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Great piece, Marko. I've greatly missed your perspective on the world!

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Hellcome back Marko. I have been begging for your return to blogging for months through Riley and Rolo substacks for months.

I hope the Worst of All Worlds is back.

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By the way, this is another "back in black" post colored with your awesome sense of humor. A great reentry to the blog world. A great Hellcome to " color" our dark reality. Thank you for coming back to blogging and share your "out of this World" analysis of the " Russian world"

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Sofa Legion Strategist (a Russian conspiracy anarchist YouTuber) considers the Prigojin mutiny to be a blueprint for the prepared American disarming nuclear strike on Russia - which was thwarted due to the use of FPV-drones on the frontlines, a development not foreseen when the march had been prepared (half a year prior, with the soap opera about shell hunger?).

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I thought no fokkn way - why come I never heard of dis???

Turns out I have...🙄

I do have one gripe tho: Strelkov. He had said so even b4 his hopes of joining Wagner were rudely drowned in feces...and said so often.

Now, of all the figurines on the chessboard - I know less then zero of Mr Wagner himself.

Where, oh where would one find anything worthy of attention?

Sad smiley here

As a thought experiment: I have said on many occasions before this kind of thang would be considered fedtalk during the gudoldays of the interwebz, that the US could be hugely improved upon by ten determined men with a plan...so in a way I do not see anything unusual in the position of our beloved captain here...

What concerns me is, that the slavlands are a bullit-lenght away from general anarchy - since that man, or the image of him is the only thang holding them together at dis point...

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Clever analogy, you have had more than a year to think it through.

But you seem to forget that before last summer conflagration, there had been a long feud brewing between Wagner and MoD since all the way back in Syria years ago, wherein once Americans were allowed by DoD to bomb down with aviation Wagner troops that were preparing to assault a US position, an utter treachery costing Wagner (and Russia) many many valiant dead fighters.

In short, during before and after the Prigozhin saga, everyone knew Wagner were the good guys and brilliant, while the MoD disposition in Ukraine could be best described as plodding and unimaginative.

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Prigozhin was right. Russia wasn't trying win; in fact bombed anyone doing too well. Wagner once in Syria, and again in Bakhmut.

But what Prince may have been up to - although identical moves - can't see it.

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