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Me, to Putin and Prigozhin:
#russia#politics#ukraine#wagner group#lol#russia is a terrorist state#vladimir putin#yevgeny prigozhin
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today's news, summarized.
#destiel#world news#russia#rogue translator#yevgeny prigozhin#russia is a terrorist state#spn#supernatural#current news
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well that's depressing. i almost thought that some sort of noble revolution was happening in russia and then i learn that the ones rebelling are just as bad as putin. best you can hope for is that they both weaken each other enough for a third big revolution to take them both out.
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honestly the fact that prigozhin is a fucking catering guy makes any news about him infinitely funnier. like just imagine someone saying “mr gerasimov, the catering company just took a corporal hostage and is threatening to coup you again”
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The Wagner Group mercenaries marched 800 kilometers across Russia, shot down planes and helicopters, took over a regional military command, provoked a panic in Moscow—troops dug trenches, the mayor told everyone to stay home—and then stood down. Yet in a way, the strangest aspect of Saturday’s aborted coup was the reaction of the people of Rostov-on-Don, including the city’s military leaders, to the soldiers who arrived and declared themselves to be their new rulers.
The Wagner mercenaries showed up in the city early Saturday morning. They met no resistance. Nobody shot at them. One photograph, published by The New York Times, shows them walking at a leisurely pace across a street, one of their tanks in the background, holding yellow coffee cups.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s violent ex-con leader, posted videos of himself chatting with the local commanders in the courtyard of the headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District. Nobody seemed to mind his being there.
Outside, street sweepers continued their work. Early in the morning, a few people came to gawk, but not many. After Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a panicked speech on television, comparing the situation to 1917 and evoking the ghost of civil war, one man pushing a bicycle was filmed berating the Wagnerites and telling them to go home. The troops laughed him off. But later in the day, more people showed up, and the atmosphere grew warmer.
People shook their hands, brought them food, took selfies. “People are bringing pirozhki, apples, chips. Everything there in the store has been bought to give to the soldiers,” one woman said on camera. In the evening, after Prigozhin had decided to stand down and go home (wherever home turns out to be), he drove away in an SUV with crowds filming him on their cellphones and cheering him on, as if he were a celebrity leaving a movie premiere or a gallery opening. Some chanted “Wagner! Wagner!” as the troops emerged into the street. This was the most remarkable aspect of the whole day: Nobody seemed to mind, particularly, that a brutal new warlord had arrived to replace the existing regime—not the security services, not the army, and not the general public. On the contrary, many seemed sorry to see him go.
The response is hard to understand without reckoning with the power of apathy, a much undervalued political tool. Democratic politicians spend a lot of time thinking about how to engage people and persuade them to vote. But a certain kind of autocrat, of whom Putin is the outstanding example, seeks to convince people of the opposite: not to participate, not to care, and not to follow politics at all. The propaganda used in Putin’s Russia has been designed in part for this purpose. The constant provision of absurd, conflicting explanations and ridiculous lies—the famous “firehose of falsehoods”— encourages many people to believe that there is no truth at all. The result is widespread cynicism. If you don’t know what’s true, after all, then there isn’t anything you can do about it. Protest is pointless. Engagement is useless.
But the side effect of apathy was on display yesterday as well. For if no one cares about anything, that means they don’t care about their supreme leader, his ideology, or his war. Russians haven’t flocked to sign up to fight in Ukraine. They haven’t rallied around the troops in Ukraine or held emotive ceremonies marking either their successes or their deaths. Of course they haven’t organized to oppose the war, but they haven’t organized to support it either.
Because they are afraid, or because they don’t know of any alternative, or because they think it’s what they are supposed to say, they tell pollsters that they support Putin. And yet, nobody tried to stop the Wagner group in Rostov-on-Don, and hardly anybody blocked the Wagner convoy on its way to Moscow. The security services melted away, made no move and no comment. The military dug some trenches around Moscow and sent some helicopters; somebody appears to have sent bulldozers to dig up the highways, but that was all we could see. Who will respond if a more serious challenge to Putin ever emerges? Certainly the military will think twice: Perhaps a dozen Russian servicemen, mostly pilots, died at the hands of the Wagner mutineers, more than died during the failed coup of 1991. Nobody seems particularly bothered about them.
One day after this aborted coup, it is too early to speculate about Prigozhin’s true motives, about what he was really given in exchange for standing down, about where Putin really spent the day on Saturday—some say St. Petersburg, some say a dacha in Novgorod—or about anything else, really. But the flimsiness of this regime’s ideology and the softness of its support have been suddenly laid bare. Expect more repression as Putin tries to stay in charge, more chaos, or both.
#current events#politics#russian politics#psychology#sociology#russo-ukrainian war#2022 russian invasion of ukraine#russia#yevgeny prigozhin#vladimir putin#wagner group
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I'm sorry you had to find out this way
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So long fascist scumbag!
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Happy Ukrainian flag day!
This is the same guy who led the one-day coup in russia
#ukraine#russia is a terrorist state#yevgeny prigozhin#wagner group#wagner coup#destiel meme#supernatural#spn#my first destiel meme!
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"Hello, I'm calling with condolences. Not confirmed yet? I'll call you later."
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The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has vowed to "go all the way" to topple Russia's military leadership, hours after the Kremlin accused him of "armed rebellion"
Yevgeny Prigozhin said his Wagner fighters had crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia, entering the city of Rostov-on-Don.
Mr Prigozhin said his men would destroy anyone who stood in their way.
Mr Prigozhin claimed that his forces had shot down a Russian military helicopter that "opened fire on a civilian convoy". He did not give a location and the assertion could not be immediately verified.
The Wagner Group is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.
Tension has been growing between them over how the war has been fought, with Mr Prigozhin launching vocal criticisms of Russia's military leadership in recent months.
On Friday, the 62-year-old mercenary leader accused the military of launching a deadly missile strike on his troops and vowed to punish them.
👉🏿 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66005256.amp
#politics#russia#ukraine#wagner group#yevgeny prigozhin#vladimir putin#kadyrov#military coup#russia is a terrorist state
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During the coup attempt (or whatever you want to call it) when Prigozhin's Wagner forces got within 270 km of the Kremlin, all we saw of Putin was a short prerecorded speech which was filmed at an undetermined location.
When genocidal Russian invaders were within 27 km of the government district in Kyiv at the start of the war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other high ranking officials let Ukrainians know that they were remaining in town to defend the country.
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Totalitarian bullies like to talk tough but they scurry away like cockroaches at the slightest sign of danger. We remember Trump hiding in the White House bunker during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020.
Several of Putin's oligarch buddies couldn't get out of Russia fast enough during the mutiny.
Billionaire Oligarchs’ Jets Flee Moscow As Putin’s Regime Plunges Into Crisis
#russia#vladimir putin#wagner mutiny#yevgeny prigozhin#attempted coup#fleeing oligarchs#arkady rotenberg#vladimir potanin#invasion of ukraine#мятеж#евгений пригожин#чвк вагнер#россия#владимир путин#путин хуйло#путлер#русский мiръ#путин – это лжедмитрий iv а не пётр великий#союз постсоветских клептократических ватников#фиаско#олигархи#аркадий ротенберг#владимир потанин#команда путина#геть з україни#україна переможе#зеленський виявився крутішим за путіна#слава україні!#героям слава!
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Wagner Mercenary Group Boss Yevgeny Prigozhin Dead
A Private jet carrying Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has crashed with 10 people on board.
In addition to Prigozhin, neo-Nazi Wagner leader Dmitry Utkin was allegedly aboard on the plane and is now dead.
“Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defense in the Tver region, north of Moscow,” BBC reported.
#wagner group#Yevgeny Prigozhin#Dmitry Utkin#Wagner Mercenary Group Boss Yevgeny Prigozhin Dead#russia#russian war on ukraine#jet shot down#plane shot down#war#world at war
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Probably the least surprising thing I've read today
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, the TASS news agency reported, citing Rosaviatsia, Russia’s aviation authority.
[At least he avoided windows!]
Photo - ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO/REUTERS
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The Wagner head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has accused Moscow’s leadership of lying to the public about the justifications for invading Ukraine, in the latest sign of conflict between Vladimir Putin’s government and one of his most important allies.
In an explosive 30-minute video posted on his Telegram channel, Prigozhin dismissed Moscow’s claims that Kyiv was planning to launch an offensive on the Russian-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine in February 2022.
“There was nothing extraordinary happening on the eve of February 24,” Prigozhin said.
“The ministry of defence is trying to deceive the public and the president and spin the story that there was insane levels of aggression from the Ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the whole Nato block,” the Wagner head said.
Shortly after Russia attacked Ukraine, Putin claimed Moscow’s invasion had thwarted Ukraine’s own plans for “a massive attack on the Donbas, and then on the Crimea”.
Prigozhin also said Russia’s leadership could have avoided the war by negotiating with Ukraine’s president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy.
“When Zelenskiy became president, he was ready for agreements. All that needed to be done was to get off Mount Olympus and negotiate with him,” he said.
Prigozhin has been arguing with top military officials for months, blaming the minister of defence, Sergei Shoigu, for battlefield failures.
However, his latest tirade appeared to be a new escalation, as the warlord directly contradicted Putin’s rationale for the invasion, implying it was based on lies in what amounts to the harshest criticism by any prominent Russian war figure of the decision to attack Ukraine.
“What was the war for? The war needed for Shoigu to receive a hero star … The oligarchic clan that rules Russia needed the war,” he said.
“The mentally ill scumbags decided: ‘It’s OK, we’ll throw in a few thousand more Russian men as cannon fodder. They’ll die under artillery fire, but we’ll get what we want,’” Prigozhin continued.
While the warlord was careful not to directly attack the Russian president, Prigozhin did question several decisions made by Putin, including the Kremlin’s decision to exchange more than 100 captured Azov fighters for Viktor Medvedchuk, a close ally of Putin.
And in one instance, Prigozhin appeared to criticise the Russian president for continuing to self-isolate.
“We still have self-isolation in our country, and therefore none of the decision-makers have yet met [with military generals and discussed how to win the war]. They all talked on the phone.”
Prigozhin, whose Wagner troops have pulled back from Bakhmut, also attacked Russia’s current war efforts in the face of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Directly contradicting Putin’s claims that Moscow has fended off Kyiv’s counterattack, Prigozhin also accused the Russian military leadership of lying to the public about the scale of its losses and setbacks in Ukraine.
“The Russian army is retreating in all directions and shedding a lot of blood … What they tell us is the deepest deception.”
#current events#politics#russian politics#russo-ukrainian war#2022 russian invasion of ukraine#russia#yevgeny prigozhin#wagner group
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