@bjeelka @eva_chaos @humanhorseshoes @mattdm @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal
a question:
do you remember when prigozhin showed up in rostov-on-don?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWD2VKba9Qg
he was hailed with devotion and love
not because russians love him
but because supplicating yourself to the current strong man is what they know as a survival mechanism
could ukraine could have its own puppet states out to volga, ruled by a russian to satisfy russian racism, while the real levers of control are in kyiv?