• StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Has Putin committed so much of Russia’s fighting forces to Ukraine that he does not have the capacity to defend Russia from any invasion? Putin was relying on the threat of nuclear war to prevent any external invasion but that doesn’t protect him from an internal invasion. Prigozhin has perhaps very accurately assessed that he is the strongest military force in Russia right now. I am very interested in what happens to Russia after this. I don’t want to claim that this is the end of Putin’s Russia quite yet but it certainly seems to be a bad time to be named Vladimir Putin.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      AFAIK (but sure, I don’t know much), the people expected to defend from an internal invasion are exactly the ones invading.