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New video by Andres Puck Nielsen.. He discusses how Prigozin deaths and Girkins imprisonment have impacted russia and what this means for regimes ideology or lack thereof.

From /r/credibledefense

Summary:

Date of plane crush was not about symbolism rather due to the opportunity to take out so many people at once.

-Usually the Kremlin tries to flood the info space with a lot of narratives to preserve plausible deniability.

-This time their response was different . Even though they denied their responsibility overall it was a very half-hearted attempt.

-As soon as the crash happened there was a limited attempt to spread different stories but they quickly halted it.

-Even people on gov. sponsored talk shows seem to imply that putin is responsible.

-Therefore it seems that putin is more openly taking responsibility this time.

-It might be a new message to the russian elite about the new rules of the game.

-Assassinations are a fair play now even if you are in the elite. These types of repressions are approaching Stalinist levels.

-Regarding Girkins imprisonment. Unlike Prigozin he was not a traitor but a representative of an ultraright opposition to putin.

-Nationalists are more problematic because unlike Navalny and co they basically use putins own talking points.

-By starting to go after nationalists, the current russian system basically loses any ideological backing. All you can do is support putin but you can't take his talking points to heart.

-The longer the war drags out the worse this will be for russia. As only fighting for your president rather than your country/ideology is not sustainable.

-Overall it seems that putins new direction is to replace ideology with fear.

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

Wasn't Girkin being Anti-Putin or at least saying bad things about him, I heard as much from other youtube videos but I really don't have much time to look into him. So I'd think the correct idea that Putin is trying to spread is that to be ultranationalist you must also be Pro-Putin rather than the other way around.