.

[Bulwyf]

False. Nazism is alive and well in Ukraine. I saw enough during my time there that I really don’t care what happens to it.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I didn't think there was much doubt about the veracity of Wagner employing convicts. But a US Marine Corps general leading a battalion of Wagner forces...yeah, I'm calling B.S. on that one.

This sounds a lot more like the Russian claim from the spring that a Navy vice admiral was caught leading SEAL's in Mariupol. Only for to be confirmed that the exact same guy they identified was actually giving a public speech at a conference on a different continent.

[mac_truck]

Ngl...that’s funny.

[2CAVTrooper]

And it’s alive and well within the russian armed forces, as well as wagner group... So what’s your point?

And IF you knew just a fraction of the history in Ukraine, you would understand why some in the country hold a favorable view of nazi germany.

In fact, look up the NKVD prison massacres and Evacuation Order No. 00803.

Before that there was the Holodomor.

[MeganC]

Then don’t bore me with fairy tales of how the KGB disbanded when it runs Russia.

[cranked]

Wagner’s successes on the battlefields are the result of strict rules and full confidence in the ranks. That’s why there are no Wagner fighters among the prisoners of war in Ukraine....

[Bulwyf]

I never mentioned KGB.

I don’t want the west involved in any way. Not my circus, not my monkeys. The left sure wants to support Ukraine though. That alone should make a few people go hmmm.

[BlackbirdSST]

And Russian clerics continue to insist that theirs is a civilized nation.

War is hell. It doesn't matter how civilized you are.

[MeganC]

Putin is a Soviet revanchist. Can’t get any more left than that.

[libertarian66]

Oh puhlease. Wagner is far, far less violent and dangerous than the EU dictatorship. They would be doing us a favour taking sledgehammers to those “parliamentarians”.

[Srednik]

Kukla (puppet). Durak (idiot). Shutka (joke).

[Bulwyf]

All the west evil leftists support Ukraine. Let them have at it.

[cranked]

How about that! British Battalion! USMC General fighting Ukie Nazis’.

“The businessman added that they are fighting in a British battalion as part of the Wagner PMC, the commander of which is a US citizen , an ex-general of the Marine Corps.”

‘Prigozhin spoke about the ex-US general fighting in the Wagner PMC’
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/news/2022/11/25/19122379.shtml

Bless those US and other foreign nationalities ex-soldiers fighting for and with the DPR and LPR in the Donbass regions of Ukraine!

‘Russell “Texas” Bentley Sweet Home Novorossiya English Version’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxSxUb5BHE