It is, although I'm getting night of the long knives vibes from it.
The first social media coup.
I'm going to follow it for 15 minutes and then watch Netflix. So he better get a move on.
Kill squad dispatched.
"If FSB convicts Prigozhin, he would be able to re-join Wagner as a convict."
Joke on Ukrainian social media.
Moscow not taking chances
Wagner surely can't have that many men left? Not for a coup attempt.
Putin is so paranoid that he would have kept a minimum number of troops back to defend against exactly this possibility.
I don't buy that Putin and Prigozhyn are conspiring together against the MoD. Why the hell would Putin do that? The status quo suits him fine. If Prigozhyn took out Shoigu and Gerasimov then he could very well topple Putin as well.
I don't know. Something doesn't add up here...
Interesting times!
I'm more feeling a 1917 buzz but it's all good.
Not just you.
It all just feels very wrong. Why would Prigozhin pre-announce a coup? A coup can only work with the element of surprise. Also why would the Russian MoD attack ordinary Wagner grunts if they had a problem with Prigozhin? The natural target would be to just take Prigozhin himself out, and any of his supporters.
It wouldn't surprise me if this was an elaborate FSB stunt and Prigozhin was already sitting in a jail cell, or maybe even dead. Either way, this is the end of Prigozhin and Wagner as a semi-independent organization.
Cannot stop watching news sources to see whats actually going on.
Seeing all sorts of takes on twitter right now:
Or as somebody posted on Twitter-
It's elaborate theater allowing Russia to pull all their troops out of Ukraine claiming they need to stop Prigozhin's "rebellion" so they can end the war that way and save face.
Everything is up in the air at this stage. It's not over 'till the fat lady sings...
The provisional Govt in Moscow is sending Russian men West to fight in an unpopular war, the soldiers are dying due to bad leadership, poorly led and hopeless resourced.
It certainly was a flight of fancy.
The more probable take is Prigozhin has heard he is to get a bullet and he might as well roll the dice towards Moscow and see what happens.
The history book on this is going to be superb reading.
Reports Putins cavalcade headed to the Kremlin (if its the real one)
This is moving fast
As others have alluded to I suspect a ruse.
If a genuine mutiny surely they would have no hope unless significant numbers of Russian military either stand aside or join them. They have no air support... do they even have tanks or just APCs.
"If you come at the King you best not miss"
Where even are the bulk of Wagner troops based these days?
So Wagner is no more.
Wonder what'll happen those African governments that had Wagner as their back up force?
Screw that, even Syria.
I wonder will Putin himself have an "accident" in all this?
Whatever the hell. It's orchestrated via kremlin.
All we need now is some exiled revolutionary on a sealed train...
Road blocks going up in parts of Moscow ringing where the leadership live, road south to Rostov being blocked by fsb.
There is a quote from a Russian book where they are talking about the history of the country, each new chapter starting with "And then it got worse".
Maybe there is a reason this is being played out on social media with Prigozhin looking for some new recruits from the general russian public.
Always seemed hard to believe much from Prigozhin but when looked back on, what he was saying appeared to be based on some reality.
Quite possible he has the pulse of many of the regular Russian troops and banks on feeding on their dissatisfaction, and that they will join or not oppose him.
Whatever, even if it's only half truths, the Russian public will have their carefully constructed delusions blown away by this.
If this really is a coup then, so far, it's going worse than that Turkish coup attempt in 2016.
The column of musicians goes through the checkpoint Novoshakhtinsk, the length of the column is about 50 km.
At the Voloshino checkpoint, the situation is the same, only the convoy 80 km and continue to go.
VP and border guards do not interfere.
At first, 2 tanks drove up to Novoshakhtinsk, the musicians came out, talked to the border guards, said not to interfere, sat down and drove off.
🙅♂️
Notice the RTE ten o'clock radio news has some catching up to do.
Tubridy's saviour is on the horizon.
I would not trust Prigozhin or his Wagnerites as far as I could throw them. By all means, let them tear each other apart, and the sooner the better, but forming any kind of alliance with them? Nope.
If there's a real coup Ukraine could do well and go balls to the wall if anarchy breaks out
Shoigu has his own private army Patriot (company) - Wikipedia
lol
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