Wagner forces are said to be in control of military facilities in the city of Voronezh, north of Rostov and on route to Moscow
Wagner forces are said to be in control of military facilities in the city of Voronezh, north of Rostov and on route to Moscow
www.bbc.com Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin claims control of major Russian city Rostov-on-Don
Yevgeny Prigozhin claims his Wagner forces have seized "all military facilities" in Rostov-on-Don.
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...and this is why you don't betray the mercenaries you hire.
Which is almost literally a tale as old as time. This sequence:
- invade another country to take their shit
- oops it's not going so well
- hire mercenaries with no morals to wreck stuff
- don't pay your mercenary bills and/or attack them for being too powerful
- the mercenaries sack your own cities
That's not just modern times, and it's not even just medieval times: I'm pretty sure at least one Assyrian king was deposed that way. People like Putin are doomed to repeat history, it's their lot in life.
JFC, with this sort of instability anything could happen.
En route
Gosh, maybe now they'll whip out those Armatas and Su-57 wonderweapons...