We are sharing with our readers “Big Serge’s” reflections on the Wagner mutiny affair not because it is long and tedious (which it is) but because it incidentally makes many good points and stimulates critical reflection while sifting through the leading explanatory theories that have been advanced. The commentariat’s need to impress with quick-witted explanations is understandable, but it should always be restrained, at least until there is sufficient data to justify venturing a unified field theory. We would offer the same advice to Pepe Escobar. But with all the attractions of his analysis, Big Serge circumvents what we consider…
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A week later, it is still not possible to draw definite conclusions or even to advance credible hypotheses. The word maskirovka comes persistently to mind, as well as Winston Churchill’s famous adage about Russia, that it is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. What we tentatively can say is that if the Wagner affair is indeed something other than what at first blush it appears to be – call it maskirovka, riddle, mystery or enigma – from a technical standpoint it was executed brilliantly. First off, there are incoherencies of the account that rapidly is being established…
For a less ebullient and perhaps more sober assessment of the Wagner affair than Pepe Escobar’s, we go to Andrei Martyanov. https://youtu.be/0rpi3ibN0o4 Andrei Martyanov ANDREI MARTYANOV is an expert on Russian military and naval issues. He was born in Baku, USSR in 1963. He graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He took part in the events in the Caucasus which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he currently works as…
The jury is still not in on Pepe Escobar’s triumphalist assessment. However, evidence is accumulating of a colossal maskirovka operation. Pepe’s exposition of recent events and their aftermath should be read carefully and sympathetically, but final judgment should still be held in reserve. When the lightning of History strikes, better cut to the chase in our first draft. Here we go. After the extraordinary events in Russia during The Longest Day, President Putin wins on all counts. Among other feats, he has made an absolute, inter-galactic ass of the whole collective West MSM – all over again. He rallied…
“The East is East, and the West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” Rudyard Kipling was basically right. That being said, as they complete their task, the countries which are setting up the urgently needed international Tribunal to look into the war crimes committed in the Ukraine and the environs by the Kiev neo-Nazi regime and its foreign sponsors should make sure not to prove Kipling right once again. In this case, that would work to the immense detriment of justice. These reflections are prompted by the urgency to analytically reconsider, once more, the modalities of the international…
The following are the opening remarks of Ambassador Chas W. Freeman during a one-on-one discussion hosted by the Institute of Peace & Diplomacy. The dialogue, moderated by IPD Advisor Dr. Wenran Jiang, featured the Ambassador’s perspectives on mistaken assumptions in the US-China rivalry amid Washington’s efforts to maintain its vision of the global order. Ambassador Freeman’s remarks are worth pondering. The United States and China are no longer on speaking terms. Having put diplomacy aside, these two great powers are engaged in diatribe accompanied by military posturing and preparations for a war in which the only certain outcome is the devastation of…
These disclosures by patent attorney Dr. David Martin in his recent address at the European Parliament in Brussels are not merely a blockbuster but rather the rhetorical equivalent of a nuclear bomb. The fact that after three years of global torture inflicted purely for profit few people are aware of this public data that bears directly on their lives is a sad commentary on how thoroughly powerful special interests are able to interdict the flow of information that could endanger their corrupt schemes. https://youtu.be/GaD8qEWJglY
The recent attempted mutiny in Russia left many in the West in a quandary how to position themselves vis-a-vis Evegeni Prigozhin and his organization. The resulting flip flops were hilarious and recalled the obligation to conform to the frequently changing party line in the Soviet Union. Hence, in a single day that the commotion lasted, Prigozhin went from terrorist to “freedom fighter” (when it was expected that he would be successful in disrupting the Russian government) and then back to terrorist again, when it became apparent that he had failed.
Andrew Korybko is an expatriate American scholar living in Moscow and working on an advanced degree there. We consider it a privilege to have a highly perspicacious observer of his calibre on the spot to inform us about the complex events taking place there. As the Wagner-Prigozhin affair unfolds, Mr. Korybko has written another opinion piece on that topic. His offer of amnesty and exile to Belarus wasn’t a sign of weakness like the Mainstream Media and some in the Alt-Media Community claimed, but proof that the Russian leader was in full control of the situation and powerful enough to…
The latest news from Russia points to a perfidious replay of the 1917 scenario when Russia was poised to win World War I but was sabotaged by the Bolshevik coup induced from the West. It also has all over it the fingerprints of British Intelligence. We shall soon find out whether Prigozhin was recruited or duped to stab his country in the back in a situation remarkably analogous to that which prevailed in 1917. One should hope that not just the Russian political and military leadership but all Russians — across the social spectrum — have learned their historical lesson.…