Inside Prigozhin’s Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company | WSJ Documentary

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  • @david8157
    @david8157 Рік тому +4635

    The secret war company the whole world knows about...

    • @zbigniewdzwonkowski3536
      @zbigniewdzwonkowski3536 Рік тому +327

      What the next ...about Blackwater...

    • @jawde355
      @jawde355 Рік тому +370

      Isn't all US Marines, navy... a much bigger Business by selling democracy to countries never asked for that but finally having to pay a much bigger price?

    • @dennisyoung7363
      @dennisyoung7363 Рік тому +196

      Like the CIA

    • @Andron152
      @Andron152 Рік тому

      they were secret until the war started

    • @rias.gremoryyy
      @rias.gremoryyy Рік тому

      Like most CIA's war crimes and crimes against humanity

  • @lenvg9891
    @lenvg9891 Рік тому +1506

    "Wagner is nothing like what Americans might understand as a private military company, Wagner are mercinaries for hire." Ok true but didn't America themselves extensively use PMC like Blackwater in Afghanistan? Furthermore these PMC also commited warcrimes and were funded by billions of tax payer money. So if Wagner is a terrorist group what does that make Blackwater?

    • @A.B.5KRVw
      @A.B.5KRVw Рік тому +206

      Its always hard to face your own weapons.

    • @necromusic3726
      @necromusic3726 Рік тому

      What a way of justifying war crimes, if `murica did it back in the day russia can commit it too

    • @chrisburke624
      @chrisburke624 Рік тому +171

      I'm actually glad you brought up this comparison, because there is a HUGE difference the two that isn't easily seen on the surface.
      The US used extensive PMC support throughout their operations in both countries. Some of the stuff that we never hear about are the companies that provide wifi to bases, cooking & good services, sanitation services, etc.
      In Iraq (where things got pretty crazy) the media completely butchered what actually happened, and dictated the narrative that everybody else reacted to & believed (including politicians)
      There is a VERY GOOD interview on the Shawn Ryan Show with all 4 guys who were involved in the so-called 'massacre' - and another interview with Eric Prince, the founder & CEO.
      I don't want to mess up what may be important details or leave anything out, but YT 'Shawn Ryan Show' and then write 'Blackwater' after, for a bunch of interviews about what really happened...
      Did people die that shouldn't have? Probably yes. But when you hear about how crazy that area actually was at the time, you can start to understand why threats were perceived as they were.
      (Wagner literally films themselves smashing people with sledgehammers & machetes)

    • @Civiczz_
      @Civiczz_ Рік тому +43

      Black water only had one instance of a major war crime and it got them destroyed

    • @dmitrijpanin4051
      @dmitrijpanin4051 Рік тому +99

      @@Civiczz_ :D hilarious, destroyed the name, because transferred to: Xe Services LLC, then: Academi, now: Constellis Holdings. Leave you bcrap to yourself

  • @artemasward5842
    @artemasward5842 Рік тому +3653

    Maskim Borodin was a Russian reporter trying to help the Wagner Group widows after Wagner attacked American positions in Syria. When 200 Wagner mercenarys were killed in 15 minutes, because they were ordered to attacked over open terrain, Maskim Borodin started going to the funerals back in Russia and asking questions about getting combat pay for the widows. Maskim died when he fell off his balcony.

    • @uceumice
      @uceumice Рік тому

      And Putin's regime are the people who tolerate, create and enjoy the violence created from the void of democratic and prevalence of uncivilized, autocratic, criminal, stubborn and unresponsive rule.

    • @EvacuationRoute101
      @EvacuationRoute101 Рік тому +218

      @@TinaHenderson-cl9mb best comment!! ...and don't drink tea, not even with people who you consider your friends :)

    • @mitchyoung93
      @mitchyoung93 Рік тому +320

      Why would a contractor get some sort of state benefit for his family if killed? It works thee same way in the US...stay in the military proper and get all kinds of extras or become a contractor and get more money up front but few to no benefits.

    • @thegamelife9
      @thegamelife9 Рік тому

      It was not 200 most of them where Syrian only 17 Wagner where killed well 30 injured 🤡 get your facts straight

    • @chubsdubs279
      @chubsdubs279 Рік тому +6

      ❤😂

  • @SeekSeekerMaster
    @SeekSeekerMaster Рік тому +597

    It's hilarious to see how they never said these things for American and British PMC's.

    • @TheSatchmo93
      @TheSatchmo93 8 місяців тому +63

      I mean what did blackwater do in Iraq that was that different? Prince has said that his mission was to kill Muslims and that they did, when they entered a civilian area while traveling between bases they would just open fire blindly so that the locals learned to see them coming and flee. This is a war crime, targeting civilians at random? No soldier would lay claim to such dishonor, and direct perversion of the code of conduct. But mercenaries sell their honor to the highest bidder

    • @yoursmellymotheryourfuckin8074
      @yoursmellymotheryourfuckin8074 8 місяців тому +7

      I'm glad not everyone is stupid

    • @kevincook1618
      @kevincook1618 8 місяців тому +2

      Ganz meine meinung!

    • @aleczelensky5925
      @aleczelensky5925 8 місяців тому +4

      Maybe because it would be so dramatic to found out, that instead kidnapping, murdering, racketeering and eliminate regime enemies, those guys doing private contract security in unstable countries. This would be infobomb, huh?

    • @aKalishnacough
      @aKalishnacough 7 місяців тому +3

      Black water uses a rifle. Wagner uses a howitzer.

  • @jasminerichardson1237
    @jasminerichardson1237 Рік тому +3525

    This episode needs a part 2 immediately because how the tables have turned 😅. Very interesting.

    • @LaymanGamin
      @LaymanGamin Рік тому +69

      The chickens are coming home to roost

    • @Jaad-g2n
      @Jaad-g2n Рік тому +13

      no

    • @javacofe
      @javacofe Рік тому +21

      Indeed. It's now the "FO" part of "FAFO" for Yevgeny Prigozhin

    • @CarterHayes77
      @CarterHayes77 Рік тому +37

      No they haven’t..

    • @ianmackenzie1564
      @ianmackenzie1564 Рік тому +84

      8h old comment didn’t age well 😂

  • @videoscontrabandos3879
    @videoscontrabandos3879 Рік тому +1194

    As a Colombia national, I can tell you from experience, this is what happens when you give a paramilitary group more money and power than the actual army.

  • @commandermcnash5137
    @commandermcnash5137 Рік тому +2024

    And now we all expect Part 2: Prigozhin's Heresy and Wagner's road to Moscow.

    • @josefkay5013
      @josefkay5013 Рік тому +30

      An episode also known as Vlad's Butcher Comes Home to Roost. Cue laughtrack, cornball Russian theme song.

    • @abhishektiwari6037
      @abhishektiwari6037 Рік тому +2

      Ha ha

    • @andrewdeen1
      @andrewdeen1 Рік тому +17

      Part 2: Prigozhin Running to his Own Death (the squeakquel)

    • @KGI_KlikoNL
      @KGI_KlikoNL Рік тому +3

      But now suddenly can concentrate on militairy things only and leave citizens alone, at least till now in Rostov

    • @mohdashrof152
      @mohdashrof152 Рік тому

      COBRA group birth ....GI Joe will be too

  • @manojmathew5727
    @manojmathew5727 Рік тому +7

    I pray wholeheartedly for those who lost their lives, homes and loved ones, let god shall be with them and peace be with them

  • @Valdorel
    @Valdorel Рік тому +501

    "Wagner is nothing like what Americans might understand as a Private military company" .... Your description is exactly equivalent to American PMCs in the Middle East, Africa, and South America... Did we suddenly forget that Blackwater exists?

    • @benjifoucher
      @benjifoucher Рік тому +39

      Blackwater is not nearly as prevalent around the world in the passed decade. They lost a lot of domestic support. Meanwhile, Wagner has expanded its influence considerably.

    • @copperbeckville1853
      @copperbeckville1853 Рік тому

      Another low-iq whataboutism argument. Blackwater was never used as an active military force, conducting offensive missions. They were essentially body guards in military uniforms carrying small arms and never numbered more than 1000. They operate with permission of the country's they're in. And when the Nisour Square Massacre happened, justice was swift with convictions... But then your buddy Donald Trump pardoned them. Yeah, you forgot about that. Any comparison to the highly militarized Wagner group which is Putin’s secret private army and death squad he inserts in independent foreign countries without their knowledge or approval, conducting large offensive operations, in some cases with orders to assassinate is quite frankly silly. They number over 50,000, and now count violent criminals in their ranks, using the full power of a country's military short of nukes. And face zero liability for their actions, wether those are civil or criminal. Stop being a lazy dum@ss. We have a country filling with these types.

    • @cmcarms4910
      @cmcarms4910 Рік тому

      Man we don’t care all we all no is Russia is not wrong stop trying to trick us since the USA have been taking all the world to war they have to stop

    • @hannobaali_makendali
      @hannobaali_makendali Рік тому +11

      Dyncorps?

    • @Deadpoolion
      @Deadpoolion Рік тому +60

      ​@@benjifoucher Well, the mercenaries from Blackwaters shot civilians just for fun and also sold weapons contraband, of course, after such they will have problems with hiring. They even renamed several times due to press hype to Xe Services LLCC and Academi and now Constellis Holdings.

  • @Mr.SKIFLANDIAN
    @Mr.SKIFLANDIAN Рік тому +921

    In general, of course, this is not a private military company. This is a full-fledged private army. By the type of those armies that were in Medieval Europe. They are not guards, they are soldiers. A unique phenomenon in the modern world.

    • @tewsscharly6841
      @tewsscharly6841 Рік тому +82

      Unique phenomenon in the modern world? haha are you blind or what?

    • @Mr.SKIFLANDIAN
      @Mr.SKIFLANDIAN Рік тому +26

      @@tewsscharly6841 You're just off topic)

    • @brandonblackfyre5783
      @brandonblackfyre5783 Рік тому +28

      It can be classified as a PMC group as well though. No matter how large the group is. It can be a PMC and a private military army as well

    • @smplfi9859
      @smplfi9859 Рік тому

      now try to understand Russia is not the only country who operates these types of (non national) groups. America had Blackwater that became Triple Canopy then formed what is known as Contellis. America has other silent departments like all the Signals groups, that commit activity under the US badge but claim nothing for the very same country they derive authority. Qatar and Turkey collude in funding groups as well. Israel has a pretty infamous one themselves that uses the leverage of blackmail against foreign diplomats. Cuba operates a prominent one. China operates many both inside and outside China.

    • @AbuHajarAlBugatti
      @AbuHajarAlBugatti Рік тому +44

      Bro they have been around these Pmc even in the west since the 80s. And blackwater actively helped in the iraq and afghan war and has US army train at its huge trainings centres bro because blackwater owns one of the biggest military training facilities in the world

  • @BactrianNomad
    @BactrianNomad Рік тому +264

    Is there any difference between Wagner group and any other American private armies?

    • @ericeisenhofer2867
      @ericeisenhofer2867 Рік тому +118

      Only that the US does a lot more of this, in every corner of the world.

    • @mysticnovelbro
      @mysticnovelbro Рік тому +61

      and has done so for much longer too

    • @MuhammedMuhammed-xd7qo
      @MuhammedMuhammed-xd7qo Рік тому

      Yeah, Wagner is helping rich Russian oligarchs make money at the expense of everyone else, and American PMCs help rich American oligarchs make money at the expense of everyone else. Hence why Wagner bad but Blackwater good, because you see, those rich American oligarchs using private military forces to destabilize and loot countries are the good guys, while Putler is a big ol' meanie.

    • @seb1554
      @seb1554 Рік тому +40

      No but don’t tell that to all of the people who think they are morally superior, they don’t care.

    • @hidude177
      @hidude177 Рік тому +5

      @@ericeisenhofer2867 source?

  • @DJ-GASM
    @DJ-GASM Рік тому +475

    "Wagner is nothing like what Americans might understand. It's a private military company."
    *Blackwater has entered the chat.*
    (edit for grammar)

    • @danielj1063
      @danielj1063 Рік тому +2

      😅

    • @leandroCaveira1
      @leandroCaveira1 Рік тому +48

      I thought just exactly the same thing. It's just utterly pathetic that united statians will bluntly believe their private military companies are unblemished.

    • @Eriku69
      @Eriku69 Рік тому +36

      Clean your ears man, he said "Wagner is nothing like what Americans might understand AS a private military company". Embarrassing, really

    • @heshanlakshan7350
      @heshanlakshan7350 Рік тому +19

      When wagnar enter the chat blackwater left the chat 😂💔

    • @deluca4750
      @deluca4750 Рік тому +8

      @@leandroCaveira1 Blackwater was massive news and it ruined the reputation of PMC's for most of the general public. But don't let reality get in the way of your ignorant hatred. ;)

  • @encore3707
    @encore3707 Рік тому +147

    'they are nothing like an7y private military company you've heard of' goes on to describe every private military company/mercenary from the beginning of time.

    • @benayers8622
      @benayers8622 Рік тому +3

      lol! For those who never followed metal gear solid

    • @altymogo3781
      @altymogo3781 Рік тому +5

      It’s a hook. Meant to bring the reader/viewer closer to the text/documentary. This could be exaggerated or untrue.😮😮😮😮😮😂

  • @AnarcoGelain
    @AnarcoGelain Рік тому +478

    Very good. Can we get one like that about Blackwater, Légion étrangère and other "exotic" forces?

    • @ЮрийПоповский-е7з
      @ЮрийПоповский-е7з Рік тому

      Of course not!! Butchers who have killed hundreds of thousands of people in Serbia, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan pay for hate propaganda against Russians!!

    • @commercialbreak8290
      @commercialbreak8290 Рік тому +68

      The french "Legión Étrangère" is not a private army group. It’s a French army corp who can hire foreigners.

    • @AnarcoGelain
      @AnarcoGelain Рік тому +30

      @@commercialbreak8290 I didn't say it was private. But clearly it's not like other regular armies and would be interesting to watch a documentary about it.

    • @xxHansSoloxx
      @xxHansSoloxx Рік тому +23

      I think there are a lot of documentaries about the Legión Étrangère, and they are under French Military control, they even wear the same uniform and flag, but there is of course a reason why this Legion does so long exist. It is much different to tell your fellow country men that they're sons, brothers died in a conflict, then some foreigners fighting under your flag and get sent where ever the government sees fit and die maybe where they get sent. I have never seen where PMC's or Legioners death were protested.

    • @zues9614
      @zues9614 Рік тому

      ​@@commercialbreak8290 yeah they usually oppress their own people for France, that's lower dignity then mercs.

  • @adfggffffffddffd
    @adfggffffffddffd Рік тому +48

    For westerners struggling to understand what Wagner group is, it's basically just Russian Blackwater.

  • @mishmohd
    @mishmohd Рік тому +478

    I have a question: European miners have been mining in CAR long before Wagner came in. Why have they never bothered industrializing the mines? Industrialization reduces labor's exposure to hazards such as physical injuries or chemical interactions. Why have these rich, powerful European mining companies never bothered protecting these laborers or transfer technology - that is archaic by today's standards by the way - to CAR?

    • @900distribution7
      @900distribution7 Рік тому +40

      Great question

    • @andreyknyazev9179
      @andreyknyazev9179 Рік тому +109

      very good question. And the answer is...the labourers were the people of the lower sort for them and they did not care.

    • @antoniolsls7774
      @antoniolsls7774 Рік тому

      if its the West doing its okay thats how the world works, West good the rest evil....

    • @vovathecreator7024
      @vovathecreator7024 Рік тому +111

      everything that the defenders of democracy do is always good, even if it is bad.

    • @900distribution7
      @900distribution7 Рік тому +13

      @@vovathecreator7024 good sarcasm

  • @grumpygardner3059
    @grumpygardner3059 Рік тому +313

    I'd heard of Wagner from their Syrian and Ukraine actions but hadn't heard of them in Africa.
    Thanks for your work.

    • @userAS456
      @userAS456 Рік тому

      On start of that video we see that just propaganda story, bcs no one from freedom ppl in Siria, African country and especially Bakhmut's citizens never say something bad against them. Especially very funny about how Russia try steal other resorces.

    • @831lance
      @831lance Рік тому

      What’s interesting to me is that they choose to portray a very one sided story while leaving out the United States is illegally stealing Syrian oil at 100% margins & that Wagner is simply hired to help keep the thieves out. It’s a mutual agreement between Syria & Wagner. No different than the incredibly high import taxes the US forces on foreign countries. The moment you dig deeper is the moment you realize this is clearly a propaganda piece. Wagner has statues in Africa by the way. For helping stability not destabilizing like the US is often responsible for.

    • @sequoia1171
      @sequoia1171 Рік тому +3

      Not for nothing, but Syria is in Africa

    • @ShloppyShmeat
      @ShloppyShmeat Рік тому +55

      @@sequoia1171 It is not. Syria is on the continent of Asia.

    • @userAS456
      @userAS456 Рік тому +6

      @@sequoia1171 that true, no one cant work for free, not in military sphere. And no, Siria not Africa.

  • @demeter-the-great
    @demeter-the-great Рік тому +450

    One of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a while, WSJ. We need part 2 now with what’s happening with the Group.

    • @elbardthawne7568
      @elbardthawne7568 Рік тому +8

      they're getting stronger and stronger with the increasing power of Russia and Asia.

    • @te9591
      @te9591 Рік тому +14

      Then, a part 3 to see if Putin assassinates Prozhin.

    • @laneinthebeat8148
      @laneinthebeat8148 Рік тому

      By far the worst western garbage propaganda

    • @disconductorder
      @disconductorder Рік тому

      Except they just gloss over the fact US troops were filmed taking oil
      They will cry all day and night about Russian propaganda, meanwhile its all projection.
      US troops were transporting oil out of Syria, atleast Wagner had permission from Syrian government and vice acts like they are stealing it.
      Vice has become well funded propaganda, they were decent in 2014 at start of Ukraines war on the Donbass. They spent 120+ episode looking for 'Russians meddling in Donbass Ukraine', long story short-after checking many ID's-never found any.
      Vice- 'Russian Roulette', Vice is curiously quiet about those earlier documentaries making their propaganda purpose more obvious bc it betrays their current narative of 'Russia invaded for no reason'. complete Rubbish

    • @RamoLago-z8i
      @RamoLago-z8i Рік тому +4

      ​@@te9591nope

  • @Maximusesss
    @Maximusesss 11 місяців тому +30

    Thank you for the opportunity to participate and work on this project! 🎥

  • @oriddle8347
    @oriddle8347 Рік тому +243

    1:13 Love when he said Americans wouldn’t understand the concept of private military’s as if some of the largest aren’t American

    • @marcusr2392
      @marcusr2392 Рік тому +110

      And then he lists horrible things they do as if American soldiers haven't done the same and worse 🤣🤣🤣

    • @ajajaaukka
      @ajajaaukka Рік тому +37

      whataboutism detected in this thread

    • @myname-mz3lo
      @myname-mz3lo Рік тому

      @@ajajaaukka nope . whataboutism is something else . this is just stating that the so called "great journalists" forgot to mention how russia is copying what america has dont for decades .. and pretending like it is new . do you let internet pre-chew all your arguements ?

    • @Krikker
      @Krikker Рік тому +58

      @@ajajaaukkathis documentary is a overdramaticism and wrongism on many thingsism

    • @johnwildish8599
      @johnwildish8599 Рік тому

      the USA is hypocrites at the highest order... Black Water

  • @BayAreaMotorcycleCommuting
    @BayAreaMotorcycleCommuting Рік тому +417

    Thank you WSJ for doing such important work

    • @robertmaybeth3434
      @robertmaybeth3434 Рік тому

      great video, much too long.

    • @BayAreaMotorcycleCommuting
      @BayAreaMotorcycleCommuting Рік тому +15

      @@robertmaybeth3434 Conveying this much information simply takes time; a shorter video wouldn't have the same level of depth and detail. Either way, I always watch these on 1.5x or 2.0x playback speed to reduce my overall watch time

    • @globaladdict
      @globaladdict Рік тому

      ​@Robert Maybeth you just have a short attention span amd aren't suited for tackling complicated issues in life. Maybe stick to tiktok?

    • @robertmaybeth3434
      @robertmaybeth3434 Рік тому

      @@BayAreaMotorcycleCommuting you too huh? Yeah most videos can greatly be improved by speeding them up, I do that for almost all of them

    • @randomguy7175
      @randomguy7175 Рік тому

      No private Nazi forces from west fighting in Ukraine!?
      No wonder western people are so dumb , they believe in CIA propaganda 24/7

  • @markv9521
    @markv9521 Рік тому +159

    Certainly one of THE BEST documentaries I have seen on this topic! Thank you!

    • @alextanui1086
      @alextanui1086 Рік тому +2

      It sums it all....
      One fact...Putin knows them well

    • @barryle516
      @barryle516 Рік тому

      Shut up colonizer

    • @johnskrelnik
      @johnskrelnik Рік тому

      LOL @BEST

    • @mac9954
      @mac9954 Рік тому +2

      @@alextanui1086 War crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States of America.

    • @carlov2844
      @carlov2844 Рік тому

      do you really believe alot of this? the video at the start of Yevgeny Prigozhin in the jkail looks deepfaked and cgi. The picture of the russian soldier standing by himself in front of a mosc is also staged. Look how new/clean his clothes and equipment are, if he was actually there he'd be filthy and also wearing a mask to keep the dust out... rewatch it and tell me you don't see these things.

  • @navinnavin2498
    @navinnavin2498 Рік тому +624

    Need more documentaries like this

    • @anr287
      @anr287 Рік тому +84

      Need a documentary like this about the mercenary company named "Blackwater".

    • @徐坤蔡-t9m
      @徐坤蔡-t9m Рік тому

      @@anr287 😢现实真有黑水公司吗?早就听说过这个黑暗的雇佣兵集团

    • @pete7110
      @pete7110 Рік тому +15

      @@jasonhuntchicago haha there is always an empty head in these comments

    • @BlackCit
      @BlackCit Рік тому +8

      @@anr287 Not a mercenary company.

    • @ElonMuskab01
      @ElonMuskab01 Рік тому

      @@BlackCit Hello 👋🏻 Big Fan🚀

  • @samsherwood2836
    @samsherwood2836 Рік тому +118

    Who's here learning about Wagner before the civil War breaks out?

    • @helloyoutube1338
      @helloyoutube1338 Рік тому +2

      me of course, currently now the situation is now more complex

    • @CarterHayes77
      @CarterHayes77 Рік тому +1

      They turned back ?

    • @drmartin5062
      @drmartin5062 Рік тому +3

      Learning? It’s all been scrubbed. The time to learn has passed. Who knows what’s happening

    • @DeepDeepest
      @DeepDeepest Рік тому +1

      What about now?

    • @OGL_Purple_Bee
      @OGL_Purple_Bee Рік тому

      The civil war was over before it had even begun

  • @Benny_San
    @Benny_San Рік тому +539

    We Americans are home to a privately owned mercenary group called Academy formerly known as Blackwater run by Eric Prince brother of Betsy DeVos who was former U.S. secretary of education.

    • @PSonak
      @PSonak Рік тому +40

      Which country did Blackwater steal resources from?

    • @zues9614
      @zues9614 Рік тому +192

      ​​@@PSonak Iraq Syria Afghanistan Libya Yemen and most Africa they got very rich from just killing alone.

    • @ornament_of_throne12346
      @ornament_of_throne12346 Рік тому +44

      @@PSonak you better not ask that

    • @KevinJohnson-cv2no
      @KevinJohnson-cv2no Рік тому

      Academi (Blackwater) never exploited resources. It never pillaged as Wagner did; but merely provided security solutions in their respective domains. Yes, they did have mishaps where they abused force against civilians and citizens. But the exploitation & extraction of a countries resources is never something Blackwater has been known to do or take part in. Blackwater made some billions from providing top of the line forces to militia's in war-torn territories and giving high-flying politicians high-grade protection; but they could only dream of making the billions that Wagner was extracting from Syrian oil.

    • @PSonak
      @PSonak Рік тому +43

      @Zues Nope, try again. I didn't say where did they operate, I said where did they steal resources. What are the names of the mines that they operate?

  • @kenjirocs2006
    @kenjirocs2006 Рік тому +2

    incredible documentary ! hands down #WallStreetJournal

    • @ImRanger
      @ImRanger 7 місяців тому

      Pure propaganda. We have done much much worse

  • @thisbloomingroomwithcoachc7782
    @thisbloomingroomwithcoachc7782 Рік тому +178

    Its amazing how quickly this documentary aged. In light of recent developments a follow up is highly needed. We are waiting! Great job guys.

    • @anamericandream543
      @anamericandream543 Рік тому

      What happened recently???

    • @domsanchez148
      @domsanchez148 Рік тому +36

      This is some of the most obvious and heavy-handed State Department propaganda I've ever seen and here the American normie watches it and is enthralled, "finally.. I know the truth."
      Laughable stuff.

    • @martox3560
      @martox3560 Рік тому +5

      @@anamericandream543 u serious? Wagner mutinied and marched towards Moscow. They then stopped and turned around when they got close cuz of some deal being struck. Prigozin has now been sent to Belarus and the Wagner group is gonna be integrated into the Russian army.

    • @sergeys7771
      @sergeys7771 Рік тому +2

      the video didnt age at all. Nothing has changed for Wagner. Nothing.

    • @greenghost5009
      @greenghost5009 Рік тому

      @@martox3560like how ukraine did 2022 Azov

  • @HalfLife83
    @HalfLife83 Рік тому +3

    Brilliant doco.. This was put together before Prigo death so I am very much looking forward to a second part. Good job seriously

  • @ЖёпаЖёпов-х1к
    @ЖёпаЖёпов-х1к Рік тому +92

    Почему вы показываете боевиков ИГИЛ как жертвами? Это они убивали мирных жителей, отрезали головы на центральных площадях и устраивали теракты! Также вы забыли упомянуть о том что уровень преступности, войны между племенами и кланами, работорговля в ЦАР после прихода Вагнера снизился в разы. Стали бы простые люди выходить на улицы и скандировать "Россия!" просто из-за того что их золотодобывающие шахты стали работать на другого хозяина? Как вы можете говорить о безопасности населения в ЦАР когда ваши капиталистические компании используют дешевый рабский труд на фермах, в шахтах и на кобальтовых карьерах. Вы говорите о связи чвк Вагнер и Кремля, а разве другие чвк не связаны со своим правительством? Те же самые blackwater которые участвовали в Афганистане, их заказчики являются нефтедобывающие компании США

    • @grumbogee1772
      @grumbogee1772 Рік тому

      russian shill

    • @piodede7801
      @piodede7801 Рік тому

      игил это американский вагнер созданный из ваххабитов

    • @frostwater3219
      @frostwater3219 Рік тому +18

      Да уж, я ожидал увидеть в комментариях похвалу со всех сторон их документалки, вместо этого ей со всех сторон напихивают, как англоговорящие, так и соотечественники. Хорошо, что есть люди, которые знают больше, чем им показывают WSJ

    • @sportsport9470
      @sportsport9470 Рік тому +3

      @@frostwater3219 потому всж - это глобохомо дегг..енераты

    • @piodede7801
      @piodede7801 Рік тому

      @@frostwater3219 люди по всему миру все прекрасно понимают.

  • @kirloi
    @kirloi Рік тому +301

    Mad props to wsj to have a doc this well done in a free platform. Kudos!

    • @sunnyjim1355
      @sunnyjim1355 Рік тому +14

      🤣

    • @cosmosofinfinity
      @cosmosofinfinity Рік тому +10

      @@sunnyjim1355 What are you crying about?

    • @Toroleco
      @Toroleco Рік тому +8

      "If it's free online, you are the product"

    • @terri6854
      @terri6854 Рік тому +15

      That's just an over-generalized, over-used catchphrase that people regurgitate hoping to sound knowledgeable.

    • @Toroleco
      @Toroleco Рік тому +16

      @@terri6854 enjoy your propaganda 🤡

  • @wilmeroberg9794
    @wilmeroberg9794 9 місяців тому +258

    Hearing Americans talk about "It's not a classic private military company" is insane. Americans love to use Russia to make themselves seem mild and normal. There is nothing normal about private military companies and don't pretend like it is.

    • @oHare_eraHo
      @oHare_eraHo 8 місяців тому +6

      militias are very normal. are you dull?

    • @joshuawatson2161
      @joshuawatson2161 7 місяців тому +21

      @@oHare_eraHo PMC's and militas are extremely different things.

    • @oHare_eraHo
      @oHare_eraHo 7 місяців тому +7

      @@joshuawatson2161 not really. many militias have history of fighting wars for pay

    • @joshuawatson2161
      @joshuawatson2161 7 місяців тому +11

      @@oHare_eraHo That doesn’t make them a PMC. PMC’s historically have state backing with professional equipment, unlike militias.

    • @airsoft9077
      @airsoft9077 6 місяців тому +1

      Not really. There have been mercenaries for a strong majority of history

  • @grxy5924
    @grxy5924 Рік тому +52

    The paramilitary contractor groups we should truly be worried about are the ones nobody is talking about, the ones so well funded, so well disguised that we don’t see any info on them in the main aspect of media and journalism.
    Things of this nature will become more and more common as tensions rise between major global leaders, which results in guerrilla warfare and espionage style conflicts. Weird times ahead indeed.

    • @benayers8622
      @benayers8622 Рік тому +6

      100% time the masses were given the metal gear solid collection and told theres the truth lol!

  • @ani_pixel
    @ani_pixel Рік тому +148

    It hits totally different when Wagner is on it's way to Moscow.
    It reminds me of Lenin's famous quote:
    "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen".

    • @TacticalMongoose99
      @TacticalMongoose99 Рік тому

      I thought of the exact same quote when I heard the news. We are living in history

    • @CarterHayes77
      @CarterHayes77 Рік тому +10

      They turned around from Moscow check the news

    • @EyeOfThePhi
      @EyeOfThePhi Рік тому

      i know its just bc im a democrat or w/e but i just really hope ukraine ends up with there freedom = /

    • @bobtate7459
      @bobtate7459 Рік тому

      ​@@EyeOfThePhi My dear Ukraine was broke long ago. Been pillaged by their own corrupt governments and oligarchs since 1991 USSR independence. Yankees as usual, used this opportunity against Russia their old enemy. Very simple, the rest is BS. The tragedy is people of Ukraine been brainwashed since since 2014 Maidan coup paid by US. Yankees paid $100 each participant daily to protest on MIDAN. This is fantastic sum in terms what locals where earning, about monthly salary at the time.

    • @BlackMasakari
      @BlackMasakari Рік тому

      uhm, well, too much has happened in the last few decades...

  • @Ye4rZero
    @Ye4rZero 3 місяці тому

    Talk about dialling up the ads to maximum

  • @arayahomes4308
    @arayahomes4308 Рік тому +56

    This was one of the best presented videos I've seen on youtube. Wow, what a world we live in with so much pain...

    • @cryptsub
      @cryptsub Рік тому +3

      imagine what the west must get up to.

    • @helloimclaudio
      @helloimclaudio Рік тому +3

      @@cryptsubimagine the east, or even the south ! Don’t get me started on the north…

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p Рік тому

      @@helloimclaudio The west is really the only one

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p Рік тому +1

      @@cryptsub Exactly america and france and brtian do way worse things

    • @borisportnoy3871
      @borisportnoy3871 Рік тому +1

      All the people on the world got to stop looking on who more guilty and scream to God fast!

  • @TheSJCieply
    @TheSJCieply Рік тому +95

    A catering company is a great idea. Not only can you cook the books, but you can cook them with style.

    • @ElonMuskab01
      @ElonMuskab01 Рік тому

      Hello 👋🏻 Big Fan🚀🚀

    • @mitchyoung93
      @mitchyoung93 Рік тому +2

      It does have a certain very Russian elegance to it.

    • @ElonMuskab01
      @ElonMuskab01 Рік тому

      @@mitchyoung93 what’s your name and where are you from

    • @nsevv
      @nsevv Рік тому

      and cook the prey.

    • @nsevv
      @nsevv Рік тому

      @@mitchyoung93 there needs to be a window somewhere.

  • @monateru1712
    @monateru1712 Рік тому +7

    This is about to be a real popular video

  • @TRoutdooradventures
    @TRoutdooradventures Рік тому

    Where is part 2? Or something equivalent

  • @chrisnguyen1720
    @chrisnguyen1720 Рік тому +21

    Bro that intro was the closest thing to a real life Warhammer 40K/Space Marine Starship Trooper dil

  • @youngzoe3861
    @youngzoe3861 Рік тому +122

    All Major superpowers does the same things across the world, it's a never ending story.

    • @colinroach7815
      @colinroach7815 Рік тому +14

      Let's be specific though....the USA, NATO, UK and their Corporations are still to this day is doing what they claim Wagner is doing, and thy are doing it as a so call legitimate Representative of the People (who are erroneously labeled as Government).

    • @oldfashionedwrx3574
      @oldfashionedwrx3574 Рік тому +2

      yeah any1 does this, its human nature, its in every1

    • @ishot2pac69
      @ishot2pac69 Рік тому

      Well Jews do hump a roman wall to impregnate a strange goddess and usher in a new world

    • @SuperKeithers
      @SuperKeithers Рік тому +1

      i think the boys called it something like 'the anarchic state of nature between states'

    • @Corax186
      @Corax186 Рік тому +3

      Haven't heard of 20000 americans getting slaughtered while capturing some city in Middle East.

  • @michaelericlambert2487
    @michaelericlambert2487 Рік тому +119

    Amazing documentary. Congratulations!

  • @ajarchitects6244
    @ajarchitects6244 4 місяці тому +1

    Is the starting video AI?

  • @joedalton77
    @joedalton77 Рік тому +77

    To the comments saying: "but what about US group X?" two things can be bad at the same time, it's not that hard to understand

    • @kalamiess
      @kalamiess Рік тому

      Russians are a slave people with the inability to comprehend that westerners can criticize and not support the actions of their own governments

    • @RED_Theory038
      @RED_Theory038 Рік тому

      The accusation is that state department rags like WSJ will never accuse or scrutinize actions of the west to the same degree. Take this propaganda piece with a grain of salt and follow where their money comes from.

    • @jamesrowlands8971
      @jamesrowlands8971 Рік тому +48

      Yes. 2 things. The US media, and the lies they tell you.

    • @maxwellsope1080
      @maxwellsope1080 Рік тому

      That's not the point they are making. The point is that when america was doing human rights abuses and crimes nobody was saying anything. It was all right but now that it's russia it's a bad?. Talk about hypocrisy.

    • @SanctusPaulus1962
      @SanctusPaulus1962 Рік тому +4

      @@jamesrowlands8971 What?

  • @abdulmuqit1403
    @abdulmuqit1403 Рік тому +63

    Who is watching this after Prigozhin's "plane crash" death.

    • @alkazeicer9616
      @alkazeicer9616 7 місяців тому +7

      putler does not want to talk about it

  • @thoridannn
    @thoridannn Рік тому +8

    Well the release of this was incredibly well timed.

  • @phillipgreen-pe9wg
    @phillipgreen-pe9wg Рік тому +9

    A similar documentary should be made about Sandline international. A very close friend of mine fought for them and won many distinctions back in the 1990s.

    • @mitchelnorton2692
      @mitchelnorton2692 8 місяців тому

      Just watched one last night. On UA-cam. It's way old from 1997.

  • @captaincancer7786
    @captaincancer7786 Рік тому +19

    20:46 Taking a sec to appreciate the absolute fit of this dude

  • @juziotrompka
    @juziotrompka Рік тому +60

    This group is such a secret that I knew it 8 years before the Washington Post :D
    Solid journalistic work from title to caption (sic!)

  • @mohammednadiif6368
    @mohammednadiif6368 Рік тому +58

    Did anyone else read and remember the East India company? It sounds history of empires repeats itself.

    • @danielj1063
      @danielj1063 Рік тому +1

      That's all anyone learns from history

    • @tristanwilkinson9516
      @tristanwilkinson9516 Рік тому

      Yes. What did we learn about the East India Company (18th Century) that we can now apply to dealing with the Wagner Group (21st Century)?

    • @mrfinch6664
      @mrfinch6664 Рік тому +2

      Blackwater USA ring a bell ?

    • @tristanwilkinson9516
      @tristanwilkinson9516 Рік тому +1

      @@mrfinch6664 Yeah. .........but 1) what's Blackwater's influence in Africa now? 2) did Blackwater ever recruit in American prisons? and, 3) did its chief 'admin' officer ever repeatedly / publicly come out and criticise the efficiency of the US military ? Are there really parallels between Blackwater and Wagner Group, in light of these points?

    • @hamonryechinaski180
      @hamonryechinaski180 Рік тому

      Get a grip. Read more stuff that challenges your BS

  • @domdirector
    @domdirector Рік тому +4

    How are they secret if they appear on public television

  • @korkunge
    @korkunge Рік тому +58

    Awesome Documentary, Easy enough to understand if you are not into this stuff but sufficient enough for the ones who are and knows more. GREAT WORK! PART 2 needs to be done!!!!!

    • @ЛюкДэверо-ы3к
      @ЛюкДэверо-ы3к Рік тому

      Фильм фэйк, обычная пропаганда. Русские плохие и бла бла бла. Вагнер носилует стариков, детей и мужчин. А ещё в комплекте военного России, есть печенье, виагра и фалос 😂Хорош верить во всякий бред.

  • @simpleman3674
    @simpleman3674 Рік тому +94

    Very informative, didn’t realize there was so many moving parts to this group

    • @duran9664
      @duran9664 Рік тому

      Wagner is legalized dirty criminal group exactly like 👉 American BlackWater (aka Academi, aka Xe Services, aka Triple Canopy, aka Constellis Group). 😒

    • @lucasRem-ku6eb
      @lucasRem-ku6eb Рік тому +1

      Moving parts, what do you meant ?
      contractors fighting for resources they are, you did not knew ?

    • @ndumtah5087
      @ndumtah5087 Рік тому +11

      This is another western propaganda

    • @budgetking2591
      @budgetking2591 Рік тому +11

      @@ndumtah5087 Why you watching then? Why dont you watch your Russian propaganda, there is plenty of that!

    • @user-cm7yd1yo8g
      @user-cm7yd1yo8g Рік тому

      Look from the side - the propaganda of military mercenaries who seem to be fearless, but they are not scary to us in Ukraine, we haunt these convicts, non-humans, it does not matter to us whether it is a mercenary-convict or a regular soldier, who destroyed everyone. And you in the West do not engage in propaganda about terrible Russians, all mortal

  • @tulgatseg3144
    @tulgatseg3144 11 місяців тому +5

    Very interesting! Could you make the same documanteries about the US Army invasions in Afghanistan, Irak, Syria etc? Thank you 😉🙂

  • @davethompson6122
    @davethompson6122 Рік тому +133

    Maybe another good video would be about Academi formally called Blackwater (they changed names due to the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad) an American private military contractor used extensively by the usa for deniability in various conflicts.

    • @johnmclean8414
      @johnmclean8414 Рік тому

      Yeah yeah yeah USA bad good propaganda comrade Ruskie bot

    • @nancywages7029
      @nancywages7029 Рік тому +13

      There have been plenty of documentaries on Blackwater. One is not better than the other.

    • @davethompson6122
      @davethompson6122 Рік тому

      @@manuelzarat wow you really are uninformed,or just trolling....about 2 minutes researching tells the story of this american bunch of mercenary's,tell you what to keep it simple for you read this and take the blinkers from your eyes.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)

    • @AS-010o0
      @AS-010o0 Рік тому +1

      Nah they’re not as brutal or successful as Wagner

    • @donQpublic
      @donQpublic Рік тому

      Let’s think of the kids… baby goats.

  • @lex_9940
    @lex_9940 10 місяців тому +1

    Amazingly detailed documentary

  • @robbykurnia9671
    @robbykurnia9671 Рік тому +111

    the cost of training a regular army, allowances for soldiers' families if soldiers die is very expensive, the Russian economy is currently supported by the extraction of natural resources. Putin allowed Wagner to fight in Ukraine because Putin wanted to reduce casualties in the Russian regular army. Previously Wagner acted as a mercenary in small numbers.

    • @robbykurnia9671
      @robbykurnia9671 Рік тому +26

      @@nerzhul2455 some wagner members are ex-soldiers, but not all ex-soldiers are elite/specialist soldiers. you cannot ignore the fact that prigozhin himself visited prisons to recruit.

    • @Ganglo-Saxon
      @Ganglo-Saxon Рік тому

      ​@nerzhul are you really one of these morons who thinks Russia is fighting against actual NATO forces ?

    • @agentmueller
      @agentmueller Рік тому +2

      @@AlinaUA-camVlogsCan you elaborate on the potential shadow economy? That’s extremely interesting and plausible

    • @nerzhul2455
      @nerzhul2455 Рік тому

      @@robbykurnia9671 Not aII are, but your comment seems to say like all of them are prisoners or some outIaws

    • @fastestdino2
      @fastestdino2 Рік тому

      It also looks much better on Putin if he lets prisoners die instead of regular conscripts.

  • @survivors8350
    @survivors8350 Рік тому +17

    Watching this feels so weird, Wagner portrayed as something evil which it is, that Russia is controlling. But it makes me think, what US has been doing with its own Private military contractors like Xe-Blackwater in the similar countries which have security issues? Both Russia and US have been playing the same game.

    • @nadiaromantini8836
      @nadiaromantini8836 Рік тому +2

      It's liberal bias.

    • @Zbroja69
      @Zbroja69 Рік тому +2

      Yes, but it’s different cause murica is all about democracy even when they do exact same thing.

  • @karimbelhadjsliman9911
    @karimbelhadjsliman9911 Рік тому +235

    The first minute of the video looks like a trailer of a war movie or spy tv show!
    Great documentary.

    • @milkoansah-johnson8768
      @milkoansah-johnson8768 Рік тому +29

      You like entertainment so live a naïve life; otherwise you will identify this film as propaganda.

    • @arfaouisami2955
      @arfaouisami2955 Рік тому

      @@milkoansah-johnson8768 brainwashed and proud ! this westerners are a lost case !

    • @xycap8351
      @xycap8351 Рік тому +27

      @@milkoansah-johnson8768 THESE SAME PEOPLE ALSO SAID PUTIN WAS DYING, LOSING BADLY AND HAD RUN OUT OF AMMO A YEAR AGO...

    • @J3unG
      @J3unG Рік тому +7

      @@xycap8351 LOL!!! True dat.

    • @mz7688
      @mz7688 Рік тому +5

      It started like a call of duty: modern warfare 2008 style intro.

  • @dotcomdudee
    @dotcomdudee Рік тому +3

    Can't wait to watch episode 2 lol

  • @MARKEVIS
    @MARKEVIS Рік тому +40

    How is it a “Secret War Company” when it is now the most known war company in the world? 😭

    • @cinqbuns
      @cinqbuns Рік тому +7

      its the second most known, blackwater is more popular with more invasions and older.

    • @legoushque3334
      @legoushque3334 Рік тому +3

      because it was secret before 2022 and Prigozhin denied any connection to the Wagner PMC and even sued for it prior to the war in Ukraine

    • @captainnemo6159
      @captainnemo6159 Рік тому +2

      @@cinqbuns black water puppies, they never fought with equals

    • @kennypyrate7554
      @kennypyrate7554 10 місяців тому

      Just like the black rock group has their army

    • @skeletonjam
      @skeletonjam 2 місяці тому

      @@cinqbuns Blackwater was a contracted security company used in the Iraq war, and did not function like a paramilitary cartel like Wagner PMC does.

  • @assilrachidi9135
    @assilrachidi9135 Рік тому +18

    Can you make another documentary about blackwater and their crimes in Iraq?

    • @asatechnics8363
      @asatechnics8363 Рік тому

      it's a western channel .... do you really think that they are going to promote there war crimes? they even arrested the jornalist that made that history public and called him a spy ... facing 125 years in jail just for showing american war crimes ...... FREE JULIAN ASSANGE

    • @sabin97
      @sabin97 Рік тому

      not even black water, but the regular usakistani army(and navy and airforce and marines), and their atrocities all over the world.
      but that would take quite a lot of hours because they are almost endless.

  • @belenaguilar1348
    @belenaguilar1348 Рік тому +7

    This was perfect timing for the documentary to come out.

  • @goldenaye3
    @goldenaye3 Рік тому +6

    Make a documentary of Blackwater too, of those shadow people who were killing women and kids in Iraq

  • @greenwave2450
    @greenwave2450 Рік тому +18

    Americans wouldn’t understand a private military company??? You mean like black water??😂😂😂 excellent comment. How dumb do they think we are

    • @yeadmahmood6913
      @yeadmahmood6913 Рік тому +1

      😂 Nastiness and hypocracy a character I have learned from them. 😂

  • @dutchkushman9984
    @dutchkushman9984 Рік тому +47

    The enemy never tells the truth about their enemy

  • @BajkeTheSerb
    @BajkeTheSerb Рік тому +43

    In part 2 let's see the story about atrocities done by US mercenary companies called MPRI, Black Water, and also about IFOR, SFOR and KFOR troops. The world deserves to hear about others side where it all begun.

    • @RedMichicompanies
      @RedMichicompanies Рік тому +9

      "Wagner is nothing like what Americans might understand as mercenaries" *Proceeds to describe what they do and happens its the same as what the US army does in the middle east*

    • @dacadanijela5844
      @dacadanijela5844 Рік тому

      Lepo napisano zlo tesko

    • @Wasteland88
      @Wasteland88 3 місяці тому

      ​False

  • @jaygoogles
    @jaygoogles 2 місяці тому +1

    Very interesting how much this has changed a year later for Wagner and Prigozhin

  • @OrdinaryThings
    @OrdinaryThings Рік тому +23

    exceptional documentary

    • @Josecannoli1209
      @Josecannoli1209 Рік тому +2

      Seeing all the things I have been hearing and reading over the years put together in one place presented well like this is awesome, it’s s a great resource for showing others.

    • @sherilyn_writer_my6086
      @sherilyn_writer_my6086 11 місяців тому

      handsdown investigative journalism at its best. it is a business no matter what.

    • @michaelpetras1613
      @michaelpetras1613 9 місяців тому

      23

  • @Nyxeme
    @Nyxeme Рік тому +87

    Great documentary! Well done WSJ, this is a great piece of journalism.

    • @evgenyifrost3679
      @evgenyifrost3679 Рік тому +12

      Это отличная ложь, как всё западное тв

    • @evgenyifrost3679
      @evgenyifrost3679 Рік тому +11

      Как могут рассказывать в фильме те, кто там не был и не присутствовал?

    • @precious_orim
      @precious_orim Рік тому

      @@evgenyifrost3679 beats me tbh 🙁

    • @rbb.828
      @rbb.828 Рік тому +5

      @@evgenyifrost3679yes, Russian TV is the pinnacle of honesty and integrity in journalism. Much like democracy in ruzzia 🧸🐻

    • @evgenyifrost3679
      @evgenyifrost3679 Рік тому +7

      @@rbb.828 я могу вам сказать одно, вам привет от Вагнера и России, Африка будет наша как и Украина

  • @sinethembaqushu8909
    @sinethembaqushu8909 Рік тому +58

    Id like to see one on the CIA please.

    • @derfaschist9687
      @derfaschist9687 Рік тому +7

      😂 that would be interesting

    • @area51orders
      @area51orders Рік тому +2

      What do you mean? This documentary is essentially produced by the CIA.

    • @sinethembaqushu8909
      @sinethembaqushu8909 Рік тому

      @@area51orders exactly.

    • @markuss4133
      @markuss4133 Рік тому

      😂😂😂

    • @ollyr_3710
      @ollyr_3710 Рік тому +2

      There are many her on UA-cam. Them saving nazis at the end of WWII and so on. Eye opening and disturbing

  • @henryahmad1
    @henryahmad1 Місяць тому

    System Oil must be of High Quality?

  • @prince_kumar_singhh
    @prince_kumar_singhh Рік тому +10

    I would love to see a document of US Private Army Acedmi...

  • @Light-Eater
    @Light-Eater Рік тому +12

    Thank you for making this document.

  • @sebastianburr7721
    @sebastianburr7721 Рік тому +125

    Wagner is like the real life James Bond villain

    • @mohdashrof152
      @mohdashrof152 Рік тому +7

      COBRA in GI Joe

    • @jenstrudenau9134
      @jenstrudenau9134 Рік тому +9

      You are funny. Is this all you can think of? Good and bad from commercial culture?
      He is not a villain. He is a man longing for power. Ever read about Rome? It was full of people like him.

    • @kaaren1238
      @kaaren1238 Рік тому +8

      @@jenstrudenau9134 🤓

    • @Felix-os5hf
      @Felix-os5hf Рік тому +7

      @@jenstrudenau9134 You assume it's all he can think of, but it's just one observation. I don't think it warrants the belittlement you are sending his way. Not everyone is chimed in on world affairs, most prefer to enjoy life however they can.

    • @Nobody-dm2ol
      @Nobody-dm2ol Рік тому

      That’s Blackrock.

  • @cherylpa527
    @cherylpa527 Рік тому +25

    Incredible journalism. This is very scary indeed. Prayers for peace, love and justice

    • @nobaccos
      @nobaccos Рік тому

      It's hart breaking

    • @LaymanGamin
      @LaymanGamin Рік тому

      Can happen anywhere to any country. We know not what’s really goin on in real positions of power

    • @benayers8622
      @benayers8622 Рік тому

      america has exactly the same kind of groups has done for 40yrs or more! Do some research b4 believing a given narrative

  • @RickyisHere
    @RickyisHere Рік тому +20

    Funny how they can show dead bodies not even blurred, but you get your video taken down because someone screamed and that is considered “against community guidelines”…🤔

  • @glenvillehinds1436
    @glenvillehinds1436 Рік тому

    Excellent presentation.

  • @muchtoyearn
    @muchtoyearn Рік тому +53

    I knew Wagner troops were in Africa but didn't know exactly why. Interesting, thanks. I'm only halfway through but quality doc, good job.

    • @boomerang0101
      @boomerang0101 Рік тому +36

      For the same reason French and British troops were/are there.

    • @cons9053
      @cons9053 Рік тому +16

      ​@@boomerang0101 British troops have never had a permanent military presence in Africa after decolonization, tf are you on blud💀

    • @MalukuPL
      @MalukuPL Рік тому

      It’s fake bro. Don’t believe Western backed media

    • @nerzhul2455
      @nerzhul2455 Рік тому

      @@boomerang0101 Nope. Not even cIose. Wagner was there as anti-te/rorism units that heIped IocaI popuIation whiIe of course, getting the resources for it. LocaI popuIations there praise them, which can't be say for French or British. Do you wonder why?

    • @sashacizup5298
      @sashacizup5298 Рік тому +25

      Same reason Britain France and USA go into other countries …… just you will never see a video of what they do there because you would approve your military actions

  • @javacofe
    @javacofe Рік тому +34

    Thank you for putting this together. So many brave people.

    • @mac9954
      @mac9954 Рік тому +3

      I think they talking about war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq done by the United States of America.

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p Рік тому +2

      @@mac9954 Also what france and america also do in africa, and many other places in the world

    • @kattensilvestris2448
      @kattensilvestris2448 Рік тому

      These "brave" ppl are murders and rapists

  • @andrewdeen1
    @andrewdeen1 Рік тому +15

    Great documentary. Congratulations on the fantastic work WSJ. I think this is even better than the 2hr France 2 doc.

    • @myname-mz3lo
      @myname-mz3lo Рік тому +3

      how is an american journalist showing russia doing things that america have been doing for decades great ? they even said "americans wouldnt even be able to understand how this could exist " .. when the russians got the idea of wagner by looking at america and blackwater etc

  • @loneranger5928
    @loneranger5928 Рік тому

    Interesting and informative documentary 👍👍

  • @drlindajoyepp1523
    @drlindajoyepp1523 Рік тому +7

    So profound. Essential watching.

  • @DmitriyKonoko
    @DmitriyKonoko Рік тому +11

    Would be nice to learn about activities that US army do in iraq, afganistan, syria and some asian countries and is there any difference

  • @godwino1466
    @godwino1466 Рік тому +19

    The next video documentary should be on the US military in the Syrian oil field. I hope I will not wait too long for it. Thanks.

    • @brainrot4919
      @brainrot4919 Рік тому +3

      The fact that you know about that already and most people didn't know about Russia being in Syria taking over oil fields through PMC's before the Ukraine war or in Africa exploiting natural resources there either, well says it all.

    • @godwino1466
      @godwino1466 Рік тому

      @brainrot4919 Is this a case of a criminal (US) complaining about an assumed criminal (Russian)? Don't forget Russia was officially invited by Syria. The question is, what is America doing in Syria? Stealing natural resources, I guess!

  • @alte7580
    @alte7580 Рік тому +3

    Nice, now one documentary about AZOV please.

  • @teakwondochest3287
    @teakwondochest3287 Рік тому +25

    at 24:27 its said that wagner personnel killed those civilians. If you actually read the passage beforehand, it was locals, trained by wagner group.
    Trained when, for how long and in what? Did they receive medical training by wagner in 2015?
    Thats some very shady jounralism right there.
    An very big stretch of facts to attribute those killings to wagner group

    • @sergopepper5566
      @sergopepper5566 Рік тому +4

      Я Русский Мы с гражданскими ни когда не воевали Это пиз....ж Вообще ролик этот лживый

    • @vladimirvladimir5611
      @vladimirvladimir5611 Рік тому +1

      Это ложь!

  • @robertspencer1205
    @robertspencer1205 Рік тому +9

    Excellent documentary!
    Well done WS!

  • @prashanthb6521
    @prashanthb6521 Рік тому +18

    This was a good documentary. Thanks for shedding light on this.

  • @Nift502
    @Nift502 10 місяців тому +1

    This is a hit piece

  • @DoctorJ_TTV
    @DoctorJ_TTV Рік тому +19

    would be nice if they could interview some actual russians and not only ukrainians that speak russian language (you can hear it from accent), then this doku would be much better overall

    • @sharm2011
      @sharm2011 Рік тому +4

      It's cool that you understand that, bro. they have a completely different accent

    • @thedong3047
      @thedong3047 Рік тому +2

      @@sharm2011 its big propabanda

  • @repunknante
    @repunknante Рік тому +24

    they should also do a documentary about how the government of the US fund and help the paramilitary groups in Colombia. would be interesting, just saying.. :v

    • @khunmikeon858
      @khunmikeon858 Рік тому

      1000% agree. The conniving American CIA…. Let’s have a programme on that. LOL. Or Blackwater…
      Victory to Russia.

  • @00421lukas
    @00421lukas Рік тому +23

    High value content! Well done.

  • @uncgrad1076
    @uncgrad1076 Рік тому +52

    Great doc! It's interesting, especially when the Canadian expert was talking about Wagner's "playbook." It is uncanny how similar their strategies are to what America does around the third world and other places. Maybe it's not necessarily any particular country or group's strategy, but rather the "playbook" of imperialism.

    • @MB2.0
      @MB2.0 Рік тому +19

      The best part was when the American accused Wagner of looting Syrian oil, when Wagner is getting it legally, unlike the Americans stealing Syria's wheat and oil lol

    • @HellCat_Kenny
      @HellCat_Kenny Рік тому +5

      It’s the playbook of authority, war, and greed. It’s not limited to just private or public entities.

    • @WifeBoris-hk3hz
      @WifeBoris-hk3hz Рік тому +2

      You should see what became of that Canadian "expert" just after this video was released. 🤣

    • @j.sarnak1391
      @j.sarnak1391 11 місяців тому

      You are watching all people being paid for by US to project Wagner doing what actually the US does everywhere. You know the difference?? Wagner is invited by government to come and secure a country's resources. The US and Europe go in and steal the resources big difference

    • @kantando1
      @kantando1 11 місяців тому

      @@WifeBoris-hk3hz Yo, what happened? I searched on the internet but fown nothing :(

  • @obibolongo
    @obibolongo Рік тому +12

    There’s a story to be narrated concerning the mine in DRC as well. But since it’s the West, nothing will be reveled

  • @MetaView7
    @MetaView7 Рік тому +13

    you should also do a similar video on the blackwater group

  • @buddyaces2162
    @buddyaces2162 Рік тому +9

    wow great doc WSJ. now can you please do one for Blackwater?

  • @tokesalotta1521
    @tokesalotta1521 9 місяців тому +79

    So we're to act like the French, British, Italians, and Americans haven't been doing the same for decades?

    • @tobikzlobivy3379
      @tobikzlobivy3379 8 місяців тому

      More like If Russians and Soviets haven’t doing and if the countries You mension did it why is Russia doing the same.

    • @ToBeIsWasWere
      @ToBeIsWasWere 7 місяців тому +7

      so we're doing whataboutism now?

    • @domerame5913
      @domerame5913 7 місяців тому

      they haven't mad ivan

    • @soccerguy325
      @soccerguy325 6 місяців тому +2

      The crimes committed by those countries are nothing compared to the war crimes committed by Wagner (at least in recent years), and you know it.

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow1 Рік тому +17

    I know this isnt an original thought, but wow, Prigozhin is like a comic book villain come to life.

    • @kuchioasonga7158
      @kuchioasonga7158 Рік тому +10

      He is, him and Putin are almost supervillian caricatures.

    • @gipsybulldog3286
      @gipsybulldog3286 Рік тому +2

      He's not real leader of Wagner. It's guy named Dimitry Utkin

    • @headhunters2777
      @headhunters2777 Рік тому

      @@gipsybulldog3286 yeah ! he’s too loud, his job is probably to bring attention to him probably

    • @dimitrisgregan553
      @dimitrisgregan553 Рік тому +4

      Just like bush,obama and blair to the rest of the world.

  • @vitalii-dan
    @vitalii-dan Рік тому +11

    Thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this documentary

  • @MrValgard
    @MrValgard Рік тому +23

    i would like to see similar document on blackwaters