Late yesterday afternoon, a sensational, full-on Proxy War propaganda storm hit the airwaves, and as usual, there is no way at all to know what to believe yet. The Wall Street Journal covered the exploding story this morning with the electrifying headline, \u201cRussia\u2019s Putin Orders Military to Crush Wagner Power Grab, Calls It Treason.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nThe sub-headline explained, \u201cPresident intervenes after Yevgeny Prigozhin\u2019s paramilitary group seizes city of Rostov in most serious challenge to Putin since he took power.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal\u2019s was the LEAST inflammatory headline. Headlines from other corporate media outlets were much more excited, calling what\u2019s happening in Russia a \u201ccoup\u201d and suggesting Putin may have already been arrested (again).<\/p>\n
The \u201ccoup\u201d story \u2014 which is 100% speculative at this point \u2014 was front and center on nearly every platform, with top sources running multiple articles analyzing the developing story from every direction.<\/p>\n
But good luck finding any mention of Biden\u2019s ongoing, well-established Bribery Case anywhere! Here\u2019s how our friends at the New York Times framed it, with seven separate articles:<\/p>\n
Nobody really knows anything. But to be honest, the Russians are serving up plenty of highly-suggestive material. Both Prigozhin\u00b9 and Putin have published competing videos, a bunch of troops have moved around, Moscow is under martial law \u2026 but nobody\u2019s reporting any real-life kinetic military encounters.<\/p>\n
So WHAT is going on?<\/p>\n
Russian has fooled the media before. The same Prighozin famously published a video claiming his troops were completely out of ammo \u2014 right before taking Bahkmut. During the now-failed Ukraine Spring CounterOffensive\u2122, Russian forces repeatedly used a false-retreat strategy to dupe the Ukrainian forces. When attacked, the Russians would fall back in apparent disarray, leading the Ukrainians into a trap.<\/p>\n
And the Ukrainians kept falling for it, over and over, till they\u2019d lost.<\/p>\n
Could this sudden \u201cinternal turmoil\u201d could be a larger version of the same tactic? In other words, the Ukrainians, having all but conceded defeat of their glorious counteroffensive, are now being sorely tempted: should they scrape together a final all-out assault to take advantage of Russia\u2019s apparent internal disarray?\u00b2<\/p>\n
Before forming any opinions about what is or isn\u2019t happening, just WAIT a few days, because this story appears to be a perfect psyop narrative \u2014 two giant personalities facing off against each other in a murky, high-stakes conflict: Putin versus Prigozhin. The whole contretemps could \u201cresolve\u201d with one phone call.<\/p>\n
The one thing we know for sure is: we have no idea what\u2019s really going on. Even though all of corporate media\u2019s cherry-picked armchair military experts are completely confident, which is the usual giveaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Late yesterday afternoon, a sensational, full-on Proxy War propaganda storm hit the airwaves, and as usual, there is no way at all to know what to believe yet. The Wall Street Journal covered the exploding story this morning with the … Continue reading