• General Hummel, The Rock

His only demanding was the compensation of families from fallen soldiers that were under his command.

• The machines and agent Smith, The Matrix

In the Animatrix we get the explaination that men made the machine that eventually enslaved them. The machines developed consciousness, were trying to life peacefully next to humanity, but humanity eventually chased them out. While creating their own colony even then machines were chased by men. So fight to survive and eventually supress humanity by creating ‘The Matrix’

What will happen if Wagner is trying to destabilise things near the Poland-Belarus border or do activities that normally would been seen as an act of war?

Would NATO see this as an attack from Russia and/or Belarus or would they say it’s a private army/terrorist group that is not connected to a country and let Poland handle it?

On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. He never got close to what is now the mainland of America. Wikipedia

• Jewish slaves build the pyramids.

They were build by Egyptians, probably out of loyalty to the pharaohs.

• Columbus discovered America.

He never reached the mainland. He didn’t go any further then the Caribbean Islands.