Eeeenteresting. That may be all this development is in the long run, but it may open up some extended options for sanctions on Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and any people or entities supplyin.
Eeeenteresting. That may be all this development is in the long run, but it may open up some extended options for sanctions on Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and any people or entities supplying them.
Of course, the US and its NATO allies have spent the past year squeezing Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia. Will this add much other than some clarity to Wagner Group activities and purpose?
CNN pre-reported it right before the announcement:
This is similar, although not identical, to the US designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Iran had already been under a heavy sanctions regime, but this action stripped the usual deference to a uniformed official military of a nation in regard to terror-list designations. It allowed for an expansion of financial and security sanctions, but mainly served a political purpose in reinforcing Iran’s status as a state sponsor of terrorism.
This feels like a similar move.
