“If they didn’t want sanctions they would simply stop being authoritarian”

This is the most frustrating part about trying to discuss this subject in good faith. Whether or not I think a multipolar world order is a good thing is so much less interesting of a conversation than how the world might change in response to that reality.

well, we can talk about wagner if the libs want but they aren’t ready to have the conversation about whatever blackwater is calling itself these days or all the other mercenary warcrime companies that the “good guys” have.

Wagner is also used by Russian state media though. So hardly an invention of the west.