Posted on 06/26/2023 12:20:45 PM PDT by McGruff
Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin broke his silence Monday to claim his attempted coup against Russia was nothing more than a protest as some top Kremlin officials plotted to nix his mercenary army.
Prigozhin, who has reportedly accepted a deal to be exiled to Belarus to avoid criminal charges, defended his short-lived weekend march to Moscow as a necessity after 30 of his troops were allegedly killed by Russian fighters
“We started our march because of an injustice,” Prigozhin said in the 11-minute audio recording. “We went to demonstrate our protest and not to overthrow power in the country.”
As the mercenaries encroached further and further into Russia, a Wagner reconnaissance mission eventually concluded that a direct fight would result if they kept going, so he opted to end the “demonstration,” Prigozhin claimed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Needs to justify his CIA payout. Meanwhile they are laughing to the bank.
There was a DailyMail report today Putin was threatening to kill the family members of the mercenaries
The injustice is this Ukie war, it was 100 percent avoidable since 2014, but the West refused to talk to Vlad.
“Ha ha ha, Vlad can’t take a joke. Like Obama”.
Just like the CIA/FBI attempted election manipulation and coup of 2016 and 2017 were just a “protest” against the bad orange man.
The man runs off towards Moscow with an army like its his own, shoots down and kills up to 15 Russian air force pilots, and its just a protest.
People are ushered into the Capitol on on Jan 6, calmly walk the corridors with buffalo horns and face paint, and its an insurrection. (not that I approve of face paint)
A “mostly peaceful protest”?
Fox News @FoxNews
BREAKING: Biden makes first public comments on Wagner revolt in Russia: ‘We had nothing to do with it’
President Biden says the U.S. and NATO worked to establish that they had “nothing to do” with the Wagner Group’s rebellion against Russian military officials this weekend.
12:40 PM · Jun 26, 2023
Now why did the CIA have him say that I wonder?
Bullshit!
Told ya so.
George Washington he is not.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON PREVENTS THE REVOLT OF HIS OFFICERS, MARCH 15, 1783
by George Washington
Gentlemen:
By an anonymous summons, an attempt has been made to convene you together; how inconsistent with the rules of propriety, how unmilitary, and how subversive of all order and discipline, let the good sense of the army decide...
Thus much, gentlemen, I have thought it incumbent on me to observe to you, to show upon what principles I opposed the irregular and hasty meeting which was proposed to have been held on Tuesday last—and not because I wanted a disposition to give you every opportunity consistent with your own honor, and the dignity of the army, to make known your grievances. If my conduct heretofore has not evinced to you that I have been a faithful friend to the army, my declaration of it at this time would be equally unavailing and improper. But as I was among the first who embarked in the cause of our common country. As I have never left your side one moment, but when called from you on public duty. As I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses, and not among the last to feel and acknowledge your merits. As I have ever considered my own military reputation as inseparably connected with that of the army. As my heart has ever expanded with joy, when I have heard its praises, and my indignation has arisen, when the mouth of detraction has been opened against it, it can scarcely be supposed, at this late stage of the war, that I am indifferent to its interests.
But how are they to be promoted? The way is plain, says the anonymous addresser. If war continues, remove into the unsettled country, there establish yourselves, and leave an ungrateful country to defend itself. But who are they to defend? Our wives, our children, our farms, and other property which we leave behind us. Or, in this state of hostile separation, are we to take the two first (the latter cannot be removed) to perish in a wilderness, with hunger, cold, and nakedness? If peace takes place, never sheathe your swords, says he, until you have obtained full and ample justice; this dreadful alternative, of either deserting our country in the extremest hour of her distress or turning our arms against it (which is the apparent object, unless Congress can be compelled into instant compliance), has something so shocking in it that humanity revolts at the idea. My God! What can this writer have in view, by recommending such measures? Can he be a friend to the army? Can he be a friend to this country? Rather, is he not an insidious foe? Some emissary, perhaps, from New York, plotting the ruin of both, by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the civil and military powers of the continent? And what a compliment does he pay to our understandings when he recommends measures in either alternative, impracticable in their nature?
I cannot, in justice to my own belief, and what I have great reason to conceive is the intention of Congress, conclude this address, without giving it as my decided opinion, that that honorable body entertain exalted sentiments of the services of the army; and, from a full conviction of its merits and sufferings, will do it complete justice. That their endeavors to discover and establish funds for this purpose have been unwearied, and will not cease till they have succeeded, I have not a doubt. But, like all other large bodies, where there is a variety of different interests to reconcile, their deliberations are slow. Why, then, should we distrust them? And, in consequence of that distrust, adopt measures which may cast a shade over that glory which has been so justly acquired; and tarnish the reputation of an army which is celebrated through all Europe, for its fortitude and patriotism? And for what is this done? To bring the object we seek nearer? No! most certainly, in my opinion, it will cast it at a greater distance.
For myself (and I take no merit in giving the assurance, being induced to it from principles of gratitude, veracity, and justice), a grateful sense of the confidence you have ever placed in me, a recollection of the cheerful assistance and prompt obedience I have experienced from you, under every vicissitude of fortune, and the sincere affection I feel for an army I have so long had the honor to command will oblige me to declare, in this public and solemn manner, that, in the attainment of complete justice for all your toils and dangers, and in the gratification of every wish, so far as may be done consistently with the great duty I owe my country and those powers we are bound to respect, you may freely command my services to the utmost of my abilities.
While I give you these assurances, and pledge myself in the most unequivocal manner to exert whatever ability I am possessed of in your favor, let me entreat you, gentlemen, on your part, not to take any measures which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will lessen the dignity and sully the glory you have hitherto maintained; let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress; that, previous to your dissolution as an army, they will cause all your accounts to be fairly liquidated, as directed in their resolutions, which were published to you two days ago, and that they will adopt the most effectual measures in their power to render ample justice to you, for your faithful and meritorious services. And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord and deluge our rising empire in blood.
By thus determining and thus acting, you will pursue the plain and direct road to the attainment of your wishes. You will defeat the insidious designs of our enemies, who are compelled to resort from open force to secret artifice. You will give one more distinguished proof of unexampled patriotism and patient virtue, rising superior to the pressure of the most complicated sufferings. And you will, by the dignity of your conduct, afford occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, “Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.”
None of that happened. You fools believe any narrative the msm or biden admin put out there. You should be embarrassed.
Maybe this highway sign put them off ...
M - 4 MOTORWAY MOSCOW 200 kms
LANE CONTROLS ahead ....
TRAITORS // SOON TO DIE // TOAST // U-turn for Belarus
Pregozin is an idiot if he thinks he will be safe in Belarus.
Remember in the 60s people would jeer at the Antiwar protestors, SDS and Black Panthers “Why don’t you go over to Moscow and try to protest over there? See how much freedom you’ll have.”
Still true.
Putin is an inept bumbler,but if the Neo- Cons aren’t carefully, they will get a really effective Russian leader.
To avoid defenestration or polonization, he’d better offer immediate compensation to the families of the pilots killed by his fighters.
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