Russia’s original ‘Prigozhin vs. Putin’ showdown ended with one person burning alive on a spit.
sone 14 adversaries in the U.K.; liquidated at least 38 of their oligarch playmates; feted the more than 4,000 of their heavily armed acquaintances who helped slaughter opponents of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad; and—according to a U.S. State Department report—rolled out a $300 million wad of cash to manipulate elections across Europe and the 2020 U.S. presidential race.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his country’s 44 million citizens have long been verses in what’s now, a spooky-toothed melody about centuries of infidelity, disloyalty, and betrayal between odious Russian despots that Taylor Swift’sWell you can take me down with just a single blow, but you don’t know what you don’t know…why you gotta be so mean?
Although the Streltsy were sworn to protect the government, all the legitimized raping and pillaging made it difficult for them to decide who was in charge. Historian Robert Massie described them as “a kind of collective dumb animal, never quite sure who was its proper master, but ready to rush and bite anyone who challenged its own privileged position.
Shortly after Prigozhin’s botched mutiny, Putin said Wagner Group’s soldiers were most welcome to join his imperial army and issued orders that all Russian military personnel will receive a 10.5 percent raise in pay as of October.
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