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Wagner and The Hague and Other Stories

Nadin Brzezinski
7 min readJan 9, 2025

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This is a critical correction, and thanks to one of my readers for this. The American Enterprise Insitute was not involved in Project 2025. For that matter, they are defenders of aid to Ukraine. As I said in the comments, I am not above fact-checking.

These two short paragraphs matter a lot. This is where Russia is going. This is now set in some stone. Russia is now seen as a threat by Europeans:

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly recognized Wagner as a terrorist organization and Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Now Putin’s Russian Federation is officially equated with ISIS, led by an international war criminal wanted by The Hague.

Well, that’s a success. In just 20 years, from a G8 country to North Korea in Europe. No one has ever done that.

Wagner is deployed across Africa, Venezuela, and Latin America. This matters because they are deniable assets for Russia’s foreign policy. While Syria is no longer a place of deployment, I find it curious that we’re in Iraq and Yemen.

Be as it may, the comparison to ISIS is what it is. However, that is a comparison made by the Russian channel. They also sense Russia is heading towards a closed society like North Korea.

This brings me to two pieces related to rewarding Vladimir Putin. The first is Belarus. It may become the consolation prize for Moscow if it does not get all it wants from Kyiv, which is all of Ukraine:

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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