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Lawfare Daily: ‘Putin’s Sledgehammer’ with Candace Rondeaux
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Candace Rondeaux, Senior Director of New America’s Future Frontlines program, Director of its Planetary Politics initiative, and professor of practice at Arizona State University joins Lawfare ’s Justin Sherman to discuss her recently published book, " Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos ." They discuss Yevgeny Prigozhin and his founding of the Wagner Group, the Russian private military company (PMC); his rise, ranging from post-Soviet 1990s Russia to growing relationships with Putin and other power figures; and Wagner’s role in Russia’s 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea and other Russian objectives abroad. They also discuss Wagner and Russia’s…