Posted on 05/06/2023 1:07:13 PM PDT by wardaddy
https://youtu.be/TEWlVpKd_To
Around 5:30 Alexander starts talking about two sources on Wagner including it’s history and use and who actually runs it and Prigozhian role and his relationship with troops. And it’s not laudatory btw so I’d suggest Z brigade here should try and put aside their prejudices and give it a listen you might learn a little about your foe
I’d note Prigozhian also was conciliatory of the uke forces he’s facing and said they were fighting to best effect considering and with dignity
The conventional wisdom is that he’s been at the front way too much and even though his troops love him for it as well as his advocating for them but many think he’s a bit frazzled and she’ll shocked
Make no mistake Bakhmut has been the battlefield version of highway deer pizza
Just unsustainable casualties particularly for the Ukes simply since they can’t match Russian arty exchanges etc but make no mistake Russians bloodied too including I think over 100 in they claim 20 minutes a few days ago
Anyhow I watch these guys daily along with a dozen other sources across the spectrum and this is a good one
Mercurious a devout Trump supporter and quasi expert on our WBTS is what I’d deem moderate on the spectrum between globalist and putinista
Leaning pro Russian ethnics stance in the east of Ukraine and def anti neocon
Greek born English with fancy accent
He’s imperfect but he keeps up
His Wagner inside info was via email from one who asked not to be identified publicly
On Prigozhian you have to wonder if the Kremlin apothecary got to him since yesterdays bizarre video rant surrounded by dead soldiers accusing Shoigu of corruption etc
Btw anyone here see the video see any blue yellow armbands on some of those corpses
No matter what they will claim victory by 8 May. Only took a year to get it though. LOL.
Ping
True but it cost Ukraine a lot and it wasn’t a year btw
Like eight months from start of campaign to hit surrounding towns first then around five months actual Bakhmut micropolis
It must have been more important to Kiev than you guys claim considering what they threw at it
Slow progress given the arty and missle exchanges favors the more well equipped side
In any event I actually think Russia if they don’t keep their heads on with this Wagner burnout could lose flank power
The notion that Prigozhin may be suffering from PTSD has merit...good analysis by Alexander.
Yes I think it was valuable to Kiev to kill more Russians than they took losses. They were able to funnel russians to their death. But we will probably find out how much this helped or hurt them when they try their counter-offensive.
Yesterday made MacArthur look timid
I’ve never seen anything like that
“But I thought Putin was an ironclad despot “
Try that in Iran or North Korea
Lol
Lordy
But wait until the ground freezes !!!11
It’s funny how anyone listens to these Russians and completely ignores the fact that they’re going to feed disinfo ALL THE TIME.
Watch what they do on the battlefield, not what they say.
At the outset of this mess and the US flooding the Ukrainians with money and weapons, the third option characterized as "not my circus and not my monkeys" watches the conflict here as in the war zone has been sorely lacking. What will be the outcome is simple to say. The outcome will be the outcome, however it comes. Predicting the future -- just as the climate change and WHO types do -- can be foretold, I stand back and say the future cannot be foretold.
But I came on this post of yours after reading Jake Sullivan's strange and naive comments to Brookings, suggesting to me that the Biden regime and much of the mainstream media are so partisan and activist, and yet fumbling at the same time, that I pray for this nation with the hope that we will not pay too steep a price for the fiscal and political insanity going on, courtesy of Democrats and some RINOs.
What will be, will be. Again thanks for posting this.
Glad you are onto The Duran.
Guess you have heard that Gonzo Lira has been nabbed again, and jailed by the Nazis for calling them Nazis.
Lira as you know is the chain smoking, on-the-ground, gum shoe reporter whose usual habitat is in all the wrong places most of the time, and a very good friend to the pair of guys who are The Duran.
“I pray for this nation with the hope that we will not pay too steep a price for the fiscal and political insanity going on, courtesy of Democrats and some RINOs”
The price is already being paid...starting.
Brics will now become the prime benchmark and aside from that..Biden has managed to alienate the Arabs, the Indians, the Mexicans, ALL of Central America and most of South America. The European countries are beginning to make remarks that they will no longer allow this country to take the lead on affairs worldwide.
Say nothing about the permanent destruction of any chance of future relations with the Russians as well as the destruction of much of the relations with the Chinese.
In short..Biden and those you mention have managed to start to alienate the whole world against the USA.
Am waiting for the Chinese to start cashing in on their US bonds. Do these dumb freaks realize how much US debt foreign countries hold? Many of them they have managed to piss off?
I don’t think they lie as much as our own govt political parties media and institutions do
Of course that’s a high mark to hit
Lie about 95% to suit the narrative
It looks like Prigozhian has done a 180 and now claims Bakhmut should be done next week and then his boys get off the line to be replaced likely by Kadyrov and his Chechen fighters
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Just in time for the UA offensive. Couldn’t have worked out better, with the few remaining Wagers being replaced by 3rd rate troops and the hidebound RGF.
Thanks for taking the time to give everybody a heads up wardaddy. I’ll go there in a bit.
"This is an incredibly DANGEROUS moment" Putin activates nuclear arsenal to highest level | Redacted
Chechen wars (both of them )were longer so far. I have a feeling Russia doesn’t mind long protracted war...the whole thing is a shame. Lies from both sides
IMHO...IMHO...(since both sides lie)
Putin has constantly threatened with nukes, on the third day of his invasion in February of 2022 he put his nuke forces on high alert.
Trump got sick of Putin’s constant nuclear attack threats.
Chechens are third rate?
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