i call this move the "washington consensus"

(not a fan of grayzone btw, just thought this as interesting)

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1672652570400108549

  • ZoomeristLeninist [they/them, she/her]M
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    1 year ago

    libs gonna start stanning Prigozhin now. Wagner is big but not big enough to overcome the Russian military (russia's got 1 million active and 2 million reserve mil personnel vs wagner's 50 thousand). also Prigozhin denied that he meant to start a coup

    • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      People are saying that there were less than 10k troops acutally supporting Prigozhin and far fewer who acutally took part in the occupation at Rostov and convey to Moscow. Like its not a good sign for the Russian government that this happened in the first place, but its pretty funny in light of how many libs were predicting Putin's overthrow last night.

    • M68040 [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Huh, only 20,000 more than Blackwater? I kind of assumed the gulf would be bigger.

      • ZoomeristLeninist [they/them, she/her]M
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        1 year ago

        take that info with a grain of salt, its based on a ukrainian source that claims 50k wagner PMC troops are fighting in ukraine, they have more in reserves for sure, but who knows if the ukrainian report is accurate