https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/did-you-know-vladimir-putin-is-ruthless-killer/
I find it fascinating that the Western narrative surrounding Yevgeny Prigozhin now emphasizes his virulent hatred of the Russian Ministry of Defense and portrays him as the Commander and “brains” behind the creation of the Wagner Private Military Company, aka Wagner PMC. Yet Prigozhin owes a significant portion of his financial success to his sweetheart contracts with the Ministry of Defense. Go figure.
I want to elaborate on my reasons for doubting the story that Prigozhin, on his own initiative, launched Friday’s mutiny with no coherent plan for toppling Minister of Defense Shoigu or Chief of the Army Gerasimov. He did not follow the normal coup script of seizing control of key communications and military nodes. Nope, he sauntered into Rostov on Don, some 700 miles south of Moscow, with a small band of followers and began making threats that have no viable possibility of being consummated.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, he sent three thousand troops in a long convoy of trucks (at least 60) on a road trip to Moscow. Has anyone done the math on how long it takes to gas up a fleet of trucks like that? I am guessing a couple of hours at least. Then you have to factor in the potty breaks for the drivers (the troops can piss in a bottle). While the trucks are capable of traveling at speeds of 100 kilometers per hour or more, the reality of a convoy makes it more likely that the average speed is around 60 kph. That is why it would have taken that raiding party at least 20 hours to get to Moscow. After 20 hours in a cramped truck, with no luxury seating, do you think the Wagner boys would have been in shape to square off with Kremlin guards? The whole narrative is just ridiculous.
How about the timing of the uprising — it coincided with the end of a massive NATO military exercise. On the very day the exercise concludes Prigozhin decides he is General Pinochet and that Shoigu is Salvador Allende. Coincidence?
Then there is the contradictory Putin meme. Did you know that Vladimir Putin is a ruthless killer of his political opponents and those that betray him? Except for Prigozhin. Business Insider offers a list that is but a fraction of the deaths attributed to opponents of the Clintons, but hey, you got to give Putin credit for trying to keep up with Bill and Hillary:
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- Pavel Antov – December 2022
- Ravil Maganov – September 2022
- Dan Rapoport- August 2022
- Mikhail Lesin- November 2016
- Boris Nemtsov- February 2015
- Boris Berezovsky- March 2013
- Natalia Estemirova- July 2009
- Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova- January 2009
- Alexander Litvinenko- November 2006
- Anna Politkovskaya- October 2006
- Paul Klebnikov- July 2004
- Sergei Yushenkov- April 2003
So why is Yevgeny Prigozhin still walking around as free as a bird? A comfy retirement in Belarus seems out of character with the Western image of Putin as a ruthless ruler who is alleged to routinely order a dirt nap for his opponents.
In 2012-13, the Russian media began to pay attention to another ‘friend’ – Putin’s ‘personal chef’ Yevgeny Prigozhin. President of the Concordcatering company, Prigozhin also has other responsibilities: he is the man who set up a ‘trolling office’ (otherwise known as the Internet Research Agency) just outside St Petersburg, in which students are paid to write comments online, slandering the West and glorifying Putin. This ‘trolling office’ is run by people from the ranks of the largest pro-Kremlin youth movement in Russian history – Nashi. The organisation’s annual forum in Seliger has been attended at various times by Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and several other senior officials.
Then, like a Russian version of George Jefferson, he moved on up to the big time. He snagged a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense:
‘He is in charge of supplying all army unit towns in the country. There are hundreds of these towns, maybe a thousand. I lived in one of them for many years.’