ALEX KRAINER REVIEWS COUP ATTEMPT WITH KEVORK ALMASSIAN

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. 

Why Putin Must Go

Why Putin must go. https://t.co/GlOOb0XdP8

— Alex (Sasha) Krainer (@NakedHedgie) January 17, 2023

The Plot to Seize Russia

This interview is dated but quite good since Martin talks about how Yeltsin handed over Russia to Putin.  This interview comes from Geopolitics and Empire, a terrific website that covers lots of interesting topics.  

A summary of Martin's book which he is handing out to attendees at his next conference can be read here,

Martin Armstrong discusses his new book based on declassified documents where in the 1990s the West, NATO, and Russian oligarchy plotted to seize Moscow, loot Russia, and takeover its natural resources. Yeltsin turned to Putin who was not a communist and is not an oligarch. The Moscow apartment bombings or propaganda surrounding them being a false flag would likely have come from Boris Berezovsky. The Great Reset is basically a debt default and the EU is a disaster that will fall apart. At this point most of the attack on Russia is related to “climate change” and to shut down fossil fuels.

The plot was to seize control of Russia and installing their own man, Boris Berezovsky, and merge it into NATO, turning Russia into a vassal state with Berezovsky as president for life.  Later, he was sorry and wanted to return to Russia and wrote a letter to Putin.  Tell us what's really been going on between east and west . . . 

Yeltsin was being blackmailed from two sides, and his last words to Putin were "Take care of Russia."

Putin, so far, hasn't given them the casus belli they need to create a complementary coming together of the West's populations. There is still no appetite for war in the West.

Blowback is very real. So, with Neocons like Bolton, German Greens, Poles, Brits believing Russia is weak, will push until he has no other options.

But, again, who greenlit these psychopaths in the first place? Who put them in power in the US Nat. Sec. Hierarchy?
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— Tom Luongo (Powell's a Baller) (@TFL1728) October 9, 2022

The weak governments in both the US and UK have invited this expansion of insanity.

Putin, so far, hasn't given them the casus belli they need to create a complementary coming together of the West's populations.

There is still no appetite for war in the West.
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— Tom Luongo (Powell's a Baller) (@TFL1728) October 9, 2022

And if you've got any critical thinking cajones left, check this out by Jacob Dreizin.  

After printing $5.9 trillion, and creating 38% of the entire money supply, the U.S. is now a net food importer

Again, nothing this man is saying is incorrect.

And yes, the United States is now a net importer of food — and the food deficit is growing month by month.  pic.twitter.com/8ZsggHHpLs

— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 20, 2022

And he is effortlessly and extemporaneously discussing these issues ... no teleprompter, no notes. He is speaking from a foundation of understanding.

— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) July 20, 2022

Everyone's talking about what is going on right now, blaming Russia for the coming food crisis.  You, as specialists, would know that the crisis emerged from the times of the anti-pandemic measures, where some well-developed economies abused their monopoly power in terms of currency monopolies. They turned on the printing machine in the U.S. and printed $5.9 trillion, that's 38% of the entire money supply.  They printed it over two years, which is roughly the sum of what was printed in the previous 40 years.  The same rate.  In the EuroZone, they printed $2.5 trillion euro and released this money into the economy and gave it out to people, which isn't bad per se.  We utilized a similar tactic.  But we were very careful, it was sparingly done as it didn't lead to such a wave of inflation.  

Over there, the anti-pandemic measures were funded from budget deficits which led to them buying up food supplies from global markets.  Whereas in the previous years, the U.S. was a net exporter of food.  They are now a net importer of food.  They bought $17 billion more in food than they sold. 

What does that say?  They have exacerbated for developing poor countries and closed their own problems off.  This is the result of a monopoly on reserve currencies--dollars and euros. 

This started at the end of 2019, and the beginning of 2020. Then the anti-Russian situation made the situation worse.  They made a bunch of mistakes in the energy sector and gas prices went up. And access to gas is the foundation of many fertilizers.  As fertilizers became more expensive, we've seen enterprises shut down, particularly in Europe, and food prices skyrocket further.