Update(1735ET): This entirely bizarre slightly less than 24-hour short-lived coup attempt has just gotten even stranger, given the terms of the truce which evidently caused Evgeny Prigozhin to announce his Wagner fighter columns would turn around and go back to their bases.
The Wall Street Journal has confirmed based on Kremlin statements that “As part of the agreement, Prigozhin will leave Russia for Belarus, and criminal charges against him will be dropped, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. His fighters will be allowed to sign contracts with the Russian military.”
And Russia’s RT provides some further details as follows based on Peskov’s statement:
“He added that Wagner’s fighters will not be persecuted, taking into account their efforts on the frontlines of the Ukraine conflict. Peskov explained that President Vladimir Putin’s team “have always respected their exploits.”
Those PMC contractors, who refused to take part in the mutiny – and whole units did not – will be allowed to sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, Peskov stated.
Can this even be called “exile”?… given that Kremlin statements at this point aren’t even so much as using the word which has a clear punitive implication. The irony remains that one can get a much harsher punishment for mere Cannabis vape pens in the country. In summary:
- charges dropped against Prigozhin, who will leave Russia for Belarus
- Wagner fighters who didn’t take part in the uprising will sign contracts with the MOD
- Wagner fighters who did take part not charged
- No word on potential MOD leadership changes
What’s clear is that it does indeed look to be over, with no further immediate danger of civil conflict:
Sputnik is further confirming Wagner has handed HQ/bases in Rostov-on-Don back to the regular military:
Despite the slap on the wrist (if even), the Kremlin is still talking “tough”:
“The plotters’ adventurist aspirations are essentially aimed at destabilizing the situation in Russia, destroying our unity and undermining Russia’s efforts to reliably ensure international security,” the Foreign Ministry said. “The mutiny plays into the hands of Russia’s external enemies.”
“The attempted armed mutiny in our country has aroused strong disapproval in Russian society, which firmly supports President Vladimir Putin,” the Foreign Ministry said.
Regardless the speculation has begun, and is likely to continue for the coming days and weeks, over what precisely the world just witnessed here…
One theory seems as good as any other at this point, again given the ultra-bizarre spectacle of the whole “march for justice” on Moscow… by convoys of heavily armed mercenaries.
And then there was the heavy defense ministry pressure to essentially disband Wagner amid the long-running simmering tensions and war of words:
There’s always the potential foreign ‘hidden hand’ theory behind any major insurrection like this, especially when it comes to a US-NATO enemy…
Russian Arms Dealer Released by Biden Spotted With Wagner Group Boss https://t.co/GJLilzGlRm
— Merissa_Hansen🇺🇸🦅 (@merissahansen17) June 24, 2023
And finally, maybe Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has it right: old fashioned greed and glory (which Machiavelli warned about all the way back in the 16th century). Here’s Kadyrov on Prigozin’s actions:
“I thought that some people can be trusted. That they sincerely love their Motherland as real patriots to the marrow of their bones. But it turned out that for the sake of personal ambitions, profit and because of arrogance, people can not give a damn about affection and love for the Fatherland.”
Perhaps the truth will eventually emerge of the events over the last 24 hours, but what’s clear is that Moscow wants to make this whole episode go away as rapidly as the crisis began, and is not even moving to arrest Prigozhin to make that happen. He will now just quietly “go away”… maybe a little vacation of sorts, into neighboring Belarus.
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they say Prigozhin has worked closely with Putin, and was ‘very close’ to him. This is your clue.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
It’s said that Prigozhin was Putin’s cook at one time…they were close…
That’s what I said , I even used the word “feign “as in “executing a feigning manuever” . Trying to get the Uke’s to go on the offense thinking the Russian defenses we;re vunerable and or in disorder over the drama .
Makes no sense to look at this as theater staged by Russia. Makes all the sense to see this as Big Anal NATO Trans (BANTA) having gotten to Prigozhin, because all benefit accrues to BANTA, and it was their plan all along to weaken Russia/Putin from the inside out and collapse them from within, not defeat them militarily.
This makes Putin look weak and not in control, and maybe that’s actually true, because he should’ve taken the fucking gloves off a long time ago and attacked with regular Russian military forces to blast Ukulele and Rabbi St. Zelensky back into the Stone Age. Instead, he’s allowed this shit to drag on and on, playing rope-a-dope with mercenaries and Chechens, giving BANTA time and space to bomb the Crimean bridge, launch drone strikes on the Kremlin, directly attack cities in Russia proper, continue to shell civilians in Donetsk, and bomb the dam and flood out Russian defensive positions. Next will be BANTA bombing the nuclear power plant, guaranteed.
WAKE THE FUCK UP, DUDE.
There’s always the potential foreign ‘hidden hand’ theory behind any major insurrection like this, especially when it comes to a US-NATO enemy…
Hiring mercenaries is ALWAYS a risky bizness.
I dunno Auntie, let’s hire a few thousand and find out. 🙂
I going with Aesop. It’s another one of those
Every Single time.
Just something that makes you go “Hmmm…”
All the leaders of the October Revolution that led to the Red Terror were exiles…ice pick him now, and save millions of lives later
This has “Seeeaaayayee” written all over it. A very quick & bungled Limited Hangout.
Yes, but maybe one that Putin was onto since last year and maybe the CIA never really turned Prigozhin. That’s Larry Johnson’s conjecture.
Meanwhile, Putin has declared Martial law, Prigozhin goes into exile in Belarus–which Wagner’s movements apparently saved from a UKR attack, and the neocons who thought they had Prigozhin in their pocket apparently came away with zero for their money….Pretty suspicious ending, with it appearing that Putin knew all this was coming, and had tanks on the streets of Moscow immediately….Some “insurrection”….
“Putin has declared Martial law”
If you say so, it must be true.
What better way to discover who is loyal and who is a potential traitor than to have your friend, Prigozhin stage a “coup.”
This was never a coup. This was a test of loyalty.
Wagner is going to Belarus, maybe to attack the northern part of Ukraine? in a couple weeks we’ll know and I bet there will be some Belarus troops with him.
Larry Johnson speculates that “countering the coup” has allowed Russia to move more troops closer to Belgorod without attracting a lot of Western scrutiny.
And that’s important, because allowing the West to see them moving troops to Belgorod -which is original Russian territory- would have mattered… uh… how exactly?
NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11.
Maybe related?
Oh my gawd, you mean it is not allowed and even severely punished to use “Cannabis vape pens” in Russia?
What a totalitarian dictatorship is that!