the Wagner group is active across this region, typically hired by juntas that displace the western-allied governments and pay the Wagner group for security by granting Wagner control over some resource extraction
That’s kind of a chicken and the egg thing - mercenary groups are probably bad for stability, but on the other hand they’re not really operating in regions that weren’t pretty unstable in the first place.
the Wagner group is active across this region, typically hired by juntas that displace the western-allied governments and pay the Wagner group for security by granting Wagner control over some resource extraction
That’s kind of a chicken and the egg thing - mercenary groups are probably bad for stability, but on the other hand they’re not really operating in regions that weren’t pretty unstable in the first place.