Comments on: Wagner Coup… https://habitablezone.com/2023/06/23/wagner-coup/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:08:48 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2023/06/23/wagner-coup/#comment-52026 RL Sat, 24 Jun 2023 16:49:16 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100050#comment-52026 I never watch local news, but Cable news was covering it a LOT. I never watch local news, but Cable news was covering it a LOT.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2023/06/23/wagner-coup/#comment-52025 RL Sat, 24 Jun 2023 16:47:25 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100050#comment-52025 "we are little-by-little running out of popcorn." Their expert trolling has to be a violation of the Geneva convention... burns like that are too cruel. “we are little-by-little running out of popcorn.”

Their expert trolling has to be a violation of the Geneva convention… burns like that are too cruel.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2023/06/23/wagner-coup/#comment-52019 podrock Sat, 24 Jun 2023 12:57:41 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100050#comment-52019 Frank Herbert, in Dune, for the "feint within a feint." Bit of unsolicited advice for Ukraine: If Russia suddenly abandons large areas, only send recon forces into those areas. This may be related to who blew up the dam. By doing so, it cut the water supply to Crimea. Not a smart tactical move. Mercenary armies always carry two edged swords. Dangerous they can become. Frank Herbert, in Dune, for the “feint within a feint.”

Bit of unsolicited advice for Ukraine: If Russia suddenly abandons large areas, only send recon forces into those areas.

This may be related to who blew up the dam. By doing so, it cut the water supply to Crimea. Not a smart tactical move.

Mercenary armies always carry two edged swords. Dangerous they can become.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2023/06/23/wagner-coup/#comment-52016 ER Sat, 24 Jun 2023 04:14:02 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100050#comment-52016 Right after reading your post, and reading a few of the sites you linked to, I went and watched the 11:00 news. The whole situation in Russia was not even mentioned. It was like nothing ever happened. I flipped over to a Spanish language station and they were covering the events in Russia. Granted, they didn't have much new information I hadn't already seen, but at least they were reporting something. As for the significance of this news, I will withhold judgement until I have more information. Is this mis-or dis- information as Podrock suspects? Maybe so, its hard to tell. Is Kyiv or Kremlin behind this, is Wagner doing it? Is this designed to slow down the Ukrainian offensive? Or to facilitate it? Could this just be a way of distracting us from some deeper plan? Right now I don't know, but I smell a rat. "Feint within a feint?" I like that. Right after reading your post, and reading a few of the sites you linked to, I went and watched the 11:00 news. The whole situation in Russia was not even mentioned. It was like nothing ever happened. I flipped over to a Spanish language station and they were covering the events in Russia. Granted, they didn’t have much new information I hadn’t already seen, but at least they were reporting something.

As for the significance of this news, I will withhold judgement until I have more information. Is this mis-or dis- information as Podrock suspects? Maybe so, its hard to tell. Is Kyiv or Kremlin behind this, is Wagner doing it? Is this designed to slow down the Ukrainian offensive? Or to facilitate it? Could this just be a way of distracting us from some deeper plan? Right now I don’t know, but I smell a rat.

“Feint within a feint?” I like that.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2023/06/23/wagner-coup/#comment-52014 podrock Sat, 24 Jun 2023 02:56:45 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=100050#comment-52014 No. I've got the right thread. I smell a feint within a feint but not sure who is feinting. No. I’ve got the right thread.

I smell a feint within a feint but not sure who is feinting.

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