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Whirlwind situation, for sure. Who'd be filling his position?
From the reports its the entire high command that got merked on that plane sooooo....maybe nobody and Wagner get fully absored in the Russian armed forces, who is to say
ukraine and russia not so different after all lmao
Brotherly peoples after all
They're going to clean house. A lot more heads are going to roll.
One general dude got dismissed too today, it's a belated consolidation of power IMO.
Let things chill from the "march on moscow", get people complacent, wack hard.
What's for sure is that Wagner is absolutely not going to open a "new front" from Belarus as things stand.
Let the speculation commence, one hypothesis is that said cleaning house is necessary for the preliminary steps to negotiations? After all, key NATO elements and some major western news have been hinted that the conflict can only end by negotiation. A key element to make that happen from the Russian POV is to get rid of their "rabbid dogs" like Wagner. They also cracked down last months on pro-insane escalation elements like ppl who were key to stage of conflict starting 2014, like Strelkov (who's now jailed).