**Important Note To New Readers: This author always write in British (Commonwealth) English and his spellings reflect that fact** Wagner’s main theatre of activities has always been on the African continent. This is one corner of the planet where Prigozhin ran into an easy windfall, earning from desperate governments either through direct cash payments or via acquisition of lucrative mining concessions. It was never accurate to say that Wagner was merely a front for the Russian Ministry of Defence with Prigozhin as a figurehead. It was much more than that, as Putin himself alluded to when he qualified his statements about Kremlin’s huge payments to Wagner by adding that the mercenary outfit also made money that “
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A wonderful deep dive into history, from a progressive perspective. Thank you.