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FSO alone has 50k uniformed troops to protect Moscow from the Army or any other attack from the periphery.
by nabla9 2y ago
FSO alone has 50k uniformed troops to protect Moscow from the Army or any other attack from the periphery.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> FSO alone has 50k uniformed troops to protect Moscow from the Army or any other attack from the periphery Hence why I said "Putin didn't have enough materiel between Moscow and Prighozin to keep the fight from getting to Moscow." Prighozin couldn't have unilaterally seized Moscow. But he could have brought the fight to it. At that point, a new set of political calculations--ones I'm not qualified to speculate about--come into play.
- nabla9 2y agoHe had no change. He started the rebellion from desperation in the first place. The end came quickly when FSB was threatening the family members of the group leaders. Putin can be toppled, but it will be just rearrangement among powerful groups. There is no change of popular rebellion or intellectuals pushing change in Russia.