Putin sweating a bit as Wagner troops begin disappearing from Belarus

Poor, poor Vlady.

It seems like a good 20% of Wagner's forces have left Belarus unexpectedly, heading either to Africa or "on vacation" as they don't make as much money sitting on their hands in Belarus as they do when they're fighting.

Maybe Zelensky should make a call to Putin's Caterer for some "take-out"....

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1804692/vladimir-putin-wagner-group-fighters-belarus-ukraine-war


Now, there's an interesting twist on this. The leader of Belarus, Lukashenko, is a little pissed at Putin because Putin won't pay for the mercenaries to stay in Belarus. Lukashenko doesn't want to be footing the bill, so apparently he's bussing them back into Russia! This apparently started a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1800413/wagner-fighters-kicked-out-of-belarus-lukashenko-putin-russia


Meanwhile, Poland has mostly sealed its border with Belarus. THIS is another area where Putin should be very concerned: if Wagner forces take it into their head to attack Poland, that's an attack on NATO and trips a very nasty response. Other countries around Belarus have moved troops closer to their border as they just don't trust Putin or Lukashenko. Can't say that I blame them.

New rumors of a Putin body double

Putin is left-handed. I am, too. And I wear my watch on my right wrist, as does he. During a public appearance after reading a long and boring speech, Putin or the double looked at his left wrist to check the time, then quickly looked to his right wrist.

Curious thing...

Body double? Or dementia? Or what? It's been rumored that he's used a body double for a long time to cover up for his health woes.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1805323/putin-body-double-rumours-bizarre-gaffe

Wagner chief and Putin's caterer Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after falling out of window

Said window was in a private jet aircraft. At 30,000' or so. That was experiencing a rapid unscheduled disassembly after being struck by one or two anti-air missiles. I'm sure it was a misfire caused by American hackers that penetrated the Russian air defense network.

The jet was flying to St. Petersburg from Moscow and was about half an hour into its flight when the missiles were launched. Seven people were onboard along with three crew, all are presumed dead. A second private jet that was traveling with them landed safely.

Prigozhin was literally a dead man walking after his attempted putsch a couple of months ago, it was a question of how and when. Apparently the when is now and the how was anti-air missiles. This one-ups Little Kim who executed one of his uncles with an anti-air cannon and is high up on my list for dramatic execution methods of the 21st century.

There's an old saying: if you're going to strike a king, make sure you kill him. Apparently that hasn't been translated into Russian.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of Wagner operations in Africa and around the world.

You would think that Prighozin would have taken a page from Putin's book: travel by train, they're not as easy to shoot down by anti-air missiles. They're a bit slower, but you're more likely to get to your destination.

No sadness here, he was a pretty evil snake IMO.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733

Mike Lindell is going to stop voter fraud with WMD-equipped drones

In this case, the WMD stands for Wireless Monitoring Device and is attached to the drone with velcro. And he's going to fly them over polling places to check for WiFi hotspots.

Let's see how many problems we can spot with this scheme. Feel free to chip in.
First, most consumer-grade drones have a battery endurance of less than an hour.
Second, pretty much all smart phones have WiFi hot-spots built-in. So be sure to change your phone's SSID to DemocratDirtyOps_217 before going to vote.
Third, a private citizen conducting mass surveillance on his own?
Fourth, there are over 116 THOUSAND polling places in the USA.
Fifth, how many polling places are open for early voting?
Sixth, how many operating person/hours will operating all these require?
Seventh, how many polling places are covered in restricted air space of one form or another?

I think we can take #4 off the table as he'll probably ignore states like New Mexico which isn't remotely an important state. He's probably concerned about polling places in places like Phoenix.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/wi-fi-sniffers-strapped-to-drones-mike-lindells-odd-plan-to-stop-election-fraud/

Idiots gotta idiot.