Its a big farce, its a ploy to transfer troops to belarus. Putin disowned prigozhin and if wagner bombards kiev ,russians will say they have no control over them. Zelensky moron even certified that russia is falling apart and does not have control over troops, some thing russia can use it to their max benefit.
Cost of war....
They've ultimately gone back to 1917, rich people forcing poor people to die for their greed. They're also limited in terms of mobilisation as they can't give too many people guns. If as many Russians had guns as Americans have guns, Putin and Shoigu etc. would already be dead.Russia is losing the war (big time!).
1) His (Putin) primary assault went totally shit when Ukraine destroyed the supply lines with TB-2 drones,
2) than Russia suffered the chaotic long battle line causing only logistic problems, so the need was arosen to compact the battle line (Russian troops started "strategic" pull back).
3) And finally for more than three quarters of a year the battle has stranded in a standoff and trench war where Wagner is achieving minor successes with tremendous losses.
Now discontent has hit the fan and Wagner is openly revolting.
I don't see beyond this point how Russia can turn the tide, Russia is losing this war. If this war continues like this I predict a second fall of Soviet Union, with Russia disintegrating in smaller nations
Prigo's und Vagners threat of marching to Moscow did a lot more harm than realized. The Russian mafia government has been shaken to the core and now another drama is about to begin.
Or Manchuria, which historically belonged to them anyway.
And China gets Siberia.
CIA conspiracy -> 15-D chess move -> Purge to clean up the Kremlin.If true, then this entire exercise will turn out to be a purge aimed at cleaning up the Kremlin.
Russia was duty bound to protect the sovereignty of Ukraine by a treaty too, see how that worked out. This is what happens when you set precedents that fly in the face of international law. After annexing South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Crimea, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk on the basis though Russia owned some of them for a couple of centuries, Russia has zero grounds to complain if China takes back territories that were Chinese for millennia. Could get real messy for neighbours that border China, which is why any semi-smart person should be against what Russia's doing in Ukraine. The world really does not want/need Russia to win this war, they might think they do now, but they won't later.Manchuria was annexed by Russia in 2 treaties. So any move to take it back will mean war though.