• Sledgehammer: The Wagner cult in Syria

  • Oct 23 2024
  • Length: 55 mins
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Sledgehammer: The Wagner cult in Syria

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    Host and Nonresident Senior Fellow Alia Brahimi chats with the defence researcher Jack Margolin about his new book on the Wagner Group. They focus on its operations in support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and the central place of Syria within the Wagner subculture. They also discuss the ever-present profit motive for the Wagner Group’s leaders, as well as the ways in which grievances born in Syria festered and fostered resentment for many years, before exploding with the Wagner mutiny in June 2023.

    “[They] focused on this understanding of Slavic culture as being the inheritor of traditional values, but also attaching that to pre-Christian imagery. So you'd see a lot of runes, a lot of celebration of these Slavic pagan deities.”

    The Guns for Hire podcast is written, produced and hosted by Dr Alia Brahimi.

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