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0 pointsjcrites2y ago0 comments

Wagner Group [1] is a mercenary company, by the way, named after German composer Richard Wagner [1]. Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin [2] is reportedly the founder and owner.

(Wagner is not a person. Or am I misreading: who does "himself" refer to?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin

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r7212y ago

>Wagner is not a person

>He is alleged to have founded the Wagner Group, with his own call-sign reportedly being Wagner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin

dave44202y ago

Yes, I’m being sloppy because I’m on my phone and can’t be bothered editing.

hutzlibu2y ago

I think it reads fine, as in Kremlin did this and that and Wagner did this and that. Wagner just stands for the group.

jcritesOP2y ago

I'm responding to the use of the pronoun "himself":

> Personally, if this was a coup, I’d say Wagner would have taken control of important infrastructure by now ... Or been killed/arrested himself.

To anyone who isn't familiar with Wagner Group, that seems to be describing Wagner as an individual person who can be "killed or arrested himself".

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