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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 13 JULY 2023 23:59* - Cracks in the Kremlin and Laurel and Hardy
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This is Report 437, which is 59 pages.
What's the big story? If you had told me 16 months ago I would need to write a brief Laurel and Hardy explainer in relation to the Russia-Ukraine War, I'd have said you're insane. Here we are. The chaos in the Kremlin is growing, as is the anger over the dismissal of Major General Ivan Popov, who is now missing.
What's the second story? Remember how we assessed it was a good thing that Chechen Akhmat was being sent to Marinka and how the predictions by the Russian Ministry of Defense and Colonel General Ramzan Kadyrov would age like room temperature milk? About that...
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AnaR737
So now Putin says that Wagner "does not exist". Does that mean his government paid the sum of $1 billion dollars in the past year to a non-existent entity? How does that even compute in the minds of the Russian people? The amount of cognitive dissonance that Russians can live with really baffles me.
AnaR737
Absolutely. We have a lot to do undo, though, and who knows where our own political winds will take us. When I think of Syria and the 2014 land grab in Crimea, I really want to cry. At the time I thought it was bad, but I don't think I grasped how bad.
Unfortunately the West's past inaction with Putin and Russia has sent him the message that we're indifferent to his brutality and criminality. That has to change. We have to be serious about identifying and prosecuting war crimes so that this deters them from happening. Personally I think it's appropriate to respond by associating increased military support to Ukraine with Russian war crimes and human rights abuses. Putin will know that the allies will keep escalating until he de-escalates.
