Seen from afar, mercenaries are interesting people eager to see the world. Simon Mann, one of the last great made in UK, asked the legendary Scottish military and aristocrat David Stirling for advice, to become a good mercenary.
- You always have to go for the jugular, Simon. By the jugular...
Yevgeny Prigozhin has confronted the boss, but, when it comes to the truth, he has not gone for the jugular. spiffed up He has been sent to prison in Belarus - presided over by a dictator who owes everything to Putin and is a subordinate - he has left his boys behind and does not seem to be the kind of alternative that the intelligence services Western intelligence look to promote in these circumstances. I'd say he's got his months to live...
Wagner's future points to liquidation, as has happened to so many other Western mercenary companies. The armies remain, the Sandline, Blackwater and Wagner pass, an ephemeral and bloody trace, very typical of globalization and its double game. They privatize wars, pay very well and for objectives, exceed in cruelty for dirty jobs and disappear. In the case of Blackwater, famous during the Iraq war, the end had to do with it: avoid litigation and save money. So that later they speak ill of capitalism...
Wagner has come further than we could all imagine. Without the charismatic Prigozhin, it must be assumed that the mercenaries will do what they have always done: go home or find another employer. Of course, they will have many chances to find work soon, especially in Africa, where some of the presidents and failed states already depended on Russian mercenaries. Another professional outlet is the protection services for large companies that extract natural resources on the continent.
The 21st century gives them as much ground to run in as the 20th century in Rhodesia, Biafra and Katanga, a fact that casts doubt on the progress of humanity. Syria, Libya, Mali, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic... Today here, tomorrow there. There is never a shortage of volunteers. It is clear that if you look around, it is more incomprehensible to risk your life to photograph the remains of the Titanic...
