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“ But those plans, and the dollars, euros and political will to fulfill them, remain in doubt. And nowhere are those doubts deeper than in the Baltic states, where Russia’s threat is existential. “If you want to prove that the alliance is real and credible, this is the place,” said Kristine Berzina of the German Marshall Fund, which organized a research trip to Latvia for several transatlantic security experts and me this month.”
“ At first, state-linked accounts insisted that Prigozhin’s comments were fake and that there were no Wagner troops moving across Russia. Others echoed claims that the Wagner Group was moving but that Prigozhin was coordinating with the Kremlin in some way. Eventually, they settled on calling Prigozhin a traitor, who had deceived patriots and lost the public’s support.”
“ One of the reasons why he [Putin] was so quick to strike a deal, rather than jail or kill Prigozhin, is because the Russian military relies on the mercenaries. They need these guys as cannon fodder on the front lines. And not only that, they’re elite-performing cannon fodder.”
“ Kremlin-linked accounts launched one of their highest-volume propaganda drives of the war to convince the world that Ukraine blew up this dam, but they couldn’t generate the type of engagement that they normally draw.”
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