Will this allow Lukashenko to draw in Wagner troops and give them a base of operations, allowing him to provide some sort of resistance against a hostile military takeover. Some sort of insurance/body guard type deal, since Prigozhin also would not want it to be annexed now he is “safe”?

Shoigu focusing more on Africa will allow him to rotate PMC Patriot in and Wagner out, giving him the ability to become even richer.

Thought it was an interesting Video, but with the madness that is the previous week it seems underwhelming (with the lack of a better word).

Bla bla bla… Traitors… Bla bla bla … Russia the greatest … Bla bla bla … We will win.

Not worth the airtime it was given.

I can’t see Wagner beiing able to do this again. But then again, grab a chair, grab popcorn.

Yes, No way i knew that i needed to know all that info on detergent :P

Your sentiment though well placed seems to be incorrect, there is a big risk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

According to Valve:

Over time, the battle pass grew into a massive operation that sucked up nearly all the time, ideas, and resources of staff working on the game. In the early days of Dota 2, content updates were more varied and frequent. But over time the battle pass began to consume every idea or feature, leading to a situation where for most of the year Dota 2 had little to no new content until the next big battle pass update.

and

While work is still in progress on future updates, the first of these has shipped: ‘New Frontiers’ and patch 7.33 couldn’t have shipped as they did if we were focusing all our efforts on producing Battle Pass content. The community response to ‘New Frontiers’ has helped us build confidence that working less on cosmetic content for the Battle Pass and more on a variety of exciting updates is the right long-term path for Dota as both a game and a community

Pretty wild, as this seems to describe the issue with most live service games and high end titles in general.