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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:05:55 JST Dan Gillmor

   What kind of Russian regime would be worse than Putin's? How about one run by the vicious mercenaries of the "Wagner Group"?

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     Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@ubuntu.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:05:57 JST Stephen Michael Kellat

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     @dangillmor Control of nuclear weapons is quite an immediate concern, too

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:06:08 JST clacke

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     @pthenq1 @dangillmor Professional war providers will install management who will purchase less war?

     If Constellis (was: Blackrock) had taken the US, my immediate thought would not have been "oh good, now the US will retreat from its wars".

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     lord pthenq1 (pthenq1@mastodon.la)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:06:09 JST lord pthenq1

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     @dangillmor
     Nah. Progozhin is going to rebuild Russia. He means business, no empire.

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:06:10 JST Shoq

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     @dangillmor it’s like trading terminal brain cancer for a more aggressive form of terminal brain cancer.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:06:15 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @dangillmor Prigozhin is making the same mistake Putin made in February 2022:
     1. believed in his own propaganda and in his invincibility;
     2. assumed that people carrying out orders on the other side will just welcome him with open arms.

     And he will lose. Wagner can be effective on the front, with MoD support, being responsible for a small area of the frontline.

     It cannot match all of RU MoD, even if most RU forces are tied in Ukraine.

     But it's going to get nasty.

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