• GuyDudeman
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    2111 months ago

    Wagner Group are literal Nazis, so… Let Them Fight, I guess?

    • @Vilian
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      211 months ago

      i mean, russia army aren’t so different, so let them fight

  • Dulce Maria
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    911 months ago

    Prigozhin posted a series of angry video and audio recordings in which he accused Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering a rocket strike Friday on Wagner’s field camps in Ukraine, where his troops are fighting on behalf of Russia.

    Prigozhin said his troops would now punish Shoigu in an armed rebellion and urged the army not to offer resistance.

    ”This is not a military coup, but a march of justice,” Prigozhin declared.

    • Overzeetop
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      611 months ago

      I guess it has to be said, are the videos authentic? I haven’t seen anyone in the media outlets question the veracity or claim the they have been determined to be genuine.

      If they are, this is a weird fucking twist and I can only believe the Prigozshin feels that the Russian regulars are so weakened and separated that he has the ability to extract whatever justice* he feels he is due. But, also, did he have a gay lover who was killed in that missile strike? That’s the only reason I can think that he would march to extract revenge without just being clear that he’s planning to take over the country.

    • StaticBoredom
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      211 months ago

      Well well, this is getting more interesting. Still not sure how this will play out. Mark Galeotti’s excellent book Putin’s Wars mentions several wannabe warlords whose escapades came to quick and bloody ends at the hands of Russian special forces or the FSB.

      I’m actually a bit surprised Comrade Shitheel Prigozhin hasn’t met the same fate. Perhaps his Wagner wall of meat is still seen as having service to render to the Kremlin.

      I don’t at all see Prigozhin as a leadership threat to Putin, but I like that he and Strelkov and Kadyrov are all busy trying to one up each other’s stupidity. I’m all for it as long as it hastens Russia’s battlefield defeat. If it leads to Russia’s decolonization, all the better.

  • editediting
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    611 months ago

    Spicy. Ukraine’s counteroffensive is getting better by the day.

    • Bobo_Palermo
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      111 months ago

      Would love to see a vacant hole that Ukraine can use to take back what Russia stole.

  • anthoniix
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    511 months ago

    I honestly don’t know if I believe any of this. It could be one big distraction, and I think the people in high positions of power are skeptical as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        It is not like US officials are respected for telling the truth.

        Fog of war over Ukraine is really thick. I belive no one until it ends.

      • firebreathingbunny
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        -111 months ago

        US officials also claimed that Russiagate was real and Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake. They have less than no credibility.

        • Deceptichum
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          411 months ago

          I hate the US as much as anyone, but your argument is that they were correct about two out of two listed events, so they have no credibility?

          • firebreathingbunny
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            -111 months ago

            If you think either of those events was real, you are not qualified to comment on any news about anything.

            • keeb420
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              111 months ago

              I have it on good authority that jr, kushner, and manafort met with Russian agents to get dirt on hillary clinton. Jr admitted it and said he’d do it again.

              Let me guess you also believe trump declassified documents just by thinking about it.

        • @Vilian
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          111 months ago

          Hunter Biden’s laptop was fake

          it wasn’t?

  • phosphorik
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    411 months ago

    Well so much for the “authorized by the Kremlin” idea.