Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 714: Violent Machine_1

Chapter 714: Chapter 714: Violent Machine_1

Noticing Wang Ye’s odd expression, Angelina asked with concern, "What’s wrong, Misha. Did something happen with Wagner Company?"

Wang Ye collected himself, smiling as he answered, "Nothing...well, not exactly nothing, more like good news. Didn’t Wagner Company expand to Africa?"

Angelina nodded, she was aware of that.

After all, Wagner Company’s biggest base had been in Sevastopol, but of late, many personnel and equipments from the base were dispatched to Africa.

The current Sevastopol Base seemed to have become a place for recruiting and training new troops.

Still, Wagner’s fleet was stationed here, since this was a large, formal military port with fully equipped logistics.

Finding a similar high-quality port in Africa wouldn’t probably be easy.

Wang Ye continued, "The Wagner’s African security base, in Burkina Faso, may face some instability soon."

"Instability?" Angelina asked in surprise.

"Yes, as you know, those small African countries frequently experience such circumstances. This time, Wagner Company might get involved. Petrov intends to seize this opportunity to reap more benefits," Wang Ye said with a smile.

Angelina widened her eyes, even though Wang Ye didn’t clarify much, she evidently understood his implications.

The country undergoing unrest, Wagner getting involved, reaping more benefits...

These keywords together hinted at what!

Could Petrov be intending to "overthrow" the current leadership of Burkina Faso...

She didn’t have a clear idea of the true power of Wagner Company.

She had no idea, in one of the poorest and most backward small nations in Africa, what the armed forces of Wagner Security Company could perform!

She hadn’t been to Africa, the flow of information back then wasn’t developed as now. Her impressions of Africa were only what she occasionally saw on newspapers or television.

She knew it was quite poor, but how poor it was, she didn’t have any grasp.

When she was teaching at Friendship University, she met many African students studying abroad. Compared to Asian students, their conditions were a bit worse, but not drastically poorer.

Therefore, Angelina was quite surprised and a bit worried.

She furrowed her brows, asking with concern, "This sort of thing... может бытьquite dangerous, have you really made up your mind? Shouldn’t you learn more about the situation before making a decision on how things will develop?"

Wang Ye shook his head, stating unconcernedly, "I believe in Petrov’s analysis and judgement. He believes this operation carries extremely low risk but endless benefits! This naturally makes it worthwhile to take a gamble. After all, at its core, Wagner Security Company is a mechanism of violence. It’s only in aggressive operations like this that it can fulfill its intended purpose. Otherwise, what’s the purpose of maintaining twenty thousand personnel?"

Honestly, Wang Ye also wanted to test the "value" of Wagner Company through this operation.

The current scale and ability of the company had been built from Wang Ye’s investment.

Even though it seemed robust with young men more vigorous than the next, their actual combat capabilities, whether they could fight or not, could only be tested through real combat.

Therefore, Burkina Faso was a perfect testing ground.

The local government’s military forces were weak, morale was low, the risk wouldn’t be too high, just right for Wagner Company’s first large-scale "exercise".

Of course, there might not even be a chance for Wagner Company’s core forces to be deployed this time...

According to Petrov’s plan, in the early stages, Wagner would just send some commanders to the Tribal Armed Forces, and shouldn’t have too many of Wagner’s personnel appear.

They were afraid this would draw international attention.

Internal conflicts of the local people and foreign powers getting involved in political fights were two quite different things.

What Wang Ye was worried about was exactly that.

However, after the operation was successful, that is, once Misha was in power, then Wagner’s power could fully "show" itself.

Because in the plan, Misha’s position wasn’t exactly that "legitimate"; they were taking advantage of a negligent oversight.

You can imagine that at that time, many tribes would probably not accept this result, and there was a high probability that small or even medium-scale "civil unrest" would take place.

With just Misha’s five hundred Tribal Armed Forces, they indeed wouldn’t be able to handle the situation.

At that time, it would be the best time for Wagner’s core forces to take the stage!

......

No matter how Misha arrived at his position, as long as he sat there, it represented the power of the nation!

So at that time, in order to deal with "civil conflicts", he would issue a command to appoint Wagner Security Company as the "National Security Defense Team" to crackdown on all tribes dissatisfied with him!

While the "National Security Defense Team" may sound humble, the power it held would be considerable.

The main duties being: providing security for the President’s Mansion, maintaining capital law and order, fully responsible for combatting enemy tribes, and having temporary disposal rights during emergencies...

In other words, Burkina Faso’s "defense and public order" would be handed over to Wagner Company!

Misha didn’t intend to build a larger regular army and would "contract out" all the regular army’s tasks to Wagner Company.

Of course, this was Petrov’s plan; further discussions with Misha were still needed.

Maintaining an elite force of over ten thousand in a country of near twenty million inhabitants wasn’t inherently a luxury.

About the costs, they could look at the country to see whether there were any diamond mines, gold mines, or the like to use as the debt compensation.

If that didn’t work, they could make compensation with land!

After all, Wagner’s security bases would need more and more land as their personnel expanded.

......

Although Angelina was still a bit worried, seeing Wang Ye’s full confidence, she chose not to say any more.

She also knew that in these matters, Wang Ye was always clear-minded, always making the most rational decisions. Wang Ye was not someone who easily lost his head.

Having finished discussing this matter, they returned to the topic they were discussing earlier.

Before Petrov’s call, they were talking about something happening in Crimea.

"Misha, I feel that Meshkov has been acting a bit strange lately. It’s already March and this year’s annual budget has long been approved. But he has suddenly proposed an additional expense to the parliament. Claiming it’s necessary for Crimea’s security, he wants to set up a bodyguard team directly under the Presidential palace. After hearing you talk about Burkina Faso, this thing came to mind, do you think, could it be..."