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I wonder at what point the Russian forces will flee Ukraine
I wonder at what point the Russian forces will flee Ukraine
Saw this initially when it popped up on the MSN feed and assumed it was just one of the more outrageous click bait news links.
But checked BBC, then here and all true!
Am I the only one whenever I read Wagner, get the "Ride Of The Valkyries" earworming my head?
Well I guess now we know what those several £billion we just gave (sorry, loaned) Ukraine in the last few days was spent on - turn the mercenary army.
In all seriousness, reading the previous pages not sure if this is going to be a good thing for Ukraine, Russia and the wider world or not. Really depends what the Wagner end game is, but if regime change is the purpose then one must assume at least some of the current Russian administration are complicit.
Saw this initially when it popped up on the MSN feed and assumed it was just one of the more outrageous click bait news links.
But checked BBC, then here and all true!
Am I the only one whenever I read Wagner, get the "Ride Of The Valkyries" earworming my head?
Well I guess now we know what those several £billion we just gave (sorry, loaned) Ukraine in the last few days was spent on - turn the mercenary army.
In all seriousness, reading the previous pages not sure if this is going to be a good thing for Ukraine, Russia and the wider world or not. Really depends what the Wagner end game is, but if regime change is the purpose then one must assume at least some of the current Russian administration are complicit.
Quite probably not tbh. Its just changing from one problem to another problem. If it happens, only time will tell how much of a problem the new problem is.Is wanger ousting putin a good thing?
Quite probably not tbh. Its just changing from one problem to another problem.
Its good for Ukraine, for now at least. In the long run, who knows. I can think of a good half dozen military coup leaders in various states (mostly Middle Eastern and African) who ended up in the long run causing many issues for their neighbours. As I said earlier, he isnt some good guy charging in to save the day and everything will be better afterwards. Just a different kind of bad guy and bad guys do bad things.It's good for Ukraine. This all started because Prigozhin said the russian people were tricked into a war in Ukraine and that there was no real reason for it.
Ukraine isn't really his war however. He wants power and he could gain a lot of support by probably ending the war with the Ukraine and even becoming friendly with the West. While I wouldn't bet on that, the situation has possibilities. The people of Russia need to ideally stand up for themselves too. if they want a democracy or a least a different Russia, they may need to fight for that by not accepting anything less.I’d worry for Ukraine. I wouldn’t worry for us though. He seems rational enough to not start a nuclear war and end up destroying Russia.
Massive if true, they needed a big distraction if they were going to cross the Dnipro and I guess today gave them that.
of course it is, Putin has slaughtered thousands of civilian's men women and children, you don't get much more evil than that. Hopefully they find him, they will certainly be looking for him.Quite probably not tbh. Its just changing from one problem to another problem. If it happens, only time will tell how much of a problem the new problem is.
It's weird because it does kind of feel like theatre playing out from here, especially with a lack of confirmed information on what's going on it's hard to make sense of things... but at the same time if it was just performative it feels like things have gone way too far, and it didn't seem like Putin was playing along... so who exactly is putting the theatre on? Not sure what the point of it would be, feels like it's gone beyond what would be necessary to use as an excuse to either mobilise russia further or de-escalate... Just don't get it!
Or does it seem performative because behind the scenes a lot have people have already agreed what's going to happen?
It is Moscow's problem. Russian troops in Rostov basically just moved out of the way. Doubt many want to get involved.
why are there not fighter jets attacking the convoy
They refused apparently.