Whats bullshit? Did you forget when a ukraine surface to air defense system accidently went off and hit polish land? Zelensky quickly ran on tv to declare NATO file article 5 and declare war with Russia. This was before any investigation was done. I love zelensky but hes not the american president. He has the interests of the UKR as he should. War isnt black and white. People do ****ed up things in the heat of the moment. Ukraine WANTS USA to join the war and you cant blame them. It would make their job much easier. Biden job is to make sure that doesnt happen. You can hate on him all you want but hes elected to be POTUS
Something like: Putin has a cadre of "independent contractors" because a strong or unified military threatens his power. Wagner is among them. There's another group of crack ex-soldiers that competes with Wagner for the top spot. Wagner's approach is different and uses convicts with very short leashes to do cheap and dirty work with an eye for churn. Keeping these groups separate diffuses their potential power and Putin does everything to keep them competitive and distrustful of each other. This means you'll see gaffes where Russians will repeat the same mistakes over and over again (like sending tanks to the same kill zone or not communicating to a nearby group of an ambush). Apparently it's at a point where one group will sabotage others even if it means conferring with the enemy. All Putin wants is results, and if you don't have results then make your competitor fail. The article suspects Kremlin knows of Prigozhin's communications with Ukraine, which is cliffhanger to stay tuned for next episode of Moose and Squirrel.
The system is set up where commanders literally compete with each other for the spoils of war. Zero sum game. The better Wagner does the less Ukranian plunder Shoigu gets to take home, and vice-versa.
I respect your knowledge of military history. Do you know if there was anything like this in the Soviet military? From what I recall was that the Soviet military did have a parallel political officer corps to the actual military corps but so they also have rival militaries that operated independently of central military command structure?
I dont know much. I do know it was a feature carried over from the Tsarist Army and I know the Communists tried to supress it, but werent very successful. I believe what was an underground, frowned-upon practice has basically become wink-wink, nudge-nudge OK in post-Soviet Russia.
[Newsweek] Ukraine Shoots Down Six Hypersonic Missiles Fired by Russia The Patriot battery in Kiev shot down 6 "totally unstoppable" Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missiles last night. The Patriot battery may or may not have suffered some damage, but the "unstoppable" Kinzhal is just more Russian bullshit.
This Wagner group is not a bad idea . We should put our thugs to work too , they can fight the cartel or fight the other gangs in Los Angeles or Chicago we can call them Ja Wagner @AroundTheWorld @J.R.
