The Wagner Action

Getting rather interesting back in the former USSR:

Wagner troops entered the city of Rostov and took positions inside the main military headquarters for southern Russia, as authorities in Moscow issued an arrest warrant for the paramilitary group’s owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on charges of mutiny after he called on his men to oust the country’s military leadership.

Prigozhin, a one-time confidant of President Vladimir Putin, called for a “march of justice” after claiming that the Russian military killed “an enormous amount” of his troops in strikes on Wagner camps on Friday. The military denied these strikes had occurred, and there was no independent evidence to back up his claim.

Videos posted online by local reporters and bystanders showed Wagner tanks and fighting vehicles easily bypassing barricades of buses and streaming into Rostov early Saturday morning. Wagner fighters wearing white armbands surrounded the cream-colored headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District, standing in tense proximity to regular troops wearing red armbands.

Russian state news media reported that another Wagner column was on the move in the region of Voronezh, between Rostov and Moscow. 

The odds are obviously heavily against the mutiny here, but you have to think a non-trivial number of military elites are tired of people dying for an immoral mistake.

Another critical update:

Wagner forces have surrounded Twitter Blue. David Sacks appearing on a Telegram video, looking frightened and disheveled, reading a list of confessions apparently at gunpoint— Gas Stove Prayer Warrior (@canderaid) June 24, 2023

It’s WOKE WAR THREE!