Wagner’s Prigozhin Warns He’s Ready to Withdraw from Bakhmut

I wouldn't take that headline at face value. Prigozhin periodically releases these statements complaining about lack of ammunition, resources, etc. It's a way to jockey for influence and increase political capital. Next week he'll be back to gloating about Wagner group accomplishments and the cycle will continue.

I am not understanding how this is any different than similar complaints from the last few months. Also, any public utterances by someone as high-up as Prigozhin is not based on logistical, but rather political considerations. To really understand what it means would require much more insight than I have into the all of the players and the current power dynamics between them.

He did a similar complaint a few months back too. Seems to have a knack for getting around red tape / corruption by going public.

To be taken with a grain of salt: this guy has one of the most active troll farm. He knows what he's doing.

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I think he just wants to focus back on Africa since he&#x27;s deemed a criminal organization since end of January.<p>The Ukraine war won&#x27;t last, there&#x27;s a counter offensive supposedly in the making and he doesn&#x27;t want to lose face too much.<p>If the counter offensive is successful, he could claim it was because he wasn&#x27;t there. And it wouldn&#x27;t have happened if he had received the resources he wanted.<p>He is just waiting to retreat before the counter offensive actually starts.<p>What seems to be significant is the short timeline ( days not weeks). He knows that won&#x27;t be possible + in a video of him, he mentioned he didn&#x27;t send the letter &quot;yet&quot;, which is counter intuitive according the claimed urgency.

I thought the Russians controlled most of Bakhmut now?<p>I don’t understands it’s value though. The city is completely destroyed as far as I can see from all the videos that are coming out from there.

He should be careful, he might find himself hurtling towards the pavement soon.

this is starting to look like a (practically) forever war<p>both sides seem committed to impossible goals - Russia wants to occupy everything up to the Polish border, Zelensky wants Russia completely pushed back even out of Crimea<p>both goals seem unrealistic, and both leaders will probably be replaced by new leadership with an even more zealous commitment to the conflict<p>on some level I feel like the US administration is fine with this...on the most cynical level, a smashed Europe helps preserve US status militarily and economically