Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Twilight of the Gods: Russia's Viking Mercenaries in Syria

#TwilightOfTheGods #ProxyWar #RussianVikings #Syria #WagnerGroup

Earlier this week, US Advisors with their Kurdish allies repelled an attack on their base in Western Syria near Deir Ezzor.  According to US official sources, the group was a "battalion size" movement that included up to 200+ Russian "mercenaries" with an organization called Wagner Group.  The US associated forces called in air and artillery support decimating the forces and turning the attack back.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/13/middleeast/russians-killed-us-airstrikes-syria-intl/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

Wagner Group is technically registered in Hong Kong, but their offices are closed.  According to European records, Wagner Group is contracted with Evro Polis (Euro People) that was supposedly a food contractor in Syria, but now holds a contract to capture and defend Syrian oil and natural gas infrastructure.  Evro Polis would get 25% of all profit as its payment (see Iraq and Halliburton, never say the Russians can't learn).  Evro Polis and it's contractor offices are empty in Syria

https://www.apnews.com/7f9e63cb14a54dfa9148b6430d89e873/Thousands-of-Russian-private-contractors-fighting-in-Syria

Deir Ezzor is the capitol and center of the oil and natural gas rich region the US and it's allies now hold.  Wagner Group is the Russian version of Blackwater.  With a few caveats.  Their employees may or may not be retired military. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

There are reports indicating that these may be active duty "on leave" or other wise detailed out.  That these are headed by Russian special forces Spetsnaz.  A similar tactic as those the Russians used in Ukraine separatists to hold Crimea and support the war in Eastern Ukraine. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-russian-blackwater-putins-secret-soldiers-in-ukraine-and-syria

Russia says they have no idea who these guys are or how many are there or how many have died or even why they would be crazy enough to confront a US protected base.  The US said it was in constant contact with Russian official forces up to and through the time the Vikings met their demise. 

***Wagner Group should sound familiar.  It is named after...Richard Wagner, famous composer, polemicist and nationalist godfather of Viking Nationalists everywhere whose widow was a favorite pet of Hitler.  Most famous for his Viking/Germanic operas Der Ring des Nibelungen cycles like Flight of the Valkyrie, Reingold, Seigfried and Gotterdammerung.   Like Glitnir from #TwilightOfTheGods.

Including a little article here where Putin gets irritated with the avant garde presentation of Wagner Opera Tannhauser and kicks the director out of office for committing blasphemy against the Russian Orthodox Church.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/29/russian-director-fired-over-wagner-opera-that-offended-powerful-orthodox-church

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-02-13/u-s-strikes-said-to-kill-scores-of-russian-fighters-in-syria?__twitter_impression=true

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