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This just does not happen in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Especially in public.

The Russian president is facing the most serious threat to his hold on power in all the 23 years he’s run the nuclear state. And it is staggering to behold the veneer of total control he has maintained all that time – the ultimate selling point of his autocracy – crumble overnight.

It was both inevitable and impossible. Inevitable, as the mismanagement of the war had meant only a system as homogenously closed and immune to criticism as the Kremlin could survive such a heinous misadventure. And impossible as Putin’s critics simply vanish, or fall out of windows, or are poisoned savagely. Yet now the fifth largest army in the world is facing a weekend in which fratricide – the turning of their guns upon their fellow soldiers – is the only thing that can save the Moscow elite from collapse.

So accustomed are we to viewing Putin as a master tactician, that the opening salvos of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s disobedience were at times assessed as a feint – a bid by Putin to keep his generals on edge with a loyal henchman as their outspoken critic. But what we are seeing today – with Putin forced to admit that Rostov-on-Don, his main military hub, is out of his control – puts paid to any idea that this was managed by the Kremlin.

It is likely however Wagner’s units have planned some of this for a while. The justification for this rebellion appeared urgent and spontaneous – an apparent air strike on a Wagner camp in the forest, which the Russian Ministry of Defense has denied – appeared hours after a remarkable dissection of the rationale behind the war by Prigozhin.

He partially spoke the truth about the war’s disastrous beginnings: Russia was not under threat from NATO attack, and Russians were not being persecuted. The one deceit he maintained was to suggest Russia’s top brass was behind the invasion plan, and not Putin himself. Wagner’s forces have pulled themselves together very fast and moved quickly into Rostov. That’s hard to do spontaneously in one afternoon.

Perhaps Prigozhin dreamt he could push Putin into a change at the top of a ministry of defense the Wagner chief has publicly berated for months. But Putin’s address on Saturday morning has eradicated that prospect. This is now an existential choice for Russia’s elite – between the president’s faltering regime, and the dark, mercenary Frankenstein it created to do its dirty work, which has turned on its masters.

It is a moment of clarity for Russia’s military too. A few years ago, Prigozhin’s mild critiques would have led to elite special forces in balaclavas walking him away. But now he roams freely, with his sights openly on marching to Moscow. Where are the FSB’s special forces? Decimated by the war, or not eager to take on their armed and experienced comrades in Wagner?

This is not the first time this spring we have seen Moscow look weak. The drone attack on the Kremlin in May must have caused the elite around Putin to question how on earth the capital’s defenses were so weak. Days later, elite country houses were targeted by yet more Ukrainian drones. Among the Russian rich, Friday’s events will remove any question about whether they should doubt Putin’s grip on power.

Ukraine will likely be celebrating the disastrous timing of this insurrection inside Russia’s ranks. It will likely alter the course of the war in Kyiv’s favor. But rebellions rarely end in Russia – or anywhere – with the results they set out to achieve. The 1917 removal of Tsar Nicholas II in Russia turned into the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin and then the Soviet Empire.


As this rare Jacobean drama of Russian basic human frailty plays out, it is not inevitable that improvements will follow. Prigozhin may not win, and the foundations of the Kremlin’s control may not collapse. But a weakened Putin may do irrational things to prove his strength.

He may prove unable to accept the logic of defeat in the coming months on the frontlines in Ukraine. He may be unaware of the depth of discontent among his own armed forces, and lack proper control over their actions. Russia’s position as a responsible nuclear power rests on stability at the top.

A lot more can go wrong than it can go right. But it is impossible to imagine Putin’s regime will ever go back to its previous heights of control from this moment. And it is inevitable that further turmoil and change is ahead.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/24/europe/russia-putin-wagner-prigozhin-analysis-intl/index.html

Nlfpmod

The end of Putin Era is near ..

Western propaganda

Abeg who want bet Putin still got a strong hold on Russia and the war goes on

Let's see if US and Ukraine can successfully annex SouthEast Ukraine with predominantly Ethnic Russian speaking territory



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Muh247:
Western propaganda

Abeg who want bet Putin still got a strong hold on Russia and the war goes on

You're in Osun state and you're shouting western propaganda ..

Your only hate with the united states is because they refused to recognize Tinubu as a legitimate president

The world will be so happy! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The fall of another Hitler replica

It will be a world national holiday!

001Lagos:

You're in Osun state and you're shouting western propaganda ..

Your only hate with the united states is because they refused to recognize Tinubu as a legitimate president

The same united states that sent envoy for inauguration abi which one?

001Lagos:

You're in Osun state and you're shouting western propaganda ..

Your only hate with the united states is because they failed to recognize Tinubu as a legitimate president

My brother I am in Ibadan Oyo State with a global view and residency permit of countries I talk about mostly

I don't hate united state as this isn't their fight

Russia want dombass region ethnic Russia from Ukraine and honor of Belarus agreement

Ukraine want ethnic Russia because of Nerd 1 and Nerd 2 Gas pipeline to Europe

Ok

Let the best man win


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OldBeer:
The same united states that sent envoy for inauguration abi which one?

You called those level 9 officers In federal civil service settings envoy?

They were picked from the lowest of ranks to attend Tinubu inauguration and you know it

Nothing will still happen!✌️🙂

001Lagos:
The end of Putin Era is near ..

Dream on

SangoOlukosoOba:
The world will be so happy! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The fall of another Hitler replica

It will be a world national holiday!

Which world? Western world? Yes. The global south? No. This if it succeeds will be a stab to the whole multipolarity movements.

001Lagos:

You called those level 9 officers In federal civil service settings envoy?

They were picked from the lowest of ranks to attend Tinubu inauguration and you know it

You sound funny especially if your ancestors fought Biafrans war

They must be sad at your blind support for US that gives no Fvck about you



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Again I ask, where are the Putin supporters who said Ukraine would be decimated in 72hours last year?

Where are the morally deficient characters who like supporting the aggressor who is bullying the weak?

Putin gloried in his infamy in Ukraine and were cheering him on. Now he seems to be on the way to his waterloo. Even if he survives this, things will not remain the same again.

And just like Putin is currently facing his own disgrace, so shall Tinubu face his own.

It’s a matter of time.

001Lagos:

You called those level 9 officers In federal civil service settings envoy?

They were picked from the lowest of ranks to attend Tinubu inauguration and you know it

Why even attend at all if they did not recognise it, Obidunce?
Anyway, whatever makes you sleep well at night.

Russians are obviously tired of Putin's dictatorship they want to live like those in the west.

Muh247:





1: Tinubu defeated Obi and Atiku

2: Russia is fighting to get it's people from Southeast Ukraine and build a solviet union

3: Ibos that their ancestors got killed by Solviet union meceneries are celebrating their killers

Atleast Putin is braver than all SouthEast leaders that suck Western balls

How does this thread relates to Obi. Obi is living rent free in your head 24/7. He must be tormenting you in your dreams.

Shame in CNN , Wagner has called of their coup 😅😅😅

iSense247:
How does this thread relates to Obi. Obi is living rent free in your head 24/7. He must be tormenting you in your dreams.

That's the beauty of freedom of speech, while Kanu and Ekpa tells your kind what to talk about in southeast... Here in SouthWest we speak the truth on all subject with anyone giving sit at home or silence undertone

Muh247:


That's the beauty of freedom of speech, while Kanu and Ekpa tells your kind what to talk about in southeast... Here in SouthWest we speak the truth on all subject with anyone giving sit at home or silence undertone

In your mind, I am Igbo abi? You think every sane Nigerian is Igbo? Maa tan are e

For your information, Oodua ni mi tokantokan.

iSense247:
In your mind, I am Igbo abi? Maa tan are e

Whatever you feel like claiming it's your right paddy mi

001Lagos:
The end of Putin Era is near ..

says who?

In the end, Putin will be arrested and caged

Putin has fled the Moscow and is believed to be at his private compound and flights out of Moscow are sold out

iSense247:
How does this thread relates to Obi. Obi is living rent free in your head 24/7. He must be tormenting you in your dreams.

You're a hypocrite. Didnt u see how that fool call "001lagos" was quick to divert the issue to a local ethnic one by mentioning Osun state and Tinubu

The issue i have with you guys is that u sometimes wanna act smart u end up appearing hypocritically foolish with your ill-thought statements

Muh247:


You sound funny especially if your ancestors fought Biafrans war

They must be sad at your blind support for US that gives no Fvck about you



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All these agbado bull eye niggas.Putin will step down and your paymaster is next.

Hope you have been saving your stipend for the rainy days.

Muh247:


Whatever you feel like claiming it's your right paddy mi

Dey play

D1official:

All these agbado bull eye niggas.Putin will step down and your paymaster is next.

Hope you have been saving your stipend for the rainy days.

What do I expect from Ojuckwu descendannt

Let them delude themself na here we go dey when they hide in shame

Muh247:




Western propaganda

Abeg who want bet Putin still got a strong hold on Russia and the war goes on

Let's see if US and Ukraine can successfully annex SouthEast Ukraine with predominantly Ethnic Russian speaking territory



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funny man. Putin that is considering commiting suicide before the end of the week is who you are valging for

War benefits no one. It's better to sit and talk and resolve matters