Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

russia: The mafia as the state
Prigozhin’s death is only the latest example of an enigmatic fusion of formal governance and clandestine networks.

What has been increasingly remarked upon in the days since Prigozhin’s private plane fell from the sky was how his mercurial trajectory from hoodlum to caterer and eventually into the circle of russia’s political elite came via his mob-like connections, and how this reflects the state of local politics.

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Thieves racketeering the military, including Syria veterans, nuke personnel is not an "accident".
It's a deliberate government policy to keep professional military low in dominance hierarchy. Russian state purposefully keeps its military in this position. It's all part of a plan (If you want, you can dig further into how harassed, how abused and how low in hierarchy the russian military are. Of course the lowest position ever is taken by conscripts. There are many publications on how conscripts were forced into gay prostitution to earn cash for higher ups).

Ok, that's all part of a plan. But why would they develop such a plan? Well, higher-ups are afraid of the army. russian thieves play rebels, being a part of state apparatus. The same way russia plays a military regime being in fact a state security regime.

State security are *not* the military. That's another institution which has very uneasy relations with soldiers. That's understandable. State security will easily suppress any civilian revolt and any guerilla. Thus the only inner force that could overthrow them would be the army.

You can read a more detailed account of relations between the russian state and its army here. But for now I wanna stress, they're very concerned about the potential rivalry from the army and took every effort to prevent it. Thus they castrated the army.

Ukrainsk militärchef: Putin försöker erövra Kyiv
Av Alice Hermansson
Publicerad: I dag 12.44
Rysslands president Vladimir Putin har beordrat militären att ta fram en plan för att erövra Ukrainas huvudstad Kyiv. Det hävdar Ukrainas överbefälhavare Oleksandr Syrskyj, enligt The Independent.

Enligt Syrskyj planerar Kreml en omfattande militär offensiv som riktas mot huvudstaden. Ryska markstyrkor ska försöka ta sig till Kyiv från belarusiskt territorium, uppger Syrskyj. Ett annat möjligt scenario är att gå in via Brjanskregionen, som gränsar till Ukrainas Tjernihivregion.