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unlikely...they are still Russian nationals and Putin can take action against their families if they try to grow brains (another tactic borrowed from Stalin)

in any case they wouldn't get far...who is supplying them with ammo and fuel on the road to Moscow? the US? Putin would empty the silos



> they are still Russian nationals

This is the case for most revolutions. They’re invasions otherwise.

> who is supplying them with ammo and fuel on the road to Moscow?

Again, revolutionaries tend to manage this. Often seizing stuff along the way.


> in any case they wouldn't get far...who is supplying them with ammo and fuel on the road to Moscow?

Their existing stocks until they capture Russian state stocks on the way (either by force, or by corruption—money works on corrupt quartermasters, and Prigozhin has a lot), or by turning local troops and the supplies they control to the cause.

But, yeah, outside anti-Putin governments aren’t impossible sponsors, especially if he has some early success. Enemy of my enemy can go a long way to making strange bedfellows.




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