Wagner Storm Troopers sign a 6 month contract and Wagner honors discharge. They recently had a big ceremony (Recruiting PR, Granted) but where the contracted prisoners were free from further obligation either to Wagner or to their previous sentences. Almost all prisoners were wary of Wagners claims. They no longer will be. Look for Wagner to be able to recruit some of the meanest Orcs on Gods green earth stuck in the hellholes that are Russian prisons.
There are 500,000 Russian inmates. These Mercs make fat cash, but what do think they are going to do as ex-cons when they run out of the large wads of cash? It is not like they are going to be responsible with it? Many will re-up and so manpower for Wagner is not going to be a problem. Re-uppers and people who were skeptical now saying “Gimme some of that.” A PR win for Wagner.
The guy that defected as I understand was originally a Norwegian National. Correct me if I am wrong. For the Russian prisoners, Wagner is a sweet deal.
If he was a prisoner it is not as if Norway is going to extradite him.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Russian National prisoners have two options. Stay in the hellhole that is the Russian prison system and likely get killed, or join Wagner and risk your life with an experienced brutal operation and get freed in 6 months.
He had option 3. Say pretty please Norway, I am sorry I changed nationalities... please get me out of this Ork army.
This sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel or video game. Matter of fact, some of the lore for StarCraft indicates that the Terran Marines were genetically modified prisoners who were conscripted and sent to fight. Seems like an interesting idea.
Perhaps if we find valuable ores on Mars or Ceres we’ll send prisoners to mine them. Seems like a good trade: rot in prison for the rest of your life or die in the vacuum of space. At least they’d have one Hell of a view.
Is the Wagner actually the Putin Praetorian guard TAD to Ukraine?
Is not the real purpose protecting the Kremlin throne?
The TAD to Ukraine was originally intended to be over by late March 2022.
An alternate purpose might have been the Ukrainian occupation force after the war was won
After the end of the war, the convicts were returned to finish their sentences.
Over crowding and new convicts tried to control the returning (battle hardened convicts) which turned into what was called "сука война" or "bitch wars" as the story goes it was just brutal, as one could expect.
Moral of the story, don't trust communists, or politicians, but I repeat myself.