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Russian mercenary force seizes 'opportunities' in key region as US faces difficult choice
Fox News ^ | August 9, 2023 | Peter Aitken

Posted on 08/09/2023 1:45:50 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

The mercenary battalion Wagner Group has proven "very adept" at exploiting political unrest in West Africa, but experts remain divided on whether the group caused the instability in the first place.

"I don't think that Wagner or Russia are creating the discontent that we are seeing among populations and militaries in this region of Africa," Cameron Hudson, senior fellow (non-resident) for the CSIS Africa Program, told Fox News Digital.

"They're certainly looking at it as an opportunity, but I don't think that either the Wagner Group or Russia itself has the power to kind of engineer that discontent as part of some grand strategic design on winning allies in the region," he argued. "I think that would be giving actually Russia too much credit."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: frtankiebrigade; putincheerleader
Hudson's right, the USA Deep Swamp is entirely responsible for screwing themselves in Africa.
1 posted on 08/09/2023 1:45:50 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
Vicky Nuland has already suggested Wagner is responsible, setting up a phony excuse for military intervention.

Niger has responded:
5-C5-DBB52-0945-47-B3-9-AB7-F82-DE46-DA7-F1

2 posted on 08/09/2023 2:08:32 PM PDT by CapandBall
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To: CapandBall

I don’t know who said that, but you gotta like him. That and remark about not liking the French. That is two for two.


3 posted on 08/09/2023 2:11:59 PM PDT by sport
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To: Navy Patriot

Someone remind me. Why does the US military have to be active in Africa? Do we have colonies there or something?


4 posted on 08/09/2023 2:19:41 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Navy Patriot
"Russian mercenary force seizes 'opportunities' in key region as US faces difficult choice"

The difficult choice is where does Biden go next to launder money?

According to him, he's headed to Vietnam "shortly." Since the usurper has been in the Oval Office, his administration has been cozying-up to Vietnam's Energy sector. I smell family energy business opportunities, if they haven't already set them up.

5 posted on 08/09/2023 2:28:42 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: sport

I guess Nuland tried the same crap as she did in Ukraine but Niger didn’t fall for it and gave her the cold shoulder. Unfortunately and regrettably the US is no longer what it used to be.


6 posted on 08/09/2023 2:33:15 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: Salman
Why does the US military have to be active in Africa? Do we have colonies there or something?

We have training schools for Technicians in Drum Communication.

7 posted on 08/09/2023 2:33:20 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: mass55th

Yeah, and the Frogs are with Biden in that, they want to get even for being kicked out of Vietnam, too.


8 posted on 08/09/2023 2:36:10 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Salman

So we can have the lowest IQ people on Earth come to our country.
Next up, Papua New Guinea and Nepal.


9 posted on 08/09/2023 2:49:43 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Navy Patriot

The military and people got tired of resourceless Europe (primarily France and Britain) of raping their country. Face it, Europe has very scarce resources and must exploit the rest of the world.


10 posted on 08/09/2023 2:53:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: EEGator
So we can have the lowest IQ people on Earth come to our country.

Why not? They already let my people, Scots-Irish and St Augustine Spanish, in.

11 posted on 08/09/2023 3:18:58 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Generally speaking, you are correct.


12 posted on 08/09/2023 3:27:32 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: mass55th

Vietnam will award him a medal for helping the Communists win.


13 posted on 08/09/2023 4:36:38 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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"Yeah, and the Frogs are with Biden in that, they want to get even for being kicked out of Vietnam, too."

Back in 2016, when Obama visited Vietnam, and he was pushing normalizing trade relations with Vietnam, I recall reading that one of the first people that started doing business with Vietnam, was John Kerry's brother, Cameron Kerry. I can't recall what kind of business he was conducting, just remember his name being mentioned when trade was normalized with them. He'd previously worked as a general counsel for the Commerce Department during Obama's administration, and I'm sure having a brother who was Secretary of State, opened doors to him.

14 posted on 08/09/2023 6:02:42 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th
The Frogs have been patting us on the back since 1939.

I wish they'd put down the knife.

15 posted on 08/09/2023 6:30:37 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot
"The Frogs have been patting us on the back since 1939. I wish they'd put down the knife."

Yeah, they used up their usefulness a long time ago. We've payed them back a billion times since the Revolutionary War. Same thing with the rest of Europe.

16 posted on 08/09/2023 6:45:27 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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