This is Russia. Power always wins. I don't see any other figure that has some sort of organised support. Putin actually made sure of that.
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But the only successful Russian armed force in this war has basically left the battlefield & moved north.
That's a good thing.
Making Tiktok videos is a better choice than getting sledgehammered.
I think he prefers to lead from TikTok.
I wonder on which side the pro-Russiam fraction in the West amd particularly the US is. Russia interfered with the election but it was Prighozin who was in charge of the troll army. A divorce is always nasty for the children.
As they're mercenaries isn't the solution for any megalomaniac dictator who has upset them to appeal to their money compass?
The way to a mercs heart is through an offshore bank account, as they say.
The way to a mercs heart is through an offshore bank account, as they say.
The front of a camera. No chance he'd be anywhere near any actual fighting.
Yes but Putin had the intelligence community to keep his power. What does the Prig have to control that vast country?
The Instragram Army is going to fold like a house of cards, or like the TV series House of Cards.
He counts on the support of the regular army I suppose.
They will start asking where is the West, why aren't they stopping this?
Wasn't that Clooney ?
I mean yea, Putin is a cnut but he kept the other cnuts in line. With the boss gone, the struggle for power within a nuclear state could have dire consequences.
I don't think the war mongering mercenary leading a private army has any intention to pull out of Ukraine either, if anything after assuming power he would up the nationalistic rhetoric to gain support, ending the invasion would make him look weak.
The only hope for Ukraine is the coup turns into a protracted civil war draining all resources.
Exactly Putin's cronies are allies of convenience. His empire is a house of cards. Prigozhin is out-Putining Putin.
Going by the videos it doesnt sound like that Wagner cook is fond of the special military operation.
First pictures of Putin departing Moscow in a hurry.
If he actually manages to overthrow Putin, Russia will be in administational chaos for weeks and months. No way they could continue the war under these circumstances and would be forced to retreat.
Apart from the invasion itself this is the most mental development so far.
2023 was getting a bit stale if all the attention on a little sub was anything to go by. I still remember my dad telling me the 60/70s were the craziest time in the world compared to today. This was before Covid and Trump. He hasn't said it since.
I used to think like that until the Ukraine war. Thought whoever manages to rid Russia of Putin would be worse.
Having seen the pictures of Mariupol and so many other Ukranian cities changed my mind. Won't get much worse than that and if that spreads whoever spreads it wont live long either.
I think @calodo2003 is referring to Crimson Tide, with Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman.
I dunno using banana republics as an example its just seems a mental corrupt dictator is replaced by an even more mental hot dog salesman. Its a major morale boost for Ukraine atm but im not getting giddy(well a bit) about how this will turn out.
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Naw, he's all mouth and trousers, he just pretends, his Mom aka Estelle Getty is one you need
Hackman & Denzel had to deal with the breakaway separatists who gained the nuclear codes for the ballistic missiles, Clooney et al had to deal with a suitcase nuke.
Both films do work today though.
Nice flick that one.
Upon rumination, both movies can work.
Ah, good call.
Prigosis
This is not going to end well for these soldiers aganst PMC savages who live for war.
Kadyrov's tiktok army probably faked mechanical problems to create a traffic jam, so they don't have to advance on Rostov for now
Remember when some Cafites were convinced these guys were the best of the best, the elite of Russian forces, maybe the best thing since sliced bread and the Navy Seals?
They're just like that kid who had a mega scrap decades ago and has lived off it ever since.