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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

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To: kiryandil

You can have whatever credentials you want but it won’t matter one bit without evidence.


61 posted on 07/01/2023 7:30:03 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: lightman

Over here...


62 posted on 07/01/2023 7:44:38 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: marktwain
I'm just noting that the victors of Artemovs'k have been pulled back from the front line, and have relocated to Belarus.

That will give Vlod's Azov & NAFO puppeteers some pause.

63 posted on 07/01/2023 7:57:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: GulliverSwift
I'll take Rebekah Koffler's opinion over your opinion, NeverTrump.  
64 posted on 07/01/2023 8:05:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Yolanda

I keep Biden totally out of the equation. He is profoundly senile. He just happens to be the President of the USA while Russia attacked a sovereign nation.
Any President of the USA right now would have to deal with Russia’s aggression anyway.
We can speculate if Russia would have attacked Ukraine if Trump was the President. Maybe not. But we don’t know for sure.
I think Putin became a schizophrenic during the China virus pandemic. He bunkerized himself for way too long... it changed a lot of things... a lot.


65 posted on 07/01/2023 8:31:16 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: BobL

Putin’s greatest asset is the stupidity of Western elites and Western leadership.

The same “experts” who were predicting his fall last Saturday are now saying Putin planned it all himself.


66 posted on 07/01/2023 8:41:51 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Well stated and you can see the same idiocy in the Neocon supporters. They’ve spent years telling us how weak Putin was, but when his opponents had a chance to step up and side with the insurrectionists - they all showed up to SUPPORT PUTIN.

Game over...everything they claimed was PROVEN WRONG a week ago.


67 posted on 07/01/2023 8:51:57 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: Brilliant
No one has explained to me why Putin would want to appear weak.

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
68 posted on 07/01/2023 9:12:44 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: thinden

Did anyone see where it was reported that Prigozhim was also a movie producer?

haven’t seen that. sure would be interesting, i.e., even more interesting than what we already know.


69 posted on 07/01/2023 9:26:24 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

pirogies

are an eastern European
tasty staple - delicacy

we need more of that


70 posted on 07/01/2023 9:32:46 PM PDT by Firehath
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Yep, and its the old Cassius Clay/ Mohammed Ali Rope a dope.

THe whole war just got far more dangerous to the West.

A few tactical nukes used under Wagner COmmand and COntrol Structure on the POlish birder will bring the EUropen Globalists and Sicialist generals to their knees in short order.

yjr Germn Public has copped to this fact and are rioting in the streets against this “war.”

It needs to be ended with overwhelming power or a negotiated status quo ante.


71 posted on 07/02/2023 3:36:05 AM 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

Why create this entire charade?

Plausible deniability


72 posted on 07/02/2023 6:04:31 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: PCPOET7

Yes, that is what happened, IMO. One wonders how much money was wasted, in this obvious ploy.


73 posted on 07/02/2023 9:50:45 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: BlackVeil

CIA and the Biden administration were crazy to think they could buy of the mercenaries. most are Russian citizens who have family in Russia. Putin despite what the media says is popular in his country. Imagine how some of the mercenaries that we are using would react to a payoff by Russia. they e are mostly ex-military and I believe that they would try and do exactly what the Russian mercenaries did.


74 posted on 07/02/2023 11:48:20 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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