[pearjuice]

Information & propaganda wars are so asymmetrical I sometimes wish there was less reporting until it was actually clear what is going on. It's all just one fog of uncertainty and whoever thinks what is being reported now is correct is probably mistaken. Somehow this buildup of troops was completely unreported, even though any intelligence agency worth its salt should have seen concentration and movement of troops for days if not weeks. Completely unreported in the media AFAIK, and all of a sudden all media is reporting Wagner is going full steam ahead towards Moscow.

[j16sdiz]

There were russian and chinese blogs reporting this for days, but nobody took them seriously.

I guess it's too hard to tell signals from noises.

[jpmoral]

What do Chinese-language sources have to say about this?

[pixl97]

Eh around the time of the Wagner pullout from Bakmut there has been signs that there was a large amount of discontent between the mercenaries and the MOD. They had been throwing threats at each other along with rumors of shooting at each other at times.

Oddly enough on some more of the hypothetical and conspiratorial parts of the net possibilities like this have been discussed for weeks. It's just so odd to see this happen in real life.