But, Wagner doesn't exist anymore. The people who paid its members are dead. At best, there's some previous sub-groups still operating. What does this do?
As a person from the UK, I’d guess this is probably one of those things where the UK government is too cowardly to do or say anything when it actually matters, but once they’re certain there’s no chance of any blowback at all they issue some meaningless bill that says “we were against this sort of thing all along” so it looks like they’re actually doing something even though they’re not.
Or it’s one of those things that’ll be so vaguely worded that it could apply to just about anything and they’ll just use it to harass protestors and/or asylum seekers. Or maybe both!
“Well I say Sir Gringlesnap, these dreadful protesters prostesting against my beating them with the jolly old blackjack must be working for Wagner. Throw them into Australia for me, if you would.”
Also, the people who ultimately paid Wagner are still alive, because they're the ones who ordered the missile strike that killed the leaders.
The three leaders of Wagner didn't actually have a chain of command that could survive a head of the snake attack, so now the Kremlin is going to absorb the less ideological fighters.
It was incredibly stupid for all three of them to be on the same plane.
The last two months, Russia has been scrambling to talk to all the clients of Wagner, saying that the Russian military will step in to handle whatever job Wagner was doing (Wagner was doing those jobs at the behest of the Russian military anyway). Meanwhile, Prigozhin was running around trying to reassure clients that Wagner was still capable of handling the contracts.
It's ll a mess, and quite funny if you ignore the human suffering that Russia and Wagner have been inflicting on the world.
It could have been arrogance, or it could have been budgetary. See, the Kremlin had been messing with Prigozhin's finances. So all the Kremlin had to do from there was set up a meeting in a city away from wherever Wagner was operating, and then insist that all three leaders be there.
They had to show up, and they only had the budget for one plane/security escort. And who would shoot down a plane? (Ignoring MH17)
Unironically believing that reading white colonial media and discussing with white colonial settlers about how right the white colonial media is about those evil foreigners is somehow juxtaposed against other people being an echo chamber.
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