#June Punch Raid Campaign#
Just hours before the deal was announced, Prigozhin and his troops captured a regional military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don.
Within hours of a convoy of 400 cars driving from Ukraine into Russian territory, Wagner forces took control of the Russian regional military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don.
They rode heavy military machinery, tanks and trucks.
At that time, Prigozhin promised that his troops would "go all the way" ...
Prigozhin boasted that his men — believed to be better equipped than the Russian army — did not need to fire a single shot while they took control of the headquarters.
"The border guards greeted us and hugged our fighters," he said. If someone stands in our way, we will destroy everything. We're going to go all the way.
Of course, this will never happen, and Prigozhin knows this very well.
A well-positioned tactical nuclear weapon could have taken out him and most of his troops.
But neither side wants it to go this far.
So Prigozhin flinched, and this sudden reversal left analysts in the Western world completely dumbfounded ...
Prigozhin said a loyal follower lashed out at the premise of the invasion, then claimed airstrikes aimed at his troops, then captured a major military town without conflict before marching hundreds of miles toward Moscow. But suddenly, he performed a puzzling reversal, turning back to avoid bloodshed, as the Kremlin claimed Putin's seemingly defiant Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered a dramatic reprieve, in which the insurgent, who travelled to Moscow in armor, now opted to go into exile in Minsk.
After announcing the deal, Prigozhin simply described the whole event as a "march of justice" ...
"They want to disband the Wagner military company," Prigozhin said Saturday. "We began the march of justice. Now, the time has come when blood can be spilled. We understand the responsibility [for the chance that Russian blood will be spilled on one side], we are turning our columns and returning to the field camps as planned.
What a strange twist of events.
A former CIA analyst said that the "coup" was actually a "false flag" orchestrated by Vladimir Putin himself ...
A former CIA analyst claims that Vladimir Putin "orchestrated" the coup of Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhi in an attempt to convince the West that his army had weakened.
Rebecca Koffler told Fox News' Eric Sean on Saturday that the coup was a way for Russian leaders to elevate political power and that he would eventually "gain momentum, mobilize more personnel, and reinvigorate his offensive against Ukraine."
Others believe that the United States was involved in getting the Wagner group to start the rebellion.
U.S. officials believe that if they say something, Putin can accuse them of plotting a coup. They clearly have no interest in helping Putin avoid a major and embarrassing rupture of support.
While it's unclear when the U.S. first learned of the plot, intelligence officials briefed government and defense officials on Wednesday. On Thursday, as further confirmation of the plot was made, intelligence officials notified a small group of congressional leaders who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, according to officials familiar with the briefing.
In fact, the Washington Post tells us that the US spy agency actually knew "in mid-June" that "armed action" might be coming...
U.S. spy agencies received intelligence in mid-June that Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin was planning armed action against the Russian defense apparatus — which he has long accused of screwing up the war in Ukraine — and urgently notified the White House and other government agencies so they were not caught off guard, several U.S. officials said Saturday.
Interestingly, Joe Biden is trying to reassure everyone that the United States is not involved in this botched coup attempt ...
US President Joe Biden's main goal after the Wagner uprising in Russia is to deny Vladimir Putin's excuse that the West wants him to die. In a phone call with allies, Biden stressed that it is imperative not to lend any credibility to Putin's expected claims of Western interference.
"We haven't seen the last scene yet. We are watching it closely.
On the other hand, this is a huge wake-up call for Vladimir Putin.
It is quite possible that we will see a change in the military leadership of Russia, and in the end I think the country will be transformed into a full-fledged war mobilization mode.
We are definitely living in an era of "war and war rumors", and this conflict with Russia is only at a very early stage.
Of course, this is just one of the major wars we will face in the coming years.
Sadly, the "war fever" seems to have swept across the planet, which is bad news for everyone.