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Don't let anyone else have an army.
Twitter this morning is filled with sh!tposting of the events in Russia. Videos have been posted on Twitter of civilians in Rostov bringing food and water to Wagner Group fighters. There are reports that Putin reached out to Tokayev in Kazakhstan (a CSTO -- the Russian version of NATO -- ally of Russia) to inform him about the situation in Russia and Tokayev said that the ongoing events there are an internal affair of Russia. IOW, count us out.
A residential plane was recorded leaving Moscow but the Kremlin insists Putin is still working in the capital, hunkered down. Trying to remember but there seems to be an important historical event when a dictator hunkered down in a bunker somewhere.
Video of Russian military helicopters bombing fuel depots held by the Wagner Group in the Voronezh region are online.
Chatter is that Wagner forces have seized more Russian territory in one day than Russian forces occupy after 16 months of war in Ukraine.
Huh. Rather than Kyiv, maybe Moscow falls in three days?
Reports suggest Russia's entire 22nd Special Forces Brigade has switched to Prigozhin's side.
Putin's full national address condemning the insurrection is available online. Putin invoked 1917 in his speech today, a strange analogy indeed.
And hey, Putin did what Trump wouldn't: condemned an insurrection.
Interestingly, this could all be decided by Russian military units simply deciding to sit this one out.
Poland has put its military on high alert amid developments in Russia.
Thank God -- on topic -- Biden is president. Trump would be sending lawyers, guns, and money to help Putin.
