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Global Threads<p>🇷🇺 RUSSIA | 🇺🇦 UKRAINE<br>🔴 El Pais: After Wagner, Kadyrov’s “Akhmat” Forces Rise</p><p> 🔸 Following Prigozhin’s death, many Wagner fighters joined Kadyrov’s elite “Akhmat” unit.<br> 🔸 Group maintains semi-autonomy and openly challenges the Russian General Staff.<br> 🔸 Fighters come from across Russia – and even Ecuador.<br> 🔸 Akhmat active in Kursk, Luhansk, Donetsk fronts; praised for loyalty over politics.</p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wagner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wagner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kadyrov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kadyrov</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Akhmat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Akhmat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkraineWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PMC</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@fulelo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fulelo</span></a></span> So <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TrumpRussia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRussia</span></a> relations are a ‘roller-coaster’, sorta like the orchestrated friend-foe dynamics between <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a>. 🤔 Got it!</p>
Putin's IBS<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/putins_russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putins_russia</span></a> eats itself?" 🤣🤣</p><p>From <a href="https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kadyrov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kadyrov</span></a> has come into conflict with the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kremlin</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Vazhnye_Istorii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vazhnye_Istorii</span></a> media reported.</p><p>I have said before that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kadyrov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kadyrov</span></a> might be the next on the list after <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a>. He has a lot of power, a separate army subordinate to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kadyrov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kadyrov</span></a>, and a state within a state. So far, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kadyrov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kadyrov</span></a> remains loyal to the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kremlin</span></a> and gets benefits from that - both personally and for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Chechnya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chechnya</span></a>. But <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> is obviously</p>
Manish Vij<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> ‘drones can fly through Russian air defenses… but <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> can&#39;t’ <a href="https://twitter.com/pennbarker/status/1694399061384736955" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/pennbarker/status/</span><span class="invisible">1694399061384736955</span></a></p>
André<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Russland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russland</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wagner" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wagner</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WagnerGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WagnerGroup</span></a> <br />Is Yevgeny <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> really dead? Not everyone is convinced<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/is-yevgeny-prigozhin-really-dead-not-everyone-is-convinced" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2023/aug</span><span class="invisible">/24/is-yevgeny-prigozhin-really-dead-not-everyone-is-convinced</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> plane ‘doesn’t appear to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile’ <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/wagner-prigozhin-russia-assassinated-intelligence-3e456fab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsj.com/world/russia/wagner-pr</span><span class="invisible">igozhin-russia-assassinated-intelligence-3e456fab</span></a></p>
Eric Jacobs<p>Putin murdered <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> in a manner that gave Prigozhin a few minutes to think of his impending death.</p>
ninme<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>prigozhin</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>Video of the inevitable <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> shoot-down. The Pakistani military prefers a crate of exploding mangos <a href="https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1694397010680361239" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1</span><span class="invisible">694397010680361239</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a>’s photos leaked</p>
Manish Vij<p>‘<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a>&#39;s fake news agency that initiated the designation of Bellingcat as &quot;undesirable&quot; and its blocking in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a>, has been blocked in Russia’ 🤌🏽 <a href="https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1674808632234463234?s=20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/christogrozev/stat</span><span class="invisible">us/1674808632234463234?s=20</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>‘A common sentiment I’ve heard from my contacts in Moscow is that, if <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> had reached Moscow, people wouldn’t have risen up to defend <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a>’ <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RussiaCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RussiaCoup</span></a> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-prigozhins-half-baked-coup-could-mean-for-putins-rule" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/wha</span><span class="invisible">t-prigozhins-half-baked-coup-could-mean-for-putins-rule</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> ‘able to direct the false glory to himself even as he then withdrew Wagner from Ukraine. Meanwhile he criticized the military commanders of the Russian Federation in increasingly vulgar terms… Wagner was able to make the Putin regime work for it’ by stealing credit for stalemate in minor city</p>
Ron Franke<p>The notion that Wagner and Prigozhin would relocate to Belarus raises a number of curious questions.<br />- Why would Belarus&#39; Lukashenko want Wagner in Belarus?<br />- What is Lukashenko getting out of this?<br />- Why would the Belarus military want Wagner present given Wagner&#39;s conflict with the Russian military?<br />- Where would Wagner get the funds to place thousands of Wagner troops in Belarus?<br />- What control over Wagner would Belarus have?</p><p>I wonder, does Lukashenko think that Wagner can help crack down on the Belarus opposition?</p><p>I have to presume that Wagner would be as much of a problem for Lukashenko as it is for Putin. </p><p>Maybe Lukashenko is afraid that he may removed as is Putin.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wagner" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wagner</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Belarus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Belarus</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>Why is <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> doing a blitzkrieg to Moscow and not <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Zelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Zelensky</span></a>? I know, I know, nukes + they’d actually fight, but feels wrong. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>Every day, this inspiring hot dog vendor worked on himself until he got invited to the big dance <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RussiaCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RussiaCoup</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>‘<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> decided to convert his battlefield credibility into political clout w/o waiting for the war to end, knowing how the Kremlin likes to bump off its wartime assets once they&#39;re no longer needed’ <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/russiacoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>russiacoup</span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1672806965074862080" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/KevinRothrock/stat</span><span class="invisible">us/1672806965074862080</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>‘Girkin on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a>&#39;s plan - he sent a few thousand of his best troops to Moscow hoping the officials will run and Moscow will fall quickly. Meanwhile, the foothold in Rostov will provide some security. Supplying this advancing force will be challenging, however.’ <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RussiaCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RussiaCoup</span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672596167140450304?s=46" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/wartranslated/stat</span><span class="invisible">us/1672596167140450304?s=46</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> cashed out at maximum leverage: threatening Moscow without actually having the local allies to seize the Kremlin, or the force size to hold the city.</p><p>‘Prigozhin probably cashed out at his strongest point… chances of actually capturing any significant Russian leadership was basically zero.’ <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/russiacoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>russiacoup</span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1672673854399848453?s=46" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/osinttechnical/sta</span><span class="invisible">tus/1672673854399848453?s=46</span></a></p>
Manish Vij<p>A “strongman” exposed as a weakman is not long for this earth. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Prigozhin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prigozhin</span></a> may die / be exiled, but so will <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a>. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RussiaCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RussiaCoup</span></a></p>