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Title: Secret War: Vladimir Putin’s Ghost Army Inside Syria
Published: 2018-02-24
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtxAqWl11dc
Title: Secret War: Vladimir Putin’s Ghost Army Inside Syria
Published: 2018-02-24
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtxAqWl11dc
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The use of private military contractors or PMCs by the United States had been heavily documented and even glorified. The US government began what is known as outsourcing back in the 1970s by hiring contractors for US military transports during the Vietnam War. As then, the private military industrial complex has exploded into a multi-billion dollar year industry whose services have been employed not only by governments but also2/6
private corporations, humanitarian groups, NGOs and the United Nations just to name a few. The evolution of private military contractors has reshaped the battlefield, allowing corporations to transcend many government restrictions including any bureaucratic processes or political roadblocks while providing governments with the safety buffer of plausible deniability, removing any accountability from the equation while simultaneously blurring the lines of sovereignty for other nations. Private contractors have been referred3/6
to as mercenaries or hired guns and most people have heard of the infamous Blackwater Group and its founder, Eric Prince. But not many people are aware of the Wagner Group which is allegedly a Russian private military contractor. In this newsbud report, we will examine what has been referred to as Putin's Shadow Army and Putin's Ghost Soldiers who played a significant role in the Ukraine conflict, downing4/6
a Ukrainian military plane full of paratroopers, carrying out combat operations and conducting assassinations. This Shadow Army is currently on the ground inside Syria but the Russian government is denying any involvement. As private armies are outlawed in Russia, did Russia take a page out of the US covert war playbook and deploy a secret army inside Syria? In direct violation of Russian law? If so, this could mean5/6
serious legal trouble for high-ranking Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin himself. You will not see this on your evening news as the controlled Russian press is just as bad and just as corrupt as the Western media. So go to newsbud.com to see the full report as we examine the alleged connections between these Ghost Soldiers and the Russian government. In their covert war that has already resulted