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Not real breaking news. Wanted y’all to know :grin:

Im guesssed

And it begins :grin:

‘Purge’: Top Russian generals Gerasimov and Surovikin are reportedly missing following Wagner mutiny

It got sporty over there, to be sure. But Prigozhin is as bad as Putin, and in some ways, worse. This isn’t going to affect Putin much, it was more about Prigozhin wanting to keep the money coming into Wagner as long as possible. Putin’s takeover of Wagner threatened Prigozhin’s bottom line. Nothing more than that.

Yes sir you get it.
Higher ups want a piece of the catering pie by using their vendors and get in Prigozhens pocket.
Mafioso :grin:

The thing that is most concerning to me in that article is that one the “missing” generals is/was in possession of one the nuclear footballs. If he has actually been disappeared then okay. But if he has gone rogue and joined up with Prigozhin in Belarus then it becomes a much more serious and dangerous situation. Even 1 nuke launched would be disastrous.
Just thinking out loud…
:thinking:

Yes sir you make a very valid point. I’ve thought all along that Prigozhen going to Belarus without his army was suspicious, but he hasn’t come this far being stupid. I would not doubt he has Surovikin on his side and the two of them are working together.

Just me thinking out loud :thinking:

Surovikin is probably sitting in a basement cell at Lefortovo waiting for a 9mm headache cure from an FSB agent. There’s very little chance the nuke codes are still with him. He’s listed as a VIP of Wagner. Is it possible that he was able to get a heads up from Prigozhin fast enough to elude his minders and make a break for it? Sure, that’s possible, but he knows his family will pay for it.

The FSB hasn’t changed much from the KGB which hadn’t changed much from the NKVD which hadn’t changed much from the Bolsheviks. Commies love their history and tradition.

EDIT: Yeah, they got him. He’s probably being interrogated with methods far more…aggressive…than anything done at Gitmo. After which, he will be marched down a hall back to his cell and someone will simply walk up behind him and it’ll all be over.

Pretty much. Once people realize the Russian aristocracy is essentially the Mafia writ large, a lot of stuff starts to make sense. Russians have been accepting it as a cost of doing business since the tsars.

I have my doubts they will march him all the way back to his Cell…

This is why nobody messes with the Israelis.

:+1:

Hit Squad for Hit Squads… nice.

Biden loses ‘ghost gun’ case, ATF ban ‘unlawful’ | Washington Examiner

“Because the court concludes that the government cannot regulate those items without violating federal law, the court holds that the government’s recently enacted final rule … is unlawful agency action taken in excess of the ATF’s statutory jurisdiction. On this basis, the court vacates the final rule."

Same panel of judges is hearing FPC’s case on braces. Things are looking favorable!

Philadelphia shooting suspect in ballistic vest leaves 4 dead, others injured: report

Man, the CIA was BUSY this weekend.

My hand tried to become one with a Madrone Tree.

It may not be on the front page of the New York Times, but it feels like breaking news to me.

Why am I not surprised?

daultonbenjamin /// Is that the tree that ate the kid in that one movie?

Maybe a little.

My backyard is a mountainside that starts out at about 10 degrees and then goes to 40 degrees about halfway up. It’s a little over 1900 feet long, with BLM land above that.

It reminds me of those Peter Sellers movies, where his bodyguard attacks him in his home.

I’ve already fallen hundreds of times, usually while walking downhill.

It reminds me of a Dojo, where if you step on the mat, it means you are ready to go full-tilt with the black belts.

So I only go back there in the morning. Almost never in the afternoon.