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Was Prigozhin’s Rebellion Live or Memorex?

Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 6 months ago to Politics
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Excerpt:
"In no way was this an organic affair. It’s been building for months. But what’s been building?

A guy like Prigozhin could easily become massively disheartened with Russia’s leadership. Could it be to the point of him taking up arms against Putin? Well, that’s certainly what a lot of people wanted us to believe this weekend.

And I’m in no way suggesting that it isn’t possible or even probable. It is the most likely story.

Now factor in the stories floating around out there that Prigozhin was bribed with billions for Wagner to stage his insurrection. Would anyone be surprised by this if it were ever found out?

What? the CIA with suitcases of cash for some foreign malcontent with delusions of grandeur?

The deuce you say!!

Remember folks, since we live in a world of dis- if not mal-information we have to concoct stories that fit what few facts we have along with assessing such basic things as motive, means and opportunity."
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Keep reading at the link.
Some very interesting speculation here ...
https://tomluongo.me/2023/06/25/was-p...
SOURCE URL: https://tomluongo.me/2023/06/25/was-prigozhins-rebellion-live-or-memorex/


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  • Posted by katrinam41 1 year, 6 months ago
    Even Mike Huckabee has something to say about it;

    "Russia Update
    That alleged “coup” against Vladimir Putin provided the news channels with a weekend of non-Trump news to obsess over, but it appears to have come to nothing. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group mercenaries who were threatening Moscow, struck a deal to return to Ukraine. Putin reportedly agreed to deploy the majority of Wagner troops to Africa instead of Russia or Ukraine. And Prigozhin allegedly received a promise that there would be no retribution against him, which I guess he actually believes. Let me be the first to say it: “Prigozhin did not commit suicide!”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahar...

    This leaves the Biden State Department in a pickle since they were about to put sanctions on the Wagner Group’s gold business in Africa, but called that off because they didn’t want to be seen as assisting the violent thug Putin by sanctioning the violent thugs who were trying to topple him. That petered out so fast, it’s not clear which violent thugs they’ll be helping. Or maybe the conspiracy theorists are right, and this whole aborted coup was just a false flag scheme by Putin to (pick one) make himself look invincible, or trick the US into not sanctioning Wagner, or (make up your own here; it will probably make just as much sense as any other explanation for this.)"
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  • Posted by fairbro 1 year, 6 months ago
    Super great article! I am very happy to see there is enlightenment and understanding here on the forum about Russia. I am too personally involved (lived in Russland for 1.5 years and in Ukraine (Crimea and Donbass) for 6 months) but also US Army veteran, to be able to see this war from the POV of the "average" American. But a "New Paradigm" is coming, according to Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, a planetary civilization based on understanding, not violence, and Vladimir Vladimirovich is the catalyst..
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    • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 year, 6 months ago
      You and me both. I had TOO MANY arguments here in the beginning from those who thought Putin was just becoming Hitler. Ignoring that ONLY the UN in the last 40 years has moved their borders/missiles closer to Moscow, and not the other way around.

      Later Merkel confirmed she was negotiation in bad faith. And learning that the USA is now so bad at negotiation in good faith that the PLO/Arafat is BLUSHING when we speak!
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 6 months ago
    It seems I've learned more from this article than the American media for the past week. The only thing the author leaves out is the American left hates Russia for giving communism the boot and have "destroy Russia" in common with the neocons mentioned in the article. It seems the only players that know what just happened are Putin, Prigozhin, and Leshenko.

    The astonishing thing to me, at this point, is how does a group like Wagner (est. 50,000 strong! - we're talking serious resources here!) get formed on the world stage and I've never heard of it until now.
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    • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
      "I've never heard of it until now"
      I hadn't either until the Ukraine action started last year.
      Our news sources are incomplete, biased, manipulated, lacking in journalistic abilities, brainwashed, woke, etc.
      In my experience, the alternative sources who might be more likely to expose the truth might not have connections inside Russia that are reliable.
      I wonder if even the Russian people had heard of Wagner as a military force since apparently they were used outside Russia in the past.
      Did you think there were 35,000 FBI employees, 5,000 BATF employees, 240,000 Fatherland Security employees, 32,000 NSA employees,
      290,000 DoD Contractor FTEs, ??,??? CIA employees?
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    • Posted by fairbro 1 year, 6 months ago
      You've never heard of it because of Western media.

      It's 100% Deep State narrative about Russia in Western media, from far-Right to far-Left, wall-to-wall disinformation.

      I only read RT COM and Pravda RU (to browser translate).

      Sputnik News operates out of Washington, DC is also accurate website text-wise, but is subject to DC Mayor Bowser's racist employment laws, and has a slate of black racists and leftist loonies on their talk shows..
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      • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 6 months ago
        I have to say I haven't heard of Sputnik News before and if I did I probably would have dismissed it as a left over Soviet propaganda arm. I did a search on it and looked at the Wikipedia entry for Sputnik (news agency). Hard to sort out the Wiki rubbish from anything meaningful as the whole entry should be re-written based on the fact Sputnik is repeatedly disparaged and accused of Trump supporting "conspiracy theories" that have now been proven to be true via Durham and others. The article is so bad in the facts department I couldn't finish reading it. Peons like me are hard pressed to believe anything without concrete evidence from a wide range of publications and broadcasts anymore. It's as if we are now living in Orwell's Oceania of 1984.
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        • Posted by fairbro 1 year, 6 months ago
          I made a couple of edits to an article on Wikipedia, and the next day, someone "corrected" it. Wiki started out ethical, but they went corrupt. Like Google, at first a "benevolent giant," now Google/Youtube, altering reality through censorship and search manipulation, creating a climate of fear and hate between nations, between races, between sexes, between classes, between generations, is probably the most evil corporation in the history of the world. Is Google the antichrist? LOL!
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          • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 6 months ago
            I've tried to purge everything Google off my computers (Apple - also used to be great), but it always shows up somehow.
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            • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
              Like here in the Gulch, for example, which uses Google tools for the site. Better to keep personal details and interests to yourself, or the Googlag will use them against you.
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              • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 6 months ago
                Agreed. I like the Gulch and the folks herein, but there are some things I will keep to myself even if I'd enjoy jumping in on certain conversations and sharing information.

                I found it sad that Googleplex has a hand in the Gulch and is VERY likely spying on us as much as possible. Also, much to my chagrin, my email provider to which I've paid a quarterly fee for decades not long ago sold out to Google - service has suffered in several ways - but that email address would be a real pain to change over to something else. Trapped no matter what we do except total tech severance.
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                • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
                  Well, you can wait for the 2nd coming or you can get a hosting service and your own domain for email.
                  (Yes, you will have to notify people of the change, and forward the old email to the new one for a few months.)
                  It's easy to do and maintenance should be almost entirely done by the hosting company.
                  A domain is about $10-20 a year for a .com domain, e.g., http://mccannon.com.
                  Hosting varies from 0 up but you can get a shared server account and have unlimited domain names
                  for (sale priced) about $10 a month for a linux host.
                  There are hosting companies that are not controlled by Big Tech yet and do not sell your data.
                  A friend who runs a complex website (and does his email and business there) recommended A2 Hosting recently.
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                  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 6 months ago
                    Gosh, FFA, for a time I thought the 2nd Coming would be in my life time. Now, although things sure look like the Apocalyptic End Times, I'm not so sure. Thanks, I will look into A2 more. I'm paying almost that much for an email service that is now slowed down and screwed up by Google's takeover. Big effort to swap over, though.
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                    • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
                      Yes, sometimes I get referred by friends to 'news' sites that publish things that seem about as likely as the 2nd coming.
                      I didn't intend any offense in the email suggestion, McC. ;^)
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                      • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 6 months ago
                        Oh my, no offense taken! I NEED to get this fixed and A2 may offer a solution. The great goog has slowed down my email access considerably lately, not to mention I suspect they are reading my mail and the amount of spam has increased enormously since the takeover. George Orwell had a good idea, but had no idea of what was really to come with big tech gone wild in a very bad way.
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                        • Posted by 1 year, 6 months ago
                          Reducing spam could be one reason to change your email address, too.
                          A2 does give tools to you (via cpanel controls) to filter email for spam.
                          I have used cpanel in the past and it has an effective and useful interface
                          for managing email.
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  • Posted by fairbro 1 year, 6 months ago
    Prigozhin got PTSD, after 8 months of hell in Bahkmut?. He is also an oligarch, he may have had (drug-induced?) delusions of grandeur. God knows there are truckloads of Cocaine and methamphetamines there in Ukraine, and speed makes a person paranoid.
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  • Posted by JohnRandALL 1 year, 6 months ago
    Tom Luongo often has accurate assessments. I think his three possibilities are very likely. But which one? Very hard to say, when things are hidden from us in America, and we certainly don't know all the details in Russia. Thanks for the article. Way more informative than mainstream U.S. media, or BBC.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 1 year, 6 months ago
    The western intelligence agencies certainly heard about the "coup" before that day. This could mean they organized it; or that it was done to entrap or expose them.

    I'm going to see how it plays out before drawing any further conclusions.

    Part of the puzzle is that all of Putin's plausible political rivals are hardliners, who long for the "good old days" of the Soviet Union. If a real coup wins, or anybody kills Putin, we can expect immediate invasions of Poland, the Baltics, and maybe Finland. It's not at all clear to me that western intel agencies, which ought to know this, have accepted the fact.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 year, 6 months ago
    We are only allowed access to the truth when it fits their narrative... Otherwise, it's all lies.

    I believe he was offered a lot of money.
    Also, knowing that the USA just found 6 bln more in equipment to send Ukraine... Then getting offers to run and hide (or a bigger offer to attempt a coup)...

    One thing it did. It strengthened the Russian Troops who remained. You just self-identified those who should be removed.

    Those that remain, are no longer working for Wagner group, but directly for Russia, signing new contracts.

    The problem with targeting Prigozhin is that it means Putins word is no good.

    In fact, if I was the CIA, I would Plutonium him, to make Putin look bad! Like he didn't honor his side of the deal.
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