• certain_people@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Everyone in Wagner was about to be conscripted into the regular Russian Army as the latest in an ongoing power struggle between Wagner’s boss and the Russian MoD. So to avoid losing his private army, the boss has stepped up the power struggle to an attempted coup, basically.

    • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The coup will be crushed, but it will weaken the Russian military even more and they lose their (now former) elite forces

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        1 year ago

        My money isn’t on the Russian Army being able to “crush” anything tougher than a chicken egg at this point.