The entire thing with Prigozhin and Wagner's aborted coup against Putin is odd.
Short version is that Prigozhin has been complaining about the Russian war effort being too mild, and that his mercenaries in the Wagner Group were not receiving enough support from the military.
Then the elements of Wagner Group marched on Moscow, with a larger group Chechen fighters in hot pursuit.
Then suddenly, it was all called off, Prigozhin is heading to Belarus, and elements of Wagner that were not marching toward Moscow will have their contracts taken over by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
I think that the Russian military wanted to take over control of the Wagner Group in the Ukraine, and the entire affair was INTENSE negotiations over the price of the buyout.
Such is always the way with mercenaries.
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Which side are the tankies pulling for?
Could the CIA be behind this?
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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