BRICS+ Openly confirmed to be 'discussed' essentially just sounds like a formality. This will be all active applicants.
@Tfmonkey Do you think they can pull another lockdown? I think they may try, but they have no room for error if they do. If they do it (Assuming BRICS is somewhat coherent) they could get slapped with an embargo at the moment they do and things would get ugly. Who knows perhaps andeal was made as well.
Another cope I am getting now is that BRICS is just China and they're all somehow Chinese puppets. The BRICS system looking like gold backed local currencies of several different Nations all regional types of powers at least are somehow all just going to be beholden to China. I can understand a trade deficit argument IF CHINA DIDNT RELY ON SO MANY OF THEM TO FUEL THEIR EXISTENCE. This is somehow more centralized or more dangerous than entirely centralized USD system (irredeemably corrupt btw).
Time for the latest of cope. I talk to too many people who want 'law and order' and less criminality. They aren't willing to subscribe to harsh window theory with punishing harshly low level crimes and the death penalty for high level crimes. IE: Cutting hands off or Singapore caning for petty theft, nor the death penalty for violent offenders.
Deadass these people are morons. You need to be harsh bottom to top. Store raids would stop near overnight if people seriously risked losing hands.
3.) People forget too that the whole military is not one whole amorphpus blob that can deploy in one location to fight. No, the military is understaffed, standards lowered, and spread thin across the globe. With 3 MAJOR regions of influence at risk. Eastern Europe, Middle East, and East Asia. Lots for the US to handle all while domestic issues boil still.
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So, over the last year I have gottena a ton of cope over the US military. The Navy and Airforce getting the most cope of the bunch. Don't get me wrong there's a fair amount of established doctrine in place that is competent, but I ALWAYS hear people fall back on our "Technology'. Most of our equipment is modernized stuff out of the 80s now. Not too disimilar to places like Russia. But really IF our tech was so good why do we have questionable programs like the F35 and LCS.
So with dust cleared outside of money this was a retarded move by Prigozhin. May he Rip when he gets a window delivery. Nothing burger bc Ukraine is so exhausted of men. I wonder what bodies next are gonna be forced into the fray.
So one last update tonight. It seems to just be some form of protest for now. Nothing substantial going on other than security forces taking precautions in Moscow. It seems the Deputy Minister of Defense is in Rostov talking with Prigozhin. Russian Media not saying a ton going on and denying the MoD struck Wagner forces at all.
So far doesn't seem to be anything super substantive, but it is still interesting to see. What interests me is what spurred this on aside from the criticism that's been long in the air already.
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So essentially the Russian State and Putin will be left aside to let this happen/take a side as of yet. Does not seem overtly violent as of this posting.
Largely a protest by competent military command against incompetent superiors. Who is to say what caused this, but so far from my looking at this is all that can for sure be corroborated based on current actions, and direct video evidence.
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It appears that Prigozhin's actions have been over long known criticisms of Shoigu and Gerasimov running the war poorly. In so far as they have to lie about numbers, success, and handling the front half of the war while Wagner is the only group really capturing success in offensives. He has not criticized Putin, nor his regime. His words and actions seem to be directed at the MoD, and IF anything were to happen from the actions of Russian Military Apparatuses suggest they won't intervene