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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – June 30, 2023
Greetings from Tyler, Nobody knows quite what to make of the situation in Russia. You know the stories, but it appears that Putin has had to negotiate with Prigozhin through Lukashenko of Belarus to get the column to turn aroun , and the backstory may be more complicated than we’ll ever know. The Wagner Group…
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