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Originally posted by THE_WIZARD_ View PostWhy wasn't Pocahontas there?
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The Wagner PMC boss, Prighozen, launched another video tirade on his Telegram channel today. In it he accuses the MoD (notably not "the president") of misleading the Russian people about the reasons for invading Ukraine. He suggests the MoD - his main target has been Shoigu, the Minister of Defense - drummed up the story that Ukraine and NATO were about to launch a full scale ground war to invade Russia and the goal of the special military operation was to preempt that.
I've heard different accounts as to why Prighozen hasn't been charged with "discrediting the Russian Military" - the standard charge to silence critics of the war, that was enthroned in Russian law by, no surprise - presidential decree - a few months ago. One is that Putin likes to create a certain amount of chaos within his political allies most of which are in high government positions inside the Kremlin. There are others called Siloviki, or, in Russian "people of force." These are Russian Oligarchs and elites who have access to Putin. Prighozen facilitates discord. The other is that framing the MoD as incompetent gives Putin a foil should things go south - and they will. Therefore he keeps Prighozen around and essentially untouchable.
The downside is that Prighozen's tirades have the potential of sewing discontent within the Russian population. Interestingly, political analysts have not seen much of an open antiwar movement in Russia, especially where you might expect it in big cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow. Reportedly there is café and bar talk, poorly organized. Nalvany's organizers have reportedly been trying to get some antiwar stuff going and launching drone attacks in and around Moscow and ground attacks of Russian boarder towns that can't be attributed to Ukraine are part of the Ukrainian's intelligence services effort to "bring the war home to the Russian upper classes."Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
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