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Originally Posted by Dondilion
Prigozhin was used as a sponge/bait in the Bahkmut area to buy time for the Russians to erect deep defensive layers in eastern and southeastern Ukraine.
These are Kursk (battle of Kursk) type defenses, sometimes six layers deep.
Behind these are stand-off equipment both aerial and artillery. In front is for the most part fairly flat land. Furthermore, the Russians have effective mine
throwing equipment at hand.
Prigozhin did well, especially in the Bakhmut where the Ukrainians kept sending more and more men to an area that according to Western media has no strategic value.
However, Prigozhin is a loudmouth and a mercenary, and officers schooled in Soviet doctrine abhor such.
When he realized that his time was near and that he was about to join Motorola and Givi he made his move.
Lukashenko of Belarus probably convinced him that his move was a bad one and that he was essentially abetting Balkanizers.
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Blah...fucking...blah...who fucking cares about this bullshit minutiae about the sociopathic behavior of Russian oligarchs and autocrats.
This "war" is an act of pure murderous aggression by a sick war criminal who is clearly following the Hitler Sudetenland playbook. There's no other discussion required.
One last thing...the Russian people are cut from the same fucking cloth as the good little nazi Germans in the 1930's, lining the streets and throwing up the Hitler salute.