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   b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 16:55:23 JST b9AcE

   Regarding the still ongoing events that some describe as a coup attempt by the Wagner Group mercenaries,
   it may come to pass that the people that asked the rhetorical question "it can't get worse than Putin, right?" get a non-rhetorical "yes, it could" response.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 16:55:17 JST pettter

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     @b9AcE My impression is that they're not going for anything extended, but rather a quick and decisive strike towards Moscow. I think hunkering down in Rostov-na-Donu would see them absolutely hammered into the ground by overwhelming force in fairly short order.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 16:55:18 JST b9AcE

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     Speculation time:
     Some international major news-media have reported claims that the Wagner Group mercenaries have already gone on to also take or begun taking the city Voronezh,
     but that seems... too bad a strategic move at this point to be true, as they should rather stay at Rostov-on-Don area blocking Putin's forces from the war in Ukraine while building up strength through e.g. calling on likeminded militant dissident groups, such as maybe for example the Fascist group "Russian Imperial Movement" that (last I heard) has a military training camp outside Saint Petersburg where they've trained Nazis from worldwide (amongst those the three Gothenburg bombing spree Nazi group NMR-affiliates).

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 16:55:19 JST b9AcE

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     Here's Putin's entire speech from 10 minutes ago.
     Very, very angry.
     At least we can all enjoy seeing that, regardless of languages and that the Wagner Group mercenaries are putrid poop too.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 16:55:20 JST b9AcE

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     The crimes against humanity dictator Putin in a 5 minute long speech just now is very, very angry at the Wagner Group mercenaries, calling their actions "a stab in the back",
     which is also similar to what the leader of the Wagner Group accused the Putin-regime of primarily due to a supposed bombardment by Russia's forces against the mercenaries in Ukraine, but also other issues such as the whole war of aggression in Ukraine being based on lies to get the top military more titles and medals.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 16:55:22 JST b9AcE

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     Some scenes reportedly from the Wagner Group mercenaries this morning taking Rostov-on-Don, SW Russia.
     Included in the scenes is reportedly when infantry surrounded the FSB (equivalent of USA's FBI, heir of the KGB) building and a tank stuck at a circus gate.
     Meanwhile other videos reportedly showed military mobilizing in Moscow rushing to the Duma (parliament) and the Ministry of War ("Defence").

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 18:52:39 JST b9AcE

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     Both UANTIFA (antifascists movement in and from Ukraine, in armed reistance against Putin's war of aggression) and the BO AK ("Anarcho-Communists Combat Organization" in and from Russia resisting Putin's war through e.g. mobilization sabotage in Russia) agree that the strategy for now with the mercenary Wagner Group in mutiny against the Putin-regime's State military is to just let them fight each other, to cease attacks on e.g. mobilization depots as those are now more likely to be prepared to defend against a fully military equipped attacker instead of partisan molotov throwers,
     but instead acquire arms, analyze and plan for what opportunities may arise from the two parts of the enemy's forces destroying each other.

     For what it's worth, seems like sound strategy to me.

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     b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 18:52:40 JST b9AcE

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     The even farther right party, even more imperialist, even more "ultra nationalist", even more LGBTQ* hating, even more reactionary "LDPR" commented on the current events in Russia (probably the mercenary Wagner Group's mutiny) by... reminding the world that they are also repugnant sexists, by calling Putin "a woman" with a manipulated photo on the birdsite, very clearly intended as a negative.

     CW for the pic: see above description.

     Rasmus Fleischer repeated this.