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a little too double. 07 james bond dish become more so than america announcing with new actions at we are going to be taken to counter the russian private military company known as wagner. the department of treasury will be designated wagner as a significant transnational criminal organization under executive order. 13581 as amended in coordination with this designation. we will also impose additional sanctions next week against wagner and its support network across multiple continents. these actions recognize the trans continental threat that wagner poses, including through its ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity. with these actions, and they'll be more to come our message to any company that is considering providing support to wagner is simply this by there's a criminal organization that is continuing wide, i'm sorry, committing widespread atrocities and human rights abuses. and we will work relentlessly to identify, disrupt, expose, and target. those are assisting wagner,

a little bit rich, considering that there are dozens of american private military companies currently operation around the world. so what's the defense? wagner is russian. and at the moment, anything russian is bad means these, you know, there was a rush. i said, i'm in africa called the wagner group. it's pronounced lag. now, if you've never heard of the rag now. good. now italian wagner has been hired by the government for security services into gar, diamond in gold mines. also invited by the government of molly in west africa and they are suspected to have been involved in a massacre in mora, molly, and what they do is they do dirty work. they do assassinations, they do military admissions. the extortion, all kinds of things like that, where rushes want to distance themselves from, from they are made the regular army,

a navy sales and guy known as wagner group, a navy seals mainly do special operation. the wagner group, they've taken over a whole country your while with our forces were officially requested in a number of african countries, including marley and the central african republic. the hills of these countries have repeatedly stated the impulse of the help of the wagner group. as provided in conflict written regions, the central african republic parliament leader once again explains a significance of wagner's activities in his country. she had killenger, people were killed here, the c a r's army couldn't cope with it. but now thanks to the presence of our friends, the russian army through wanda's army, the minutia troops, we were able to achieve peace in the central african republic of i don't know the wagner group. i only know that when our government signed an agreement with russia, the russian government provided us with the soldiers. i'm not trying to find out which group president putin decided to send us to insure security in the c a r. for

us, it's just russians who have arrived in the c a r. for those of you not familiar with the terminology. wagner is a p. m p, a private military company. now this is not something new for decades. governments have been hiring pm fees to assist the military with operations named like black water, triple canopy, aronoff, and frontier services group, or a few that might be familiar to you. one of these are american owned and wait for it. interestingly enough, not considered terrorist by washington. so what's the difference for security reasons? i'll next interview we asked not to be seen on camera. he is a private military contractor who has worked with wagner in africa. kaiser, thank you very much for joining us. where have you been in africa and who have he worked for? well, my korean contracting started in africa, then move to the middle east and then come back to africa and 2 years. and the jobs

all very similar. it just depends which country and which government working for at the time? how much do you get paid if you don't mind telling us pay not as for pmc, we're very so much for a contract, a contract and job to job. you're doing stuff regarding it's one salary and if you're treating job b. s d work, the salaries are completely different. but i think in general, you look at anything from starting salaries from $8.00 to $12000.00 a month going all the way up to $20000.00 a month. and it's visual circumstances you do year of cases where the guys are and in $2000.00 a day, which gives you another indication on why the gods drew the contract. what is the most interesting thing or things that you've done to 1st time that adult the wagner goes, was in northern, wasn't because i had received a contract from the most would be, could government to help con,

stop terrorism activities in the north. the received cornered directly from a dormant time. it wasn't because we were not employed by wagner, but as consultants on the side to help him with understanding all the area and sort of his local offices just to assist him in performing the duties in northern was being at that time, there were 3 or 4 different p m, she was operating the same area. but all those wagner was the biggest one. probably one of the best example shoes, fabia and she's, we used to be restored in the country, was in northern virginia. when those letters were calling articles, i didn't order the country, even kidnapping over 200 school girls at one point during our forces, couldn't stop them. and she was hired and it took them a couple of weeks that were pretty equipped bit armed or better trained than what's in your insecurity forces where it was in a couple of weeks they're able to push the surgeons right out of the north and calm

the whole situation done something that the niger and armed forces couldn't do for 6 years. in what capacity have you worked with wagner? i think for each contract of the own. so we'll do pretty similar at the end of the day. is that most of us on off in the armed forces and once we had lifted, we had a certain filtered retreat. we couldn't apply anywhere else but to go to contracting. and if we take into consideration at that time, you know, the middle east spring up was iraq, afghanistan, syria, that was happening. so there was a huge move on age military guys who are the right age going through. some of the eastern countries wanting to rock was probably the beginning of contracting as we know today. on a big scale there were pmc use that existed years before that. but not on the sco luck resorting iraq where governments were contracting. pnc is to do government

work for these reports about wagner. thing all these bad things, have you seen them? i assume you have and what do you make of them? i personally haven't seen any of your trustees wagner were accused over there working emotional b. i know that every time a p m. she does go into an area. there are a lot of horror stories. natures are myself having seen that normally when you're dealing with bmc such as wagner, while the top pimps used to talk the folders that are included into those organizations on the exceptional soldiers or conduct themselves that way. you know, the situation are going to say that it has never happened, but i myself have not seen it, especially not with regular. how does the process actually work? so wagner is invited by a government to come an assisted. what happens from them? what would happen if you get contracted at africa?

it's a government that doesn't, so the government would put out a call for help or directly contact pnc. with a specific job, there may be civil unrest. there may be violence, it may be rebels in the area which the government handle can deal with. that may not be equipped to deal with that they will employ the pmc, whether it's wagner or another, one to come out under the government. so there were directly with armed forces of the country. they work under the government and they work with governments or internationally recognized by the united nations. so that government employs them under j. k. diving door into the area and perform the duties, making the reserve, making sure that peace gets kept in the area. perhaps it would be in a lot of african countries. we have situations where the men or resources are being exploited by rebels in order to buy weapons to fight. in those case, the pubes would then go and protect the natural resources that the money goes

through to the government and not fall into rebel ends. this would be the normal workers or pmc being hired in africa. exactly what happened, emotion be happening. so it's happened in central african republic, logics thinking that the seat. so the evidence is there were over that she's all hired by government directly to come and perform the duties that the government can perform. one of the amazing things that everybody talks a lot toward the future, but nobody mentioned to us companies and academy, among the most probably probably were the 2 companies operating in africa today in conjunction with the forces african countries. what do you think of the us trying to brand wagner a terrorist organization? i think in my experience, working across africa and in the middle east, i think whatever doesn't shoot, united states is branded as terrorism. wagner is no different any other american

pmc that's operating in africa or that operated in iraq or afghanistan? it's exactly the same principle. it's just that i don't think research them are good narrative. i don't think the american agenda, which is why they paint everything with a terrorism brush. i think a lot of people, what if anything has got to do with perception and perhaps the monopoly that the waste has on the mainstream praise. we do see a lot of crews, well, where we have troubles are now starting to be playing through the terrorism brush. and this allows for maximum force to be used in those situations. because it all falls under the umbrella of combating terrorism. what is the difference between wagner and an american pmc like black water? if it's g, difference between any of the she's breaking today. whether it's wagner group, where there was black water from the old days, if you are in a frontier and she can read dragon out of china, i don't think there's

a difference at all. the companies will start to the same way more or less the same sort of people. there's actually no sugar and there's a difference at all. i just think nowadays that if you don't agree with a waste a narrative, you're completely branded a terrorist and outside of every single day. but even no matter what functional who you're working for, it's double standards in calling one peace keeping force and the other one a terrorist organization. so i don't think there's a difference in the companies at all. i just a goods who's calling the shots that becomes french. how often is that the government to use the p and c? and how do you see the future of war? is it government versus governmental government versus rebel forces? or is it going to be pmc versus pmc? regina has been used relatively extensively and africa with great success. they've been very successful in operation that they've undertaken across africa,

and that it is into the organization. i think there will be utilize more and more. the country see the benefit of having a well trained, well armed entity in your country under the government control. i do think that that's going to it's going to spread out across africa, being more and more countries are going to use that to their advantage. and i think we will see companies like wagner just because begun stronger it happened was black water. if it happened in iraq, it happened didn't have any stand. so it has happened. wherever the future is available, the companies will react and the companies will grow. so that's definitely what we see happening in africa at the moment the companies are growing exponentially, the demand for the companies is growing exponentially. and i just don't surely being an into that i don't think anybody can stop that. the future of want is changing and contractors are playing an ever increasing role. the united states is

more than a rock and gun is done with such that for every american soldier, it was at least one contractor. at the height of those was contractors made up between 50 to 70 percent of the u. s. for structure, by comparison, only 10 percent of the force was contracted in world war 2. contractors did most of the bleeding in iraq and afghanistan at the height of the was more contractors were killed than military personnel. mocking the 1st time in history that corporate casualties outweighed military losses on us battlefields, wounded or dead. contractors save clients money because they do not have to pay contract, hospital bills or veteran benefits. ultimately, contractors are disposable people. back mercenaries in the past. whack me is currently in several african countries, libya, sudan, marlene mozambique bettina fossa and the central african republic. we spoke to people on the ground to gauge their opinions. a

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group looks close now, to a political analyst, molly, who has extensively studied pm sees, especially wagner. yes, it is white copy of that for of course we give them why do with countries including us apps or receives against the private military. funny vanetta because he's in a fight off in free of his if fights for it to retreat. because the, you know, if we talk about the background, for example, in the sixty's, when they,

after some african countries were having debt independent countries like my li, nick, we're lucky, gunner, and so on. we're too close to russia months, few years ago after some quoted that a good shift. there was a change and do with come 3. it went back again with france or re 10 or you with day written day m riddle and they left the cord. why atmosphere, where there were some countries with the extra credit union and some countries with us and european countries. that's why now the wisdom countries, including who a thing that african should continue to belong to them for an interest for dad

investment. and they should they get advantage from the african it resources. that's why they don't want washer troll it's private committee. did a company to involve in africa and also been if it's for some african versus the only thing ease because it's been a long it belongs to wasa. why if it's belonging to a western county like us lake australia, lake farms, law, yankee yuki, or a european, a classical european country. they won't say nothing that was said at if it's something normal because if it worthy in what they wants in what they wish, the ease is dead interests. but if it is vanetta because these but the interests of west thus wide out was it induct. if not wary of that of berries, the conflict or some dead insecurity, waiting on some comb, frees up

a car for some private military companies. sometimes it's long but sometimes sometimes unknown. oh, they don't talk about it. i thought we'd some people leading in descent that'll from my lead the region of morphy, for example. i said, what about diffusion of wagner? because we have a living in the town, like i said, what, what is going on basically? yes, when vanelle came to support it in 1000000 military, it's else a lot. i said, oh, it did do no doubt it's out. they say that it for the for default people would use their guns, their weapons. and after that, they hide that whip one day and melt in the normal population. lake ha m has bad lake ha. and normal farmers and immersion. the 1000000 sold just normal money until jim ford didn't notice that day out of j. diesel activities or an

army group people involving in the normal population. but to with finance this it up. did it is days sold jets of veneer. have it kind of devise a kind of machine if they ports it to print that off that would of someone dakin. no doubt. if the person has been using it, we pin on a gun few days ago. even few weeks ago, and if this is the case, they take the pendulum and they bring it or they came to pass on. that's why did he's the little chant when a button that never came into of mud. well, that brings us to the end of the suite, so we'll keep an eye on washington's efforts to classify wagner as a terrorist organization. but i leave you with the same question we asked at the beginning, what is the difference between wagner and other private military companies?

why is wagner alone being singled? art is the unsafe simply because it's russian. we'd want to hear your feedback. please be in touch and join us again next week when we explore the growing refugee crisis in africa and bring you a report from the world's biggest refugee camp until then from me and the teen. good bye. ah ah, in the least hunter, russian state will never. i've stayed on the northland scheme development. i'm not getting all some set up for a group in the 55 when. okay, so man,

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