• Fat Tony@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am so sorry about this. But how much integrity can a mercenary army have? I mean what’s point in fighting for your ex-employer? If you ask me there is no way they can actually rile-up that many mercenaries to do any significant damage. (but would love to hear other peoples thoughts)

    • PickTheStick@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is how a gang operates. It’s all about consensus building by braggadocio. Someone says they’re going to do something, and sees if enough others join them. Then they threaten the person who is their rival based on the number of people behind them. Unfortunately for the wagner fellows who proposed this, they don’t have anywhere near enough backing them to get putin to back down. They’re fucked.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      they have no heavy equipment - they gave up everything from mortars up after coup attempt, so no AD, no tanks, no artillery, no nothing. manpower left in russia was slurped up by army, these left in belarus have only rifles, tents and civilian trucks and were evicted lately. they ain’t doing shit and it’s only dumb posturing on telegram