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s0nicfan posted...

You're the first person I've actually seen make the Caesar comparison. I'm expecting to see it brought up a lot more, but I was chatting yesterday with a friend of mine who teaches classics and we were both in agreement that it's closest historical comparison to what we're seeing happen right now.

It also reinforces Caesar's age old wisdom that the most important thing for a leader is to make his soldiers loyal to him, not the state. Putin has been shoving conscripts into a meat grinder without the slightest concern for their life. Meanwhile, prigo seems to be treating them like some sort of war family, calling them his boys and fighting on the front lines with them. If the Russian military turns on the government and sides with wagner, it will be precisely because they know who is going to treat them well and who will keep abusing them.

This is a significant danger as well when you start conscripting soldiers. Conscripts will resent the state for conscripting them and also want to join the general they think will protect them.

There's a reason modern governments don't have their own Wagner force, Putin you dumbass.