Big Media has been foaming at the mouth over what they are calling an armed insurrection in Russia. Wagner group mercenaries were supposedly marching on Moscow with Yevgeny Prigozhin stating the war was immoral. Putin had no reason to start the war. Ukraine was not a threat, etc.
Big Media was saying that Putin was humiliated and that he likely would have trouble moving forward. Putin’s authority was irreparably damaged according to former US ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst. According to Prigozhin, Russian troops are demoralized and poorly led.
Then like flipping a light switch, the “insurrection” was over. Despite an arrest warrant being issued and following a furious address by Putin broadcast across Russia, Prigozhin was allowed to go into exile in Belarus and the warrant was cancelled. The Wagner Group is being assimilated into the ranks of the regular Russian Army something which Prigozhin had publicly resisted.
So what really happened?
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