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not sure GRU would act on something like this without Putin's approval. I do agree that taking Prigozhin and Co out was not in Putin's interest. The vertical of power is very tight in Russian (especially now), MOD is in complete sync w Putin (Shoygu is one of Putin's trusted friends as well), GRU is within that structure reporting to Gerasimov. I just don't see how GRU can go rogue on this one. This is just not the same environment as with CIA in the US running its operations independently

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we probably will never know

the "establishment" had plenty of reasons to hate Prigozhin, and just recently he was at it again claiming the army was losing in Ukraine and pointing fingers. I don't think these sort of attacks, which have political import, could be overlooked.

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