Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Key points of Putin’s address to nation over PMC Wagner coup attempt
https://www.rt.com/russia/578601-recap-putin-address-wagner-coup/
Putin is responsible for this, because he has let a conflict continue for 16 months that should have ended in one week. But Putin wanted to avoid being labeled an aggressor and confined combat to the Russian Donbass. He got the label regardless, and created a situation of an ever-widening war that he has been fighting with a private military group who are tired of the no-win situation Putin has created by his pretense that it is a “limited military operation.”
I doubt Prigozhin intends a coup. Most likely it is a protest against the Russian military brass. The generals don’t like him, because he refuses to place himself and his forces under their command. As the Wagner Group is the principal military force Russia has fighting in Donbass, it is stupid for the Russian generals to foster bad relations with the commander of the troops doing the fighting. A question I have is whether Putin is being given honest briefings about Prigozhin’s intent or briefings designed to settle the generals’ score with Prigozhin. For Putin it is just a problem that needs to go away, and he might fail to learn from it.
The way Putin has been conducting this conflict has never made any sense. By refusing to use sufficient force to end the war, Putin has widened the war to the extent that Washington and NATO are involved, and he has lost the confidence of the Wagner Group commander and, for all I know, the Wagner troops.
How is it possible that Putin, the Kremlin, and the Russian military do not comprehend that wars must be quickly be won as their continuation offers endless opportunities for many mischiefs?
It is possible that there has been no coup attempt. The weak evidence suggests that it could be a staged event from outside to disrupt the Russian front lines or an inside staging to get rid of Prigozhin:
“Earlier in the day, footage and audio attributed to Wagner troops and Prigozhin surfaced online alleging that a ‘missile attack’ had been launched at a Wagner camp, and that the strike was ‘delivered from the rear, that is by forces of the Russian Defense Ministry.’ The voice attributed to Prigozhin appeared to call for the ouster of the Defense Ministry’s leadership. The footage and audio were immediately jumped on by Ukrainian and US state-funded media outlets, which have been reporting heavily on Prigozhin’s criticism of Russian generals in recent weeks.” https://sputnikglobe.com/20230623/russian-ministry-of-defense-denies-media-reports-of-strikes-on-wagner-positions-1111429344.html
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Yawn………
PCR is sounding more like a brain-dead MSM shill by the day…
I always thought Putin was dragging it out to enrich oligarchs on both sides of the conflict. If the rocket attacks against his own mercenaries are true, it is yet another proof.
Wtf …..a convoy of Wagner submarines just passed my Florida home.
Looks like they want global domination.
Yawn….
We knew sooner or later the warmongers in the US/NATO/UK/Israel Axis of Insanity would attempt do something to destabilize Russia internally. Putin prevented them from doing to Syria what they did to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and they are livid. These psychopaths want to bring Putin and Russia to heel but thus far they have failed. Their economic sanctions didn’t work, they backfired actually. It is apparent Ukraine will never defeat Russia militarily and Zelensky’s European backers aren’t willing to go down in flames with Ukraine.
Zelensky is saying Russia’s weakness has been exposed. Even if this is true, he and his Western allies will not be able to take full advantage of it. The Axis needs a major internal distraction or coup to bring Putin down. How this will play out we don’t know yet but I don’t think the West will achieve their aims since Putin is so popular with the Russian people.
It is the U. S. and the Zionists that has perpetuated the unending wars.
I will read it later, but the “title” does not exist in reality.
Except for the “16 months”, P. C. Roberts has been saying the same thing for a few months now. I believe he’s right. I like and respect Putin, but he should have finished this off by taking all or most of Ukraine months ago. There are two possible reasons I can think of for why he may not have done so up to now. First, he may not want to take over regions of Ukraine that are anti-Russian (western Ukraine) for fear of having to deal with insurgents like the USSR and the US did, unsuccessfully, in Afghanistan. Second, he may be using the strategy the US used against the USSR to “win” the Cold War. Keep the US and Europe spending money on war until they go bankrupt. It will be interesting to see how this pans out, except if FJB gets us into another war or a nuclear war.