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  Plenty of translatable skills between factional violence in central africa and a conventional war in east europe during wintertime.
context: Now we know what the recent announcement about releasing prisoners who had survived their tour in Ukraine being released was about. Promise made. Promise kept. They're trying to get new recruites... >
  
  Wait, so the fucking Wagner Group has a more honorable word than the Russian government?!
  This is literally how warlords build loyalty and start coups. >
  
  They took 30000 prisoners, and we heard of a few that completed their term.
  Not great odds - Basically cannon-fodder sent to run in and soak up bullets. >
  
  It’s not like they showed the prisoners by name, it was just a bunch of “prisoners”. I’m sure those “prisoners” are going to show up again in future recruitment videos. >
  
  Ran out of Russian prisoners already?
  My, that was quick. >
  
  They've also been recruiting from prisons in the Central African Republic. Gonna be fun when the survivors from that group get released back into society .... >
  
  Some of those prisoners in CAR are combat experienced. A lot of wars in Central Africa and Congo