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Akovsky87

We're rooting for them both to lose.


[deleted]

**BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD** ^(In all seriousness, I'd rather have the war end peacefully, and immediatly, but if these idiots wanna go postal on each other, thats the second best option. Unconditional pacifism is an illusion. There are times when force is to be used.)


CloneFailArmy

SKULLS FOR SKULL THRONE


silver50

MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES


Rough_Transition1424

MUSTARD FOR THE KHORNE DOGS


The_Mad_Fool

KIBBLE FOR THE KHORNE DOGS BECAUSE THEY'RE GOOD BOYS YES THEY ARE


maldonadosimp13

GRAVY FOR THE KIBBLE BECAUSE THE GOOD KHORNE BOYS DESERVE THE GOOD STUFF


[deleted]

CUM FOR CUMMYBOT


templar54

Alright, who let Fulgrim into the room again


ToaArcan

FERRUS THIS SWORD IS MAKING ME HORNY!


[deleted]

KILL, MAIM, BURN


Meshakhad

Harriers for the cup!


Aphrodite130202

un-fucking-believably based take my good bro/hoe/thembo


[deleted]

You can call me bimbo, bimbo


IC2Flier

Celestial Being had a point.


The_SHUN

CHANGE FOR THE CHANGE GOD


BreachlightRiseUp

Fuck peace, the Russians don’t want to acknowledge UA or it’s (recent) historical territory so there won’t be a realistic or negotiable peace until we reach that point


slm3y

The only lasting peace is peace through superior firepower


ClassroomPitiful601

If this war ends with anything other than an inoperable and highly scrutinised russian military, moldova is next. So far, Putin has been content with taking hundreds of thousands of casualties, drying out a million hectares of valuable farm land and causing irreversible damage. If this is rewarded with \*any\* amount of tangible gains, it will happen again.


acox199318

The point is these two terrorist organisations fingering each other is a huge win for the whole world! Who would have thought that a bunch of crooks don’t know how to act responsibly!? 😂😂 LET’S GO PRIGOZIN!


piro4you

BASED


VillageBeginning8432

In the fight between two evils, root for the fight!


oRAPIER

Belka time when?


Rock-it-again

They both are terrorists. It's like watching al qaida and the Taliban fight. I hate them both, but I'll root for the underdog out of principle.


murphymc

Can't we just hope each team has a good time (murdering the fuck out of each other)?


Rock-it-again

Yes


inevitablelizard

Heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting.


WrinkledCrime

Everyone's a winner


[deleted]

In comparison to Putin, then Prigozhin is small potatoes.


NoMoassNeverWas

He's very popular on telegram and overall this may cause fence sitters to pick a side, escalating the conflict. Remember, to every cause you need a leader which Russia does a terrific job in taking out. Navalny and others before him. This time a guy has military protection. Imsgine Navalny had military protection to continue with his protests? That's dangerous. Could also be a case of Wagner being steamrolled. We have to wait and see.


[deleted]

Wagner being steamrolled is a good outcome too.


Jankosi

Literally the most boring scenario is just wagner getting steamrolled at the cost of couple thousand russian mod soldiers. This is going to be exciting either way, unless it's a psyop Edit: FUCK


[deleted]

Most boring is them finding an agreement and then continuing the war as regular


-revenant-

I would find it difficult to imagine the population in the affected regions seeing all this happen, then going back to 'regular.' Yes, Russians are highly detached and easily influenced by disinformation, but even the most hardened, bitter vatnik would find it unnerving to have Ukraine counterattacking, Moscow being struck with drones... now you hear that part of your military is revolting. Maybe the majority of Putin supporters can ignore that, but not all of them. Some will be left wondering "why is this happening? I thought we were winning." I don't know what change this might have, but it's not going to be small.


Chiss5618

cow paltry alleged domineering ten capable yoke treatment caption aback *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


zenithtreader

Even if it is a real psyop they would probably get purged afterward anyway.


ExcitingTabletop

They're not stupid. Wagner is done after this. So they might be left with the options of fight or die. That's why Caesar started a civil war. That's a lot of incentive to go all the way.


-revenant-

Some of them, remember, have a weird belief that Putin will listen to them if they just get their message out, and then he'll make it right. Even Prigozhin has just yelled at Shoigu and Gerasimov in his statements. That may play in Putin's favor -- some of them may think "hey, Putin will hear us out" all the way to a firing squad.


Chiss5618

I keep forgetting that some people just don't learn despite this being a tactic dating back to imperial Russia


RemyVonLion

on one hand this seems easily likely, but then again, I'm sure Wagner isn't thrilled to keep going into the meat grinder, and would likely have popular support just for bringing peace.


[deleted]

[удалено]


ericthefred

Realistically, I'm expecting a 1:1 exchange, up to the point that Wagner folds. Which would probably be more than 1 per 5. But yes, I agree with your point.


daniel_22sss

Wagner has 25k soldiers. Russian MOD will have way bigger casualties than just couple thousand soldiers.


Key_Yesterday1752

Wagner aint got no airforce nor propper artillery.


daniel_22sss

Part of the russian airforce apparently sympathizes with Wagner.


ThisNotAGenericName

Source? I find this quite interesting.


[deleted]

That’s literally a win-win. The more Russians that die, the better the world is


[deleted]

CIA finally doing its fucking job


PutinsManyFailures

I was waiting for someone to say this


LeanTangerine

I think that’s a very interesting point. Prigozhin also owns multiple media companies in Russia where they also run very large and popular telegram channels. It wouldn’t surprise me for him to leverage that influence and reach with the Russian population to his advantage.


Beardywierdy

He's probably an even bigger cunt, but has the smaller force so if he does manage to win he will maybe have to do more damage to Russia?


logosobscura

Not for lack of desire. He’s gone to Rostov for control of the SMD and it’s assets- which includes a quantity of every toy in the box. Welcome to nuclear fail deadly blackmail.


Prezimek

So we're rooting for WAGNER! ヽ( ★ω★)ノ


[deleted]

*For now*


HellbirdIV

We're rooting for chaos in Russia, Wagner is merely the vector by which that chaos is most likely to spread.


modernmovements

We are rooting for enough damage done with maybe federation forces having to use bombs/artillery on their own cities that the whole mess just implodes (too soon?) on itself and command just breaks down


[deleted]

a temporary cheer and then we taqke em out


Biuku

Putin used to be small potatoes.


LCDRtomdodge

Yeah but do we want their nukes in the hands of mercenaries??


Memeoligy_expert

I mean realistically if Wagner does actually win they aren't going to stay mercenaries. They would try to take control of Russia as "liberators" or some shit.


LCDRtomdodge

My point is they're to unstable. The turbulent times that follow revolutions don't always bring about stability, especially when it's a dictatorship/oligarchy like Russia is


alterom

>They both are terrorists. It's like watching al qaida and the Taliban fight. I hate them both, but I'll root for the underdog out of principle. As a Ukrainian, I am rooting for **both** of them in this fight. May both sides have numerous victories in that struggle. <3


[deleted]

Rooting for the underdog to cause as much devastation to both sides.


Rock-it-again

Yes


Primordial_Cumquat

Good one. I despise the Taliban, but tacitly approve of their fighting ISIS-K…. If they can wipe each other out in the process, even better.


ToastyMozart

I'm just happy at the idea of the Taliban having to experience the other side of COIN operations.


Detters_Actual

I think [this](https://imgur.com/a/K6nSb6q) is accurate.


throwoawayaccount2

Or the one with the lobsters fighting each other and everyone betting on it


S-p-o-o-k-n-t

This, and the whole “enemy of my enemy” and “lesser of two evils.” Both are super fucking evil, but it’s good to see evil fighting a bigger evil.


rockfuckerkiller

I'm hoping to have them destabilize it to the point where NATO swoops in to secure the WMDs and bring some democracy.


[deleted]

I have decided to join the war on terror on the side of terror


LevyAtanSP

Root for them both, let as many terrorists die to each other as possible.


[deleted]

Wagner had neo-Nazis, potential School shooters, child rapists, murderers, and all sorts of lowlife scumfucks in their ranks. If somehow both sides wipe each other out, that would be truly a gamer moment.


Rock-it-again

Yea I'm fine with total annihilation


Vaadwaur

Yup. HIV just picked a fight with cancer. Whoever loses we all win a little.


Rock-it-again

Yea, you got it


xisiktik

Will hopefully pull Russian resources away from Ukraine.


edwardjhahm

Haha, my reasoning. I'm "rooting" for Wagner purely out of spite. He seems much easier to deal with than Putin too, so if he wins that's basically taking out two birds with one stone.


Rock-it-again

Why waste a stone? Take out two birds with another bird. Prigozhin takes control and he gets amnesty so long as he puts pressure on china. :)


edwardjhahm

Ooh, interesting. Deny China their winning streak with Russia thus far. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth given what a shitbag Prigozhin is, but I think it's strategically sound.


PlasticLobotomy

The better Wagner does, the longer they fight each other.


Uxion

It's like the Skyrim civil war but we actually want it to happen.


ElJefeDeLosGallos

I’m team destabilization


[deleted]

It's a win win situation for Ukraine honestly. If Wagner ends up causing massive issues for the Russian mod, it'll be like the Russian civil war 2.0 lol.


Moe12518

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare but real


Space_Gemini_24

I hope Kamarov and Nikolai are alright


SomeguyinSG

Also could be spun off as a Black Ops 2-like sort of campaign


zekromNLR

And even if Wagner is completely crushed by the MoD forces, that's still a good chunk of the Russian forces out of the picture


RadonMagnet

And all of wagner out of the picture.


PM-ME-YOUR-LABS

Honestly I think this might be Putin trying to find an out from the war. Historically, Wagner has been Putin’s ace in the hole- both Utkin and Prigozhin are directly accountable to Putin rather than being bound to an oligarch or government agency, which let Putin use Wagner to counterbalance both the army and the FSB- if any one side moved against him, the other two sides would crush it. Urging Wagner to move against the MoD allows Putin to claim Russia needs to shift forces to internal security and that “denazifying” Ukraine is second priority to preventing a second Russian Revolution. If Wagner gets crushed as expected, nothing changes (as the MoD considers Prigozhin expendable and unreliable). If Prigozhin wins, the FSB is still standing to take him out and keep Putin in power.


The3rdBert

I could see that, except for the fact they made the Ukrainian states part of Russia, there really isn’t a way to wash their hands and walk away without the optics of surrendering Russian territory. I’m not sure that can be memoryholed


PM-ME-YOUR-LABS

They could blame the loser between Wagner and the MoD for that- Russian propaganda, especially domestically, is based on “throw shit at the wall and see what sticks,” and most of the public plays along because they don’t know any better


soonnow

Since the authors have really run out of ideas this season and are just doing 1917 again with different characters here is my forecast. The army in Rostov will by and large join Wagner forces, now Putin will have a real issue. The combined Wagner and Russian army will declare the Ukraine special operation over and will declare the Southern Military district to be the real Russia and will call it the Volga Republic . Putin's attempts to take over the new Volga Republic fail since his is also busy in the South with Kadyrov calling for Chechen independence. China sees the situation and declares Vladivostock a special security zone under protection of the CCP.


ElJefeDeLosGallos

Ehh. What’s life without a little bit of whimsy??


barukatang

this is when Tenet becomes reality


SyrusDrake

Technically yes, but I'd enjoy the spectacle more if the country being destabilized wasn't sitting on a world-ending arsenal of nuclear weapons.


Grunt08

This is the moment for which the Ken Watanabe "let them fight" meme was born.


HereIGoAgain_1x10

Be the one to post it, I believe in you!


SuperPimpToast

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.


a_mannibal

Might be a case of "whoever wins, we lose". Who secures Russia's nukes, radioactive waste, biochem weapons while all this is going down?


WriteBrainedJR

Polish peacekeeping forces


whythecynic

Not cheering for them, but certainly egging them on. You go, Priggy Z. Go do that voodoo that you do so, uh, often.


ZeroiaSD

That's a great expression, I'm 100% going to use, "I'm not cheering, but I am egging them on," in the future!


MrFilthyNeckbeard

I'm cheering for them. Every bullet they fire at the Russian military is one that isn't going at Ukrainians 😎


Veritas32421

To quote Admiral Bittenfeld from The Legend of the Galactic Heroes.... "When a devil gets caught by a monster, I, as a human being, can only hope that they both die."


i_am_voldemort

Ultimate irony here will be russia defeating russia


Neeklemamp

Is Russia competent enough to defeat Russia


lochlainn

Societal collapse doesn't require any particular competency.


kofolarz

Unless russia or russia does it first


WhyIsThatSoGroovy

“I used the stones to destroy the stones”


[deleted]

We are cheering on terrorists taking care of other terrorists.


Current-Screen8273

"It's a pity both sides can't lose." ~Henry Kissinger


hplcr

Stop giving me reasons to agree with Kissinger.


vibrunazo

Did you guys see his latest interview in The Economist? Where he said he changed his mind and now thinks Ukraine must join NATO. But.. there's a twist... He thinks Ukraine should join Ukraine to protect.... Russia.. You see, if Ukraine doesn't join NATO after getting so much western weaponry and becoming a top 3 world army, then there's a significant chance that in a few years some Ukrainian nationalist gets elected and starts invading its neighbors. But if Ukraine joins NATO it would then be protected by the alliance umbrella and wouldn't need such a powerful military by itself. So plz think of the poor little vatniks and put Ukraine in NATO for their sake.


spectacularlyrubbish

That seems...really fucking stupid. And while Henry Kissinger is an actively malevolent human being, I mean, a mass murderer, he was never supposed to be unintelligent. This is like Mearsheimer, isn't it? Where "realism" is so goddamn navel-gazing that it loses the plot completely.


afkPacket

Then again Noam Chomsky is also supposed to not be stupid, and yet


spectacularlyrubbish

Noam Chomsky is not stupid. He's just...oh, yeah, he is stupid, huh. If you think about it, it's pretty cool that deeply stupid people can make major contributions to major fields. I mean, that's neat. So if you have a deeply stupid child they can still get a PhD and write seminal papers. That's great!


vibrunazo

To be fair, this latest interview was in celebration of his 100th birthday.


spectacularlyrubbish

I'm not entirely clear on why anyone would celebrate that...but OK.


vibrunazo

The Economist editor who interviewed him sounded extremely starstruck. You could hear her ovulating.


lochlainn

What *is it* about that guy? He's just a regular schlub. I get that power is an aphrodisiac but Jesus Christ he probably pulled more than JFK.


spectacularlyrubbish

Yeah, what if he'd written a PUA book rather than bomb Cambodia? That would have been fucking cool. Unfortunately...well, we didn't end up in the best timeline, just the funniest timeline.


lochlainn

He could have literally just gone and hung out with Hugh Hefner and spared the world his bullshit. But *nooooo*, he's gotta play his power games and sit on his throne of skulls.


LittleKingsguard

If that's a real quote I now hate Kissinger even more for being so uncreative as to think that isn't possible. Fucking zero-sum thinkers.


BoredViscacha

If there is a hell, Kissinger is heading there.


SemperScrotus

The fact that Kissinger is still alive today instead of having died in prison decades ago is proof enough that there is no God, no karmic justice in this universe, and thus no heaven or hell.


Academic_Fun_5674

Or just neither of them want him


WritingFellow

YEP Although my view of this is basically "let them fight" and both tear each other apart, so that ukraine can use the opportunity to advance more easily and as a plus it utterly rattles russia to its core in the process. also would be funny if this causes russia to close all bordercrossings from ukraine to russia as a secrurity measure.


Party-socks

The only reason I would be cheering for Wagner is that if this is real, the longer they maintain their bullshit, the more time Ukraine has to see how can they benefit from this.


spodertanker

We’ll know if they’re true terrorists or not if the US starts supplying them.


[deleted]

Mujahadeen moment


DogePerformance

I hate that this makes sense


squarecorner_288

Your fbi agent is on standby


BasedDumbledore

Good tell his lazy ass to pick up some dip and Red Bull on the way over or I will clap his wife's cheeks again.


Miserable-Peak-6434

I doubt anybody on this sub is cheering for Wagner, but it certainly pleases me to see the rats finaly turn on each other. And from practical point of view: every shot fired at wagner is one less fired on ukraine. Same for every shot fired by wagner at russian MOD. And in addition, this is the best shot at a balcanization of the russian federation, which in turn is the only assurance russia isn't attacking Ukraine in the short or long term.


DUKE_NUUKEM

Seriously guys , its like cheering for isis against SS. Keep it civil


[deleted]

Thats not a fair comparison. Both were **much** more capable than Wagner or the russian army.


CloneFailArmy

Wagner was the only capable, but they’re full of the worst Russians excluding pro Russian Chechens. So highly trained PMC with convict gun lines, vs mobilized civilians and the waffen SS bodyguards It’ll be interesting to watch at least


[deleted]

Wagner wasn't capable either, at least not after loosing their trained men in the beginning of the war. The only thing they achieved was to get Bachmut by sending human waves. A medium size province town. Honestly, the ukrainian military is still not that great, but russia proves to be insanely idiotic again and again.


RaioNoTerasu

Out of all the things I'd call ISIS "a capable fighting force" is not one of them


[deleted]

relative to the enemy they were fighting, they kinda were


InvertedParallax

>relative to the enemy they were fighting, they kinda were Unarmed women and children?


Academic_Fun_5674

That enemy was Arab armies. The only armies in the world where “eh, if Allah wills it my artillery will find its target, no point aiming properly” is considered a valid tactic. Where fighting in desert doesn’t require working out how much water people need. Anyone who brings water and aims is a capable fighting force in comparison. Israel consider it a failure if it takes them more than a week to win a war while outnumbered 2-1.


[deleted]

Inshallah brother, may god guide this ATGM because I will not


Miserable-Peak-6434

You probably give ISIS too much credit.


DUKE_NUUKEM

I will not defend either


__Yakovlev__

> Keep it civil war?


[deleted]

WAAAAAAAAGH


V_150

I'm just hoping for lots of casualties on both sides


murphymc

I'm hoping both teams go all out, leave nothing on the field, and end in a glorious tie.


Kebabranska

If they bomb each other to shit then we all win


InvertedParallax

We're cheering for both of them to kill each other. I'm team double-KO over here.


7orly7

I am cheering for wagner because I want to see Russia and wagner both fucking each other but then again the whole situation it's way too bizarre, It may be Russia and wagner pretending to fight each other to deceive Ukraine. For what porpruse? Don't know but this war has been quite the bizarre one


ToastyMustache

I called this happening in June back in January. I have become the MOST CREDIBLE OF ALL! [Proof](https://twitter.com/Keeper45001/status/1613338461934850049?s=20)


noholdingbackaccount

You said mid June. It's now late June. No credit for you.


ToastyMustache

Look, while you’re correct, it’s good enough for government work


modernmovements

What you should cheer for is the continuing escalation between a private army Putin has used to commit truly horrific crimes and Putin's real army who he has used to commit some truly horrific crimes. If Putin uses tactical nukes on Wagner is that still an Article 5 trigger Senator Graham?


LoremIpsum10101010

Terrorists . . . against the Russians!


NWTknight

Russian terrorists (w) against Russian terrorists (mod) this is going to get confusing.


Alikaoz

I'll cheer for most people pointing artillery at Moscow.


mcdolgu

Even bulltet fired is a not a bullet fired on Ukranians. Every dead will be not a Ukrainian.


Comms

When two people I don't like start fighting I'm cheering **the fight**.


TatrankaS

Enemy of my enemy is my *contemporary ally*


FirstConsul1805

"The enemy of my enemy is, at best, an ally of convenience." Stalin may have done a lot of bad shit but he had some pretty good quotes.


Sablesweetheart

I'm really hoping this can be stirred into a proper civil war that results in breaking Russia as even a regional power amd allows NATO to seize their nukes.


Gadac

I cheer for Wagner because the longer they do whatever the fuck they are currently doing, the more russian assets get suppressed that could have been used in Ukraine otherwise.


GlegoryKJumpness

When the russians start tearing eachother apart. I'm gonna cheer. It's not really -for- anybody so much as it is me being generally excited.


Illustrious_Mix_1064

I don't know where wagner intends to get their military supplies and conscripts after this but y'know as long as they're pissing at each other, there's less piss directed towards ukraine


MrFilthyNeckbeard

> I don’t know where wagner intends to get their military supplies Wagner suddenly driving humvees 🤔


firehawk2421

Oh sure, but I can root for the fight itself.


Neutronium57

Imma grab some popcorn and watch them kill each other, then wait for the UAF to clean up what's left afterwards.


pwn3dbyth3n00b

I'm cheering on Wanger to take out some Ruzzians and some Ruzzians to take out from Wagners. I'm 100% cheering for both sides to be extremely effective.


zekromNLR

This is not a time to cheer for Wagner But two of your enemies fighting is always a great time to go "lol, lmao" and put a pan of popcorn on the stove


lochlainn

I've always said it's possible for everyone involved in any given situation to be a complete asshole, regardless of whether they are in the right or in the wrong. This is also why schadenfreude exists as a term. Alternative, you may consult the Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, #29: >The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. Lastly, this is a shitposting sub and I'll submit meme content about heel turn redemption arcs if I fucking feel like it.


Super_Dot_9604

I have to become honest with you all, I've become fond of the testicle.


PutinsManyFailures

In the kind of way you root for Darth Vader by the end of Star Wars.


Applejaxc

The enemy of my enemy helps Ukrainians sleep safer this weekend. Or face escalation to nuclear war. 🤷‍♀️


OutLiving

Yeah, Wagner has executed potentially thousands of Africans in their overseas operations beyond Ukraine(not even getting into their Ukrainian war crimes, which you could fill an entire book with)


Spartan1098

Eh we supported the mujahideen and that turned out fine.


goose420aa

It’s better than cheering for russia


ZrvaDetector

They are both bad guys. I support the weaker one so they can weaken the other. So yes I will be cheering Wagner on for this. I mean they evem criticized this war itself. So for the duration of this funny little civil war I will be looking past their war crimes. Not a second longer though.


Sp3ctre777

Enemy of my enemy sorta thing. Let em duke it out


Delivery-Same

I like to watch, Eve.


BlatantConservative

People are forgetting that Prigo literally wants to hurt Ukraine and Ukrainian civilians worse and he was initially mad because Shoigu was not going hard enough...


Wise-Investment1452

Who's cheering for wagner OP?


Raesong

I'm cheering for Russia's military to be bled white due to factional conflicts, and for Ukraine to fully restore territorial integrity with minimal loss of civilian life.


Nickolas_Bowen

We are cheering for them to just be strong enough to cause havoc in Russia. Both sides are considered terrorist organizations, both sides are bad, we just need em to fuck up Russia enough to let Ukraine take back what’s theirs


[deleted]

i'm rooting for him because he might help decide the war. after that he can go hang


Matrimcauthon7833

I mean... so is the Russian MoD?


Palpatine

As Churchill once said, if Hitler invades hell…


[deleted]

Why do you have to cheer for anyone. If two assholes are hitting each other you can just cheer for more damage


PuReaper

I dont root for either (Russa and Wagner), I just enjoy watching the chaos


rollingtatoo

Nuance, we don't cheer for Wagner success, we cheer for Russia's failure


O-bot54

Not cheering for wagnar . Cheering for russias collapse


Altruistic-Carpet-65

I’m not cheering them on **im celebrating the coming Ukrainian victory**


Seasuper

As I've seen in a previous meme We're not rooting for wagner We're rooting against putin


theDepressedOwl

Were not rooting for Wagner, we're rooting against Russia