Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:18 PM PST by Mariner
Lol
Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.
Address of the Kalinouski Regiment to Belarusians
https://twitter.com/belwarriors/status/1672601122467467276
Eng sub
https://www.youtube.com/@BelWarriors/videos
Does any here think the current coup attempt could be see by Russians as the 21st centuries ‘stab in the back’ over the next couple decades?
“We would have one if those mercenary traitors hadn’t sabotaged us just as the Ukrainians were about to exhaust themselves! We never really lost and need to start again with a firmer hand.”
Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko
The people bleating about “Where are the Wagner columns getting the fuel to get to Moscow?’’ are pretending these things called truck stops don't exist and Wagner is unaware of their existence. Look, when the Russian MoD started playing games with Wagner
Wagner logistics supplies, and Wagner started trucking supplies from St Petersburg.
It gave Prigozhin’s people the time and cover to map the semi-tractor trailer fuel supply chain between there and Rostov on the Don.
Prigozhin also put in local purchasing agents along the way.
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Purchasing agents with more than purchasing in their job description: think mafia expediter, road watcher and local informant.
In addition, Wagner has fought for years in Africa. There are no conscript backs there. This means Wagner used & understands mechanized logistics.
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Putin is not long for this world.
And I think Putin's impending death, likely at the hands of his own Regime Security Forces, is Karma's wheel grinding slow and exceedingly fine. 21/21 End
They’re already living in the stab-in-the-back myth anyway. Most of them believe the Soviet Union was a prosperous, happy and free place destroyed by the evil CIA-Gorbachev.
They believe that because they want to believe that obvious nonsense. Even the ones who know it is obviously false. Wish to believe trumps reality.
Not verified: 8 Russian aircrafts shot down by Wagner !!!
Breaking: Wagner leader Prigozhin has accepted peace proposal by Belarus President Lukashenka & stopped their further movement
Is that it???? Prigozhin has to know he’s now a dead man walking.
Conflicting info, we have to wait.
Does this remind anyone of Napoleon’s return from Elba?
Also:
If Putin had a core of competent lieutenants he would have blown up the gas stations and bridges.
If reports are true that Prigozhin and Wagner will receive guarantees at the level of the Duma, then this means that a private parallel army will be legalized in Russia, which does not obey the central government, and Prigozhin himself will emerge victorious and stronger than he was before.
The Kremlin announced late on June 24 that Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko negotiated a deal under which Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin will travel to Belarus without facing criminal charges in Russia; some portion of Wagner Group fighters will sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD); and no Wagner personnel will be charged for their involvement in an armed rebellion.
The Wagner Group encircled the Russian Southern Military District (SMD)’s headquarters in Rostov-on-Don and drove to within 330km of Moscow City prior to the announcement of the deal. Wagner forces will reportedly begin withdrawing to their bases soon, and footage reportedly depicts Prigozhin departing Rostov-on-Don.
The Kremlin struggled to cohere an effective rapid response to Wagner's advances, highlighting internal security weaknesses likely due to surprise and the impact of heavy losses in Ukraine.
Putin unsurprisingly elected to back the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and its ongoing efforts to centralize control of Russian irregular forces (including Wagner) over Prigozhin.
The Lukashenko-brokered agreement will very likely eliminate Wagner Group as a Prigozhin-led independent actor in its current form, although elements of the organization may endure under existing and new capacities.
Prigozhin likely gambled that his only avenue to retain Wagner Group as an independent force was to march against the Russian MoD, likely intending to secure defections in the Russian military but overestimating his own prospects.
The optics of Belarusian President Lukashenko playing a direct role in halting a military advance on Moscow are humiliating to Putin and may have secured Lukashenko other benefits.
The Kremlin now faces a deeply unstable equilibrium. The Lukashenko-negotiated deal is a short-term fix, not a long-term solution, and Prigozhin’s rebellion exposed severe weaknesses in the Kremlin and Russian MoD. Suggestions that Prigozhin’s rebellion, the Kremlin's response, and Lukashenko’s mediation were all staged by the Kremlin are absurd. The imagery of Putin appearing on national television to call for the end of an armed rebellion and warning of a repeat of the 1917 revolution – and then requiring mediation from a foreign leader to resolve the rebellion – will have a lasting impact. The rebellion exposed the weakness of the Russian security forces and demonstrated Putin's inability to use his forces in a timely manner to repel an internal threat and further eroded his monopoly on force. Prigozhin’s rapid drive towards Moscow ridiculed much of the Russian regular forces – and highlighted to any and all security figures, state-owned enterprises, and other key figures in the Russian government that private military forces separate from the central state can achieve impressive results. Wagner's drive also showcased the degradation of Russia's military reserves, which are almost entirely committed to fighting in Ukraine, as well as the dangers of reliance on inexperienced conscripts to defend Russia's borders. The Kremlin struggled to respond quickly in the information space and residents in Rostov-on-Don residents did not oppose Wagner and in some cases greeted them warmly – not inherently demonstrating opposition to Putin but at minimum acceptance of Prigozhin’s actions.[48] Finally, the Kremlin's apparent surprise at Prigozhin’s move does not reflect well on Russia's domestic intelligence service, the FSB. Prigozhin consistently escalated his rhetoric against the Russian MoD prior to his armed rebellion and Putin failed to mitigate this risk.[49] We cannot and will not speculate on the concrete impacts of Prigozhin’s rebellion and the Kremlin's weak response and are not forecasting an imminent collapse of the Russian government, as some have done. Nonetheless, Prigozhin’s rebellion and the resolution of the events of June 23 and 24 - though not necessarily the Prigozhin/Kremlin struggle writ large - will likely substantially damage Putin's government and the Russian war effort in Ukraine.
Russian forces launched their largest series of missile strikes against Ukraine in recent months on June 24, despite the armed rebellion within Russia.
Ukrainian forces conducted counteroffensive operations on at least two sectors of the front and reportedly made advances on June 24, and regular fighting continued on other sectors of the line.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-24-2023
Conclusions from yesterday
In my profane opinion, there is no central government in the country, and the country is self-governing by inertia. That is, the central government does not govern the country, but has divided the administration into departments and regions. The rule of law is impossible due to the ignorance of laws by the central government, as a result, the judicial system is actually paralyzed. There is an imbalance and decentralization of the country, an uncontrolled influx of migrants, the destruction of a single legal field, the strengthening of self-government of the regions, the strengthening of crime, primarily criminal ethnic groups from migrants.
Yesterday's events showed preparations for the seizure of central power by criminals. A criminal whose weapons are provided outside the law with the tacit consent of the country's leadership.
This is our possible future...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042550/posts?page=4646#4646
In the excitement of the coup, observers missed one absolutely fantastic phenomenon: the highest discipline of mercenary troops. Whether they obey Prigozhin, Utkin or someone else, one order was enough to turn Wagner into rebels. And the most difficult thing, exactly one decision was enough to stop the fighting columns of the rebels and completely peacefully withdraw them from the captured cities. And this is in Russia!
https://t.me/Berlinspeaks/5077
The column of the Cheka Wagner to Moscow was headed by Dmitry Utkin. Utkin’s headquarters developed a plan for entering the capital and blocking the building of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff. Whether General Mizintsev participated in the development of the “march on Moscow” is not reported.
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