Look who showed up in Africa.
#wagner #wagnerpmc #prighozhin

Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin 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 #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. 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.

#Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine 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.

🚨 #FSBletters from #WindofChange dated November 27th, today: Intrigue surrounding Belarus and the FSB's psychological profile on #Prighozhin:
https://igorsushko.substack.com/p/nov-27-fsb-letter-from-wind-of-change?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1596969311431639040