Posted on 06/24/2023 8:21:25 AM PDT by Cronos
Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters barrelled towards Moscow on Saturday after seizing a southern city overnight, with Russia's military firing on them from the air but seemingly incapable of slowing their lightning advance.
Facing the first serious challenge to his grip on power of his 23-year rule, President Vladimir Putin vowed to crush an armed mutiny he compared to Russia's Civil War a century ago.
The fighters of the Wagner private army run by former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin were already most of the way to the capital, having captured the city of Rostov and set off on an 1,100 km (680 mile) race to Moscow.
Reuters saw troop carriers and a flatbed truck carrying a tank careening past the city of Voronezh more than half way to Moscow, where a helicopter fired on them. But there were no reports of the rebels meeting any substantial resistance on the highway.
Russian media showed pictures of small groups of police manning machine gun positions on Moscow's southern outskirts Authorities in the Lipetsk region south of the capital told residents to stay home.
...Prigozhin says his men are on a "march for justice" to remove corrupt and incompetent commanders he blames for botching the war in Ukraine.
In a televised address from the Kremlin, Putin said Russia's very existence was under threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Actually not, his complaint is with the Defense Minister, Shoigu”
It started that way. Now he wants Putin out.
LOL I’m “dim” huh? I’ll compare IQ’s with you any day. Along with any of the neocon supporters on here who are irretrievable lost in their stupidity.
“It started that way. Now he wants Putin out.”
Haven’t seen anything to that effect.
Northern China.
“Siberia soon to be known as Western Alaska?”
You need to catch up
IIRC, Red Army standard has ammo plants outside Russia in several former Warsaw Pact countries.
CC
It sounds like you support western govts overthrowing foreign presidents. Personally I don’t. And hope that if they continue, Putin drops a bomb on them.
“You need to catch up”
I’m caught up.
Apparently not
LOL, nice try!
The protests have been going on for months. Don’t they have the internet in St. Petersburg, Russia?
Well, there are channels with intercepted phonecalls indicating what seems to be widespread unhappiness with the Russian military, the war, and the government.
The idea of a “preference cascade” is that when opposition comes out in public, and is seen to succeed, all this private, personal conviction comes out in the open. Then things can change fast.
I saw this happen, before my eyes, in 1983. A funeral procession suddenly turned into millions of people in the streets.
This ain’t a western government overthrowing anyone.
Putin put a psychop6in charge of his own private army, in a long drawn war. He brought this on himself when he invaded Ukraine in February 2022
128.
But devious.
Read the news now. Putin called Prigozhin a traitor, and so now Prigozhin comes out against the old Tsar
How could an airstrike NOT slow them down? What were they shooting, nerf bullets?
I call this article BS.
Lots of complaints on Telegram and other channels
“They have closed off the city of Rostov, but, obviously, supply lines don’t go through heavily populated cities.”
In the case of Rostov it is the logistical staging area for the Ukraine invasion. I also believe the Russian command and control centers are there.
CC
They gonna bomb a shoe factory?
Thanks to Russian corruption being kicked out of Europe “your kids
can get good American energy jobs supplying Europe if they want. Why don’t you want those jobs?
Why do you so breezily disenfranchise 40 million Ukrainians after what has happened to American patriots? Conservatives should appreciate their willingness to defend and fight for their nation. Can the same can’t be said of America’s post modern conservative movement? Sadly, not.
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