Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos with Candace Rondeaux

Candace Rondeaux joins the Secrets and Spies podcast to dissect the Wagner Group’s rise as a covert instrument of Russian power, drawing on her book Putin’s Sledgehammer. She unpacks how Wagner fused organized crime with state ambition to evade sanctions, arm militias, and export Kremlin influence from Syria to Africa.

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