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What's the "Western Media"? Sounds scary!

Bill Browder has a very entertaining book. He was a corporate raider in Russia right after the fall of the USSR, I believe he made his fortune selling off the USSR's pacific fishing fleet. But he also got in with early anti-Putin dissidents back in the 00s, and watched while they were all packed off to Penal Colonies and murdered. He managed to escape.

It's easy to make everyone out to be a supervillain, or a super genius. Especially when weird things happen that don't make sense on the surface. It's a lot easier to gin up conspiracy theories that connect dots that aren't there with lines of bull####. That way, nobody has to admit they're wrong, or worse, that they aren't in the know.

It actually sounds like Prigozhin sold Wagner to the Russian MoD in exchange for exil and guarantees of his own personal security. Is George RR Martin writing our current timeline? With pointers from the ghost of Tom Clancy?

I'm not gonna give anybody credit for 5D chess moves in this war. But it wouldn't surprise me if that's where Wagner ends up. The Ukraine-Belarus border is massively fortified, and Wagner are the best Russia has at tackling fortifications.

Wow. And it's all over, just like that.

Posobiec programs people into Red vs Blue twitterbrains. Of course he's going to try and turn this into a Red vs. Blue issue.

I watched that that stream. It was informative. I just tuned out whenever Kimdotcom started talking.

Putin was supposed to give a speech half an hour ago. The news is it will be soon. I half expect it to be a take on The Simpsons "Mayor Quimby declares Mob Rule".

Yup. The other thing being posted by the sources in this thread are: there's no video of Wagner columns on the roads, and there's no videos of Russian v Russian combat.

This twitter account has his manifesto. Backtrack through it and you should be able to find it all. Wagner's saying from what I've seen, that this is more a mutiny than a rebellion. Or a military strike, like what happened in France and Germany in 1917-1918. They want grievances addressed, or so they say, then they'll head back to the front. Ukraine's probing Russian lines around Bakhmut with a couple Marine brigades. My guess is they're trying to figure out what's what, and grab anything that's easy to grab. So it could be a rebellion, it could be a mutiny, could end up being a nothingburger. Nobody's talking about ending the war, but there's still a lot left to play out. We've got the luxury of being able to watch and wait.

I found Prigozhin's video manifesto. Basically the high points are: 1. NATO and Ukraine were never planning to attack. 2. Demilitarization and Denazification were propaganda to spoon feed to the Russian public. 3. The war was started because Putin and his cronies wanted land and cash, and the army wanted a short, victorious war.

So yeah. Is anybody keeping tabs on Russia? Supposedly Wagner PMC is launching a rebellion right now.

I generally hate posting tweets, but Musk lets me without having to join twitter. Good for him I guess. Yevgeniy Prigozhin is the founder and commander of Wagner Mercenary group, "Private Military Contractors" for the politically correct. It's his guys that took Soledar and Bakhmut. He gives a quick summary of Ukraine's operations so far. Watch for yourselves, it ain't that long.

Unfortunately, yes.

Good luck to him. I'm going to enjoy watching him and Trump trade punches. That much will be entertaining at least.

It's alright, I know. I love that Musk lets the whole world read Twitter now without having to sign up. Russian MilBloggers are about the only people on the Russian side that tell something close to the truth.

Rybar is a fairly reliable Russian/Z military blogger on Twitter. His stuff pans out frequently enough, although there's certain propaganda lines he has to adhere to if he doesn't want to end up in a Penal Colony. For instance, he was spot on Ukraine's first counter-attack in Kherson last May being smashed by Russian airstrikes and artillery without doing much. Give him a shot. Posobiec is a tool, and half the time he retweets stuff, it's because he expects the reader to react to his tweet without reading the article.

Not gonna lie, the right answer to that question is Crumbs Along the Mohawk.

Maybe? If you can trip him up with some bull#### about vowel sounds in his last name, that's not great.

To be replaced by two days of all expenses payed "voluntary" team building at some TB12 cult compound.

We've got Mafia of Kazakhstan.

Seriously, quit waffling and commit Washington.

Thanks for writing this out. But after we're done apologizing for America, what do we do to keep Putin from achieving his goals?

Won't know until it happens and I hope it never does. But if I was going to choses a team, it was going to be a team with Lombardis, from somewhere roughly in the northeast, that didn't play in the AFC East.