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In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becoming monarchical

In Moscow's Shadows

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Pragojin's Retraction Could Change the Nature of the War

I'm not entirely convinced that actually Wagner will or can withdraw from Buckmoot. I mean first of all in strategic terms Wagner depends on the Ministry of Defence for Transport and unless they're all going to just start walking home then it's hard to see what could happen. Pragojin is a man whose business empire which extends far far beyond Wagner is almost entirely dependent upon the favour indulgence and sweetheart contracts provided by the Kremlin. So we may see some retraction we may see him saying that oh well in answer to my complaints now I've been promised that we'll get proper support so he can climb downWe'll have to wait and see but the point is that we shouldn't

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