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The Rachel Maddow Show

russian government to explain why it was deploying regular russian in military groups, to assist one of the sites fighting in this civil war in sudan. it's much less controversy for the russian government. instead, this random, for profit, private army turns up there. the wagner group. they turned up to promote russian interests in the sudanese civil war with the russian government being able to say, we've got nothing to do with this. they've done the same thing in sudan, in libya, in mali, in syria, wherever russia wants to exert armed military influence, but they don't want to explain that that is what they are doing with the regular military. also, of course, ukraine. prigozhin's wagner group has had a lot of attention for its battlefield succession, successes in ukraine. but it's not like the wagner is fighting as an independent force. prigozhin's wagner mercenaries are basically a private augmentation, an adjunct to the

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intended to return our russian citizens, not to demilitarize or denazifying ukraine. -- someone telling the truth like that from his position in russia seems indelible. the prospect that putin left moscow when wagner troops were marching on to moscow's indelible. and the other thing that is indelible here is the fact that it's left unresolved what happened to the mutiny ring forces that prigozhin appears to have maybe brought with him to belarus. those who participated in the armed revolve are at large and we don't know what happens to this small military force right now. >> i think you've nailed it. i think you nailed it entirely. look at the contrast between the way zelenskyy reacted to an invading russian army. what did he do? remember his line? i don't need a ride. i need arms.

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making a strong against the war, or even making lists of russian casualties from that war. here is prigozhin, putin's got, winning this private military contractor company, talking to social media, like every day, showing corpses of russian fighters, screaming expletives against russian leadership, calling them criminals and worse, calling for them to be killed, saying the russian elite is corrupt and the war is a lie. why are they letting prigozhin do that? well, friday, apparently, he hit the end of this road. he announced, in effect, a mutiny. wagner fighters versus russia. wagner fighters took over a military outpost in russia, that is key to supplying russian forces in ukraine. they took it over without firing a shot. they were greeted warmly by the russian citizens of that town, in which that military garrison is located. and then wagner troops started to advance towards moscow,

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the problem is that one of his enterprises, the wagner group, who went to his head, because he's had some successes, so he thought in ukraine, he felt betrayed by the regular army. and he started speaking out like crazy on telegram and other memes, and people started hearing about this in russia, and i thought this was fantastic. here's this popular new guy who's winning some battles and ukraine, and he courses, just like putin used to before he got all fancy. and this went to prigozhin's head. and he thought that he could make a move on the defense secretary and the general staff and by implication of putin himself, and possibly to become a successor. do i think that he thought that he could enter red square and take over the kremlin like in some that movie, or like in august 1991? probably not. but he certainly thought that he was capable of raising his oat profile and power, and he

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saying out loud that that's where they were going. columns of wagner troops going hundreds of miles in a straight shot right at moscow. they got to within 150 miles of moscow. the whole world was bracing for a military coup in red square. putin himself reportedly fled, he left moscow as wagner fighters were closing in. and then, prigozhin and his wagner fighters turned around. because apparently, lukashenko, the doofus dictator of belarus, was the one who made the call. he made a call to prigozhin to offer a very strange off ramp to this very strange crisis. the end result is that prigozhin has gone to belarus to lukashenko's country to live out his days, i don't know. nobody seems to know exactly what's going to happen to him there, or to his wagner group fighters. are they all going to belarus with him? putin gave a speech to the

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it is not like the wagner group is fighting as an independent force there. prigozhin's wagner mercenaries are basically a private augmentation, adjunct to the russian military. they rely on russian military infrastructure. they can't operate a whole war there on their own. the russian military has to be there, too. but that dynamic has created some friction. since the ukraine war started and russia's invasion of ukraine has gone so poorly from day one, prigozhin has taken on this sort of unsettling new role in russian politics both for putin and for everybody else. he has essentially taken credit for all the russian military victories there have been in ukraine and has gone after the russian military for all the russian failures. and at a time when regular russian citizens are being arrested and prosecuted just for describing russia's war in ukraine as a war, when regular russian citizens are being

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to have a customer named vladimir putin who became his patron and to have vladimir putin as your patron it turns out is a very lucky thing. you become extremely wealthy. you become extremely powerful. you enter what is called putin world, this personalist regime that all depends on the great dictator. the problem is one of his enterprises, the wagner group, went to his head because he had some successes or so he thought in ukraine and he felt betrayed by the regular army and started speaking out like crazy on telegram and other means and people started hearing about this in russia and they thought this was fantastic. here is this popular new guy who is winning some battles in ukraine and he curses just like putin used to before he got all fancy. and this went to prigozhin's head and he thought he could make a move on the defense secretary and the general staff and by implication putin himself and possibly to become a successor.

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russia. one of them is prigozhin telling russia and telling the world that putin's war in ukraine is not for the reasons that he said it was. he said, this war wasn't needed to return russian citizens to our bosom nor to demilitarize or de-nazi fy ukraine. the war was needed so a bunch of animals could simply exult in glory. someone telling the truth like that from his perch in russia seems indelible. the fact that putin fled moscow when wagner troops were marching on moscow is indelible and the other thing that seems indelible here is the question that is, the fact that it's left unresolved what happened to the mutineering forces prigozhin appears maybe to have brought with him to belarus. those who participated in the armed revolt are at large and we don't know what happens to this

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arrested and prosecuted not just for holding up signs that say no to war but literally for holding up blank signs that say nothing when regular russian citizens are facing years in prison for making a drawing against the war or even making lists of russian casualties from the war, here is prigozhin, putin's guy running this private military contractor company, talking to social media like every day, showing corpses of russian fighters, screaming expletives against russian military leadership calling them criminals and worse. calling for them to be killed saying the russian elite is corrupt and the war is a lie. why are they letting prigozhin do that? well, friday apparently he hit the end of this rope. he announced in effect a mutiny. wagner fighters versus russia. wagner fighters took over a military outpost in russia that is key to supplying russian forces in ukraine. they took it over without firing a shot.

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don't necessarily claim as your national military. for example, there is a bit after civil war under way in sudan right now. might be weird or at least sort of difficult for the russian government to explain why it was deploying regular russian military troops to assist one of the sides fighting in the civil war in sudan. it is much less controversial for the russian government if instead this random, for profit, private army turns up there, the wagner group. so they turned up to promote russian interests in the sudanese civil war with the russian government able to say oh, we've got nothing to do with it. they've done the same thing in sudan, libya, mali, syria. wherever russia wants to exert armed military influence, but they don't want to explain that's what they're doing with their regular military. also of course ukraine. prigozhin's wagner group had a lot of attention for battle field successes in ukraine but

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