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MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread

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[-] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

There’s something up. Both putin and Wagners head aren’t stupid.

I feel it’s a plan to justify future actions.

[-] Frederic@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, Poutine highly control GRU with an iron glove, and Wagner is controlled by GRU. It's a masquerade to kick choigou and guerassimov because they are bad.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It makes both Putin and Prigozhin look bad though. Would they go through this damage to their reputations and prospects just for that? And couldn't Putin just have fired those guys without going through some elaborate pantomime first?

[-] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Putin benefited from:

Showed that the largest military group couldn’t complete a coup
No longer need to justify the damage Wagner group done
Shows Russian that he prefer to negotiate rather than bloodshed
Shows international theatre that Russian troops are loyal, peaceful, and follow orders
Identified disloyal government officials who sided with Wagner if any

And the list goes on

Wagner head got out of it and terrorisim accusations in the future

I’m still thinking that it’s not over. Moscow still on high alert.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Showed that the largest military group couldn’t complete a coup

This showed that they wouldn't, at least under these circumstances, not that they couldn't.

I agree with all other points though.

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