Posted on 06/25/2023 4:09:20 PM PDT by Libloather
An ex-CIA analyst has claimed Vladimir Putin 'orchestrated' the coup with Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhi in a 'classic false flag' to try to make the West believe his army had weakened.
Rebekah Koffler told Fox News' Eric Shawn on Saturday the coup was staged as a way for the Russian leader to boost his political power and he will eventually 'gain momentum, mobilize additional personnel, and re-energize his offensive on Ukraine.'
Prigozhin's forces moved from their camps in Ukraine into Russia on Friday and took over a regional military command in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, before advancing toward Moscow.
Just as suddenly, the advance was called off on Saturday, and Russian state media said the Wagner troops would return to Ukraine while Prigozhin would flee to neighboring Belarus.
'So again, what has changed from this in the last few hours? All of a sudden he decided to turn his troops around and made this deal? No, this is all staged,' Koffler said, adding that Putin wants us to believe he is weak.
'Putin wants us to believe that he's weak, that there's an ongoing threat of a military insurrection,' Koffler claimed.
While Koffler's credentials are bona fide, it's unclear why Putin would let it go so far.
She continued: 'So this is a pretext to declare martial law, which Putin has already done. He made an amendment today that anybody who is violating the martial law is going to be imprisoned for 30 days. Another very interesting and revealing point is that Putin just authorized that men with a criminal record can join the military.'
'So this is a justification for extra mobilization of the Russian forces to send them to the meat grinder in Ukraine. It is also to demonstrate to President Biden...
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I said it was a head fake from the beginning.
LOLOL
How would that boost recruitment? Not to mention the 39 pilots and crew killed.
Yep, I even said that on another thread from earlier today.
Yep, it’s the Daily Mail. They sometimes get a few facts wrong. But the story is still accurate. She doesn’t lead people astray.
Or . . . it could be a false false flag. EVERYONE involved including western sources are lying or twisting that I have NO IDEA what is going on. I just fear that 200,000 lives and $100billion dollars later the boundaries arr going to be. lose to where they were a year ago.
Link to gaslight press proof?
So the aircraft that were shot down and the aircrew who were killed by Wagner (if we are to believe that) were just broken eggs in this omelette?
BINGO!!
It’s also useful for exposing any possible traitors in cabinet.
Tell me what Russian source you have on that 39 figure? Please don’t joke around and say Prigozhin.
Hasn't the performance of his armed forces already made the West think that he's weakened?
Ping, Rebekah Koffler.
“More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Maybe in 20 years we'll know what happened.
Rebekah Koffler is a Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert. Working with the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agencys National Clandestine Service,
She has led red teams during war games and briefed the Pentagon, the White House, and NATO on Russian affairs. ... Google Books
Born: 1965 (age 58 years)
You know the information these days, flies so far and fast that I don’t even know what is BS from truth these days.
Plus, not knowing who to trust has an impact.
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