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MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread

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[–] demvoter@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wagner troops taking over nuclear facility

https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/110600171242124978

[–] AshDene@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Needs an "allegedly", apart from being a questionable source in the first place (as a random social media account, nothing against the person running it), the source you quoted makes it clear that they aren't confident in their own source.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A nuclear weapons storage facility. The prospect of Prigozhin and his prison-recruited mercenaries in charge of nuclear weapons is not reassuring.

[–] bob@lemmy.havocperil.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While that's true, those weapons are currently under the control of a fascist government and increasingly desperate despot, so I don't see how them being in the hands of mercs is any worse. At least you know what mercs are motivated by.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many of them are actually made of wood.