Posted on 03/17/2022 12:43:01 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The deputy chief of Russian’s National Guard was reportedly detained Thursday amid news that Russian President Vladimir Putin is cracking down on disloyalty within his ranks following the invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Gen. Roman Gavrilov, of Rosgvardia, the internal military force of the Russian Federation that reports directly to the president of the Russian Federation, was detained by the Russian security and counterintelligence agency, Federal Security Service (FSB), according to Christo Grozev, CEO of the Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat.
The reason for Gavrilov's detention wasn’t immediately clear. Grozev said one of his sources told him that Gavrilov was detained by the FSB's military counter-intelligence department over "leaks of military info that led to loss of life," while two other sources said the reason was for "wasteful squandering of fuel."
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Oh, like a Jan 6er?
Are we sure putin’s really not Austrian?......all this sounds eerily familiar.
Oh, like a Jan 6er?
Thanks for the reminder.
Eventually he’s going to piss off the wrong General.
No doubt he will be replaced with a corrupt AND incompetent sycophant.
Collapsing from within.
I have a winning plan that Putin could dangle in front of his troops. They will all get to emigrate to Brooklyn after the conquest of Ukraine to work telephone card scams, Mob wetwork and have as many botoxed, lip injected over makeupped 23 year old Russian whores they want.
Ernst Rohm?..............
A Georgian beat the Austrian to it by 6 or 7 years.
This whole Putin/Ukraine Invasion mess would be comedic gold in a "Hitler Reacts to Ukraine Invasion Failure" vid.
Alexander Vindman was promoted to General in Russia?
Putler reacts to Ukraine not being defeated
A little higher up the ladder
Yep Stalin came to Putin in a Dream , LOL
Roman Gavrilov, deputy director of the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation - Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard of the Russian Federation
6th spot down in Command Chain
Likely did squander fuel
From Wiki:
The National Guard of Russia is organized into a composed structure, consisting of six broad elements:
National Guard Forces Command (Войска национальной гвардии), which handles the operational units (formerly belonging to the Interior Troops);
including the ODON and the National Guard Naval Service Corps;
National Guard Special Operations and Aviation Center, including Zubr, Vityaz, Rus and Yastreb special units;
National Guard (Note: this is a Spetsnaz unit->)SOBR, (Note: this is a Ukraine unit->)Berkut and (Note: this is a Special police unit->)OMON Units;
Administrations and other departments exercising federal oversight over firearms and private security regulation, personal protection and government personnel security guard service, including the Center for Specially Designated Government Personnel Security Protection (formerly belonging to the MVD);
The federal state unitary enterprise “Okhrana” (provides paid security / rapid response services to citizens).
This general is getting accused of not foddering enough for the motherland.
Palace intrigues and territorial aggrandizement are well within the human experience at least over thousands of years. Russian territorial gains weren't achieved around a campfire by a bunch of village chiefs singing kumbaya. Russia (Novgorod, really) in 1215:
Russia in 1214, at the dawn of the Great War, several years before the last of the de jure Tsars was killed:
Richard Pipes, the eminent Russia watcher who served in the Reagan administration, had interesting things to say about Russia's essentially Oriental character:
Pipes wrote many books on Russian history, including Russia under the Old Regime (1974), The Russian Revolution (1990), and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime (1994), and was a frequent interviewee in the press on the matters of Soviet history and foreign affairs. His writings also appear in Commentary, The New York Times, and The Times Literary Supplement. At Harvard, he taught large courses on Imperial Russia as well as the Russian Revolution and guided over 80 graduate students to their PhDs.
Pipes is known for arguing that the origins of the Soviet Union can be traced to the separate path taken by 15th-century Muscovy, in a Russian version of the Sonderweg thesis. In Pipes’ opinion, Muscovy differed from every other State in Europe in that it had no concept of private property, and that everything was regarded as the property of the Grand Duke/Tsar. In Pipes’ view, this separate path undertaken by Russia (possibly under Mongol influence) ensured that Russia would be an autocratic state with values fundamentally dissimilar from those of Western civilization. Pipes argued that this “patrimonialism” of Imperial Russia started to break down when Russian leaders attempted to modernize in the 19th century, without seeking to change the basic “patrimonial” structure of Russian society. In Pipes’s opinion, this separate course undertaken by Russia over the centuries made Russia uniquely open to revolution in 1917. Pipes strongly criticized the values of the radical intelligentsia of late Imperial Russia for what he sees as their fanaticism and inability to accept reality. Pipes stressed that the Soviet Union was an expansionist, totalitarian state bent on world conquest.[20] He is also known for the thesis that, contrary to many traditional histories of the Soviet Union at the time, the October Revolution was, rather than a popular general uprising, a coup foisted upon the majority of the Russian population by a tiny segment of the population driven by a select group of intellectuals who subsequently established a one-party dictatorship that was intolerant and repressive from the start.[21]
In what was meant to be an “off-the-record” interview, Pipes told Reuters in March 1981 that “Soviet leaders would have to choose between peacefully changing their Communist system in the direction followed by the West or going to war. There is no other alternative and it could go either way – Détente is dead.” Pipes also stated in the interview that Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher of West Germany was susceptible to pressure from the Soviets. It was learned independently that Pipes was the official who spoke to Reuters. This potentially jeopardized Pipes’ job. The White House and the “incensed” State Department issued statements repudiating Pipes’ statements.[22]
In 1992, Pipes served as an expert witness in the Constitutional Court of Russia’s trial of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[23]
At least our contractors only steal by doing decades long development for billions without pretending to deliver non-working hardware or stealing fuel. Although I guess we'll see if the $4 billion per flight Artemis will ever fly.
Bkmk
I’ve seen some versions of it in Chinese, yes despite the CCP ban on reporting negative Russian news, there are still pockets of people in China mocking Putin’s failing invasion.
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