Posted on 12/17/2022 7:21:09 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Cronies of Vladimir Putin are reportedly plotting a coup against him, while another trusted aide is lying low and preparing to act as kingmaker, according to new reports.
In a further blow to Mad Vlad, there are claims his whisky-loving foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is “drinking because he is depressed” and is suffering “health problems".
On top of this, there are recurring rumours of the dictator's poor health, with some believing he may have cancer.
According to insiders, there were two key meetings on Thursday (December 15) where he had to stay in the same position and sit on a special cushion.
One report even claims to Kremlin's top chef, Yevgeny Progozhin, would be the man to start a coup against Putin.
Prigozhin, 61, had a remit much wider than merely serving up grub to the Kremlin elite, and even has his own private army and is thought to have recruited tens of thousands of mercenaries to fight in Ukraine.
“This is uncharted territory for Putin,” said Christo Grozev, the chief Russia investigator for the Bellingcat investigative journalism organisation.
Quantum Fiber 4 Key Factors Your Internet Provider Should Be Doing to Keep Your Multifamily Residents Safe by Taboola “Prigozhin has 20,000 bloodthirsty, armed and aggressive men…
“They’re telling me, ‘We’re wondering if we should just lay down our arms because we’ve been turned into cannon fodder and go to Moscow?’ That’s in their thought process already.”
Grozev thinks a Prigozhin-led coup is a realistic option in the new year, saying: “This pressure cooker has to explode in one direction or another. Either it will be a bloody revolution or something else.”
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I saw a picture of Putin yesterday and he’s getting moon-faced, which means he’s on steroid therapy for something.
Thanks for the laugh ! 😄
Mother Russia is failed.
Her armies in the field are dissipated. There is no strategically effective command and control. Commanders are dead. Combat readiness has been destroyed to the point that 300 k men were swept off the Russian streets and shipped immediately to the front line where they are now wet and cold and increasingly drunk.
Drunkenness is induced by the desperate knowledge that the reason food and even water is in short supply is because the logistics system is destroyed long before it can reach the field.
NATO in Ukraine is providing the means to defeat Russia not only militarily in the field but economically on the streets of Moscow. Western stuff on which the prosperity depended is long gone. Factories of western companies are closed.
Oil sales are down to the point of being irrelevant. Tankers are not permitted to leave the Black Sea because they do not have the required insurance to transit the Turkish waters.
Wow, that’s quite a fairytale you’re spinning
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