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    • Fisting for Freedom@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Don’t they traditionally recruit from former Russian military? Even without the uprising, I’d think their ability to draw on that pool of candidates would be evaporating anyway - what with stop loss orders, etc. They stopped prison recruiting a while back, IIRC, and the MoD was supposedly taking that over.

      I still don’t believe they let him live.

      • qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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        1 year ago

        Agreed, they were definitely getting gradually cut out of the picture and I think Prigozhin did see that. Just happening much more quickly now.

        And yeah, my unsupported opinion is that Putin is waiting for the hue and cry to calm down. Prigozhin will have an accident the moment the public takes its eye off him.