Conflicted Community: Jack Margolin Interview – How did the Wagner Group end up in Africa?

On this week’s Conflicted Community episode, we invite the
researcher and author Jack Margolin onto the show, to talk about
his recently published book, The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s
Mercenary Army. Jack is an independent researcher and expert on
modern mercenaries, focussing on conflict finance, guns and crime
in data, who previously worked with the The Center for Advanced
Defense Studies. Continuing our Africa focus this season, Jack and
Thomas discuss how Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of this Private
Military Company, went from creating troll farms in St. Petersburg
to sending troops to Syria and then Africa, with malign interests
every step of the way. Jack explains how the ‘adhocracy’ Wagner
operate in the region sees them exploit local resources for
monetary gain, while also bolstering Russian interests in the
region by doing the jobs that nation states and more cautious
mercenary groups were not able to do. But after Prigozhin’s
downfall last year, are the Wagner Group still around? And will
they continue to offer despotic African governments something the
West cannot? To listen to the full episode, you’ll need to
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