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HeadRequirement3335 t1_jac654u wrote

It's rich Putin's chef's mercenaries are named after Hitler's favourite composer. When he's claiming to fight nazi's. Dude needs striking by lightning out of irony

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autotldr t1_jac79c1 wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 62%. (I'm a bot)

> The Japanese government has decided to add more individuals and institutions, including the Russian private military company Wagner Group, to its list of sanctions in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

> Under the sanctions, exports to the Wagner Group and 20 other institutions, including research facilities in Russia, will be banned.

> The list now includes a deputy minister of the Russian Defence Ministry, pro-Russian individuals in Ukraine and aircraft manufacturing plants and banks in Russia.

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EcstaticMaybe01 t1_jadbzv2 wrote

Replying to HeadRequirement3335 (#2,098,814)

Be Me

Make music all my life.

Literally 100s of songs 🎵

Nearly 150 years after my death some genocidal asshole says he likes my songs.

MfW a century later some kid on the internet insinuates everyone who likes my music must agree with said genocidal asshole. :-(

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DesignerAsh_ t1_jaddqeq wrote

The use of Wagner Group is a prophecy of PMC run wars coming true. I will not be surprised if we see NATO picking it’s PMC company of choice soon.

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AlchemistStocks t1_jadkbzz wrote

Can someone also sanction the X-Blackwater Group known now as Xe Services. Of course not because they have big ties with the government just like the Wagner Group.

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TROPtastic t1_jadq7nc wrote

Replying to EcstaticMaybe01 (#2,112,111)

Be me

Make music all my life

Be jealous of Jewish composers and my Jewish patron

Write "Jewishness in Music" to "explain to ourselves the involuntary repellence possessed for us by the nature and personality of the Jews"

Double down on anti-Semitic populism

Start writing a work on "the noblest white race" "marching towards its downfall" with intermarriage with "the races it conquers"

Die

Be embraced by Nazis for my views

Get people to apologize for me and claim that my written views are fake and made up

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socialistrob t1_jadtoti wrote

People and organizations can get around sanctions but it introduces complications, slow downs and added costs. A good example of this is the sanctions on semi conductors that Russia needs for missiles. Since Russia can't get them directly intermediaries in Central Asian countries will buy large amounts of refrigerators and washing machines from the west. These are then sold on to Russia where they are stripped down and the semi conductors are removed and then reconfigured for missiles. It is time consuming, expensive and doesn't produce the missiles in the desired quantities for waging a large scale war. Will Japanese sanctions stop Wagner? No. Will they make it more expensive and harder for Wagner to operate successfully? Probably.

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TL_Marin t1_jae2sf3 wrote

"Russia's Wagner Group" wait Wagner is an American based mercenary org, the reason they made it this far was because the US allowed them to do so and even shielded them diplomatically

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thederpofwar321 t1_jaeiu5j wrote

Replying to VeGr-FXVG (#2,121,877)

I'm not sure what hes on about either, it commonly known the wager is just a direct arm of the Russian gov. With plausible denibility...now if he somehow is trying to reference blackwater, hes dead wrong. Those guys were legit and whole other ball game.

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trelium06 t1_jaej21a wrote

Replying to thederpofwar321 (#2,126,271)

Bodyguards maybe if they’re in the US.

In other countries corps have employed armed men to achieve goals or protect property. But I haven’t seen any evidence of a mega corp employing a literal PMC on scale. Maybe I didn’t search well enough.

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Dazzling-Ad4701 t1_jaelpi8 wrote

phew my heart. I misread "add" as "aid" and I genuinely felt it right where my pearls would be, if I happened to be wearing pearls.

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VeGr-FXVG t1_jaeqbq4 wrote

Replying to TL_Marin (#2,128,166)

Nope, they're different. People compare them because they're both private military companies, but they're definitely not equal (with Wagner leading on civilian massacres). Blackwater (even in their new branding) has never been involved in Ukraine/Russia.

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ludicrouscuriosity t1_jaest97 wrote

I'm sure all mercenaries are savage, but I've seen a video of those mercenaries castrating a dude trying to desert, that is so insane.

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ArrowheadDZ t1_jaf3t2b wrote

I don’t fully understand this logic:

“Let’s let a Russian mercenary company operate unsanctioned for a year, and wait until February 2023 before we decide if they should be sanctioned.”

They should have been sanctioned over 100,000 lives ago.

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