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Prigozhin Rising: ‘Deadly for Putin’s Reputation’ among Russians
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/06/prigozhin-rising-deadly-for-putins.html?spref=tw
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674025504251293704
Prigozhin Rising Classic Example of Mafia Wars, Nevzlin Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/06/prigozhin-rising-classic-example-of.html
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674025639756681220
Mutinies like Prigozhin’s Typically Harbingers of Larger Events Like Revolutions or Civil Wars, Rogov Says
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/06/mutinies-like-prigozhins-typically.html
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674027398080212993
This "Baltic complex" really is embarrassing and a sign of immaturity and an inability to understand how things have changed in the 30 years since the end of the Finnish-Soviet Friendship Treaty.
@alexstubb did his best to do so but few were prepared to take his lead. https://n.respublicae.eu/minna_alander/status/1674027353276575745
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Minna Ålander 🌻: Hyvä jos Suomessa vihdoin NATO-jäsenyyden myötä päästään yli nolosta Baltia-kompleksista. Suomi on vääjäämättä osa NATO:n itäistä rajaa. Toisaalta Suomi on osa myös uutta pohjoista rajaa Norjan (ja Ruotsin) kanssa arktisella alueella.
https://www.hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-2000009681030.html
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674029328621772802
.@DarthPutinKGB, I suggest you follow the example of your idol and hero, Iossif Vissarionovitsh and purge all your generals *now.*
They are all conspiring against you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/us/politics/russian-general-prigozhin-rebellion.html?smid=tw-share
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673945022134091776
After so many failures by the UN and OSCE in fulfilling their mission to prevent and stop wars and war crimes, and how both are abused by authoritarian states, perhaps their respective 80th and 50th anniversaries in 2025 should be the occasion to retire them both as useless. https://n.respublicae.eu/LotteLeicht1/status/1673937089887444994
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Lotte Leicht: 8 people, incl 3 children, killed by #Russian missiles against the centre of #Kramatorsk #Ukraine
Will #UN GA finally adopt a Resolution supporting the creation of a Special Int'l Tribunal to prosecute the leaders responsible for this #CrimeOfAggression?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66031342 https://t.co/oNbYrTizpM
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673955080024858626
As it becomes increasingly apparent that Prigozhin's attack on Shoigu, Gerassimov and the FSB junta had support in the officer class, assume a next round.
It will not be as incompetent but rather as competent as any Russian undertaking can be: brutal and bloody. https://n.respublicae.eu/KofmanMichael/status/1673726844850323461
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Michael Kofman: @RALee85 I think he actually expected something would be done about Shoigu and Gerasimov, that Putin would rule in his favor. Instead, his mutiny may have ensured their continued tenure, despite being universally recognized as incompetent, and widely detested in RF armed forces.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673959164714921986
Päris hea kõne. Mõelgem nüüd oma poliitikutele.
Kes neist sellist kõnet suudaks pidada?
Ja teiseks, kes neist kvalifitseeriks targaks? https://n.respublicae.eu/Fatassinari/status/1673951989204484096
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Fabrizio Tassinari: The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
This from the Illinois governor JB Pritzker has so many applications and might just make your day. Must watch.
https://t.co/2M4Co6ccne
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A wild thread! https://n.respublicae.eu/ChrisO_wiki/status/1673963225845493764
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ChrisO_wiki: 1/ Russian sources reportedly say that Sergei Shoigu's plan to defang the Wagner Group failed because he didn't anticipate Yevgeny Prigozhin's personal popularity. Prigozhin had prior knowledge of the moves being made against him, leading to his strike against Rostov-on-Don. https://t.co/2B3jpFSJIZ
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673964179953184769
How many decades before we let Russians into Europe again?
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Christopher Miller: Russian forces stuck a popular shopping center beside Hotel Kramatorsk in the city’s center. It housed RIA Pizza, where every correspondent covering the war has probably dined, and businesses including Adidas, Reebok and more. Local authorities say casualties but number unclear. https://t.co/JFT9ymiFwW
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From ex-CIA officer @Mpolymer, who knows what he's talking about.
https://themessenger.com/opinion/forget-about-those-faulty-timelines-for-ukraines-success
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673725950352138240
Simply a fantastic essay on Russia by @MacaesBruno
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2023/06/ukraine-knew-wagner-mutiny
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673752615601971210
Estonia has relatively few public holidays. One is Independence Day, another Midsummer's Day.
The former is 24 February, when Putin invaded Ukraine. The latter, 24 June, when Wagner mutinied.
The next public holiday is 20 August, when Estonia re-established independence. 🤔
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673705157282988032
In the past two weeks Russia has announced two major exports to Belarus:
1. Nuclear missiles
2. Yevgeny Prigozhin
I wonder whether they meet up.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673705680232931329
This⬇️🤦♂️ https://n.respublicae.eu/michaeldweiss/status/1673574501555089408
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Michael Weiss: A study in dualities. Western reporting suggests the U.S. thinks Kyiv is moving slowly and struggling in Ukraine; but now it also tell us the U.S. asked Kyiv not to do anything over the weekend that might have hastened the fracturing or collapse of Russia.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673714947929391107
A cottage industry of Russian pro-military bloggers, called voenkors, wants more war than Putin can deliver. After the Wagner insurrection, they will only intensify, writes @Alexey__Kovalev for @newlinesmag https://newlinesmag.com/argument/inside-the-world-of-russian-war-reporters-demanding-more-blood-than-the-kremlin-can-deliver/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1673715931921391616
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Toomas Hendrik Ilves, (formerly v
From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
@toomas_ilves
Joined Apr 2022
