Ok, time for me to once again put my head on the block (which none of the supposedly professional military analysts are doing. In fact, a few of them made hilariously wrong predictions rushing to judgement, with bad premises).
So, let’s look at the facts, as we have them.
Supposedly Prigozhin loses his mind and starts a convoy to first “take over” Rostov-on-Don’s military HQ, while screaming about the current defence minister Shoigu in the RF MoD, and others.
He then drives a convoy towards Moscow supposedly to enact a coup.
Right.
The only way that story holds water is if:
A) Prigozhin literally lost his mind, AND,
B) So did most of his underlings that went along with it.
Consider that the total casualties from this “coup” are apparently about 15 people in a helicopter crash that was supposedly shot down by Wagner PMC. Did that happen? Maybe.
Maybe not. In fact, given that the coup convoy arrived within 200km of Moscow, even if it was a totally co-ordinated psyops, I’m stunned that there weren’t MORE casualties. And if it was an actual rebellion, I’d expect there to be hundreds of bodies.
In the meantime, in the West (and elsewhere, pay attention) everyone goes apeshit about this and Ukraine is definitely going to win now, and Priggy was always a clownworld operative, now activated by the CIA/Jewish overlords (because his dad was a Jew!)/space aliens/bribes from Zelensky, etc etc.
And all the mouth breathers and cocaine dwarf cheerleaders and snorters congratulate themselves and Priggy and Wagner on the FINAL CHECKMATE PUTIN! Ha!
Yeah… in the meantime… Russian oligarchs ran away from Moscow in droves. Uki sympathisers exposed themselves all over social media both within and without Russia, Moscow’s main in and out roads have had roadblocks added to it and Putin enacted Counter Terrorist Orders.
Oh and… 24 hours later a deal is struck, Priggy is guaranteed safe passage to Belorussia, Wagner is partly absorbed into the RF army and partly remains private-ish.
And everyone thinks Priggy was a full blown traitor etc etc.
Except…
- His contract was going to end in a week.
- He exposed any inefficiencies in the MoD and RF armed forces.
- He undoubtedly did an awesome job of wrecking the Ukis for over a year.
- He used similar propaganda and criticism of REM (Rear Echelon Mofos) to lure the Ukis forward before in the Bakhmut theatre.
- He literally cooked food for Putin before.
- Putin never mentioned Prigozhin by name in his speech.
- Prigozhin never mentioned or criticised Putin in any of his rants.
- All of this coup was done without any shooting at all and then ended without any shooting either (except for those 15 aircrew in… was it one or two “attacks” ? Allegedly by Wagner PMC).
Now, are there people in the RF that are unhappy with the SMO? Sure there are.
Are there people that would like to oust Putin from power in the RF? Sure there are.
Are some oligarchs among them? Absolutely.
Do you think they may have shown their hand now? Oh… yeah… oooops. Better not eat any sushi or leave the house, or breathe anywhere. Life is going to be hard for some of these people.
And oh, yeah, the fighting going on at the front, as a result of the catastrophically failed Uki offensive… that just carried on without a single hiccup. So the “main” fighters of the whole SMO go full blown traitorous rebels… but… the Russian forces at the front with the Ukis remains totally professional and doesn’t skip a beat.
And a bunch of RF troops have now moved around because of… well… security reasons due to the “rebellion” of course. Nothing at all to do with logistics at all. Nu-uh!
I mean, as a coup it was pretty “ghostly”. No shooting. No one goes to jail, everyone returns to their post, Prigozhin is guaranteed safe passge, and all is forgiven in just 24 hours.
But it was a coup guys!
In actual fact, I could almost believe it. As a coup it would have the absolute trademark complete incompetence of the CIA. If it turns out Prigozhin retires in Belorussia with a couple of billions as payment by the same CIA, I may actually start to believe it.
Keep in mind as well that Putin just got the whole country to be completely outraged at the “betrayal” and siding with him almost to a man.
This was massive misdirection at its Russian finest. And eventually, maybe a month from now, the so-called “experts” may begin to realise it.
This is 100% true and easy to validate. If this was not a coordinated effort between Prigozhin and Putin, the Russian Air Force would have completely annihilated those columns of Wagner Forces traveling the open highways up to Moscow.
My first impression of the wagner chief was his nose looked suspiciously jewish haha. Vox confirmed it with his post. Jews always causing mischief
I don’t think his father being Jewish was relevant in this situation.
The big winner in all of this is western talking points. Hope springs eternal.