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The Wagner mutiny: Is this the beginning of the end for Putin?

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Putin's Incendiary Video

Putin has designed a state that is difficult to undermine because he's got all of these different characters and different security services who are only loyal to him. The war in Ukraine was needed so that a handful of stumbags could have he blast and get PR attention showing how strong the army is, says Maxim Kuznetsov. It seems like he has genuinely become upset by the scale of casualties and the way that Wagner has been treated as cannon fodder, particularly during the attacks on back moved where they were just sent relentlessly against Ukrainian positions no matter how many casualties they took. But he may be kind of masquerading in the sense that he doesn't actually care about his many. He's

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