What are they after: Money Are they going to try and infiltrate it: Obviously Are they trying to monetize it: Obviously It doesn’t add up: To them it does I feel like most people…: I’ve got some bad news for you

Help with what?

Immediately thought of this!

They were just mercenaries on paper to do the Kremlin’s dirty work while giving “plausible” deniability. This would be akin the the Roman Generals of old who reasonably could gather their troops to overthrow whomever was in power.

Russia DID want to be the third Rome afterall.

My personal theory is that he never intended it to get this far (previously he never called out Putin directly), but a failed assassination attempt made him decided he has no choice.