That’s my guess - a coordinated effort to look weak to root out any issues with the clans that run each area. Loyalty check and you get to fuck with the West’s head a bit. If Putin wanted him dead he’d already be dead. There are useful idiots out there and Putin loves to look better than everyone else around him. Reminds me of a former US President …

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think any of this was coordinated. I used to live in Russia and the amount of rouge corruption is staggering. This sounds like an argument that got out of hand. It just so happens that the people arguing had troops.

[–] grizzledgrizzly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I defer to you then. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

No problem. However, I don't know what I'm talking about any more then the next guy. I've lived in US for a while now, so maybe things have changed, but i don't think they have. In popular media (after USSR collapse, but before Putin clamped down on media) there was a common trope of people stationed in military bases selling off military equipment. It was a common joke. And seeing how bad and unmaintained the Russian equipment was in the beginning of the invasion (and still is), I'm sure that trope is still accurate.

Heck, I've heard stories of reactive armor not working on Russian tanks, because instead of being filled with explosives, they're filled with sand, or air. I know that it's not ok to have sympathy on the internet, but I can't imagine what my life would have been like if I still lived there. I'm the perfect age to appear in "Drone drops grenade on a Russian invader" video.

That "mutiny" was very disappointing...