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The Russian General Staff is turning troops
into kamikaze units.
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Influential officers are removed from the
army.
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Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov
has been given the green light for personnel
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purges in the army.
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Not only Prigozhin's accomplices are being
removed, but also top officers with their
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own opinions.
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Because, as the Soviet proverb says, "an officer
must not think, he must perform," and it is
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more relevant than ever.
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Taking advantage of the rebellion of the Wagner
group, Gerasimov and Shoigu are taking a big
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scythe to weed out detachments of the armed
forces, especially focusing on those who supported
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Prigozhin.
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Only officially, about 30 high-ranking officers
are "on the way out": 13 of them have been
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detained for questioning, and about 15 more
have been suspended or dismissed.
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The former commander of the occupation group,
General Surovikin, was allegedly privy to
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the plans for the uprising.
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The same accusations have been voiced against
his deputy and another general.
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All of them have been detained and are now
suspended from their official duties and are
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under surveillance.
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Among those detained is former Colonel General
Mikhail Mizintsev.
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With the help of "Putin's cook," he served
as deputy defense minister until recently,
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and after his scandalous resignation he joined
the Wagners.
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The Russian General Staff is also getting
rid of top officers who went against the system
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and allow themselves to "think rather than
execute."
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The most striking case is the dismissal of
Major General Ivan Popov, commander of the
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58th Air Defense Army.
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Popov actually accused Gerasimov of betraying
the army's interests.
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He spoke publicly about the problems of the
Russian army in the southern direction, the
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occupants' lack of counter-battery warfare
means, artillery reconnaissance posts, significant
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losses of Russians from the fire of Ukrainian
artillery, and so on.
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My other video was devoted to this and if
you haven't watched it, I recommend it.
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"Defense Minister Shoigu dismissed me because
of the disclosure of various problems in the
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Russian army, which posed a threat to the
Russian command," Popov said, pathos equating
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himself to the "leader of the uprising," calling
himself "Spartacus" (that's his call sign)
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and his subordinates "gladiators."
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Popov is not part of Prigozhin's entourage,
but an "invisible hand" is spinning the general
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according to a similar scenario as Putin's
"cook": the general "smeared" the chief of
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the general staff with all the impurities
of war, and called on the Kremlin to fire
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Gerasimov.
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His appeals have been circulated all over
the "Russian Internet", and he now looks like
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a patriot-defender - against the backdrop
of the office-bound Gerasimov.
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Popov is not the only one from whom they are
constructing a people's favorite - a truth-teller.
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Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky has been
trying to actively berate the top brass of
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the Defense Ministry since January.
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At that time, he clashed with Gerasimov over
the speed of disposal of Russian paratroopers
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near Soledar, and he too was blacklisted as
a dissenter.
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Gerasimov's objectives today are clear: he
has been given the right to form a rigid military
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vertical that will carry out his orders, disregarding
common sense, logistics, the rules of military
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science, and other "nonsense."
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It is about turning troops into kamikaze squadrons,
ready to lie recklessly on the battlefield,
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if ordered.
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This is exactly the kind of behavior of troops
that the strategy of war "to the last Russian"
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implies.
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Instead of Prigozhin, whose story is still
far from ending, they are trying to fill in
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the minds of Russian patriots with another
character.
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It is not a fact that it will be exactly Popov,
but in any case, this process has a producer
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and a scriptwriter.
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And "heroes", to all appearances, will not
be slow to appear.
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Well, we have to wait, while watching the
Crimean Bridge and other enemy logistics collapse.
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