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34. Mutiny in the Russian Ranks?

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Putin Needs a Win in the Donbass

The Institute for the Study of War believe that Russian military leadership deliberately expend both elite and convict Wagner forces in back mode. The aim is to weaken the Afghani pregosian and derail his ambitions for greater influence in the Kremlin if that's true Patrick it's pretty remarkable isn't it? Here we have a system that is so dysfunctional that it's prepared to shed thousands of Russian lives in what is essentially an internal Kremlin power struggle.

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