Posted on 10/05/2022 10:07:11 AM PDT by dennisw
Kadyrov boasted that Putin has 'personally congratulated' him with a promotion He said he gives his word that he will 'honour this trust' offered by Putin
The warlord is rumoured to want to oust defence minister Sergei Shoigu
Vladimir Putin has promoted his feared crony Ramzan Kadyrov to Colonel-General amid rumours of a senior new war role for the brutal Chechen leader.
The Kremlin loyalist boasted in video that he had been 'personally congratulated' by the Russian despot, amid fears the warlord could be poised for even greater responsibility in Ukraine.
Kadyrov, who has been one of the biggest cheerleaders of Putin's invasion, has claimed he is the West's top bogeyman, with more sanctions than even North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
In recent days his security agents have been exposed as ordering the husbands of anti-war women protesters to beat them as punishment.
Male relatives were sent to the conflict in Ukraine in vengeance.
Kadyrov has been ultra-critical of the defence ministry's war strategy and evidently believes Putin is now listening.
He has also personally recruited tens of thousands of 'volunteers' to fight in Putin's war.
'We will do everything to quickly finish the special operation,' he said.
'There is no war without casualties. This is war.
'What are men born for….?'
He posted: 'Your Ramzan is now a Colonel-General -for the evil of his enemies, and the joy of his friends.
'We will destroy terrorism, satanism and the like.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Cool. Then Putin can blame it on Chechnya. Sounds like a plan.
Not a Putin boi....but we have Major Generals and Lt Generals. Funny how they go up in rank the opposite of how a Lt goes to a Major.
But no Captain or Col Generals.
It really made sense when they started it...but that is lost on us now.
War between Prigozhin and Putin has started. Grab some popcorn.
Putin and those around him conceived of the Russo-Ukrainian War in existential terms from the very beginning. It is unlikely, however, that most Russians understood this. Instead, they likely viewed the war the same way Americans viewed the war in Iraq and Ukraine - as a justified military enterprise that was nevertheless merely a technocratic task for the professional military; hardly a matter of life and death for the nation. I highly doubt that any American ever believed that the fate of the nation hinged on the war in Afghanistan (Americans have not fought an existential war since 1865), and judging by the recruitment crisis plaguing the American military, it does not seem like anyone perceives a genuine foreign existential threat.
What has happened in the months since February 24 is rather remarkable. The existential war for the Russian nation has been incarnated and made real for Russian citizens. Sanctions and anti-Russian propaganda - demonizing the entire nation as “orcs” - has rallied even initially skeptical Russians behind the war, and Putin’s approval rating has soared. A core western assumption, that Russians would turn on the government, has reversed. Videos showing the torture of Russian POWs by frothing Ukrainians, of Ukrainian soldiers calling Russian mothers to mockingly tell them their sons are dead, of Russian children killed by shelling in Donetsk, have served to validate Putin’s implicit claim that Ukraine is a demon possessed state that must be exorcised with high explosives. Amidst all of this - helpfully, from the perspective of Alexander Dugin and his neophytes - American pseudo-intellectual “Blue Checks” have publicly drooled over the prospect of “decolonizing and demilitarizing” Russia, which plainly entails the dismemberment of the Russian state and the partitioning of its territory. The government of Ukraine (in now deleted tweets) publicly claimed that Russians are prone to barbarism because they are a mongrel race with Asiatic blood mixing.
Simultaneously, Putin has moved towards - and ultimately achieved - his project of formal annexation of Ukraine’s old eastern rim. This has also legally transformed the war into an existential struggle. Further Ukrainian advances in the east are now, in the eyes of the Russian state, an assault on sovereign Russian territory and an attempt to destroy the integrity of the Russian state. Recent polling shows that a supermajority of Russians support defending these new territories at any cost.
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A political consensus for higher mobilization and greater intensity has been achieved. Now all that remains is the implementation of this consensus in the material world of fist and boot, bullet and shell, blood and iron.
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Putin, very simply, could not have conducted a large scale mobilization at the onset of the war. He possessed neither a coercive mechanism nor the manifest threat to generate mass political support. Few Russians would have believed that there was some existential threat lurking in the shadow - they needed to be shown, and the west has not disappointed. Likewise, few Russians would likely have supported the obliteration of Ukrainian infrastructure and urban utilities in the opening days of the war. But now, the only vocal criticism of Putin within Russia is on the side of further escalation. The problem with Putin, from the Russian perspective, is that he has not gone far enough. In other words - mass politics have already moved ahead of the government, making mobilization and escalation politically trivial. Above all, we must remember that Clausewitz’s maxim remains true. The military situation is merely a subset of the political situation, and military mobilization is also political mobilization - a manifestation of society’s political participation in the state.
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The other is the interpretation that I have advocated, that Russia is massing for a winter escalation and offensive, and is currently engaged in a calculated trade wherein they give up space in exchange for time and Ukrainian casualties. Russia continues to retreat where positions are either operationally compromised or faced with overwhelming Ukrainian numbers, but they are very careful to extract forces out of operational danger. In Lyman, where Ukraine threatened to encircle the garrison, Russia committed mobile reserves to unblock the village and secure the withdrawal of the garrison. Ukraine’s “encirclement” evaporated, and the Ukrainian interior ministry was bizarrely compelled to tweet (and then delete) video of destroyed civilian vehicles as “proof” that the Russian forces had been annihilated.
Russia will likely continue to pull back over the coming weeks, withdrawing units intact under their artillery and air umbrella, grinding down Ukrainian heavy equipment stocks and wearing away their manpower. Meanwhile, new equipment continues to congregate in Belgorod, Zaporizhia, and Crimea. My expectation remains the same: episodic Russian withdrawal until the front stabilizes roughly at the end of October, followed by an operational pause until the ground freezes, followed by escalation and a winter offensive by Russia once they have finished amassing sufficient units.
Kadyrovs will not have power in Chechnya forever. Once that happens, Chechnya is going to rebel again.
MarcMax has been posting about Kremlin rebellion ..... It is Prigozhin-Kadyrov vs Putin and Serguéi Shoigú
For the latest action do a twitter search for>>>> Prigozhin Kadyrov
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TWIT
Igor Sushko
@igorsushko
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Oct 1
🧵 Prigozhin-Kadyrov terrorist alliance forming against Russian Ministry of Defence (Shoigu).
Wagner PMC owner Prigozhin said he fully supports Kadyrov on drafting:
- Contract soldiers who resigned.
- ‘Siloviki’: Police & security services employees.
& against sending conscripts.
Your Kremlin is catching on fire ——
https://twitter.com/search?q=kadyrov%20%20%20Prigozhin&src=typed_query&f=top
More likely a civil war in Chechnya rather than rebellion against Moscow
They already have more autonomy de facto than anyone
It’s a confederation of clans held together by an autocrat vassal
Unless a strong leader emerges it’s intercine conflict
And unlike Ukraine Russia did go all out on Chechnya and destroyed the place
Muslims respect a strong hand
And they get left alone and Moscow throws cash At them to behave
Why rebel?
They would rather invade Dagestan than fight Moscow especially putin
Putin is the confused and incompetent moderate so we want him to stay in power.
Best case scenario is Putin get his loyal Spetnatz to get Prigozhin, wound him while arresting him, toss him in jail. Kadyrov is holed up in Chechnya so harder to get. So find out where he is and send in 5 cruise missiles to off him. The man who takes over, bribe him with millions to keep Chechens in this war. But Chechens will be pissed and will only put in 25% of the efforts they do now.
This all (of the above) translates into Putin’s war FAILS even more.
Prigozhin + Kadyrov are allies and rebelling against Bad Vlad Putin. Go see twitter. It’s better than the UK Daily Mail for this.
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