Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Why Wagner has Fallen Out with the Kremlin (Again)" video.
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Authoritarian regimes with too many authoritarian figures tends to self implode...
At some point Putin will need to disappear with either one or both of these figures, take charge, put other people who respects Kremlin command blindly, and this will end up in huge costs for any potential military effort, which will stop Russia's expansionism once again.
It'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Putin is basically fast retracing the history of USSR.
All of these things are totalitarian dictatorships 101.
Wagner group actions shows Putin's weakness to control the army vs private military spat that always happens when you do stuff like that, along with using criminals as mercenaries.
Of course, it's not that Putin did not know this was a possibility, it's just that the situation in Ukraine is so bad that it has now come to this. The commander of the mercenary group going online to criticize Russia's army command.
This type of strategy is great for scorched earth invasion such as what Putin is doing, but control is always a problem because even dumb criminals and dumb private military figureheads eventually realize they are being badly paid to be cannon fodder.
The internal fight and fracturing of groups leads to derision, which leads to splits, which makes them easier targets. Ukraine is winning this fight.
And we've long known from history that conquest by force and violence tends to round back to bite dictators in the ass. Some die before realizing this, some become so paranoid they need to be dethroned by their own people a the risk of complete self destruction. Putin is likely the latter, he's already walking the path.
Putin has put a lot of faith into them being the larger country, the more powerful overall in military terms, but he underestimated the problem of being a country that conquers by force and violence in modern times. He's fighting against not only Ukraine, but a global culture that is tired of this sh*t, and has learned at least a few lessons over the years how to deal with this type of ideology.
Wagner group, if they ever make good on their promises, get away from Ukraine and go towards the African continent to fight their own ideological wars, they'll be the next ISIS, and the world has to treat them exactly like it. I'd rather they all die in Ukraine by Ukraine soldiers' hands, which is what they deserve, but if not, they must be hunted like the terrorist group they are.
Putin will be even more weakened in his "strategic military operation" inside Ukraine and will likely either be chased out, or Putin will have to come down to negotiations, but not before several attacks against Russia itself happens, be it led by Ukraine forces, or by Russian citizens that are tired of his leadership. His time is getting to an end. I just hope lessons are learned and Russia sets itself up to not return once again to this. It seems to me that the fall of the USSR wasn't enough, and so this time NATO, UN and others will have to force something harsher there.
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