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Sources of British special services have reported that the Russian secret services threatened to hurt the families of chiefs of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) before Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner and leader of the Wagner PMC, stopped his “offensive on Moscow”.

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[–] GlitchSir@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That makes no sense. So they got leverage on Wagner but then made a deal where Prigozhin lives and makes them look weak.

Put it together guys. Prigozhin got what he wanted in a deal we’re not seeing. But agreed to make it look like he was backing off.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a lot of this event is making sense. Yet…

I’d hazard a guess that it was a joint mission between Putin and Prigozhin to flush out potential traitors. I mean, what’s a better time to monitor communication channels when you have ‘an invading army storming the capital’ to find out who’s with/against you?

Then you send the ‘invading army’ to a Putin-controlled border country, and offer any of his soldiers that didn’t invade with him a place in your military….

I mean they sent a women’s basketball player to prison for some cannabis oil, but a guy who tried to overthrow the government gets a vacation next door? His soldier’s get the same vacation? The soldier’s that didn’t join them (why? where were they?) get jobs with the government?

Doesn’t make sense unless the ‘event’ was nothing like it appeared. A ‘Red Herring’ if you will.

The actions taken after the 1-day event speak louder to the point of what actually happened then what they’re saying in the media.

[–] Granite@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

While I like this take, we really don’t know if it was sincere or not. Maybe Prigozhin made a deal with the FSB, or maybe he’s already dead by now. He hasn’t been seen since he left for Belarus.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Totally. This is some Game of Thrones level bs. We're the serfs of the town, and we just saw their interpersonal drama play out in public on the fields outside of King's Landing. They're going to negotiate behind the walls of the Red Keep, get their stories straight, then tell us what we need to hear to keep everything in order.