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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You can have whatever credentials you want but it won’t matter one bit without evidence.
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That will give Vlod's Azov & NAFO puppeteers some pause.
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.
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.
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.
Did anyone see where it was reported that Prigozhim was also a movie producer?
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haven’t seen that. sure would be interesting, i.e., even more interesting than what we already know.
pirogies
are an eastern European
tasty staple - delicacy
we need more of that
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.
Why create this entire charade?
Plausible deniability
Yes, that is what happened, IMO. One wonders how much money was wasted, in this obvious ploy.
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.
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