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Quite damning.

In my opinion they can recruit in-country from the local prison populations and balloon their numbers within weeks/months. They've demonstrated this effectively and managed it very well, all they need to do is repeat the model and it'll be improved over the Ukraine version.

They demonstrated that when they had good standing relations with the country they recruit in and had a common established language. This isn't that true if you want to recruit in prisons in the three country alliance at this point. It also would need changes in laws and have the usual problems of recruiting people from prison.

I do think that the conventional armies of the three countries under the leadership of the effective ruling governments will show to be more important in the West African conflict than the Wagner group. However I might be proven wrong.

Perhaps they're not confident about the information they can offer though, it seems to change so quickly that it's hard to be sure.

That is absolutely true, also it is hard to get real information about Wagner and mercenaries since they like to claim they have plenty members to advertise on the market and at the same time there is disinformation going on by the state actors, with Wagner also having a vested interest in not having their exact numbers exposed on region level.

While I don't like more right of center The New Wars by Herfried Münkler from 2004 it did present some developments in the emerging roles of mercenaries and non state actors in wars and armed conflicts. It would be interesting how within the 20 years after it the assessments ought to be changed. Surely you frame Wagner as very skilled and impactful force that can meet and exceed state actor capabilities in more situations than special operations. Which is a significant change from then.

It seems that in Mali the main priority for Wagner seems to be that which foreign instructors did over the last 80 years.

Story time! CW right extremist violence

Libs don't know that punching Nazis works

Back after the reunification the former states had a trouble with Nazis, I ignore those within the police force but focus on unorganized ones.

The organized right did quickly try to leverage their position and targeted young people especially i.e. by financing summer holidays, "national" (read right extremist) youth centers and alike. Some 's that did social work at that time were proponents of "accepting youth work" which means to say "It is fine that you are a Nazi who expresses wishes to kill people, I hear you, I am here for you" (which didn't work out well). In any case for various reasons the Nazis did use plenty violence and kill / torture people, if you were marginalized you were a higher likelyhood target. The police didn't do a lot, the years are called "Baseballschläger Jahre" literally baseball bat years, cause that was among the most prominent weapons of them.

1990 till ... somewhat in the early 2000s https://nitter.net/search?q=%23Baseballschl%C3%A4gerjahre

Now what did slowly but surely create security for the , for , , :bipoc:, comrades and friends?

Antifascist self defense. This is what worked and secured physical safety and in parts still does. The actual story is this:
Local Nazis punched punks and leftists kids for years, antifa self defense is organized, a Nazi aggressor is beaten down, the libs decry the violence and yet after that attack in that small city the Nazi attacks mostly stopped. The violence of the years before was not enough for the libs to really care, the police didn't care and more likely targeted you, but the self defense was suddenly wrong.

Those things happened around that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostock-Lichtenhagen_riots

The did as result of those racist pogroms decide to remove Asylum as fundamental individual right from its basic law (labeled "compromise", a compromise with racists is pretty much always a compromise against the oppressed), which was written in there due to the experiences of Nazi Germany that marginalized always need places to escape to. However after the reunification and the fall of the Soviet Union Germany's parties (CDU+FDP+Social Democrats of New Labour type) quickly decided that this was no longer true. Mostly to gather racist votes and for nationalist reasons.

This is one of the most funny bank recommendations I have seen in a long time

Holy fuck have you got more info / sources for that? Really would like to show the surveillance to a FOSS buddy that acts as if free speech and freedom from surveillance is important to them, but did defend the de federation.

In a better world there would always be the embrace of comrades within walking/biking distance, or even in the communal house with mini flats and large shared areas.

If stuff as well as yours had existed in 2004 when IRC "died" and facebook etc. grew we might still have functioning decentralized boards as default right now.

thanks for your work. That kind of online posting is praxis and is quite helpful. Hope you get as much in your personal life as you give :)

Thanks for the software!

What is your and others Devs opinion on the pre-emptive de-federation of 20k hexbear users by 120k user instance lemmy.world?

Would you think Ranked Choice voting for admins i.e. with the Schulze method - which Debian uses - integrated into the sites would mean that better community supported decisions can be made for both moderation as well as in comments/communities about stuff?

Also: is there a remind me in 2 month of this post option?

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