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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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[-] Midnitte@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

People attempting coups have historically called them noncoups.

[-] juergen_hubert@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Also, if Prigozhin wins, Putin will probably end up being "killed by traitors", but Prigozhin will vow to avenge him and bring all traitors to justice.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Historically, there's also been a lot of nincomcoups that ended rather abruptly.

[-] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The other historical trend seems to be finding out who funded or influenced it after the attempt. I'm curious to see how it pans out

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