Kill it With FIRE (NAFO)Jul 2, 2023
Tendar

More than a week has passed since the Wagner uprising. The Russian regime trying to pretend business-as-usual, but we are far from it.

Despite destroying 7 choppers, a rare SIGINT plane and causing havoc on the ground, not a single Wagner member, not even their leader got detained. A murky deal in the background supposed to make this all go away, but it only shows how weak Putin has become. He has become even so weak that he can't even go after traitors.

Prigozhin smiles, for now.
#Coup

Jul 2, 2023 at 10:27amWeb
Show threadKill it With FIRE (NAFO)Jul 2, 2023
@Tendar FSB could literally tell Putin he’s dead and he’d be none the wiser.
Show threadAlex_FellaJul 2, 2023
@Tendar ich Frage mich ja, warum Prigozin in St. Petersburg gesehen wurde. Ist er da kurz vorbei hat seine Bargeldreserven abgeholt, um dann nach Belarus weiterzufahren? Das alles ist schon sehr merkwürdig.
Show threadprivate_brewingJul 2, 2023

@libse @Tendar
Anscheinend durften die Wagners ihre Geschäfte abwickeln - Gebäude verkaufen usw. War wohl auch Teil des Deals.

Putin hat diese Geschichte überlebt - aber wirklich nur grade so. Ich vermute, wenn sich der FSB nicht Surovikin geschnappt hätte, dann wäre die Sache anders ausgegangen.

Show threadLucian CostinJul 2, 2023
@Tendar good to find you here too. Musk is burying Twitter
Show threadRojCowlesJul 2, 2023

@Tendar

Also many have pointed out the absurdity that Wagner/Prigozhin killed 12 airmen, at least, during their fully tooled up armoured rampage across Russia and its being memory holed but Navalny is facing 30 years of hard time for, checks notes, saying mean stuff about Mr Putin

Show threadsmy20011Jul 2, 2023
@Tendar Hello! Welcome
Show threadhrobak67NafoFellaJul 2, 2023
@Tendar Putin likely wants to play this down, just to show he is in absolute control. But, we shouldn't get surprised if people disappear - after all, that's the way Putin frequently operates.
Show threadFalena MaculataJul 2, 2023

@Tendar A disastrous war, a mutiny/coup attempt by the most efficient Russian military that failed and caused its own demise (I think that Wagner, at least in Ukraine, is done and dusted) and an economy that gets worse day after day. The amount of schemes, plots, plans, betrayals etc behind Putin's back must be astronomical.
I cannot see the Putinist regime to survive this conflict. Wait until Ukraine manages to really break through the Russian lines in Zaporizha area: in the Kremlin all hell will break loose. Even snatching back Bakhmut and Soledar from Mordor may cause another political earthquake in the Kremlin.

Putin and his regime is fucked big big big time.

Show threadMorganismJul 2, 2023

@Tendar

I think you are miss-analyzing this. It was never a coup attpt. It appears Prig had a pass to take his eqpt to Rostov to surrender it.
After finding Gerasimov had left, he decided leave his eqpt in Red Square to make statement.
It looks like meeting at SComm
was about his not attacking RAF, making passage thru checkpoints non-lethal.

Show threadMorganismJul 2, 2023

@Tendar

It appears that the unarmed EW eqpt was "escorting" the column to protect and monitor it.

Those EW craft were prob attacked by TDF that were out of the RAF loop. Friendly fire.

Looks like column shot down an alligator and a MI-8/24 that fired on the convoy, and thats it.

Prig stated that EW were unarmed himself. No reason to shoot them down.