Posted on 05/25/2023 3:30:27 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Fresh off his claim of victory in capturing the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russian mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin warned that Moscow’s brutal war could plunge Russia into turmoil similar to the 1917 revolution unless its detached, wealthy elites become more directly committed to the conflict.
In a lengthy interview with Konstantin Dolgov, a political operative and pro-war blogger, Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner mercenary group, also asserted that the war has backfired spectacularly by failing to “demilitarize” Ukraine, one of President Vladimir Putin’s stated aims of the invasion. He also called for totalitarian policies.
“We are in a situation where we can simply lose Russia,” Prigozhin said, using an expletive to hammer his point. “We must introduce martial law. We unfortunately … must announce new waves of mobilization; we must put everyone who is capable to work on increasing the production of ammunition,” he said. “Russia needs to live like North Korea for a few years, so to say, close the borders … and work hard.”
Citing public anger at the lavish lifestyles of Russia’s rich and powerful, Prigozhin warned that their homes could be stormed by people with “pitchforks.” He singled out Ksenia Shoigu, the daughter of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who was spotted vacationing in Dubai with her fiancé, Alexei Stolyarov, a fitness blogger.
“The children of the elite shut their traps at best, and some allow themselves a public, fat, carefree life,” Prigozhin said in the interview, which was released Wednesday on video. “This division might end as in 1917, with a revolution — when first the soldiers rise up, and then their loved ones follow.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch and a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin is sometimes called “Putin’s chef”, because he owns restaurants and catering companies that provide services for the Kremlin.
The FBI noted that Prigozhin has ties to Russia, Indonesia, and Qatar and should be considered an international flight risk. He is also believed to be a founder of the Wagner Group, a private paramilitary group that recently deployed 400 troops with the mission of assassinating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Nothing from the WaPo over the past twenty years sounds like factual journalism to me.
YMMV
Sounds like the Bidens or Obamas throwing lavish parties as they invade nation after nation, threatening anyone who doesn’t get on board as unpatriotic.
True dat.
Why didn’t you post his comments on Bakhmut last week? You are very selective in the disinfo you traffic in. His multiple “quotes” about Russian catastrophes in Bakhmut (all proven to be BS), you can’t wait to come here spewing. Last week, crickets from you. Here we have another of your posts from him where you will end up, once again, looking ridiculous. You only post if it’s officially sanctioned from your media masters/government disinfo clearinghouse. DC government stoogism at its finest.
Funny I recall the compost telling us just a few weeks ago Russia was loosing miserably and Ukraine was going to start the new super secret spring offensive and crush Russian forces.
Now the new story is the Russian victory is actually a defeat, ya nothing says losing like winning.
Damn it is almost summer, one might think the compost was just propaganda.
Where is the counteroffensive?
I don’t like liars. I really don’t like lying out of desperation. All at once over night after a win and we hear this?
Take a few days off and prepare for the big counter offensive or WWIII or whatever.
And where's your Kremlin pal kiryandil? Did he go the way of cranked?
That's not true. Check my posting history.
So you're denying that Prigozhin said what he said, even though it's on Telegram and Russian media?
And...?
So what happened to kiryandil?
Putin better silence Prigozhin or the Kremlin may silence both of them.
Sounds like another Pulitzer award-winning story. How Ukraine defeated Russia and caused the downfall of Putin. Facts? They don’t need no stinkin’ facts.
The term you’re looking for is Pyrrhic victory. e.g. spending 9 months and losing 10s of thousands of soldiers to advance 3km.
More ‘victories’ of this nature will require the Russians to refurbish even more of their 70 year old T-55s and send them to the front.
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