CamaradeBoina

Brotherly peoples after all

One general dude got dismissed too today, it's a belated consolidation of power IMO.

Let things chill from the "march on moscow", get people complacent, wack hard.

What's for sure is that Wagner is absolutely not going to open a "new front" from Belarus as things stand.

Let the speculation commence, one hypothesis is that said cleaning house is necessary for the preliminary steps to negotiations? After all, key NATO elements and some major western news have been hinted that the conflict can only end by negotiation. A key element to make that happen from the Russian POV is to get rid of their "rabbid dogs" like Wagner. They also cracked down last months on pro-insane escalation elements like ppl who were key to stage of conflict starting 2014, like Strelkov (who's now jailed).

As far as I know no, it refers to a telegram channel operated by an ex-Wagner soldier. Unofficial Wagner news basically from what I gather. The Grey Zone aren't connected.

From the reports its the entire high command that got merked on that plane sooooo....maybe nobody and Wagner get fully absored in the Russian armed forces, who is to say

Have you considered....sentient rat borgers tho?

You are so lucky.

A comrade and I seriously considered getting a job at the local alcohol gov monopoly company to staff their depot and liberate some Russian Standard bottles that have been pulled off the shelf since the beginning of the war. It sadly didn't materialize :(

There are many spots to get yankee cuisine tho! Burgers, fries, some (shudders) Quebecers even showed a hotel cuisine staff how to make poutine. Lots of that at the glorious water park, with beer in big ass glasses.

I hope our comrade defector however opens himself to the delights of Korean and North East Chinese cuisine, maybe have himself also some Russian off brand doshirak.

I'm pretty sure the Talibans (not to defend them, mind you), were already cracking down on poppy farming before 9/11 and the subsequent decade long war.

So how were they benefitting? Or do you mean to say the US and allied forces allowed mass poppy crop farming that was then utilized by the Taliban to fund itself? You know there is an alternative hypothesis: the US and other occupation allied forces tolerated poppy farming to pacify and win over tribal chiefs and keep corrupt Afghan officials squarely on their side. Maybe both were happening, who is to say.

Well I mean barring your personal dislike of the source, it does report an objective fact: opium cash crop farming exploded under the US / Joint alliance occupation and decade+long anti insurgency war, and died out once they left.

And this objective fact DOES raise important questions: what in the hell was the US doing all this time? They had infinitely more resources than the Talibans do now to subsidize non opium crops for farmers, to encourage diversification and development, etc. Did they turn a blind eye to the mass scale poppy farming? If so, why? It generated huge sums, was it a strategic use of and encouragement of corruption of local Afghan administrators and tribal elite to "make the occupation easier"? Did some money return to western elements? What was the impact on world trafficking?

Like you can dislike mintpress news but IMO it's important to, now that the US/West occupation of Afghanistan is over, not swipe it all under the rug and investigate.