Comments by "Marc Joly" (@emjizone) on "TABLES TURNED! Wagner DECLARES WAR AGAINST Russians! Z-Army ATTACKS NEW YORK. Zaluzhny is FIRED" video.
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0:46 Wagner presented itself in Central Africa as a non-colonialist defender of the people against enemies, for example muslim tribes or anti-colonialists rebels previously armed by the USSR against old and dying European empires. It was a political tool used by В.В.Пу́тин to reduce the influence of France in Africa. Wagner so became trusted as savior and defender of some communities, although they committed some crimes and took advantage of local mineral ressources similarly to previous colonizers.
Their criminal past in Europe is vastly ignored in Africa, where only a few realize what Russia is doing at its border an in the world, and how a full war between heavily industrialized countries differ from an armed conflict between tribes. African worshipers of Wagner would be horrified and probably shocked for life if something like the war in Chechnya or Ukraine happened in their towns, even those who have seen combat and death. It's a totally different scale. For now, for them, all what is said about those remote events is very abstract, probably fake, and doesn't count morally. They simply don't realize what they are talking about because they only feel their own local experience with Wagner . All they see is a strong man with big guns, benevolently (lol, so naive) offering to kill those who want to pillage them, so they trust him and want him to remain their protector, even after death. It's that simple.
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