I’m in Rhodes currently and can see over to the Turkish peninsula. Bodrum isn’t a million miles away, I’ll keep an eye out for a desperate Belarusian despot rowing frantically across the water to try and evade detection.
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I've felt for a while now that peace won't necessarily come from the war alone, but more so internally within Russia from groups totally against Putin's invasion. Eventually the Russian's are going to handle Putin, and he will be in deep trouble.
I see Wagnerök has finally begun.
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That's his only hope of success. He knows this probably better than anyone else, that in Putin's Russia loyalty goes hand in hand with strength. He needs to show strength and threaten Moscow if he wants to survive, there is simply no other choice anymore. He went all-in. Only then he has a chance of tipping the first dominos over.
Just keep thinking about Wagner from X Factor with all this chat.
Didn’t expect him to take this route after not winning. Seems a bit OTT.
Didn’t expect him to take this route after not winning. Seems a bit OTT.
I might be a bit behind here, but why did Lukachenko leg it immediately. What was the indication to at he had to get his family out overnight
Perhaps the Belarusian military are extremely fickle and the moment they see the Kremlin being challenged successfully by Wagner, they’ll drop tools and acquiesce to the other side, essentially deserting Lukashenko.
He has quite publicly nailed his colours to the mast, and Belarus is essentially a Russian puppet state anyway. He’d be high up on the wanted list were Wagner successful possibly.
When Wagners will arrive at those road blocks, it'll get very interesting. Will they start shooting each other or will they let them through? My feeling is, they will let them through without much trouble, because I doubt that Russia has any war experienced soldiers available right now outside Ukraine. Those should be mostly conscripts or other ill equipped and poorly trained troops.
Well he wouldn't want to give anyone an excuse to bring 100,000 Russian soldiers home ready to fight him. Makes total sense not to disrupt it for now but I doubt he thinks they can win there so it would almost certainly be a strategic blunder for any new president to try to sustain the war there for too long or you risk becoming another Putin. Best strategy would probably to immediately start negotiations to retain Crimea in exchange for pulling out of the rest of Ukraine or something along those lines.
How does Wagner stop the russian air forces from turning his troops into dust on the way to moscow?
Apparently Wagner has air defense systems.
Switched on cnn for the first time in ages. Repeated the same thing only three times for 20 mins. Progress.
I got that idea, I’m just surprised he dragged his family out of bed and onto a plane in the middle of the night. That’s the kind of thing you do if you think there’s a threat literally in the coming hours
If he returns he will be viewed as weak enough to topple if the Russians are still busy dealing with Wagner.
Cant see walking back from such statements. If it was just Shoigu , I could still somehow see it.
@harms any armor movements around your area ?
Cowards gonna coward.
Now the Russian people will know how war feels like for Ukraine. When shit is exploding all around you and all you can do is pray the missiles will miss your home and loved ones. That is important to open their eyes. So far they've only seen war in television.
Zhirinovsky may be gone, but his way with words remains
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Jaypers it really feels like implosion is beginning to happen for both Putin and Trump! What a day that would be if both were imprisoned in and around the same time.