Posted on 06/23/2023 5:20:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Prigo offers context
https://youtu.be/V8thO6S5duE?t=34
Soldiers fight for reasons. A good leader offers good reasons. Bad leaders ...not so much.
It’s about 125 miles of good road between Bakhmut and Rostov.
It is a very long way to move armor.
That’d be cool if Putin got Ceausescu’d.
If not, he'll have to pull a Stalin. I don't think he has enough support to do that.
I don’t know.
It’s interesting
That’s only a problem if you have to move armor.
If there are troops defending Moscow, I assume they are mostly 18 year old conscripts. They're not going to fight against battle hardened Wagner troops returning from Bakhmut.
All of the Russian troops are in Ukraine right now.
It seems likely the Wagner PMC forces are heading for the major Russian Army HQ base at Novocherkassk, northeast of Rostov-on-Don.
If the commander of that base is a Prigozhin ally and the Wagner forces manage to successfully encamp at the base, they will have access to air defense assets and ammunition supplies and will present an extremely difficult problem for forces loyal to Shoigu and Gerasimov.
So, the Wagner group may not have so very far to go. If they can take the HQ of the Russian army fighting Ukraine, they will have taken the majority of Russian army forces.
Posted for 100th time today...Meanwhile, how is that Ukrainian counteroffensive going?
The Russians got knocked out of WWI when the Bolsheviks seized power from Tsar Nicholas II.
Looks like Putin is going to meet a similar fate.
The Russians got knocked out of WWI when the Bolsheviks seized power from Tsar Nicholas II.
Not quite. The Bolsheviks seized power from the provisional government.
There’s no video of them, but there is video of Russian security locking the roads down. They’re just trying to feed Ukraine a “this is our moment” gambit. Russia’s lines are all defensive and they need the Ukrainians to attack it.
They’re making great progress.
Peace talks now before it’s too late!
He might just win the coup without going to Moscow. Much of the Russian military is already deployed. If the Russian commanders on the front stand down ……it’s over and a walk in the park to Moscow.
Yep. Unless Putin is able to redeploy his troops from Ukraine to Moscow.
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