• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    USA makes 6.2 billion dollar "accounting error" in ukraine

    in less than a week putin's mercs flip

    i'm not saying these two things are related, but.... really gets my noggin joggin.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah no kidding, from the perspective of a CIA ghoul, it would be absolute malpractice for the CIA not to try to do this.

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      International bank transfers usually take one or two days but can take as long as five depending on the currency. For example, US dollars and euros are normally quicker than weaker currencies.

      Pentagon Says a $6 Billion Accounting Error Allows More Arms for Ukraine

      3 days ago

  • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Either this is an op, or Prigo is WAY overestimating his power and overplaying his hand. He will fall out a window if this is real

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      well he took rostov without a fight apparently, and the russian regulars in rostov surrendered to him. so maybe, if the morale of the russian army is low enough, he can pull it off. Also depends on if he has any insider support. This is all very surprising as a development considering he just got done taking Bakhmut and was pretty much on the government's good side.

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        1 year ago

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  • chilemango [they/them, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    data-laughing I remember the discourse about how all his past statements were actually elaborate ploys to trick the west bc how could he be allowed to say that stuff otherwise, turns out he was just posting

    • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Still it makes Putin look like the only source of stability to have these dangerous men fight. He has to worry about elections, not just war

      • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s very funny that despite all the liberal worship of le democracy, they ignore the fact that democracy is simply people agreeing on things and is not inherently good or bad, and people like Putin and Erdogan and Xi have to worry about elections just like any other modernized country

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Can't wait for libs to cheer on actual mercenaries because they're anti-Putin.

        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          They already rooted for that anti-Putin group that attacked Belgorod, Russian Freedom Legion or something, that was full of Nazis.

          And of course right before the invasion happened, they said Azov were Nazis, but that was okay, because they were good Nazis that defended their country. Later, Western media started saying Azov weren't Nazis "anymore".

          • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            The insane part is that actual (supposed) communist groups blew up Russian rails transporting military equipment during the war. But no western liberal ever praised them. The news reported it for one second before pivoting back to Ukraine

            • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              I remember that happening, but...the groups were communist? Do you have any articles or anything on this? I don't think Western media said anything about them being communist. Not saying you're wrong, just that...you know Western media.

              • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                So I don’t know if these guys are the specific ones I’m thinking about, but they are anarchocommunists apparntly.

                https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-09-21/russias-anarcho-communist-rail-saboteurs

                Most mainstream news (like maybe 1-2) outlets only mention the anarchist part. Others don’t report this at all. But it may be a different group because I remember more outlets were reporting on the other time

      • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Yes. Then all the sudden about 3 months ago the western media stsrted to make him a star in their propaganda games for these so called grandiose speeches critizing Putin for not pushing further and giving resources.

        Now he's flipped teams? Wouldn't trust anything out of western media face value. Theater.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      the clown debater is already saying "prigozhin is a bloodthirsty lunatic BUT" so you know shit is about to get good on lib twitter. why would you even thread about this, nobody knows what will happen tomorrow, but confidently stating that the guy who has massively profited from the war will end the war actually is probably not a good call i would bet my horse on

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Some libs also seem to think Prigozhin is against the war, when in reality he's constantly been calling for it to get more brutal.

        • mittens [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          they're about to find out they're oh-so wrong if prigo got his people inside the MoD after this stunt.

      • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        It wasn't a mistake. It was a premeditated destruction, aided by fools who thought adopting a liberal idealistic worldview would spare them the pressure from the west

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Remember the Machiavelli was a satirical writer discourse back in the early days of the site? Well I bet his chapter on Mercenaries isn't looking too satirical to the Russian Command right now!

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    hopefully they will be stopped as very little could be worse for the russian people than if this guy takes over as a warlord. That would make Yeltsin look good

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Starring: Punished “Venom” Prigozhin

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    1 year ago

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