Good analysis of Wagner Group commander Yevgeny Prigozhin's attempted coup on Putin and Russia.
It failed miserably.
Was that deliberate? Could be. Served two purposes. One is to flush out Western saboteurs inside Russia who may be part of the 14 million Ukrainians who've left the Ukraine and gone into Russia. And two, to solidify Putin's power and hold onto Russia's policy agendas and hold fast to that purpose in the Ukraine. Alex Krainer references this discussion between Ray McGovern and Judge Andrew Napolitano, who do a great job of breaking down the details.
Yesterday's podcast with @KevorkAlmassian https://t.co/fafiZyXp4s
— Alex (Sasha) Krainer (@NakedHedgie) June 28, 2023
11:00. Kevork, we should not underestimate the tendency and the capacity for the West to to go off the rails and be stupid on the part of the western establishment. And we've seen this throughout history. Already in World War II, when most militaries had machine guns yet the generals still pushed their troops into frontal assaults where they would just be mowed down. And rather than say, "Oh, this doesn't work," they would just send more waves of soldiers even though all they did was get them killed in very large numbers. The generals were simply stupid. And then we saw how this works in the run-up to the war in Ukraine. In January of last year, even before the hostilities started, when the German admiral of the Navy, Kay-Achim Schönbach was in India on a military exercise. In a press event, he said, "The easiest and least destructive way to defuse this crisis would be to acknowledge Russia's security concerns and to give Vladimir Putin and Russia the leadership the respect that they demand and probably deserve." That's the gist of his words. And that very day his military career ended. He was the Vice Admiral of the German Navy and that was it. It seems that the system simply doesn't want to hear but only what it wants to believe. And so what you get is his blind zealotry that pushes harder and harder with solutions that don't work, that don't allow rethinking, and that don't allow going back to the drawing board. They don't allow retracting some of their strategies, and so the result ultimately is that the whole juggernaut acts like a madman, a group led by lunatics.
14:00. ALMASSIAN. Putin actually on the second day of the alleged coup, he met with his security officials, defense minister, the security and military personnel. He gave a speech, and today he also gave a speech, and there is this argument that of course by the MSM that Putin is trying to prove himself now that he's this strong man of Russia. And that Putin's Russia as we know is over, and now he will have to be dealing with this internal Russia, will have to try dealing with its internal strife with the different circles of power inside of Russia. So the pressure on Putin by the Wagner group was actually productive.. The west believes Putin is forced to backtrack now and will be forced to negotiate with the west.
It's another example of the west's wishful thinking. Ray McGovern says that despite of the fact that this whole boondoggle with the Wagner group on Friday last week. He said that the "Gang of Eight" the Congress within the Congress in the United States was briefed on it Wednesday. So what does that tell you? It means that they were informed, they probably encouraged it and participated in it. Prigozhin was known to have had contacts with Western intelligence. Ukrainian leadership so they talked with themselves and they knew that this was coming. I believe that Prigozhin led them on, that he drew them into this to believing that they get to prevail. That maybe they get their regime change in Russia. And then they had all these contingency plans. They want to partition Russia. They cannot achieve that one day to the next, but if they can eliminate Putin. They can immediately find their own people who who's loyalty maybe they can command and get Alexei Navalny out of prison and give him power and and who knows what they plan. Maybe this lure from Prigozhin got them all really, really excited. Instead now they get to implement all these wonderful plans that they had. Except I don't think that's going to happen. I think Vladimir Putin is in a stronger position today than when he was before Progozhin's stunt.
