At average of $2k/month for 6months that's $12k per contractor. So just that money from EU and US $1,98B, would get Wagner 165.000 contractors for 6months.
It wouldn't. Wagner has trouble hiring as it is. Earlier in the year they were taking only people with military experience, now it's open to anyone with a pulse basically... including people with criminal records. Even Russians don't want to die for $2k and the ones that do aren't much better than the cannon fodder from Tatarstan or ORDLO.
https://t.me/grey_zone/14946