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- Aug 6, 2021
Confusion and fear. People ordering the air strike are too busy and distracted with figuring if they are going to be purged or not, or if they should themselves be purging someone right now to actually care that much how well their orders get carried out.Wtf is the Russian Air Force doing? The only way they aren't getting mogged right now is if the pilots are refusing orders
These generals or even colonels and such were never proud military leaders with a deep sense of duty, but career politicians. All they know is that Putin and all their peers are busy panicking and doing whatever, and so are they.
End result is that the base gets some vague orders to do something about Wagner, officers at the base hear rumors about Wagner shooting something down/they can't find them/have some problem which would require initiative to solve, and as the HQ seems to be busy and stopped calling, they figured it's better to just sit around and read telegram for news until someone tells you otherwise.
In Russian military if you aren't sure what to do, you do nothing. It's very top-down type of military, and if the "top" is busy with their own politics, very little gets done.
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