Not to mention the more than 2 million reservists, plus the newly created National Guard, established by Putin and directly subordinated to him for use in exactly such an eventuality as a real coup. Yes the current state of the Russia Federation’s military capabilities is depleted – especially after more than a year of Ukraine’s valiant efforts to wrest back their sovereignty from Moscow’s invaders – yet the fact remains that the nation still counts more than a million men in uniform. Yevgeny Prigozhin (Press Service at Concord)Īll this came after months of accusations flung back and forth that the Russian Ministry of Defense wasn’t supporting and resupplying Prigozhin’s mercenaries, especially during the brutal battle to take and hold the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, and the minefield incident was apparently the last straw.Īs a result, the former restauranteur ordered his men to pull out of the warzone that is Ukraine and head for the Russian capital.Īs Winston Churchill warned us, Russia is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Add to that, Viscount Slim’s wise rule that tells us all initial reports from the battlefield are wrong, and we should dig deeper for the Truth. Thus were sown the seeds of a broader conflict between the mercenary firm and the government in Moscow for which they were fighting. And when Wagner asked for help to extricate their fighters, allegedly the regular Russian forces shelled and fired rockets at Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner CEO’s units.
Ostensibly, the crisis started prior to last weekend, when units of the Private Military Contractor, the Wagner Group, became mired in a minefield in Ukraine, a minefield laid by Russian Federal forces. The Russia Revolution of 1917 brought us the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, gulags, the Holodomor, and the Cold War, which although it may have been “cold,” still resulted in the deaths of 100 million innocent people.Īs a result, last weekend’s “news” about thousands of mercenaries heading to Moscow to take over the government from Vladimir Putin was disturbing, to say the least.īut not everything was as it may, at first blush, seem.
Like the one that erupted in 1776 and gave us America.
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