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⚡️Residents of #Moscow allegedly began to receive calls from unfamiliar numbers supposedly from #PMC "#Wagner" - residents are called to "support the #Wagnerites and take to the streets,"

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Hans Manhcke’s Twitter feed reflects some of this. Recall Mueller’s indictment of Prigozhin. Speculation relationship with Biden and possible CHS.

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Just when you think the world couldn't possibly become more ridiculous, it tells you to hold its beer.

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I don't know about Scott Ritter. I guess he's a knowledgeable source, but there are a lot of knowledge sources to choose from, why Scott Ritter?

I couldn't pull it up in the gray matter, so I did a quick Internet search, and voila:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/15/former-un-weapons-inspector-online-sex

There are a bunch of other links, too. I don't know, was it entrapment?

I don't have any personal friends who have been accused of and convicted of what About Ritter was convicted. If I had had such, I'd shun that person.

That's why I shun Scott Ritter. If he did that then, what else don't we know--and I'd rather not know, thank you.

I'd just prefer someone without such peccadillos.

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Who do you believe the most? Scott Ritter or the Guardian?

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For goodness sakes, because it is reported in the Guardian, does not necessarily make it wrong. I wrote there were many links.

Here's the first para of the Reuters' report:

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania jury on Thursday found former high-ranking United Nations official Scott Ritter guilty in an Internet underage sex sting.

Prosecutors accused Ritter, 49, of Delmar, New York, a suburb of Albany, of engaging in a lurid web chat with a person portrayed as a 15-year-old girl. That person was actually a detective for the Barrett Township Police Department in Pennsylvania.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sex-ritter/ex-u-n-official-ritter-convicted-in-underage-internet-sex-sting-idUSTRE73E0EK20110415

I'm happy to entertain any number of explanations, but saying don't trust the report because it was the Guardian, no.

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I briefly worked at the Guardian in a previous life. The people were nice but completely crazy. If the Guardian says that Liverpool FC beat Chelsea FC 2-1, I'd probably believe them. Otherwise, not so much!

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Not the Guardian.

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Swag:

Putin knew of Prigozhin “coup” and gave him enough rope to gang himself, and accelerated tine with Russian Military taking more direct control of Wagner.

Putin is using coup, as Erdogen did his, to expose anti Putin assets, especially backed by Ukraine and MI6.

And timing was after Ukraine had stopped their counter offensive. There May be hope this will cause Ukraine to restart counter offensive, while they perceive Russia in turmoil. Russia hope is to get Ukraine to throw away more soldiers and equipment in a doomed to fail offensive operations, against Russian defense lines.

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Yep. Hence the M. O. D. contract.

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