Tim MakJun 25, 2023
Good morning to readers: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, and Moscow, well, Moscow remains in Russia. For you today, a Wagner mercenary weighs in on recent events.
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"The situation between the Russian army and Wagner is tense," acknowledged Sergei Munier, a French-Ukrainian soldier believed to be involved with the Wagner forces.But he didn’t have any more to say about whether he was supportive of his band of mercenaries.
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But he didn’t have any more to say about whether he was supportive of his band of mercenaries. It was a surprise that he was so vague at such a dramatic time, when loyalties are being questioned and mutinies executed.
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Munier bragged just days ago in a Facebook post, posing in the destroyed city center of Bakhmut:

"There is no greater honor than walking where Prigozhin (the boss of the Wagner Group) walked."

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But now that Wagner looked to be overthrowing the Russian military command – radio silence.

The ambiguity reflects a pervasive uncertainty among many Russians right now. Should they throw in their lot with what Putin’s supporters have labeled a coup?

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Munier is categorical about the situation itself: intense fighting broke out between the mercenary group and the regular Russian army, he wrote in a text, and it is violent. But regarding his position on it, he went silent.

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Show threadTim MakJun 25, 2023
From my conversations with him I realized that even though many who support Ukraine are rooting for domestic turmoil in Russia, there is no sense whatsoever in rooting for Wagner. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
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Show threadTim MakJun 25, 2023
More questions about Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted coup remain than were answered after Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko allegedly brokered a deal to send Wagner mercenaries back to their barracks.
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Before that happened, however, the world was seized by the spectacle of Prigozhin holding friendly meetings with top Russian generals and Ministry of Defense officials in Rostov-on-Don, a critical center for running the invasion of Ukraine.
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What had started as a mutinous thunder-run to Moscow by the Wagner Group ended up being something more like a Joyride of the Valkyries.
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The agreement to turn the Wagner columns around was apparently brokered by Belarus’ Lukashenko at the behest of Putin, who talked a tough game in the morning but ended up looking feckless and weak in the face of armed rebellion.
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But what Prigozhin allegedly got was exile in Belarus, amnesty for his fighters, and possibly a free hand for Wagner Group to continue their deadly profiteering in Africa.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-wagner-prigozhin-belarus-deal-6782455ddc4234816bfb2d7d388d8a9a

With Russia revolt over, mercenaries' future and direction of Ukraine war remain uncertain

Russian government troops withdrew from the streets of Moscow on Sunday and the rebellious mercenary soldiers who had occupied other cities were gone, but the short-lived revolt has weakened President Vladimir Putin just as his forces are facing a fierce counteroffensive in Ukraine .

Associated Press
Show threadpoumarat francoisJun 25, 2023
@timkmak
1/3
Je suis français et pas fier du comportement de mon pays sur le continent noir.
95 des voyous BI-NATIONAUX viennent à ma rencontre pour me dire qu ils savent que je n ai bientôt plus de visa.. (3mois)
que c est la dernière fois que j exporte car DEBA😉 (le dictateur communiste converti à la vie de neully sur seine Après sa chute suite à la suite du mur😁)
Bref
Ratsiraka😉 va revenir et il faudra désormais que je passe par eux pour exporter mes minéraux car fini d ACHETER EN BROUSSE
Show threadpoumarat francoisJun 25, 2023
@timkmak
Avril 96..dès l aiport je sais que la mafia binationale franco-malgache vient de reprendre le control de tout le commerce des minéraux et que seule la COGEMA (caisse noire des socialistes français futur ex AREVA 5 milliard évaporés en Namibie 😉)
A le MONOPOLE des achats !
Qu il est interdit désormais d acheter aux PAYSANS...
Le brave président albert Zafy qui avait ouvert le buizenness aux paysans et petits opérateurs indépendants comme moi à été "empêcher "
Par le corromptu conseil..
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@timkmak
3/3 conseil constitutionnel malgache tous BINATIONAUX
Et ratsiraka dit deba est remis au pouvoir par Paris🤮
Je ne peux exporter par mes tites tonnes
Le pays devient1 Thaïlande bis avec l arrivée d✈️ charters remplis d🐷 venant pour les puttes puisque la prostitution explose
même les malgaches ne vont plus voir leurs courses de chevaux pour aller jouer au PMU!
Les (vrais) malgaches haïssent la france et attendent que la russie revienne avec 1 plan je pense
1💡😉
1/
jesuites🤑?
dehors...😉
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