Jesse Carey
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And they were able to leverage it.
And to a large extent, that's still going on.
But now they can do it through bots and stuff.
That's right.
It's from the IRA.
So now you know where that's coming from.
I feel better about it now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If anyone's hating on the song or anything like that, you know exactly.
Get out of here.
Yeah.
Okay, Russians.
Yeah, thanks, Putin.
Thanks, Vlad.
But yeah, Prigozhin ended up starting a mercenary group called the Wagner Group, which during the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin hired them to kind of do a lot of the front lines fighting.
This was at the time when they were expecting that conflict to be, you know, a couple weeks or a couple months.
Yeah.
To kind of do the dirty work so that he wouldn't have to conscript Russian citizens.
And so for Goshen, basically, he knew the prison system in Russia so well that he made a deal.