Another smoking accident in Russia
You say that as if it isn't a tactic used in every society, in every country.
Your version also makes sense. There's more then one possibility.
Occam's razor. That's how it makes perfect sense. Prigozhin's march on Moscow was a spat between mafioso running Russia. He wanted his pay off and wasn't getting it and he knows where the bodies are buried. Putin needs Wagner and him as his international force. They cut a deal after months of Prigozhin baiting putin and a direct threat. The Kremlin spin machine went silent, save for calling Prigozhin traitorous. Until he wasn't, never mind. Weeding out any disloyalty was a happy side effect for putin. This happens in any failed coup and doesn't require some "master plan".
Or you can believe putin purposely planned to show him and internal Russian defences as weak and amateurish, with ordinary Russians willing, even happy to see someone who's not putin in charge and Kremlin politics as a Mexican soap opera.
But like so much Kremlin spin it'll be memory holed soon anyway. Like genetically modified pigeons. Or biolabs(funny how they've forgotten about them). Note too little mention of China or India of late. Instead they've pivoted to Africa(with a small side detour to North Korea).
I find it's generally more informative to look at what they stop talking about. The notable exception being sanctions. They never shut up about how that's not affecting them at all. Like that friend who just got dumped by his girlfriend who tells anyone who'll listen how it's not affecting him and he's never been happier...
Russia plans to build Afro villages to resettle white African migrants to Russia between Moscow and st Petersburg. They also plan an American one near Moscow.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/russia-to-build-african-village/
I did. May even have posted these beliefs here but CBA checking.
It makes no sense if this wasn't planned. Wagner were on the verge of capturing Wagner before magically stopping.
It lured out who wasn't loyal to Putin in the military. Had to be a setup.
On another note here's a video of 30 modernized T80 tanks with thermal optics leaving a Russia plant in OMSK which is near khazakstan.
To get these optics they have Found a way past certain sanctions.
Link to video on telegram https://t.me/WarZoneInc/53740
Sure you did.
Absolute fecking nonsense
No I just get depressed. I'll never call for peace talks or tell Ukraine what to do politically.
I've been saying this was a strong possibility amongst my friends circles for a while now. Makes no sense what happened otherwise.
Page 1 of Putin's ladybird book tale of Ukrainian history.
Not good for the Russians. They've crossed the Dnipro in another place. With the recent disabling of Chongar and Henichesk bridges its seems the plan is to threaten the longer route beside Oleshky to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. If that happens then it will cut off almost all major supply routes to the south of Ukraine from Crimea.
Keep an eye on this one. :)
If you watch too many vids of Ukrainian losses you will lose heart and start calling for peace talks, and territorial concessions to save Ukrainian lives. Thats how these things work.
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Also his statement that the basis of the whole war was false, pulling the rug out from Putin and his special operation. He wouldn't have done that if it was just a set up.
Monkeys and typewriters...
I wonder how many workshops it took the spin merchants to come up with that one.
Always thought this was the most likely scenario.
Interesting theory, but I dont buy it.
It made Russia look incredibly weak and politically fragile.
It made the Russian military look impotent.
It made Putin look afraid when he fled to Petersburg.
Another day, another batch of Russian soldiers complaining about conditions
Interesting theory Danilov called the Prigozhin rebellion a special operation of the Kremlin to identify disloyal generals – News (newsonlineread.com)
German companies or Kyrgyzstan companies?
Selling to Russia is sanctioned, selling to Kyrgyzstan isn't. The EU/West should be tracing all the parts being found in Russian weapons and if they are going via Kyrgyzstan etc... They should start thinking about secondary sanctions on specific items and specific companies/countries.
Correct, you're the one talking about that, not me. I'm talking about disingenuous posting.
Looks like German companies are getting around the sanctions….
https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1688459821664681984?s=46&t=I5Ng64p4m8u3ocgC9fbhIA
I'm talking about the culture of ideological "purity" and pointing fingers at people and claiming they're secret traitors. Quite a distasteful practice....
The Russians distort and reuse footage so it's just not worth the headache trying to verify the crap on telegram in my experience
The younger generation of Russians are not so enamored with Putin, they see him for what he is, a lying dictator. And they vote with their feet. But the older ones, regard Putin as the best of a bad lot, and while their pensions remain untouched, they will continue to support him. But with a rapidly devaluation of the Ruble that could quickly change too.There cannot be many Russians left now that actually fought in the great war, but still Putin is able to mobilize popular opinion on the strength of that war, its so engrained in the Russian psyche.
Well you are right in the sense that Putin thought that it would be over in 3 days, yet here we are 19 mths later, still going strong, and no immediate end in sight. Yet its not static, and moving along at different levels, not just in Ukraine. Things are not stationary within Putin's Russian either, where the internal dynamics are playing out.
Another day, another slip in the Ruble. Now 96 to the dollar and climbing.
Yeah, but takes only one of those peers to report a dissident voice and the pupil in question can be probably kicked out of school and unable to get a job. Classic Soviet policy of fear and intimidation to keep people silent
Yes, like with Nazi Germany and imperial Japan at the end of WW2, the only hope of peace long term is a total overhaul of Russian mentality, starting at the top. But now hard to see where it'll come from
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