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@StrongRespect That isn't saying much. Wagner's edge is better motivation among their non-prisoner troops and their willingness to suffer inordinate casualties among their prisoner troops. They can't top the Ukrainians, who're fighting for hearth and home, except that the Ukrainians have the presence of mind to opt to fight another day if the situation calls for it. WW1 tactics have no place in the 21st century.
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To use an analogy, the Russian army would be like the Wehrmacht, which definitely had civilians' blood on its hands, whereas the Wagner Group would be the Waffen-SS, or more specifically, the latter's Dirlewanger Brigade. Bathing in civilians' blood, in other words. The eponymous Oskar Dirlewanger was a convicted criminal, too, just like Wagner's owner Prigozhin. Wagner's founder, Dmitry Utkin, sports SS tattoos and like to play dress-up in SS uniforms, too.
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@g6g401 The Wagner Groups lacks a lot of capabilities that the Russian Army has. For a start, Wagner is not self-sustaining. Time and again, Prigozhin has to ask his Kremlin masters to order the Russian Army to support his troops. When he's not receiving the support he thinks he's entitled to, he'll openly criticize the top army brass, stooping as low as calling them names. I wouldn't surprise me a bit if the army 'frags' Prigozhin when he ventures to the front.
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