The 2023 Russian Coup.

[RD2003]

Kadyrov is a hardline Putin loyalist and member of the same political party, so happy to try and back-up Putin. The forces seem to be fucking useless generally though by all accounts.

Yes, more seriously, it was the anti-independence Russia loyalist Chechens were were installed in power along with Kadyrov.

 

[spitfire]

cupid_stunt

They also have police and stuff.

Oh...

 

[tim]

72 virgins, or however many it's supposed to be?

Tediously racist, as always.

 

[The39thStep]

Just spotted the Russian working class

 

[Bingoman]

According to the expert on Sky News has said that the Wagner group may be only four hours away from Moscow

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is digging up roads and dumpster trucks building giant sandcastles, all Russia has in reserve for defending Moscow?

 

[RD2003]

Is digging up roads and dumpster trucks building giant sandcastles, all Russia has in reserve for defending Moscow?

If things get as far as the Duma and the Kremlin we'll presumably see another bloody tank battle as when Yeltsin turned on the parliamentary rebellion in 1993. Groups of old women trapped in side streets and picked off by sniper fire. The lot.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Ukrainian Telegram channels reporting that some Russian Army units are defecting to Wagner, including the 217th Guards Airborne

Im sure Ukraine will be doing everything it can to give the wagner mob are helping hand right now. wouldnt be suprised if they laid on coaches and packed lunches for russian troops in Ukraine who want to join the caravan to moscow.

 

[DaveCinzano]

According to the expert on Sky News has said that the Wagner group may be only four hours away from Moscow

Six times better than Gene Pitney

 

[RD2003]

Tediously racist, as always.

Yes, I've been a notorious online racist even when posting anti-racist content.

(Presumably all the Chechen fighters are Muslims, and some at least may believe in the mythology.)

 

[N_igma]

Are we going to get a Storming of the Winter Palace moment? Michael Bay can make the film about it in a few years time, with Transformers and aliens and shit I can’t wait.

 

[Pickman's model]

Im sure Ukraine will be doing everything it can to give the wagner mob are helping hand right now. wouldnt be suprised if they laid on coaches and packed lunches for russian troops in Ukraine who want to join the caravan to moscow.

Germany had Lenin
Ukraine has Prigozhin

 

[Pickman's model]

Are we going to get a Storming of the Winter Palace moment? Michael Bay can make the film about it in a few years time, with Transformers and aliens and shit I can’t wait.

No, but you might get a bloody massacre at the kremlin moment

 

[RD2003]

Im sure Ukraine will be doing everything it can to give the wagner mob are helping hand right now. wouldnt be suprised if they laid on coaches and packed lunches for russian troops in Ukraine who want to join the caravan to moscow.

More likely they'll remember they're on opposing sides and wait and see what Prighozin decides in the unlikely event that he wins out.

 

[Raheem]

Is digging up roads and dumpster trucks building giant sandcastles, all Russia has in reserve for defending Moscow?

Is it going to be very effective anyway? Wagner are not going to be arriving in twingos.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes, I've been a notorious online racist even when posting anti-racist content.

(Presumably all the Chechen fighters are Muslims, and some at least may believe in the mythology.)

Let no one say that you're not tricksy

 

[Pickman's model]

Is digging up roads and dumpster trucks building giant sandcastles, all Russia has in reserve for defending Moscow?

It will confuse the arriving wagnerians

 

[Dystopiary]

Looks like everyone who is chummy with Russia is stepping back and confirming that this is a domestic affair and is nothing to do with them

I hope so much that all this weakens the Lukashenka regime.

 

[DaveCinzano]

No, but you might get a bloody massacre at the kremlin moment

At first I was afraid I was in Petrograd
Kept thinking I could never live without OMON on the pad

 

[Flavour]

Im sure Ukraine will be doing everything it can to give the wagner mob are helping hand right now. wouldnt be suprised if they laid on coaches and packed lunches for russian troops in Ukraine who want to join the caravan to moscow.

It's not entirely implausible, no.

Fuck me that Liz Truss detail though kebabking that is fucking gold

 

[Kaka Tim]

It will confuse the arriving wagnerians

Do they have Valkyries?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Gossip on Russian telegram;

Several Russian and Byelorussian regular army units have already defected to team Prigozhin.

Wagner have been planning this for ages, hoarding ammunition and equipment etc.

Some Kadyrovites are rocking up in Rostov in their own cars and being immediately arrsted by Wagner forces. Quite a bit of video of this happening.

 

[Spymaster]

Gonna hazard a guess that actually using one requires a bit more than simply rocking up with a bit of know-how.

I hope.

True, but threatening to shoot the family of someone who knows exactly how to do it would probably yield swift results.

 

[Dystopiary]

I mean, Lukashenka can carefully say "not my problem" but he is involved. Lots of Russian military personnel and apparently nukes in Belarus.

 

[zahir]

What do Chechen fighters get out of this?

Is Chechnya at risk of being cut off from the rest of Russia if Prigozhin decided to move on Volgograd?

 

[RD2003]

Let no one say that you're not tricksy

Tim seems to think it's racist to state the fact that Russians have usually lived under dictatorship, so I wouldn't set great store by what he says on the matter.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Germany had Lenin
Ukraine has Prigozhin

How did that go for Germany, in the end?

 

[Raheem]

Do they have Valkyries?

They're not called Wagner because of anything to do with music. It's because they kill Russians.

 

[spitfire]

cupid_stunt

They also have police and stuff.

Oh...

And they also have a cunning plan.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I hope so much that all this weakens the Lukashenka regime.

Video from Belarusian Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment (caveat emptor etc):