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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Does anyone else think that being seen as weak and capitulating to Prigozhin here is basically a death sentence to Putin?

Doing that has to have just put SO MUCH blood in the water for every internal agency/power-block with aspirations of taking him down and replacing him.

Apparently all you need is 20,000 men and Putin's defenceless...

My opinion is that this is going to cause chaos.

The fact that Putin didn't have Wagner immediately atomized on the spot suggests that he wasn't powerful enough to do so. Not a statement that someone in Putin's position would want to make, I would think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Putin has just lost what was left of his authority.

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[–] BackOnMyBS 1 points 1 year ago

The people he would purge just got told that a purge is coming. The entire world knows that the purge is coming. It's only way to survive. So, those that would be purged are going to replace him with someone that won't purge them. Things are going to be wild in the next month or two.

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