When you read into Wagner, they’re clearly a neo nazi PMC committing atrocities in Eurasia. When you read about their African exploits though, they seem to be

When you read into Wagner, they’re clearly a neo nazi PMC committing atrocities in Eurasia. When you read about their African exploits though, they seem to be the most anti-colonial colonial project on the continent yet. They support and arm the local strongmen, but unlike the traditional colonial powers they don’t seem to lord it over them, just build independent Russia aligned states with anti western attitudes. In fact a chunk of 20th century history was the USSR supporting independence movements and pushing them towards communism whereas the US supported the colonial hegemon such as the French in Vietnam. If the US supported the independence movements but pushed them towards liberalism instead… geopolitics now would be a lot less cynical but probably even more anti-US from the European powers.