Headlines on Friday night and this past weekend were filled with the attempted coup d’état by the private Russian mercenary band called the Wagner group, now formerly led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who threatened to storm Moscow and remove President Vladimir Putin from power. Ultimately the coup failed and a deal was reached, but there are definitely some things that do not add up and point towards the great possibility this was the West’s doing.
On Friday Prigozhin released a scathing video message on Telegram, threatening Putin and Russian officials that he would lead his thousands of men, who have been fighting in Ukraine alongside the Russian military, on Moscow and remove him from office. The Wagner group, like a many growing number of Russians, have been calling for more aggressive action in Ukraine and to speed up the process in toppling the Ukrainian regime, so less Russian lives would be lost. Prigozhin’s fiery tirade appeared to exemplify this and thus became unhinged at the process, threatening to take down Putin and military command in order to accelerate the defeat of Ukraine.
Caught completely off guard, so it appears, Russian forces immediately took to the streets of Moscow, deploying heavy artillery and tanks, ground troops and snipers in position to meet the incoming assault.
Putin also addressed the nation and military officials, and said that the move was a “stab in the back,” implying that this move was an attempted coup by Western influence. Putin honored the heroics of the Wagner group and what they have helped to accomplish in Ukraine, but chastised the actions of Prigozhin
I also address those who have been deceived or coerced into a criminal adventure, driven onto the path of a serious crime: an armed rebellion.
Russia is currently engaged in a fierce struggle for its future, repelling the aggression of neo-Nazis and their masters. Almost the entire military, economic, and information machinery of the West is directed against us. […] Any discord that our external enemies can use and are using to undermine us from within.
This is a stab in the back of our country and our people. […] And what we’ve encountered now is betrayal, plain and simple.
Saturday morning Scott Ritter – a former weapons inspector for the United Nations, who formerly served in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, and major critic of the American leadership and military, both then and now – joined Judge Andrew Napolitano in an impromptu interview to discuss the recent events.
Ritter explained that the widely reported 25,000 to 30,000 man army Prigozhin was bringing with him was an overstatement, but rather was more like 4 to 5,000.
Even so, Ritter was adamant that this insurrection would not last very long, as the strong majority of Wagner did not share the same radical sentiment as Progozhin did. Ritter was correct.
Ritter also explained how this attempted rebellion was nothing more than an attempted coup by the West to force a regime change. He theorized that the Ukrainian forces had covert sleeper cells planted in Moscow, designed to engage in terrorist events as Prigozhin drew closer, in a plan to frighten the people and force the notion that Putin was an ineffective leader, which would, in theory, cause the people to embrace Wagner. But it appears that those terrorist actors were preempted by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the modern equivalent to the Soviet KGB.
To wit, Ritter specifically blamed British intelligence, otherwise known as MI6, as being the lead perpetrators in recruiting Prigozhin to attempt an overthrow.
Kudos to them, they recruited Progozhin, there’s no doubt in my mind that Yevgeny Prigozhin is working on behalf of foreign intelligence, carrying out their tasks; that task is to collapse the government of Vladimir Putin
Ritter said
Like Ritter said it would, later that day the coup fizzled out and Prigozhin backed out. RT reports:
‘Wagner’s so-called “march of justice” lasted somewhat less than 24 hours from the moment it was announced by Prigozhin. The column of PMC Wagner fighters finally stopped 200 km (about 125 miles) away from Moscow. The press service of the President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus reported that he had held talks with Prigozhin throughout the day and eventually convinced him to turn the Wagner column around and get his fighters back to their field camps. Based on the agreements, the criminal case against the Wagner founder was to be discontinued and the participants of the attempted coup would not be prosecuted “taking into account their efforts on the frontlines.” Meanwhile, Russia – and the rest of the world – was thrown into confusion trying to understand what exactly was happening.’
Ultimately a deal was made later that Saturday night. Lukashenko arbitered a deal to retreat his attack and retire to Belarus for the time being, the Moscow Times reports, but the charges levied against him have not been dropped, which could land him in prison for 12-20 years.
Nevertheless, Wagner continues to operate in “normal mode,” according to their office, cited by AFP.
Despite events that have taken place, the center continues to work in normal mode in accordance to the law of the Russian Federation.
The office in St. Petersburg said
So it would seem that the coup failed and was a nothingburger, corroborated by Russian civilians near Moscow.
Today Putin issued his latest address to the Russian people over this attempted coup. He again emphasized that Progozin’s tag lines seemed to just be parroting Ukrainian and Western demands. Putin also went on to explain that, in effect, that the Wagner group will now essentially be subsidized under the Russian government, or they may walk away with no strings attached, or be allowed asylum in Belarus, according to the Kremlin.
[The rebels] also betrayed those who were dragged into the crime, lied to them, drove them to death, at gunpoint, to shoot their own people. This is exactly what’s wanted by Russia’s enemies and the neo-Nazis in Kyiv, their Western patrons, and various fifth columnists.They’d like Russian soldiers to kill each other, for soldiers and civilians alike to die, so that Russia ultimately loses; and for our society to split, choked in bloody civil strife.
[…] Today, you [Wagner men] have the opportunity to continue serving Russia by signing a contract with the Defense Ministry or other law enforcement agencies, or you can return home to your loved ones. Those who wish will be able to leave for Belarus. Putin said
Confirming Putin’s sentiment, Sputnik reported on a handful of Western and American media outlets and pundits salviating at the prospect of Russians killing each other, from The Hill, to CNN, to the New York Times, to many others; though Sputnik did note that the Associated Pres admitted that this attempted insurrection was grossly overstated and overhyped.
‘While security had indeed been heightened in Moscow and in Rostov-on-Don, there had been no signs of a gathering storm or a mounting civil unrest in the country. The Associated Press reported that in Moscow “downtown bars and restaurants were filled with customers.” The media added that “at one club near the headquarters of the FSB, people were dancing in the street near the entrance,”‘ Sputnik wrote.
The Russian-based outlet added (emphasis theirs):
However, the West’s earlier calls to bleed Russia white and impose a strategic defeat on Moscow make one wonder whether the US and its allies kept their mouths shut because they believed that Wagner’s mutiny would help them reach their objectives.
After it became clear that no “civil war” was going to materialize in Russia anytime soon, “Russia watchers” went on persuading their followers that the settlement wasn’t a clear demonstration of Moscow’s ability to solve crises in a rapid and effective way, but a harbinger of Moscow’s “defeat” and a “sign of weakness”. Despite this face-saving maneuver, the recent events demonstrated that America’s top Russia experts carried out nothing short of a “massacre against their own credibility,” as Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal assessed in his recent op-ed.
It is also worth noting that China reached out to Russia when they heard the news, offering their hand to help do with the coup if it spiraled into something serious.
The Chinese side expressed support for the efforts of the leadership of the Russian Federation to stabilize the situation in the country in connection with the events of June 24 and reaffirmed its interest in strengthening the unity and further prosperity of Russia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said following a Sunday meeting of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[9] Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: [10] In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. Psalms 26:9-10
The West has done it again in their never-ending, insatiable conquest for world domination and bloodshed.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amos 5:12
All signs point to this being a coup from the West, backed-up by the media’s bloodthirst and hastiness to claim that this proves ‘Russia and Putin are weak.’ One “intelligence expert” got on Fox News on Saturday, to blow some hot air and claim that Putin and Wagner worked together to stage a “false-flag operation” to increase Putin’s power.
Based on what I have been able to research, it appears Ukraine is getting dismantled and destroyed, and this was the West’s latest attempt to cause riffraff; which Putin also insinuated during his address today.
I fear, however, that a much larger false-flag is coming to further expand this war, so be ready for that strong possibility.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I hope that Russia mops the floor with America!
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Isaiah 60:12
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalm 9:17-18
Thanks Jacob for clearing this all up. It seemed highly confusing but now it all makes sense. Russia will win this war in the end because it is prophesied that they will. America is busy mutilating children and celebrating disgusting sex perversion while Russia and China are just waiting for the orders to destroy America once and for all.
You’re welcome. I tried to wait and see what would become of this instead of jumping on the “Putin’s weak” bandwagon. There genuinely is nothing you can take seriously in American media. Everything is an outright or some cunning spin on it.
yeah western media is 100 percent lies from the devil.
canada, too!