Decoding the Russian Coup: Wagner, CIA, and Putin’s Chess Moves

We have attempted to dissect the Russian coup attempt, as already published before, and here we will expand on it.

While searching for the cause and players in this mutiny, one’s mind would naturally be drawn to the CIA and its infiltration activities, considering that the Anglo-Saxons are losing the war in Ukraine. This notion was actually confirmed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who suggested that the West might have been involved, leading to ongoing investigations in Russia. Of course, the West denies it. John Kirby, the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House National Security Council, when asked about CIA involvement in the mutiny, denied and claimed that the mutiny was an internal matter and President Biden has been receiving hourly updates on the situation in Russia.

However, it is worth noting that Americans and Europeans are not always the most sincere of people, particularly their institutional leadership. Their previous actions elsewhere are proof. Whenever and wherever the CIA has been involved, confirmatory documents tend to come out much later, sometimes after 20 or even 50 years, as seen in cases like the murder of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the D.R. Congo or the overthrow of Africa’s Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Our task, therefore, is to identify patterns and not blindly trust the Americans, as they should not be believed. The current patterns and their concern about what is happening in Russia indicate an elevated level of desperation in Washington, London, and Brussels, and point to likely involvement.

Both President Biden and Hillary Clinton, Democrats themselves, have previously expressed their desire to overthrow President Putin’s government. This is not to say that Republicans are any better, as figures like John McCain, a Republican, were actively involved in fomenting chaos in Ukraine, not to mention the whole group of Bush, Dick Cheney, and others.

While it may be possible that Prigozhin did not have contact with the Americans, the odds point to this possibility due to the difficulty of covering one’s tracks. Prigozhin’s behavior, at least, suggests this. He began by claiming that the Russian Ministry of Defense was not conducting the war as it should and then went on to say that it was not a just war. This change in stance from someone already on the front lines shows a conflicted mind. It is likely that the Americans contacted him and perhaps even bribed him with money for the sole objective of sowing confusion in the Russian military ranks. The promise may have been to help him seize power and rule Russia as its new president.

Some will argue that this is not the case since the Americans already have Prigozhin on their wanted list of warlords. But that simply does not hold. The Americans and Europeans have previously shown that they care less about the morals of war or the means of achieving their stated goals. That is how they worked with Osama bin Laden while at the same time, he was on their wanted list. That is also how they are double-facedly working with warlords in Somalia.

This morning, we came across an article in which Gen David Petraeus, who worked with the CIA and was in Iraq and Afghanistan where he led the massacre of innocent people, warned Prigozhin that he is not safe in Belarus because Putin would get him. Petraeus advised Prigozhin to stay away from windows whenever he is inside a building. According to him, Putin is likely luring Prigozhin into safety in Belarus only to later capture or hurt him.

True or not, whether Prigozhin was working with the Americans or not, the failure of his coup attempt can be understood from many perspectives. On the military front, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is said to have brokered a deal, must have warned Prigozhin that he and his 25,000 men would be crushed by no less than three armies if he continued his ill-advised march to Moscow. Indeed, at about the same time, Chechnya fighters had already set off to confront Wagner, and the Russian and Belarusian armies would have arrived as well, resulting in Prigozhin and his men being completely annihilated. His chances on the military front had certainly slimmed.

On the political front, Prigozhin did not find much support among the Russian people and/or leadership. To successfully seize and stand a chance of holding Moscow, he needed their support. Therefore, upon closer examination, the warning from the Belarusian President and the lack of support weighed on him, and he envisioned the total slaughter of himself and his men. Taking Moscow alone, were it even to occur (almost impossible), would not have been enough, as Putin retains a high rating among Russians. Indeed, many came out in support of Putin and urged Prigozhin to end his madness.

What Prigozhin therefore did was completely foolish, and one wonders how a man of his stature could have gotten that ill-advised. Russia defeated France under Napoleon and Germany under Hitler. What chance did Prigozhin, who has achieved whatever economic and military clout he has, due to Putin, stand? How and why did he fall for the wrong advice or encouragement from the Americans and European corruptors, who already fear engaging Russia directly? In anything, John Kirby admitted that the Russian Army is very potent and formidable. So Prigozhin’s chances were always closer to zero, and as happened, Putin was always going to come out victorious and, as some have argued, with his power more consolidated.

Now Prigozhin is reportedly in exile, in Belarus, and whatever the future holds for him, his failure to cripple Russia’s war effort in service of Americans is another victory for Russia. And not just for Russia, but also a victory for the 25,000 innocent Wagner fighters who would have been slaughtered, as well as the entire world, which would continue to suffer under Western European domination and exploitation.

During the march, WAGNER fighters had already witnessed the power of the Russian Air Force, and any military expert will tell you that were Russia to have unleashed it on a full scale, it would have been a bloodbath for WAGNER. Instead, Putin chose to only demonstrate it and remained restrained. It is obvious that Putin, in his chess calculus, found it more reasonable to not destroy 25,000 WAGNER fighters, knowing they could yet, still play a part on the front lines in Ukraine. If anything, these were Russian patriots who had been misled by an ambitious man, a traitor to his country.

So as it is, the Anglo-Saxons have yet again failed in this cowardly maneuver to divide the Russian army and cause a civil conflict as a way of slowing down, perhaps affecting Russia’s chances of victory in Ukraine.