Seriously though, the USA is virtually always bad.

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    Favored by Putin and given special latitude. You aren’t going to start a pmc without serious political capital, plus Putin had been commissioning them for a long time.

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      Do those words mean anything? Favored? Latitude?

      And the strength of these connections is why hiring and then killing off a mercenary makes the Russian government the nature of being nazis in the same way Ukraine having actual nazi politicians in charge does?

      Why do you argue so fucking far past the point it’s obvious you’re wrong? You’re an entire branching comment tree in this post. You never give up on a single point but you’re getting bodied left and right.

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        Why do you argue so fucking far past the point it’s obvious you’re wrong? You’re an entire branching comment tree in this post. You never give up on a single point but you’re getting bodied left and right.

        I’m laughing so hard I almost shat my pants reading this thread

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        Do you think Progodion was not important in the Kremlin? It’s really hard to sort out the web of connections and allegiances, but it seems like Progodion was pretty important, and getting more important and dangerous as Wagner gained notoriety.

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          No more answering questions with questions. Go back and justify the connections you implied with “favored” and “latitude”

          You need to actually fucking say something substantial now. None of this mind palace bullshit. What was his role if not as a mercenary? If he was important at the Kremlin what was his position there?

          STOP ACTING LIKE YOU KNOW THINGS. SAY WHAT YOU KNOW.

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            He was a general of a portion of the Russian army. The most effective portion, giving him a lot of pr. That made him a pretty popular general, which is dangerous for the leader in the best of times.

            I’d recommend these for more info on him. They’re very well researched and presented. The second and third are long tough.

            https://youtu.be/1hE8CvA-Vlo?si=zgtpPdV5lY5jAo5u https://youtu.be/tP8VPkWXOfU?si=do2_txrH6BcEsjoZ https://youtu.be/va3UtYl6PUs?si=UUHjnKvMFHxT7NOq

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              I’m not watching your dipshit youtube videos.

              He was a general of a portion of the Russian army.

              No he wasn’t. He was the general of a mercenary outfit. He got a lot of PR because he’s a nazi and the media your dipshit youtube personalities regurgitate for you has a vested interest in doing a ‘very bad people on both sides’ because they want you to support an explicitly fascist government. He was effective because they used him for the worst fighting. He’s a mercenary. Their job is to die so you don’t lose soldiers that hurt you politically. That’s also why he was pissed off. The thing that made him dangerous was the part where he fired on Russian military and civilians.

              If you want me to engage with your sources you need to go through the video and find them. And just to get ahead of the ball: if you link “Radio free _____” or the Kiev Independent I’m just going to talk about the sources themselves.