ok what the fuck is happening in ukraine

Also, Bellingcat. Right?

So is this Belarus actively joining? Wagner getting their canon fodder from a new source (but why would they have more success from the north)?

⚡️Putin's spokesman: Criminal case against Prigozhin will be closed.

The criminal case against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin will be closed, and he will move to Belarus, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 24, 2023

So does Wagner go back to fighting in Ukraine? Hearing someone from a random think tank say no ...

Well they aren't actually in Ukraine at the moment. They are however all over Africa and other places.

over/under on how much longer prigozhin remains alive

What I mean is they'd already been withdrawn from Ukraine before Yevgeny led us his merry little dance up the M4 towards Moscow.

Prigozhin was literally running out of murderers, rapists and child molesters he could feed into the meat grinder before all this.

... convicted murderers, rapists and child molesters, that is.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Lukashenko had offered to mediate, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agreement, because he had known Prigozhin personally for around 20 years.

Pretty funny thing to say as Putin has obviously also known Priggo even longer.

exactly. i think the most interesting aspect of this whole circus will be how it was handled/not handled by the kremlin and putin’s involvement/the lack of.

I don't have a clue what exactly played out, but if it's at all what it looked like, then how does Prigozhin sleep at night, knowing Putin must have already put out a John Wick style global hit on him?

Lukashenko: "Lads..."

Adam Curtis bookmarking footage for the past 24 hours:pic.twitter.com/WxNdhUXAqy

— Isaac (@GalaxyPeaBrain) June 24, 2023

Lukashenko: "Lads..."

― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Saturday, 24 June 2023 21:37 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Good little narrative.

Below is a brief description of Prigozhin's mutiny and the factors that contributed to its outcome. We, as observers, initially missed important details due to the scarcity of information and lack of time for in-depth analysis. Here's the perspective that currently seems most…

— Tatiana Stanovaya (@Stanovaya) June 25, 2023

Interesting, but the assertion at the end that Putin "can manage with his own forces" is highly debatable. Manage what exactly? Slowly losing in Ukraine while his country falls apart? None of this would have happened if Putin actually had things under control.

tough job pretending to know things for the rand corp or whoever

That looks a more than reasonable analysis to me, for something pretty uncertain. Which part are you taking issue with?

nah

Stanovaya says that Wagner Group will be dissolved as part of the deal. I had missed that development. That leaves Prigozhin naked to Putin's power and any promises made about his future are written on tissue paper. I'm a bit surprised this blood-and-guts fire-breather who chose a skull as the Wagner Group emblem meekly accepted an exile with Putin's hand around his throat every day for as long as he continues to live. Just another LARPer I guess.

Wagner has been reported as very active in sub-Saharan nations and close to governments in the Arabian peninsula. What replaces them? Or are those ties now dissolved, too?

The Wagner troops who didn’t participate in the march will be able to enlist in the Russian army. The ones who did participate will not be charged. This is what was reported anyway.

Not sure if this means they will go with Prigozhin to Belarus. Obviously Wagner will no longer get Russian state funding so I’m not sure how they will continue to exist.

russia had already moved to fold wagner and the rest of the private armies into the official military, thats prob the main thing that precipitated all this

Now comes the purge. I bet even some of the lower than low ranking Wagner grunts won't be safe even though they are all apparently getting absorbed into the Russian military.

tough job pretending to know things for the rand corp or whoever

― lag∞n, Sunday, 25 June 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Go on...sounds like an ok analysis given the bizarre nature of what happened. But if you have anything else?

I mean if Russia was already folding the Wagner group into its military why did yesterday happen?

Interesting, but the assertion at the end that Putin "can manage with his own forces" is highly debatable. Manage what exactly? Slowly losing in Ukraine while his country falls apart? None of this would have happened if Putin actually had things under control.

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 25 June 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I only dip in now and then but it seems like we are in for a prolonged stalemate. So I took that as "Putin can keep the war effort going". I don't see Russia falling apart with anyone to take over.

One thing she didn't work through is the notion that this could weaken Putin. Repercussions bit in brackets.

if you guys want to say why you think that tweets so incredible i might reply but just being like "its good" then demanding my rebuttal is not that compelling, and its not my theory that russia was folding wagner et al into the official military, last week or so russia made a new rule that all mercenaries had to register with the military which was widely seen as the first step towards said folding

The tweet is pretty good. You've gone no and not come up with anything as good as that when trying to explain yesterday's events. That's all.

the tweet is just a lil story that doesnt even make internal sense

Its moving pretty fast so I'm likely missing something! I didn't think the summary was incredible, just informative for a lay person, I was just curious about where it might be wrong and what your take on it was! I know Russia was folding Wagner into the military on July 1, but I didn't think the tweet contradicted that

xp

in such chaotic circumstances with such an impulsive headcase driving events, you won't always find that it all makes sense

Perhaps Prigozhin was just throwing a tantrum over his army being taken away from him.

Underwhelming explanation I guess, but plausible. Reckless, but after all his shit talking he might have assumed he was a dead man either way.

Definitely feeling that at the moment. So much is unclear, I still don't even know who blew up Dugina, or Nordstream

All tweets are good until proven otherwise with rigorous logic.

"Its moving pretty fast so I'm likely missing something"

Well I had to revive the thread today with that tweet presumably bcz everyone is going er, wtf (reasonably so) (except lagoon who has a perfectly worked out logic he is going to share with us last week)

in such chaotic circumstances with such an impulsive headcase driving events, you won't always find that it all makes sense

― calzino, Sunday, June 25, 2023 2:59 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the tweet told a story that purports to make sense but does not make that much sense is what i was talking about

(except lagoon who has a perfectly worked out logic he is going to share with us last week)

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, June 25, 2023 3:05 PM (fifty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

why tf is everyone accusing me of this the dumb tweet was the one doing that

which was what i was taking issue with

the claim that there was no behind-the-scenes negotiation is strong bcz unsupported and could stand development

also has she not heard of 🧵s #ffs

Three details I'm keeping an 👀:
1) how Wagner's "pro units" moved to Rostov to train mobiks instead of getting fucked in Bakhmut
2) how the "Wagner influencers" are all in Russia "crowdfunding gear"
3) how certain unit is absent in the Prigozhin vs MoD beef#JustWarlordThings

— Abraxas Spa (@AbraxasSpa) March 1, 2023

man had his eyes on Rostov in march

the whole thing is so odd, the only thing that seems sure is that a hundred guys with guys taking a road trip to moscow and then walking away scott free is not great for putin

The story needs more QAnon Shaman

US intelligence knew what Prigozhin was up to days before he actually made his move, don't know how Russian intelligence managed to miss it. If they did

well they say they did

we were completely blindsided and remain out of our depth, said US intelligence in a flustered statement

broadly some possibilities

1 weak desperate move that prigoz barely got out of alive

2 plan coordinated with sympathetic elites to weaken putin

3 solo attack via which he extracted major future concessions

3 doesnt really makes sense to me because what leverage does he have now to ensure the promises are delivered, cld see 1 or 2 tho

we'll know when his coverage improves

Prigozhin’s press office told @RTVi on Sunday afternoon that the warlord “says hi to everyone and will answer questions when he has good [cell phone] reception”.@NastyaStognei @LaurenFedor and @JudithREvans on the fallout from the failed couphttps://t.co/UEwwzqORKU

— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 25, 2023

Definitely question some bits of that Stanayova tweet like the certainty of Wagner being eliminated quickly had they actually reached Moscow and engaged in battle with Russian forces routinely described as inferior to them, given also the support for Wagner in Rostov. But yeah can't otherwise explain the about turn.