How Wagner Uses Anime, Action Movies and Pop Culture to Recruit Mercenaries | WSJ
The mercenary group with Kremlin links is leading Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine. From action movies to techno music clips, videos on Russian social media urge young men to join the Wagner mercenary group to fight in Ukraine.
The pop culture push is even more important as Wagner’s losses mount on the battlefield.
0:00 How Wagner uses pop culture to glorify the Ukraine war to potential recruits
0:50 Wagner's multimedia empire
1:30 How Wagner videos are gamifying the war
2:20 Wagner mercenaries are facing large losses
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