FSB has been mobilized in Moscow and security plan "Fortress" has been enacted to safeguard govt buildings in Moscow. I am getting popcorn.
Wagner coup in Russia? Wagner declared war on the Russian army
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#33FSB has been mobilized in Moscow and security plan "Fortress" has been enacted to safeguard govt buildings in Moscow. I am getting popcorn.
prove?
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#34This is absurd. It makes no sense. I'm calling psyop.
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#35This is absurd. It makes no sense. I'm calling psyop.
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#36The horror of every tyrant: when one of his commanders realizes that he has more power than his boss.
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#40Wagner leader Prigozhin is gambling and betting everything on red (or black?). The problem for the Russian government is that many ordinary pro-war Russians see Prigozhin as a hero. If they kill him, he'll become a martyr. For all I care both sides are war criminals and should answer for their atrocities in Ukraine. If they can kill each other without also killing civilians, don't think we should stand in their way t…
Prigozhin seems to be playing this savvily. Extremely savvily. He isn't directly threatening Putin. There is a face-saving change in which Shoigu et al are executed and Prigozhin and Putin split their cookies. Putin can frame it as discovering they lied to him, and possibly even re-set expectations for the war in Ukraine.