Daniel Dvorkin · @medigoth
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Allegedly, ’s march on has ended in a deal brokered by , in which Group forces will head to and … become Lukashenko’s Guard, or something? Assuming of course doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of and . Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

and and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way states make —even though may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.

#Prighozhin #moscow #lukashenko #wagner #belarus #varangian #putin #byzantine #belisarius #Justinian #kings #emperors #modern #war #ukraine

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