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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wagner turned around. I wasted my Saturday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly as I expected. I said earlier that he's pretty much a windbag and never follows through, and that's how it ended up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aged like milk, faster than milk ages in the noon sun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Aged like milk, faster than milk ages in the noon sun, when it is unpasteurized and has some defrosted, deshelled shrimp swimming in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily. It still made him look very weak, making concessions instead of crushing Prigozhin as threatened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think you didn't read the last news, it's over because Wagner is going back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Putin still lost. He's been shown to be weak. He compromised.

Now the other sharks that Putin surrounded himself with will smell that weakness.

Autocrats must project that Strongman image, especially when it's a lie. Dictators who show weakness like this rarely die peacefully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Over-ish. Wagner just showed Putin that he doesn’t have total control. I doubt the power dynamic will remain the same after this.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is far from "over." If Wagner's going back because Putin caved on their terms Putin's left looking tremendously weak.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What terms? You sound like a man in the know..i assume you have direct communication?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been following the live thread on Reddit. Prigozhin was demanding the removal of Shoigu.

It's sounding like he may or may not have got that, but that he and his men are getting amnesty at the very least. Which given that he literally invaded Russia and shot down Russian aircraft on the way to Moscow is still an amazingly weak showing for Putin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

America: "Amateurs"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On my opinion it's too early to say whether this is over for him or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What if Wagner turning around is just a trick to get Moscow to let down it's guard a little?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago