All our mainstream media have claimed that the Wagner mutiny has weakened Putin. Typical headlines were ‘Ukraine can now end Putin’s crumbling regime‘ and ‘How Wagner’s mutiny left Putin catastrophically weakened‘. But I suspect that the rapid demolition of the Wagner revolt and the exile of Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has actually strengthened Putin’s position.
- Putin faced down the mutiny and refused to take any phone calls from Prigozhin. I imagine that’s when Prigozhin realised he’d gone too far and decided to do the Russian version of a reverse ferret and scuttle back to Rostov-on-Don.
- Putin’s people confiscated around $50m in foreign currency and gold bars from the Wagner Group’s HQ.
- The Wagner Group has effectively been disbanded and is handing its heavy weaponry to the Russian armed forces which is what Putin and the Russian military wanted to happen when they started a confrontation with Wagner.
- Prigozhin has been exiled to Belarus and is at risk of arrest if he visits almost any other country.
- Prigozhin’s fighters must either join the Russian army, go home or go into exile with their boss in Belarus.
- Putin never forgives and never forgets. It seems likely that Prigozhin will have difficulty buying life insurance and will either fall out of a window or eat a polonium burger in the near future.
So, it appears to me to be a win for Putin. He has remained in power; Prigozhin is a (possibly soon to be dead) exile; the Wagner Group has been dismantled and any other challengers will have seen that it’s not so easy to de-Putinise Russia.
The recent claims about a supposedly weakened Putin are just the latest examples of Western media’s dubious reporting of what is really happening in Russia. After all, ever since the start of Putin’s misjudged invasion of Ukraine, we’ve been assured that Putin was suffering from a long list of possibly fatal medical conditions. These included cancer – ‘Putin suffers breakdown after changing cancer medicine‘; dementia – ‘Vladimir Putin has dementia and is being driven insane by paranoia‘; and Parkinson’s – ‘Vladimir Putin does have Parkinson’s and pancreatic cancer‘. It does seem that for a while Putin did suffer from some kind of nervous condition as his invasion turned into a disaster. But he has looked fairly frisky lately, especially since the Wagner mutiny collapsed. So it may be that rumours of Putin’s imminent demise from a variety of illnesses imagined by Western supposed ‘experts’ are more than slightly premature.
I also suspect that the latest misreporting by our media concerns Putin’s statement that the Russian State paid the Wagner Group over $1 billion in just the last year. This was called an ‘admission‘ in most Western media as if it was a sign of weakness. One typical Western media report claimed that Putin said this “in an apparent attempt to take full credit for earlier battlefield successes of the mercenaries”. But yet again I believe our ‘experts’ have completely misjudged what Vladimir Putin is really doing. When Putin revealed how much money Russia paid the Wagner Group, he added that he hoped “no one stole anything — or, let’s say, didn’t steal much. But we will certainly get to the bottom of this”. These additional remarks don’t seem to have been widely reported in any of the British mainstream media. These are not the remarks of a terrified, weakened, about-to-be-deposed leader. These are the remarks of an angry strongman out for revenge. It seems clear to me that Putin is about to launch an investigation into how the Wagner Group used the money it was paid and I’ve no doubt that eye-watering levels of corruption (real or invented) will be revealed. Putin has dropped charges of treachery against members of the Wagner Group as part of the agreement which stopped the mutiny. But an investigation into corruption will give Putin the excuse to prosecute and destroy Wagner bosses. So, while Western media interpreted the announcement of massive payments to the Wagner Group as another sign of Putin’s weakness, I think our media (probably deliberately) got it wrong yet again.
Of course, I may be wrong and all the ‘experts’ claiming Putin is a gravely ill despot fatally damaged by the Wagner incident may be right. But I suspect that our ‘experts’ have all along been guilty of at best ‘wishful thinking’, but more probably have deliberately worked to mislead us about what is really happening in Russia.
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Brilliant. We covid sceptics had bullshine detecting goggles on from the start.
Take google down!
Excellent! Make the lying money grabbing barstools pay back every penny and compensation!
An encouraging development. It’ll be interesting to see how it might work out in different states in the US. Any ideas out there whether the UK legal immunity for Pfizer would hold water if a case like that came up? Would the UK Gov, or the NHS, be accessories to a crime? Separate cases in Scotland? Answers on a postcard.
In my opinion (and I have no legal training) the government issued that immunity based on the data provided by Pfizer.
If that data can be shown to be wrong/fraudulent I would expect the government of the time would be perfectly entitled to void that immunity. There would almost certainly also be political points (because it’ll be a different government/ministers) to be gained by doing so.
I think the government/NHS would more likely be viewed as innocent parties (there’s an irony) to a fraud than be treated as accessories
I agree, although the idea that SAGE members and the Government might be “treated” as accessories is interesting, and could face legal penalty individually. The way that the Enquiry is being managed is equally fraudulent, and I would like some lawyer to crowd fund a similar case against the Government, I will give £50, so we only need a million donations! The SFO should look into the Enquiry costs too, there is no evidence that the money is being spent properly, and supposedly £100 Million and rising is utterly ridiculous, and suggests, along with the treatment of Dr Hennigan, that this is nothing to do with the truth. Just who is getting the money? KC Keith is probably getting a million or two, but that leaves 98 million, so the question “are they paying the witnesses?” seems reasonable, and therefore bribes are being given. Other than “reasonable expenses” that is surely illegal!
The UK Establishment will never admit wrong-doing. They will claim that no-one was forced to have one of the defective gene therapies, they all consented.
By the time this gets as far as court there will be a “new” establishment as people move on and there might be political points to be gained from allowing cases to proceed..
It also wouldn’t be difficult for a “no win no fee” style of lawyer to argue that while people did consent, they did so based on the incorrect/fraudulent data provided and that had they been provided with more accurate data they might (would) have made a different decision.
This is progress and could, in time, snowball into Moderna, Pfizer, J&J and AZ collapsing and a change in regulator oversight.
However, there is a lot of money which willl use every trick in the book to slow this thing down and throw them out on technicalities.
The social media sites will claim ignorance and trust in the official “science.”.
So this is still David vs Goliath stuff and when the financial crisis hits, how much attention will people have for this?
Im quite black/white pilled so, pardon my negativity.
And so it begins.
And soon private law firms will join, assuming they’ve emerged from behind their sofas
Top stuff! I hope they get creamed in court. Safe and effective wasn’t a lie. It was two lies.
If it can be proved in court that the vaccine tests were fudged then their zero liability contracts are null and void. Vaccine injured will be free to sue them directly.
It’s good that the Founding Fathers put in place a federal structure in the US
A sprinkling of red states have been among the only powerful political bodies to resist Covid scam
15k is nothing I would want the companies to be shut down and the Directors and owners of the various businesses jailed and stripped of their assets. That is still letting them get off lightly for what they have done.
It is $15k x about 30 million people. It is not $15k total, it is $$45 Billion!
I wrote this in January (Pfizer closed at $29 yesterday):
The chart and the fundamentals say Pfizer has further to fall, so I’m maintaining my short.
Yes, but it might get to zero when they go bust! What a bonanza!
I hope I live long enough to see the bastards who inflicted the Covid Tyranny and experimental gene therapies hauled up before the Courts and jailed for the rest of their lives.
But sadly, I very much doubt that will ever happen, let alone in the next 25 years. Far, far too many powerful people are involved and they can (and will) buy the judiciary.
Our own so-called Covid Inquiry is a demonstration of it being implemented.