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Paranoid Putin 'turns against' Wagner chief after the mercenary boss 'failed to take the hint' and kept bragging that his forces achieved more success than Russia's
Daily Mail ^ | 1/23/2023 | Rachel Bunyan

Posted on 01/23/2023 1:31:19 PM PST by marcusmaximus

Vladimir Putin is said to have turned against the head of the feared Russian Wagner mercenary group after he 'failed to take the hint' and kept on bragging that his forces were achieving more success than Russia's army.

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has fallen out of favour with the Russian president after he continuously gloated his private paramilitary fighters were more superior and successful than the country's conventional forces, experts say.

Earlier this month, Prigozhin bragged that his fighters had single-handedly taken control of the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar, which has been razed by fighting.

Putin is said to have felt threatened by Prigozhin's rise and tactless self-assertion, experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said today. This was evident, they said, when the leader pointedly did not credit Prigozhin or his Wagner forces for town's capture.

Putin, paranoid about Prigozhin's power, began to reintroduce himself as an involved wartime leader and met commanders after the Wagner boss posted a picture of himself with his mercenaries at the entrance of a salt mine in Soledar.

'Prigozhin did not take the hint, if hint it was, but instead redoubled his efforts to assert himself by advertising the superiority and successes of his own troops,' the experts from ISW said.

The Wagner boss instead tried to boost his standing by claiming he had arrived at the front lines near Bakhmut to speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regarding the control of territories there.

'His rhetoric and self-presentation had become overbearing and ostentatiously swaggering until things began to go south for him'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 01/23/2023 1:31:19 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Suuuure he did.


2 posted on 01/23/2023 1:33:52 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: marcusmaximus

THE WORLD IS SHOCKED!! Private House of Putin and His Bodyguards Destroyed by Ukrainian Missiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSWo0-8PoBo


3 posted on 01/23/2023 1:35:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Wagner...great composer.


4 posted on 01/23/2023 1:35:30 PM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: marcusmaximus

TASS was quoting Mr. Prigozhin today somebody better tell the Daily Mail and their MI 6 handlers.

Why is TASS promoting Mr. Prigozhin today?

https://tass.com/world/1566053


5 posted on 01/23/2023 1:36:34 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: OrangeHoof

6 posted on 01/23/2023 1:38:03 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: OrangeHoof

Only in the squishy gut, don’t know if I’m a man or woman, x-box west do people believe girl fights and hurt feelings merit a news story.

“Putin has a hangnail” is a more significant story.

That is IF the claim is based on anything more than last night’s wet dream.


7 posted on 01/23/2023 1:41:12 PM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Only in the squishy gut, don’t know if I’m a man or woman, x-box west do people believe girl fights and hurt feelings merit a news story.

“Putin has a hangnail” is a more significant story.

That is IF the claim is based on anything more than last night’s wet dream.


8 posted on 01/23/2023 1:41:13 PM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Nextrush

“Mr.” Prigozhin. Just like “Herr” Hitler.


9 posted on 01/23/2023 1:41:34 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Babylon be is looking for some of your kind of help


10 posted on 01/23/2023 1:50:26 PM PST by norsky ( <P> <a href= > </a> <P><img src=" "width=400"></img>)
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To: marcusmaximus


11 posted on 01/23/2023 2:15:04 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: marcusmaximus

His ‘success’ in Bakhmut & Soladar came at the price of 40,000 dead and wounded out of 50,000 convicts ...


12 posted on 01/23/2023 2:42:49 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: OrangeHoof

Wagner...great composer.


Was the call sign of his partner in crime Dmitriy Valeryevich Utkin, director of the group’s military operations, he led the group in taking Crimea and Donbas


13 posted on 01/23/2023 2:47:05 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: marcusmaximus

Thanks for posting. Don’t have to go through the checkout counters now to read the tabloids.


14 posted on 01/23/2023 2:48:47 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: marcusmaximus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9MMPHd8Bwk&t=6s

Update on Russian-Ukrainian conflict for January 23, 2023

- Russian forces are reportedly advancing in Zaporozhye while Ukraine continues losing ground around Bakhmut;

- Russian pushes in Zaporozhye could be (1) recon in force, (2) extending existing security zone ahead of actual Russian front line or (3) spoiling attacks on forces assembling for a future offensive;

- Ukrainian losses are severe and Reuters is reporting on supposed warnings by the US to Ukraine about going on the offensive;

- Weapon shipments have been announced for Ukraine including a significant US DoD package, as well as all of Denmark’s Caesar self-propelled howitzers and all of Estonia’s FH-70 towed howitzers;

15 posted on 01/23/2023 3:32:29 PM PST by Kazan
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Putin is said to have felt threatened by Prigozhin's rise and tactless self-assertion, experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said today.

"Cookie" Nuland's Institute For Grifting On War...

16 posted on 01/23/2023 3:57:23 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: marcusmaximus

Oh God. Those western organizations mentioned here play role of mind-readers of Putin. In reality who may be jealous of Wagner success are the generals of Chief Staff. Wagner showed them that they are pussies.

Not solders on a ground. There is indeed a problem with generals. They all mostly made their rank during peace times. So they have no or little battle skills in this full-scale war. But Wagner fights all the time and all over the globe.

So Wagner commanders are very skillful. Much more superior to the star generals of Russian military.

For Putin to have Wagner brigade to show how to fight to those who made generals but never fought no wars, is a really ADNVANTAGE. He is from intelligence by trade so he appreciates existence of many different assets. Wagner is just one of his assets and very useful.

So it is generals of military who are jealous of Wagner not Putin. And generals will need now to prove that they also can fight a war like Wagner but in bigger scale. So it is all will be for good of Russia after all.


17 posted on 01/23/2023 4:27:48 PM PST by nickfrost1
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To: TonyinLA

It dawned on me that the threats to nuke Ukraine must be hollow because the prevailing wind from any fallout would blow back towards Moscow and their agricultural base. It would be suicide for them even if NATO did not retaliate.


18 posted on 01/24/2023 5:50:27 AM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: marcusmaximus

When putin closes one door, he opens another window...


19 posted on 02/13/2023 5:39:44 AM PST by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: marcusmaximus

hahhahhahhaha!!


20 posted on 02/14/2023 3:05:58 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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