104
submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@beehaw.org
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] StaticBoredom@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Well well, this is getting more interesting. Still not sure how this will play out. Mark Galeotti’s excellent book Putin’s Wars mentions several wannabe warlords whose escapades came to quick and bloody ends at the hands of Russian special forces or the FSB.

I’m actually a bit surprised Comrade Shitheel Prigozhin hasn’t met the same fate. Perhaps his Wagner wall of meat is still seen as having service to render to the Kremlin.

I don’t at all see Prigozhin as a leadership threat to Putin, but I like that he and Strelkov and Kadyrov are all busy trying to one up each other’s stupidity. I’m all for it as long as it hastens Russia’s battlefield defeat. If it leads to Russia’s decolonization, all the better.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't the Russian special forces suffer a pretty big set-back when trying to land in some Ukrainian airfield back at the start?

[-] StaticBoredom@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Speaking of which, this is a fascinating project.

https://russiadecolonized.com/

this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
104 points (100.0% liked)

World News

22057 readers
138 users here now

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.


Guidelines for submissions:

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


For US News, see the US News community.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS