Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group, in a video he released last weekend.
Seymour Hersh: Prigozhin's Folly: The Russian 'Revolt' That Wasn't Strengthens Putin's Hand
The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group.
The focus slipped from Ukraine’s failing counter-offensive to Prigozhin’s threat to Putin’s control. As one headline in the Times put it, “ Revolt Raises Searing Question: Could Putin Lose Power?” Washington Post columnist David Ignatius posed this assessment: “Putin looked into the abyss Saturday—and blinked.”
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Russia is still insisting they hit a military command post and killed two generals and dozens of other officers.
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So proud to be a russian!
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1674115755871289344?s=20
ReplyDeleteForeign volunteers, mercenaries or trainers in Kramatorsk a small summary as a video.
The English speaking guy with the ranger tattoo and his injured buddies are 100% American. Guy with the US flag on his helmet, speaks also English so, I would guess American.
Other guys running around with T-shirts of the US military could have gotten them from the store or as a present, but there are provable (former?) US military men in fighting age close by and injured.
By the way, the place got hit because an American merc playing part-time soldier couldn't resist posting a picture of his meal on facebook.
life expectancy in Russia now same as in Haiti
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5:52 is right. They used that restaurant as a meeting place , which ,means they were discussing operations. Even if it was informal.
Legitimate target.
Any civilians killed... then by NATOs
" rules based order"
they would be collateral damage.
Just like Afghanistan, Iraqi, Panama, Libya
Ect.....