RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 24, 2023 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2023 at 9:43 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 24, 2023 at 7:57 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(August 24, 2023 at 7:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The dude's deserved a head-shot for years now. So no, not "too soon", but rather, too late.
And to think it was probably the one good thing he did that marked him for death.
He did not march on Moscow in a moralist dudgeon. "Good"? Meh. He did that for business reasons. His troops got shot to pieces around Bakhmut, and then Putin started sidelining him as Prig's fight with the MoD grew.
"Useful" for the Ukrainians, sure. But "good"? Prig didn't give two shits rubbed together about "good". Useful. And then he learned that utility turns both ways; Putin used Wagner until they were spent, then Prig marched, then Wagner got splintered, and Prig killed. After he'd served his purpose, Putin discarded him, like a worn rifle-barrel.