• StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Has Putin committed so much of Russia’s fighting forces to Ukraine that he does not have the capacity to defend Russia from any invasion? Putin was relying on the threat of nuclear war to prevent any external invasion but that doesn’t protect him from an internal invasion. Prigozhin has perhaps very accurately assessed that he is the strongest military force in Russia right now. I am very interested in what happens to Russia after this. I don’t want to claim that this is the end of Putin’s Russia quite yet but it certainly seems to be a bad time to be named Vladimir Putin.

    • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      AFAIK (but sure, I don’t know much), the people expected to defend from an internal invasion are exactly the ones invading.

      • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        That might be accurate and it would make sense why they’re so defenseless, if that’s the case. But if that’s the case, then it was extremely idiotic to attack Wagner. But then, the people at the Russian MOD might just be that stupid as to attack their mercenaries that were providing their only internal defenses. Unless Prigozhin is just making up the attack like the MOD claims.

        Regardless, it doesn’t really matter why Wagner turned around and is fighting Russia now. What matters is that they are and that it’s bad news bears for Russia.

  • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    What a clusterfuck this whole war has been for him. Hopefully it makes all the other dipshit warmongers around the world think twice.

  • mannycalavera@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Plot twist, Wagner dude takes over Russia in largely unchallenged coup, tracks down Putin, hands him over to the International Criminal Court and pulls out of Ukraine in exchange for being left alone to rule Russia and immunity for himself.