Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "The Daily Mail’s Video on Bakhmut is Worse Than you Think" video.

Yevgeny Prigozhin was coked out of his skull in Bakhmut. The president of Belarus said as much.
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If I remember rightly, quite late in the video the Mail's guy did differentiate between Wagner's trained soldiers and their raw convicts. He said the convicts (being expendable) were sent first to draw fire, thereby enabling pinpointing of Ukrainian strongpoints for artillery strikes, presumably by recce drones. Actual Wagner troops moved forward afterward. It is surely unlikely that the convicts who had about a month of training mainly devoted to acclimatizing them to being outside 24/7, could be considered useful as replacements for a casualty in a squad of seasoned combat infantry. Many jobs in a squad a s rather specialised I understand this is part 1 of a reaction video but what the Mail says later about the way the convicts were utilized makes sense.
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@manuelmachado9284 "Reconnaissance in force" as practiced by the Russians is completely unlike how Western armies' recce missions are supposed to go. What happened in Bakhmut seems to have been an extremely bloody form of a distinctively Russian tactic
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@manuelmachado9284 It almost sounds like you think lack of stealth makes for a good recon mission, but I can't help wondering how the information got back if the guys were unalive.. It works with drones _and _ a source of expendable manpower but both those together are completely novel.
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@manuelmachado9284 That must be why to join the WW2 Reconnaissance Corps units of the British army soldiers had to pass an IQ test, because only the intelligent would understand the necessity of them becoming casualties.
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@ That is exactly my point the convicts were to advance and be fired on so the drones could get the info on where enemy positions were for artillery's pinpoint hitting them. The Reconnaissance Corps in WW2 British army used quality personnel who were often trained for more than one specialized role. Russian convicts were used to soak up firepower, thereby enabling drones' locating where it was coming from.
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@d-rush1219 If someone is exultant, every other word is an obscenity, and they are monomaniacal, as Lukashenko said Prigozhim was, then that is as good as saying they are coked out of their skull. Lukashenko said he could hear Prigozhin's minions in the background and they were the same.
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@d-rush1219 It was implicit in what Lukashenko said about how Prigozhin and his sidekicks sounded in the phone calls.
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