{"id":143320,"date":"2023-06-24T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=143320"},"modified":"2023-06-24T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:55:54","slug":"yevgeny-prigozhins-pmc-wagner-march-to-moscow-a-potential-repeat-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=143320","title":{"rendered":"Yevgeny Prigozhin’s PMC Wagner ‘march’ to Moscow: A potential repeat of history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, during an interview, where he contradicted Moscow’s justification for war. (Associated Press)<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner’s taking control of Russian territory appears to repeat Russian history. Two major examples involve Russia’s involvement in World War I, and then the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. The first involvement contributed to the events that would result in the revolution that would lead to a communist government. The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan contributed to the events that would lead to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Could the Russian Federation disintegrate? It’s possible. Could there be a regime change in Moscow? That too is possible. Moscow could also manage to leverage their stretched-out military to end Prigozhin and Wagner. The last thing that Moscow needs is for certain groups to see that they are militarily impotent.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t an “overnight” decision. Friction had been flaring through this year, with Prigozhin’s calling the Ministry of Defense out for starving PMC Wagner of needed rounds and supplies. When Wagner pulled back from Bakhmut, after turning their positions over to the regular Russian Army, a PMC Wagner unit came under attack from Russian artillery. The recent move to take territory in Russia came at the heels of the Russian military’s again attacking Wagner on the ground.<\/p>\n

When Prigozhin provided an interview, calling for people to rise up against the current regime in Moscow, he was partly leveraging his understanding of Russian history. He was also leveraging his understanding of the psychographics of the Russian people… There are claims that he runs a troll farm.<\/p>\n

In this interview, he contradicted government and media propaganda related to the Ukraine War. It was not about NATO. There was no pending attack by Ukraine and\/or NATO back in February, 2022. There was no threat to the Russian Federation. Certain officials in Moscow needed their glory, and were willing to throw thousands of Russians to their deaths to achieve their objectives. The Russian government shut down parts of the internet in that area in the aftermath of this interview. We posted about this same thing here<\/a>, where a Retired Russian officer countered Moscow’s arguments before they launched their invasion.<\/p>\n

From The Guardian:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In an explosive 30-minute video posted on his Telegram channel, Prigozhin dismissed Moscow’s claims that Kyiv was planning to launch an offensive on the Russian-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

“There was nothing extraordinary happening on the eve of February 24,” Prigozhin said.<\/p>\n

“The ministry of defence is trying to deceive the public and the president and spin the story that there was insane levels of aggression from the Ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the whole Nato block,” the Wagner head said.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Russia attacked Ukraine, Putin claimed Moscow’s invasion had thwarted Ukraine’s own plans for “a massive attack on the Donbas, and then on the Crimea”.<\/p>\n

Prigozhin also said Russia’s leadership could have avoided the war by negotiating with Ukraine’s president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy.<\/p>\n

“When Zelenskiy became president, he was ready for agreements. All that needed to be done was to get off Mount Olympus and negotiate with him,” he said.<\/p>\n

Prigozhin has been arguing with top military officials for months, blaming the minister of defence, Sergei Shoigu, for battlefield failures.<\/p>\n

However, his latest tirade appeared to be a new escalation, as the warlord directly contradicted Putin’s rationale for the invasion, implying it was based on lies in what amounts to the harshest criticism by any prominent Russian war figure of the decision to attack Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“What was the war for? The war needed for Shoigu to receive a hero star … The oligarchic clan that rules Russia needed the war,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The mentally ill scumbags decided: ‘It’s OK, we’ll throw in a few thousand more Russian men as cannon fodder. They’ll die under artillery fire, but we’ll get what we want,'” Prigozhin continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian has additional information here<\/a>. The YouTube channel, Reporting from Ukraine<\/a>, provides details on this event:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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