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The Wagner 'Coup' Was Staged by Putin—and the West Fell for It | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | 6/29/23 AT 5:23 PM EDT | REBEKAH KOFFLER

Posted on 07/01/2023 3:29:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

By now, everyone has heard about the narrowly avoided coup in Russia: Last Friday night, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, one of Putin's most trusted allies and the commander of the notorious Russian mercinary Wagner Group, marched on Moscow in an apparent coup d'etat, only to come to a swift agreement with Vladimir Putin and decamp for Belarus. While most commentators acknowledged that things didn't quite add up, the "expert" class happily concluded that at least it had weakened Putin in his war against Ukraine.

None seemed to realize the obvious truth: The coup was staged, and completely faked false flag operation.

Think about it: An army invades Russia, race right up to Moscow, and no one gets hurt? With just a few thousand men, it achieved what Hitler with almost a million men wasn't able to? And Putin holds his military back? And then, with Moscow supposedly within his grasp, Prigozhin decides, "Oh well, never mind" and heads to Belarus? Prigozhin would have had to be an idiot or suicidal to think that with 8,000 men he could invade Moscow. Yet Prigozhin is very smart man, a juvenile delinquent turned convict, then hot dog salesman, then CEO of a multi-million dollar catering business serving the Kremlin, to finally commander of the world's most formidable mercenary force. It is utterly implausible that Prigozhin thought that he could take on Rosgvardia, Russia's National Guard, a 340,000-strong domestic security force reporting directly Putin.

And then there was the footage of Prigozhin sitting a bench in Rostov-on-Don, bantering amiably with Russia's deputy minister of defense, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and deputy head of the Russian military intelligence, the GRU, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev. It was just too chummy for a true rebellion.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africa; another500billion; anothertrillion; belarus; bidensrinolemmings; communism; demsunitedforbribes; demsunitedforukraine; joewantsaworldwar; kgb; lemmingsforww3; longwarandbigprofits; newsweak; newsweek; putin; russia; sovietunion; ukraine; wagner; wagnergroup; xi; yevgeniyprigozhin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey, the west falls for Ukraine’s crap. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em...


21 posted on 07/01/2023 3:59:06 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: BobL

By what measure is he stronger? Geez you’re such a liar.


22 posted on 07/01/2023 4:00:30 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Candor7

I love listening to idiots telling us not only what is happening, but what definitely will be happening.


23 posted on 07/01/2023 4:01:33 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Brilliant

Nonsense. No one has explained to me why Putin would want to appear weak.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Russian Doctrine of refexive control. The NATO nations and their people will not press their governments to up the military finding for Ukraine!

Koffler knows exactly what she is talking about. Only a liberal would believe otherwise.

https://rebekahkoffler.com


24 posted on 07/01/2023 4:03:08 PM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is not Newsweek part of the corporate media that supposedly condemns “conspiracy theories”? What is this story doing if not theorizing a conspiracy?


25 posted on 07/01/2023 4:04:39 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Candor7; All
reflexive control doctrine in the Russian military

Just because the Russian military has a doctrine, does not mean it works.

The Russian military has not been a shining example over the last 18 months.

26 posted on 07/01/2023 4:06:39 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: AndyJackson

CIA Burns after the fact claimed that they knew about it all along but, No Sirree!, they didn’t have anything to do with it.

The lies and copes from these clowns have moved from insulting to just pathetic.


27 posted on 07/01/2023 4:08:38 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Williams

I love listening to idiots telling us not only what is happening, but what definitely will be happening.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thank you for being such a good listener. YOur creds on Russia are ?

Here are Kofflers:

Rebekah Koffler, the author of Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America, is a former intelligence officer who served as a Russian Doctrine & Strategy specialist in the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2008 until late 2016. She has delivered classified briefings to top U.S. military commanders, NATO ministers, the directors of the CIA and DIA, the White House National Security Council, and senior congressional staff. In her post-public service career, Rebekah is a writer, commentator, and national security consultant whose work has been published on the Fox News website, The Hill, the Daily Caller, and the Washington Times. She has appeared on Fox News, One America News, and the Sean Hannity nationally syndicated radio show.

Rebekah’s conservative, pro-America views were formed as a result of her experience growing up under the totalitarian socialist regime of the Soviet Union. Rebekah strongly believes that capitalism, however imperfect, is superior to the soul-crushing, oppressive, poverty-inducing socialist system of state control. It is for this reason that Rebekah is dedicating her post-public service career to the fight for freedom, individual rights, and holding government establishment apparatchiks to account. Protecting America from sliding toward dehumanizing socialism and its next phase, communism, while describing the threat posed to the United States by Russia, is Rebekah’s current mission.

https://rebekahkoffler.com/about/


28 posted on 07/01/2023 4:08:44 PM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: marktwain

Do you think all of it was Prigozhin’s idea and he did it for free? Whatever. We’ve all got opinions. I was (We we’re) called crazy for believing a lot of things which later proved to be correct.


29 posted on 07/01/2023 4:14:16 PM PDT by LucienCA13 (sorry if you are microaggrieved)
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To: LucienCA13
Do you think all of it was Prigozhin’s idea and he did it for free? Whatever. We’ve all got opinions. I was (We we’re) called crazy for believing a lot of things which later proved to be correct.

Prigozhin was shooting off his mouth about problems in the Russian military for quite a while.

I suspect he had reason to believe his days were numbered. That is what he said. The whole monetary setup for Wagner was set to change a few days after the "coup".

Who was in his corner, who he thought was in his corner, and what made him change his mind, are things which are difficult to know and to speculate about. By nature, such support or lack thereof, are very closely guarded secrets.

30 posted on 07/01/2023 4:19:06 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Williams

“By what measure is he stronger? Geez you’re such a liar.”

How’s that “Greatest Offensive Operation” going these days?


31 posted on 07/01/2023 4:22:42 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: marktwain

Just because the Russian military has a doctrine, does not mean it works. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well looks like a win to me, Putin has tactial nukes in Belarus and the Wagner Group is being reconstituted in Belarus to use them.

And it did not work?


32 posted on 07/01/2023 4:23:00 PM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They misspelled Newsweak.

Newspeak

33 posted on 07/01/2023 4:23:17 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot comtly left out his party affiliation: e soon enough!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“None seemed to realize the obvious truth.”

Terrible writing. This person presents zero evidence of anything but then labels her unfounded opinion as “the obvious truth.”


34 posted on 07/01/2023 4:24:40 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

my take is that the CIA tried to pay mercenary’s hired by Russian intelligence to turn on Putin. The mercenaries took the down payment and then pretended to do a rebellion long enough to get the rest of the payoff.


35 posted on 07/01/2023 4:29:39 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are there photos and footage of The Wagner Group attacking Moscow?


36 posted on 07/01/2023 4:32:31 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It was a trap all along. Wagner will attack Kiev from Belarus in short order.


37 posted on 07/01/2023 4:36:39 PM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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To: Candor7
Well looks like a win to me, Putin has tactial nukes in Belarus and the Wagner Group is being reconstituted in Belarus to use them.

And it did not work?

You are assuming that happened.

You are assuming it was the purpose.

Why wouldn't Putin just talk to his "good friend" in Belarus, move tactical nukes there, and move the Wagner group there to use them?

Nothing to stop him. No reason to go through this drama which undermines the credibility of the Russian military command.

Why create this entire charade?

38 posted on 07/01/2023 4:37:08 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Wagner group may be in possession of a Nuke now.


39 posted on 07/01/2023 4:52:40 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So Putin now has Wagner, military aircraft, tanks, garrison troops and tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

I am sure glad we had him fooled.


40 posted on 07/01/2023 5:04:06 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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