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Wagner Group [1] is a mercenary company, by the way, named after German composer Richard Wagner [1]. Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin [2] is reportedly the
by jcrites 3y ago
Wagner Group [1] is a mercenary company, by the way, named after German composer Richard Wagner [1]. Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin [2] is reportedly the founder and owner.
(Wagner is not a person. Or am I misreading: who does "himself" refer to?)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin
- dave4420 3y agoYes, I’m being sloppy because I’m on my phone and can’t be bothered editing.
- hutzlibu 3y agoI think it reads fine, as in Kremlin did this and that and Wagner did this and that. Wagner just stands for the group.
- jcrites 3y agoI'm responding to the use of the pronoun "himself": > Personally, if this was a coup, I’d say Wagner would have taken control of important infrastructure by now ... Or been killed/arrested himself. To anyone who isn't familiar with Wagner Group, that seems to be describing Wagner as an individual person who can be "killed or arrested himself".
- hutzlibu 3y agoAh yes, that is wrong, but I think people who are into russian geopolitics (like me) autocorrected it and had the meaning of the person arrested automatically transfered to Prigoshin as head of Wagner.
- r721 3y ago>Wagner is not a person >He is alleged to have founded the Wagner Group, with his own call-sign reportedly being Wagner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin