• Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Paywall, no one’s paying to read that shit on here mate

    https://archive.is/xu6tc

    Some Western analysts expressed a cautious wait-and-see attitude toward the sudden reversal by the head of the Wagner private military group. “I don’t believe it until I see it,” said Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.

    Exactly, what if his chat with Lukashenko was to agree something else

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          What we’ve learned from this whole affair is that Russian army isn’t demoralized and there is no potential for mutiny. The gamble was clearly based on the idea that a significant portion of the army would flip, and that simply didn’t happen. Practically all of the political and military establishment showed unity against the coup. This likely allowed Russia to clean house well which means that this sort of fiasco is even less likely to succeed going forward.

          Hope you’re well stocked up on copium, gonna need a lot of it going forward.

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              1 year ago

              Anybody with a couple of brain cells to bang together understands that this allowed Putin to further consolidate power and purge any dissidents. So, yes, Putin is obviously in a stronger position now than he was previously.

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                  1 year ago

                  First, it’s pretty hilarious that you think wagner is the only effective branch of Russian military. Second, you’re even wrong there because what’s actually happening is that wagner is now integrated directly into the military. You really make a sport out of being confidently wrong. LOL

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                    1 year ago

                    It was the only effective branch in Ukraine. Russian subs are good, but they are of no use in this war.

                    Their air force doesn’t seem to have air superiority more than a year later, not very effective.

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              I don’t know if you realize how armies work, but they act based on the orders they’re given. Army doesn’t just spring into action all on its own. The army didn’t have orders to escalate the situation because that would be idiotic.