[0zemp2c]

Wagner are mercenaries...who is paying them to invade Russia?

Putin is using them as a battering ram, and is presumably not bothered by leaving their corpses in a burn pit to preserve the Russian Army

Putin is not too different than Stalin...the penal units Stalin forced to walk into German minefields had a 90% loss rate...but they weren't regular Red Army so who cares?

[ceejayoz]

> Wagner are mercenaries...who is paying them to invade Russia?

Looting and the allure of being on top of the pyramid after?

[0zemp2c]

unlikely...they are still Russian nationals and Putin can take action against their families if they try to grow brains (another tactic borrowed from Stalin)

in any case they wouldn't get far...who is supplying them with ammo and fuel on the road to Moscow? the US? Putin would empty the silos

[ceejayoz]

> they are still Russian nationals

This is the case for most revolutions. They’re invasions otherwise.

> who is supplying them with ammo and fuel on the road to Moscow?

Again, revolutionaries tend to manage this. Often seizing stuff along the way.

[dragonwriter]

> in any case they wouldn't get far...who is supplying them with ammo and fuel on the road to Moscow?

Their existing stocks until they capture Russian state stocks on the way (either by force, or by corruption—money works on corrupt quartermasters, and Prigozhin has a lot), or by turning local troops and the supplies they control to the cause.

But, yeah, outside anti-Putin governments aren’t impossible sponsors, especially if he has some early success. Enemy of my enemy can go a long way to making strange bedfellows.