War strategies are supposed to revolve around defeating the enemy. But Russian military leaders now have an additional concern on the battlefields: preventing their own forces from fighting each other 🔴 robhastings explores the infamous Wagner Group
The extremity of his views also “fills a role in the psychodrama of Russian politics”, which is useful for Putin. “It’s good for Prigozhin to be slaveringly insane in his public statements, because it makes the Kremlin look more reasonable.”
“In this really very ferociously competitive, even cannibalistic system, he is a shark who has to keep swimming or he drowns”Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian General Staff seen here with Vladimir Putin and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, is trying to rein in Wagner but is disliked by Prigozhin Prigozhin has detested Russia’s generals ever since his militia was used to prop up Russia’s ally, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, in the country’s civil war.
His rise to prominence is part of an ongoing power struggle below Putin, says Galeotti. To the Russian armed forces, “he was an embarrassment and a joke. Now he’s a problem.” Yevgeny Prigozhin posing with Wagner mercenaries inside a salt mine near the Ukrainian town of Soledar
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