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2023-06-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Fred 2023-06-25 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Humiliated Prigozhin is sent into exile in Belarus after aborting his Wagner mercenaries' march to Moscow at 11th hour - but his men are treated like heroes as they withdraw: All eyes are on wounded Putin's next move after Russia came to brink of civil war

Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-25 00:30|| 2023-06-25 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Mere sideshow. With 85% approval among Russians Putin is stronger than ever. This was a western juiced media blitz. Always trying to destroy Russia from within as they show incompetence in actual war efforts. Now I will be interested in seeing what happens next with the money spent and war materials spent. The west wants war and they shall have it ground down to the bitter end. The world has changed. The multi polar world is here to stay.The media psyops continues it's propaganda.

Posted by Dale 2023-06-25 07:09|| 2023-06-25 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ LOL. "Nothing to see here. Go about your business, ~~Citizen~~ Prole"

Posted by Frank G 2023-06-25 07:16|| 2023-06-25 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-25 07:20|| 2023-06-25 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 would have loved to see the headline, "Caterer Overthrows Dictator for Life"

Posted by lord garth 2023-06-25 07:21|| 2023-06-25 07:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The 6 billion found days before I believe was used to influence events in Russia. NYT reported the west was aware of Prigozhin's efforts ahead of time.

Posted by Dale 2023-06-25 07:26|| 2023-06-25 07:26|| Front Page Top

#7 A thought... what's going on in the Ukraine war now that Wagner has left the front lines? I would guess Ukraine has a tactical opportunity here.

Posted by Mercutio 2023-06-25 08:38|| 2023-06-25 08:38|| Front Page Top

#8 After many months rotation out I would suspect.

Posted by Dale 2023-06-25 09:09|| 2023-06-25 09:09|| Front Page Top

#9 ...like he just won the NBA Eastern Conference finals or something

At least we know that picture wasn't taken in Boston this year.

Posted by Raj 2023-06-25 09:13|| 2023-06-25 09:13|| Front Page Top

#10 No Enver today. I hope he's OK...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-25 15:19|| 2023-06-25 15:19|| Front Page Top

#11 With 85% approval among Russians Putin is stronger than ever.
Why only 85%, Dale? Enver Hoxha, former president of communist Albania, was reelected with over 95% of 98% of the ballots and he boasted to that "With this vote we prove that Albania's 98% literacy is the highest in Europe!"

Posted by magpie 2023-06-25 15:25|| 2023-06-25 15:25|| Front Page Top

#12 ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2023-06-25 16:18|| 2023-06-25 16:18|| Front Page Top

#13 No Enver today. I hope he's OK...

Bad timing for a weekend trip. Better question. Will Prigozihn be OK? I predict a terminal case of of food poisoning.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-25 17:51|| 2023-06-25 17:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Prigozhin loses a big part of Wagner to Russian MoD anyway. Prigozhin didn't learn the old proverb, if you stab at the king be sure to kill him, to his own peril.

How does Prigozhin (while still breathing) pay for what remains? HQ and cash seized. Foreign banks accounts are probably frozen by US and EU. If Putin still pays for mini-Wagner, he looks weak and intimidated after Prigozhin stated there will be a new leader in the Kremlin.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-25 18:00|| 2023-06-25 18:00|| Front Page Top

#15 More like SOG syndrome (Sudden Onset Gravity)

Posted by Mercutio 2023-06-25 18:52|| 2023-06-25 18:52|| Front Page Top

#16 This is just getting started...

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-06-25 19:06|| 2023-06-25 19:06|| Front Page Top

#17 If he doesn’t get killed, he will probably be busy. John Paul Jones didn’t retire after the Revolution.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-25 19:18|| 2023-06-25 19:18|| Front Page Top

#18 Prigozhin rebrands and reorganizes as the new and improved Wagner, Biber and Dolik LLC.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-25 20:00|| 2023-06-25 20:00|| Front Page Top

#19 This Storm Z unit expresses the feeling of a many Russians.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-25 20:19|| 2023-06-25 20:19|| Front Page Top

#20 OK, from the 49 Pan perspective. This Wagner group was Putin's killer elites. Who paid them? My guess is they are paid by the oligarchs... Putin has had/forced the strange deaths of many oligarchs, making them very nervous. Me thinks the oligarchs haver gotten to the Wanger group and the coup is on and paid for. Why did Wagner back off? The threat of killing the leaders family is a joke. I think Putin threatened to tactically nuke them. Its the only thing that would stop these thugs. There is 20,000 more Wagner associates in Africa, lets see where they move to, their placement will be strategic. Belarus is playing with fire allowing them there. This whole event was a movement to contact, and now Putin has an armed war on two fronts, and a internal one with the oligarchs that are losing treasure... Popcorn anyone??

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-06-25 23:30|| 2023-06-25 23:30|| Front Page Top

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