this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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[–] Juliie 19 points 2 years ago

Eu must switch to popcorn economy now or everyone will run out

[–] tubbadu 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wagner paramilitary boss of Russia has 25.000 soldiers and aims to attack Putin. Potential Russian civil war

[–] Noxvento 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We live in the craziest timeline.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Now we know why harambe had to die.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He aims to attack the military leaders, no word about Putin. Maybe Prigoshin cooperates with Putin to remove the MoD and some oligarchs as pawn sacrifices and stop the war claiming it was their fault.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's true that Progizhin is going for the classic russian "good tzar fooled by military leader" narrative. But Putin declared Prigozhin an enemy and a terrorist in today's address. Hard to imagine cooperation between them going forward.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I wrote this before Putin's speech.
Maybe Putin plays a double game where he acted in support of a coup and now wants to remove both the MoD and Prigozhin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Or maybe he told Prigozhin he'd back his coup attempt, so Prigozhin would make the first move and look like the instigator, so Putin and the MoD could look like they have the moral high ground by "defending" Russia from Wagner's "unprovoked" coup.

It's exactly the kind of "seems clever until you think it through for longer than a few seconds and realize it's absolute idiocy" type shit Putin pulls all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Most probably, you're right.
That sounds like something the inventor of the 1+ year long "3 day special operation" who destroyed the myth of the "second strongest army in the world" would do.

[–] AskThinkingTim 5 points 2 years ago

Yevgeny Prigozhin is ruling the news right now

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