Russian Politics
8 Threads
1/ So many good insights into Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group in this piece by @Bershidsky. His analysis is, thankfully, free of the endless hype and self-promotion that ana...
1/x Why does Prigozhin keep doing things that don't make strategic sense like pouring Wagner's fighters into a 4-month-long attack on Bakhmut where the "front line has barely moved...
Hi new followers! Since u followed me after #APSA2022 where @kath_stoner, @darelasn, Olena Nikolayenko & I disputed Mearsheimerβs claim that NATO expansion made Putin 2 attack πΊπ¦,...
1/ What is 'officer slavery', why do Russian army officers complain of it, and why is the Russian army like a Roach Motel β officers can check in, but they can't check out? Here's...
THREAD Let's start a long thread about how Russian book market prepared Russians for a full-scale war against Ukraine, NATO, the West, and promoted stalinism and nazism, and how th...
The minority factor in Russian army is vastly underrated when discussing the course of Ukrainian war. Firstly, ethnic minorities are not so much a minority there. Judging from the...
Why Russian army is so weak? When Russia invaded, experts thought it'd win in 24-72 hours. Two weeks later the war's still going. How come? On paper Russian superiority's overwhel...
THREAD on some OSINT methods we used to establish that Kemerovo Governor Sergei Tsivilyov was speaking at an OMON riot-police base in Novokuznetsk when locals accused the gov of "d...
