Russia: What a real insurrection looks like
Posted By: PageTurner, 6/24/2023 9:13:43 AM
Want to see what a real insurrection looks like? Look to Moscow. By now, you've probably heard that Vladmir Putin has got big problems there. There's an uprising, an actual insurrection from the armed Wagner mercenary group of 25,000 led by Russian rival oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. The group has been fighting in Ukraine alongside Russia's troops, but much more effectively than the Russian army, which had to have made its leader ambitious. Prigozhin, recall, is a revolting ex-criminal and based on his private phone calls, detests Putin. The uprising was triggered by a few days of negative words with the Russian military, which Prigozhin claimed wanted to take
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Want to see what a real insurrection looks like?
Look to Moscow.
By now, you've probably heard that Vladmir Putin has got big problems there.
There's an uprising, an actual insurrection from the armed Wagner mercenary group of 25,000 led by Russian rival oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. The group has been fighting in Ukraine alongside Russia's troops, but much more effectively than the Russian army, which had to have made its leader ambitious. Prigozhin, recall, is a revolting ex-criminal and based on his private phone calls, detests Putin. The uprising was triggered by a few days of negative words with the Russian military, which Prigozhin claimed wanted to take
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Putin created a monster in that Wagner mercenary army and now the monster has turned on him.