Well this is just great news.
When have highly militarised angry nihilists not been the answer?
When have highly militarised angry nihilists not been the answer?
Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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Finally caught up, must have been an eventful night
Enjoying the parallels between this and France's "Special Operation in Algerie"
Enjoying the parallels between this and France's "Special Operation in Algerie"
Hope civil air traffic has learned from past and takes a big loop around western Russia.
They probably should have been anyway no?
Yeah they already are. I've flown back and forth from Hong Kong multiple times since the invasion and the route which used to go over Russia is skirting around and going over Europe and the Middle East instead.
As far as I know, it's only Ukraine proper that was avoided before today.
Just checked flightradar24, and it seems they are, Sochi - Moscow flight takes a sizeable loop.
I know for sure that Finnair hasn't been flying over Russia for a long time now and if they don't I can't imagine other western airlines doing it.
Just on his way to the airport
Yeah, western airliners stopped going there after war broke out, was thinking more of internal flights. Turkey - Moscow flights run dangerously close too.
If Wagner even get close to Moscow, or turns enough soldiers, that's when the domino's begin to fall and OTHER parties in the Putin circle wonder if they can take the jump and take power first.
Cheeky bet on Putin pulling back russian troops stationed in Belarus to help? He'd be toast if another uprising hit right about now.
Read the last line, it's satire
Wagner's Ring
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.
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.
(and that’s my one and only contribution to this thread. Bye!)
(and that’s my one and only contribution to this thread. Bye!)
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.