“Kudos to them, they recruited Progozhin, there’s no doubt in my mind that Yevgeny Prigozhin is working on behalf of foreign intelligence, carrying out their tasks; that task is to collapse the government of Vladimir Putin,” former UN weapons analyst Scott Ritter said.
Headlines on Friday night and this past weekend were filled with the attempted coup d’état by the private Russian mercenary band called the Wagner group, now formerly led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who threatened to storm Moscow and remove President Vladimir Putin from power. Ultimately the coup failed and a deal was reached, but there are definitely some things that do not add up and point towards the great possibility this was the West’s doing.
On Friday Prigozhin released a scathing video message on Telegram, threatening Putin and Russian officials that he would lead his thousands of men, who have been fighting in Ukraine alongside the Russian military, on Moscow and remove him from office. The Wagner group, like a many growing numbers of Russians, have been calling for more aggressive action in Ukraine and to speed up the process in toppling the Ukrainian regime, so less Russian lives would be lost. Prigozhin’s fiery tirade appeared to exemplify this and thus became unhinged at the process, threatening to take down Putin and military command in order to accelerate the defeat of Ukraine…
