Author: Cozmin Gușă
I have been studying Vladimir Putin carefully for 24 years, ever since Boris Yeltsin handed him power on the last day of 1999, leaving the whole world perplexed. I read everything that was relevantly written about him, I talked to some of his close friends when I was also a politician, I know some of his behavior through a few friends who are friends with Putin, they often stayed with him at sporting or private events. It is therefore clear that we have been able to better decipher many of his actions over time, i.e. we have learned details about the way he behaves with those close to him. So I know that he has known Prigojin and cultivated him for almost 30 years, from the days when Putin was the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and Prigojin owned the restaurants where the powerful men there relaxed. The younger Prigozhin (the age difference between them being 8 years), after 10 years in prison in the Soviet system, always tried to be useful to the future Tsar, to win his trust gradually, up to the level of organizing all the meals at Putin’s important meetings with world leaders (The pictures of Prigozhin that Putin would like gone. The leaders of the USA, Great Britain, Brazil, India, etc., served at the table by the Tsar’s chef from the Kremlin! – Solid News) , respectively Prigojin managed to get the strategic and ultra-discreet task of financing the Wagner bands with black money, 10 years ago. What I have learned about Prigozhin and his relationship with Putin is well known by all the leaders at the top of Russian power, many of whom not believing the lies that Prigozhin has administered to them in recent months, knowing that he is clearly doing so with Putin’s agreement. There are two more essential details, the first that it was known at this level that Prigozhin was not the Wagner commander, Wagner being controlled by GRU Lieutenant-Colonel Dmitry Utkin, and the second, that Prigozhin is constantly guarded and monitored by a Spetsnaz guard, who answers only on orders from the Kremlin, with the task of personal protection of the “chef” against any failure of the mercenaries, respectively of quick intervention in case of his betrayal. With these details, you can draw your own conclusions about Saturday’s staging or about the real atmosphere at the pinnacle of Russian power following the collapse.
I say in the title that the Russians have been confused for two days, and they can’t be otherwise, regardless of whether they believe Putin or not. If Prigozhin defected, which I do not believe at all, this is perceived as a great weakness of the Russian president, who would be betrayed by a person who served him food and drink for the last decades, Russians thinking how many are in a similar position to the “chef” around Putin. If it is an arrangement set up by Putin, the Russians are thinking about how serious the situation is at the top of the power in the Kremlin that such a staging was needed, which I categorized yesterday as not worth a penny (Putin had to get rid of Prigozhin, otherwise he risked being laughed at by the world. The tsar from the Kremlin used a staging not worth of a penny (ziuanews.ro)).
Putin has supporters all over the world, they are mostly those who are scared of the transhumanist offensive of the West, the corporate dictatorship over planetary affairs, the drift of American power, etc., all of them have put their hopes in the Russian leader, thinking that he would could stop this rollercoaster of abnormality destroying their lives. Well, the supporters are at least annoyed, if not disappointed, by what is happening in Moscow, guessing Putin’s weakness as a result of the last events in Russia, seeing that the one they credited seems to be playing a part in a skit that can’t end well from their point of view.
But Putin’s enemies are frightened by the prospect that things will go crazy in Russia, which is not only the largest country in the world, but is the holder of the most powerful nuclear arsenal. Putin scored in this chapter, offering the Americans a possible vision of the takeover of power from the Kremlin by an unscrupulous military vector, which would not hesitate to quickly bury the military infrastructure of Ukraine, bringing the world to the stage of imminent nuclear danger.
These positionings projected here appear like a Molotov cocktail in Putin’s mind, and the world’s intelligence agency psychologists are working hard these days to guess the Tsar’s next actions.
Another significant detail for understanding the situation was noticed by Adrian Pătrușcă, namely the one related to Viktor Bout, the “merchant of death”, the one recently released from prison in the USA, in exchange for the lesbian basketball player who was released from Russia. Bout has been stalking Prigozhin in recent months, advising him in various situations, as the “chef” admitted, publicly expressing his admiration for the “merchant of death”, including posing with him in front of reporters about 10 days ago. It is assumed that Bout, an old friend and partner of Putin, would be the one who suggested to Prigozhin the Kamikaze-type action, with the mimed march on Moscow, as a salutary action and necessary to get out of the scene, Bout also being the one who communicated with Lukashenko to complete the action. We can suspect that Viktor Bout told the “chef” that the operation had the Tsar’s approval, that he dictated the score and guaranteed his life, with the clear condition of not communicating publicly only what is approved.
Last night Putin addressed the people, being informed about the confusion of the Russians, then organizing a Stalinist type meeting with the military chiefs, meeting which stretched late into the night. Also yesterday, Pravda, the official press of the Russian power, began to take stock of the reactions of Putin’s international allies, discounting some wavering parties, like the president of Kazakhstan, and praising Erdogan, who was promptly supportive. The Emir of Qatar has already given Putin a shot under the belt by publicly communicating something completely different than what the Kremlin had indicated following his phone conversation with Putin. From this summary alone, it is clear that things are badly messed up in Moscow, and without urgent strategic discussions by the Tsar on the Beijing-Washington line, we can witness a rapid degeneration of the situation.
