Tag: Double Cross

Putin

Putin Says Failed Coup Played Into Hands Of Russia’s Enemies | HuffPost Latest News

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District.

What was really a protest was called a coup. Actually, the mercenaries were being double-crossed by Putin and the Western media helped in the process calling it a mutiny.

Prigozhin’s statement appeared to confirm analysts’ view that the revolt was a desperate move to save Wagner from being dismantled after an order that all private military companies sign contracts with the Defense Ministry by July 1.

  Prigozhin said most of his fighters refused to come under the Defense Ministry’s command. He said the force had planned to hand over the military equipment it was using in Ukraine on June 30 after pulling out of Ukraine and gathering in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. He accused the Defense Ministry of attacking Wagner’s camp, prompting them to move sooner.

Russian political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya said on Twitter that Prigozhin’s mutiny “wasn’t a bid for power or an attempt to overtake the Kremlin,” but a desperate move amid his escalating rift with the military leadership.

Source: Putin Says Failed Coup Played Into Hands Of Russia’s Enemies | HuffPost Latest News

Putin

Russian agents’ threat to family reportedly made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Putin has an amazing method of recruitment

He contracted mercenaries to arrange, form, and train a privately paid army as an adjunct to his Russian forces. Recruitment of volunteers was en-mass from Russian prisons and volunteers. It allowed promises to be made that no regular army grunt could think of. Now after that was done he’s sacked the head contractor and “blackbirded” the private forces into his regular army cutting out the middleman and saving himself millions in the process and saving any further embarrassment of comparing the competency of the two forces at the same time. After all the prison rabble couldn’t be seen to be better-trained fighters than his own Russian Force.

Russian intelligence services threatened to harm the families of Wagner leaders before Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his advance on Moscow, according to UK security sources

Source: Russian agents’ threat to family reportedly made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance

Australia's Shame

France withdraws ambassadors to Australia and US over submarines deal – ABC News

French submarine FNS Amethyste passes a bridge as officers stand onto of the vessel.

China didn’t create this division among allies. But it goes to show just how much this is a new trade deal masquerading as the necessity for defence. For fuck sake the French have a presence in the Pacific but because the are EU have been abandoned with backs turned. Good one Mr Morrison.

A recall of ambassadors is highly unusual between allied countries France said it was unable to trust Australia in talks on a trade deal with the EU The EU is Australia’s third-biggest trading partner

Source: France withdraws ambassadors to Australia and US over submarines deal – ABC News

Trump

EXCLUSIVE : Trump has no intention of allowing Aus refugees settle in U.S.

Australia’s grubby asylum seeker deal with the U.S. is now looking even more tawdry.

Source: EXCLUSIVE : Trump has no intention of allowing Aus refugees settle in U.S.

Iraq

Why the US Snubbed the Kurds at Meeting About ISIS: Kurds have been doing the bulk of the fighting and they are the only ethnicity that has been able to achieve any significant military victories over ISIS fighters. As usual, politics and corporate greed trumped common sense.

 

Why the US Snubbed the Kurds at Meeting About ISIS.