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Men who send other men to die for shits and giggles deserve to experience every death firsthand themselves, over and over again
Vladimir Putin made an extraordinary address to the nation on Saturday morning admitting that he was facing an armed insurrection led by former confidante Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries. After months of feuding between the mercenary boss and Russia's Defense Ministry, things came to a head Friday when Prigozhin accused the Russian military of ordering a rocket strike on a camp full of his men, and vowed merciless revenge. Within hours, the Prosecutor General's Office announced charges against Prigozhin for attempting to incite an armed rebellion, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years behind bars. Prigozhin showed no sign of backing down, instead releasing a series of audio messages via his press service late Friday in which he accused the Defense Ministry of deploying fighter jets to shoot at Wagner vehicles in the Rostov region and of firing at civilians on Russian territory. While the drama between Moscow and Prigozhin played out, Ukrainian officials announced Friday their forces had retaken eight villages from Russian control as part of their first counteroffensive.
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Pizza Hut in Arlington is going to be busy the next couple of days.
Can you elaborate? Is this a reference of sorts?
The Pentagon is located in Arlington, it's a meme that when some hot shit happens and they have to do overtime they will order a lot of pizza from nearby stores.
Update: Wagner is claiming control of a Military HQ and an airfield in Rostov, Russia. Demanding an audience with the top 2 Russian military heads. He demands that the two leaders BE BROUGHT TO HIM or he will continue to hold the HQ.... It may be a while before we get another update.
Source?
Thoughts and prayers
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We all know how this is gonna end. Prigozhin marches his 25,000 troops into Moscow, faces stiff resistance and is either killed in combat or captured.
Putin then goes full Vlad the Impaler and parades his corpse skewered on a pike for all of Russia to see, as a stark reminder of what happens to rebels.
This is a substantial setback for the Russian war effort, but I really cannot see Prigozhin overthrowing Putin. Best thing he could have done was defect to the West instead of try to depose the figurehead.
He is pissing on a hornet's nest.
Either Putin or Prigozhin end up dead.
Maybe we'll get lucky and somehow finish each other off.
Isn’t ~97% of Russian military engaged in Ukraine? Where would this “stiff resistance” come from? Wagner is already 1/2 way to Moscow!
Ultimately, it doesn't matter who wins or loses this battle. Either way, Ukraine wins.
Wagner was the only Russian force I regularly saw succeeding in the headlines. Without them bolstering the Russian military and in fact detracting from and wasting the resources of the Russian military, the whole house of cards is going to start falling.
Yea I'm not too in the loop on this topic, but following, and I'd like to think I understand people, especially bad people, and if anything this just acts as a destabilizer for putins power consolidation, and that is good for Ukraine regardless whether both parties are pos, which they are.
The thing that's worth thinking about is that most of the Russian people can't really resist Putin because the military are all on his side and put down protests.
But if the military would have switched sides they'd be far less inclined to put down protests against Putin. Theoretically this could lead to a full on Rebellion.
I'm wondering if and how things will change when it gets to their door step, as far as the Russian people vs Russian military dynamic goes. I'm not gonna pretend im in the know, culturally, and all the nuance, but I'm learning more following the story. Thanks for that insight.
After seeing how much of a coward Putin is I have a hard time seeing him be anything more than an opportunist who takes easy cheap shots. He is out if his league now.
Well I think Putin just fled Moscow...
Ok, I have a huge and unlikely bingo card: what if Lukashenko is now allied with Prigozhin and is using that to take control of Russia and finally complete his dream of ruling the USSR again?
That's a fun theory. He can finally be colonel.
Oh shit...
Lukashenka had talks with Prigozhin, agreed to halt Wagner PMC advance https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/24-june-lukashenka-had-talks-with-prigozhin-agreed-to-halt
Is there a source for this somewhere? I'm seeing reports that he fled to Turkey. Trying to figure out if this is the darkest timeline or the brightest..
(No shade to you, thanks for sharing it. Just wanna see the news orgs pick up on it Edit: BBC is on it
AFAIK Lukashenko's airplane has travelled to Turkey in the last couple of hours.
Let’s release a bunch of people we imprisoned and then send them to……. a mercenary group? I’m sure they’ll be veeeery loyal.
If they’re able to pick up Russian soldiers as they go things could steam roll quickly. Otherwise it will at least be a massive distraction for Russia while Ukraine recovers territory.
Russia is distracted, Ukraine gets some relief, NATO expands.
What are the odds Putin is still around in one month? This shit is fucking nuts.
I would say high. It appears Progozian is saying this is all Shoigu's fault and Putin needs to replace him with Progozian. I imagine they'll use this as an excuse to retreat from Ukraine and sacrifice Shoigu as the reason for the invasion.
Honestly, if this gives the Ukrainian's their land back and peace I'm all for it. I care less about the evil of the world getting their cumuppance rather than the innocent getting to live happily.
the rebellion is already over.
So Putin has been paying Nazis to fight Nazis and some of those Nazis are planing a coup against him.
The West has also been supporting Nazis to fight Nazis.
And now in America Nazis are coming out again and are doing Nazi things.
As someone who lives in Illinois “I hate Illinois Nazis.”
I don‘t think this guy in charge of Russia or their army would be any good either, but I hope he could at least make some more Russians question the current course.
"Never mind..."
Well that aged like milk.
What happened?
Prig has turned around. His march didn’t last long.
Real MGS4-like moment there
I'm really surprised this guy hasn't swan dived out of a tall building yet...
There are literally tens of thousands of soldiers to prevent him from accidentally falling out of the window.
isn't wagner the group that spread gore videos on the internet, were they brutalized their victims