International relations thread

[Phil Sayers]

I always assumed they were the Wagner boys out fighting the Azov chaps.

Those football hooligans looked like well trained, disciplined professionals - the Spetsnaz of street brawling.

Wagner aren't a patch on them - just a bunch of psychopathic thugs:

They even managed to outrage Assadists which takes quite some doing.....

New Report Exposes Brutal Methods of Russia’s Wagner Group

How a shady network of operatives serves as the tip of the spear in Russia’s global influence efforts with almost no accountability.

foreignpolicy.com

In Mali they are just killing whoever they come across regardless of what side they are on (if any):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/russian-mercenaries-wagner-group-linked-to-civilian-massacres-in-mali

The US military knows how best to deal with them:

How a 4-Hour Battle Between Russian Mercenaries and U.S. Commandos Unfolded in Syria (Published 2018)

Interviews and newly obtained documents provide the Pentagon’s first public on-the-ground accounting of one of the bloodiest battles the military has faced in Syria since deploying to fight ISIS.

www.nytimes.com

 

[angelic upstart]

Loads of the eastern European hoolies are well into MMA fights. I saw a ten a side brawl in an octagon a year or so back was mentoe

 

[Spoonz Red E]

Some black humour trolling of the Russians today by the Ukrainian government ...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1572947574016933888

 

[Phil Sayers]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573230158563233794

Guy at the end below seems to have come up with a good way to get out of going! He won't be the first who has ever missed their flight because they got drunk....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573247081904578562

 

[Average Joe]

No wonder the russian army is falling in numbers.

What we forget is when we went out to the middle east we were fighting born fighters who have been training all their lives. Russian forces really haven't had much to do in the last few decades. They are a shambles.

 

[Mr Jinx]

No wonder the russian army is falling in numbers.

What we forget is when we went out to the middle east we were fighting born fighters who have been training all their lives. Russian forces really haven't had much to do in the last few decades. They are a shambles.

I think the death of a Russian soldier is one thing. The death of an unwilling conscripted civilian is completely another.

When numbers of the latter start to mount (which they will), Putin really is going to lose the support of his people (where it still remains).

We're looking at end game...just a question as to when that is, and what it looks like.

 

[Phil Sayers]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573693307489816577

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573749270544613377

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573776608695042048

 

[Banksy]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573230158563233794

Guy at the end below seems to have come up with a good way to get out of going! He won't be the first who has ever missed their flight because they got drunk....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573247081904578562

Poor sods.How long before someone succeeds in an assassination attempt on Putin? How many times did they have a go at Hitler , forty odd? It’s kept quiet obviously but someone must be always looking for the main chance to get him.

 

[Phil Sayers]

Ukraine again advancing in the East. Seeking to cut off or force the retreat of Russian forces garrisoning the important frontline town of Lyman. Or perhaps Ukraine just wants to get to the polling stations so their soldiers can vote....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573948518238244864

 

[Phil Sayers]

Dagestanis are far from happy with being 'mobilised' - they don't want to go at all, let alone be sent in disproportionate numbers so that the Muscovites can remain insulated from the worst of the war. Protests are taking place across the whole of Dagestan and the below videos are just a small sample. Would not be surprised if this leads to renewed insurgency in Dagestan and Putin's henchman Kadyrov recognises that risk in neighbouring Chechnya as he has declared that there won't be mobilisation there:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1573977123920007175

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1574034108656848897

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1574035957266800640