CNN's Jake Tapper sheds light on the Wagner Group, a private Russian mercenary group that has largely operated in the shadows. #CNN #News
Tapper explains shadowy Russian mercenary group
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Wagner Fascists. Glory to Ukraine!
We talk meaning the Government and news especially CNN about using nuclear weapons or Russia using them more then Putin or anyone in Russia!
“UNLIMITED POWER in the hands of LIMITED men always leads to cruelty.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn/Author of A Gulag Archipelago
everybody should know Alexander Solshenizyns “east prussian nights” poem. Russians have always used rape as a weapon of war. and continue to do so
Children being raped in front of their families… makes my stomach turn and angers me! This is sickening! I want nothing more than for Ukraine to be victorious.
thank you 🙏 greets from Ukraine 💙💛 United we’re stronger
Do you actually believe that 🤔
It makes my stomach turn and angers me you believe anything cnn says 😡
Makes my stomach turn that CNN is not talking about the economy and mess in this country.
Tapper is good , he’s very knowledgeable about the Ukrainian conflict and hits Putin perfectly on all points like a hammer on nail .
Why hasn’t he addressed the 14,000 eastern ukranians slaughtered by the Ukraine government over the past few years? Funny you ignore genocide
I didn’t know he was a spokesman. I thought he was supposed to report the news?
Growing up I’ve been hearing that name for years especially in the early 90s I’m bugging out I can’t believe they’re actually real😲
You might be thinking of the composer, which the organization is named after. The organization didn’t start up until 2014.
@JTMaster Wagner was Hitler’s favorite composer.
5k in Ukraine? more have died serving Wagner in Ukraine than are currently alive in Ukraine .. though I guess it’s still better than a Russian prison
Death would be much easier then a Russian prison. They are nothing like the soft western prisons. Watch some documentaries on the worse prisons in the world. Russia has solid control of their prisoners even use guard dogs and high ratio of guards to prisoners. There are no civil liberties in their prisojsn
What I don’t understand is why this is being presented as new information. Anyone who has been paying attention has known about this for months. The video of Prigozhin recruiting in a prison came to light in early July.
What’s new is that people are now openly confronting Putin – something previously unthinkable.
The Wagner Group have lost very many of their well trained and experienced fighters in Ukraine.
And not many new have been interested in joining them, even if they pay very well.
That is why they have recruited many from Russian prisons.
Many of them have been convicted of murder, rape and pedophilia.
They have even their own group of recruited fighters from prisons with serious illnesses like HIV and hepatitis that wear special wrist and/or arm bands to identify them for all if they get wounded or killed.
The Wagner Group are clearly getting very desperate to have enough fighters in the area where they fight in Ukraine and want to show how great they are.
They make some gains in the Bakhmut area, but they are extremely small and slow, and they have heavy losses for their very small gains.
With this pace, it will take them many months, if not more than a year to take Bakhmut, and must likely they will never be able to take it.
What they do there, makes no military sense at all.
Wasting lots of men and resources on extremely small gains in an area that is not that tactically important to take for the Russians.
Would love to see a CNN segment on azov, aidar, right sector, kraken, c14 etc
@Tex AJP what was their “crime”? Defending their homeland you little KGB mole?
@Greek Shipping Tycoons: Everything M 0 $$ AD persecuting their own people for 8 years, and they are guilty of many war crimes too
@Tex AJP stop with the KGB propaganda. Russia shouldn’t put its nose where it doesn’t belong.
@Tex AJP Why? Azov has been gone over ad nauseum. The other unit’s you listed are just popular on social media and don’t have any real ties to the far right; and Right Sector has ZERO seats in the Ukrainian Parliament and only TWO out of OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND regional seats in the Ukraine government. The entire Ukrainian neo-Nazi narrative is just overblown BS. RUSSIA has more neo-Nazis than Ukraine does. And Ironically enough, the co-founder of the Wagner group is an avowed neo-Nazi…with the SS tattoos to prove it.
It’s pronounced: ‘Vagner,’ not ‘Vogner,’ Jake. Think of Richard Wagner. He’s the inspiration for this fascist: ‘Wagner Group.’
Time to give Ukraine immediate NATO membership, and give russia 60 days to evacuate ALL of Ukraine, including Crimea.
Another important aspect that was not covered: how are they financed? They are entirely on the roster of the Russian ministry of defence. But their budget is many times more than any regular army unit. Yet, they do not report to anyone but Prigozhin. A separate, private army in Putin’s pocket.
Haha, talked like you read the minutes to their meetings 😂😂
The Wagner Group?,…doesn’t that sound like straight out of the German Nazi Ss Gaurd?,…yes, I think so too.
The politics of power will never yield to the politics community without real transformation . But the moral issues at the heart of the public debate are often unrecognized and ignored and often become the basis for excluding others rather than opening doors to compassion and justice .
Political discussion around local or national elections reduce many citizens to a choice of the lesser of hopeless nontraditional candidates . More often ,the result is no involvement .Only half of us bother to vote anymore ,is alarmingly low for the health of political democracy .
Russia couldn’t stop the ships in the black sea because of the fear that Ukraine will blow up another warship.
So they went back to the original deal.
Psychopaths often climb to the top, by using skulls of others as stepping stones.
Turkiye gave Putin the finger by saying the deal was going forward with or without Russia. Those ships are traveling under a Turkish flag, so anything Putin does to stop them violates Article 5.
Progoshin wouldn’t dare to talk to Putin the way he appears to if Putin had any sort of strength left to him. His private army can hold up or tear down Putin’s government.
Mind Begs the Question:
If in a World
X oppose Occupation – Heroes
Y oppose Occupation – Terrorists
World governed by – Righteous,Evil?
Mind Begs the Question:
To support & aid an Apartheid State
Righteous,Evil?
The one thing we all have to remember is that we have to stick to her ethical principles that we have to have compassion for each other we are all Americans and anything that goes against our freedoms in any way that is a lie you know it to be a lie if they try to take away freedom for any reason freedom is everything we cannot give up freedom for anything
and usa has arena group formerly known as academy mercs who been caught doing atrocities in many places including Syria and as far back as iraq