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“There’s a lot of talk right now about what the Wagner Group will do. We can tell you one thing. We are getting started, get ready for us,” the soldiers said in a translated video. It is unclear who they were directing their message to.
Damn. Chilling stuff. I'm chilled.
They are in the absolute middle of nowhere in Belarus, any organized movement is going to be easily countered before they get anywhere close to Russia
I'm chilled. 🍦
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Mercenaries without a leader , what could possibly go wrong
For some reason your comment made me think of this game quote..
"There must always be a Lich King."
Wagner has just lost their head, I wonder if anyone inside the company is still able to take over, or if the Russian army will just assimilate or disappear them.
The Russian Military won't be able to "disappear" Wagner. The situation on the African Continent entirely prevents it; Wagner needs to be there or a shit ton of $$$ will be lost and Russia cannot use regular / uniformed Russian soldiers for those...activities.
It's easy to forget because of Prigozhin's long association with Putin and the War in Ukraine but Wagner has a power base along with income streams that are entirely separate from Russia. They are truly a trans-national Mercenary group.
"The West" may take this opportunity to delete them but that probably wouldn't happen until after the reaction from Prigozhin's death has settled down. Wouldn't want to keep them from Marching on Moscow again after all.
I'd bark too if I realized I had no bite. Hope they cause some damage before they're purged.
“In the area of the camp of Private Military Company ‘Wagner,’ in the village of Tsel and in the Osipovichi district, there are currently severe disruptions in the mobile Internet.”
One of my favorite Ukrainian journalists mentioned that she'd heard Prigozhin had instructions to march on the Kremlin in case of his untimely death. She emphasized that it was more of a rumor than anything else, but interesting if true.