Was Wagner's coup a master move? Putin ridicules his propagandists

@ElentirENG ES 6·26·2023 · 19:22 0

The Kremlin has been resorting to lies systematically, and its propagandists in the West juggle to justify them.

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They try to present Wagner's coup as a master move by Russia

In the last few hours, given the news that Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group, would take refuge in Belarus, many pro-Russian propagandists in various countries have circulated the following map:

Some messages posting that map from various countries can see here, here, here and here. The idea they are trying to convey is that Prigozhin would not have carried out a coup, but that it would be a master move by Russia to place the leader of Wagner a very short distance from Kiev and thus be able to launch an assault against the capital of Ukraine. According to them, this would explain why the charges of armed rebellion against the mercenary leader had been dropped.

The facts that do not fit with that bizarre theory

That theory is as crazy as other theories that pro-Russian propagandists have been spreading. To begin with, let's remember that Wagner's mercenaries shot down seven aircraft of the Russian armed forces, killing their crews. As we saw a few days ago, the panic in Moscow was of such a caliber that armored vehicles were brought onto the streets, and dug trenches and turning trucks into roadblocks to hinder the advance of the mercenaries. The ridicule that Russia has made with this coup is resounding, since it has shown that power as an unstable country and in which an armed gang can reach 200 km from the capital.

RIA Novosti reports that charges against Wagner's boss remain

If Putin offered to drop the charges against Prigozhin, it was simply to try to stop the coup by making a concession to the mercenaries. The problem is that, by doing that, Putin exhibited a weakness that contrasts with the image of a strong leader that he has been trying to carve out for many years. Perhaps for this reason, this morning the Russian state agency RIA Novosti has reported that the charges against the head of Wagner are maintained, according to what the Office of the Attorney General told that agency.

Those who support Prigozhin's criticism are threatened with 15 years in prison

This morning, RIA Novosti also published an information about statements by Vladislav Davankov, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma, threatening thousands of Russians to "be imprisoned for 15 years" for supporting Prigozhin's criticism of the Russian military, criticism he regards as a attempt to "discredit participants in a special operation."

Hammering reality to fit their propaganda

As the Kremlin now tries to show strength when the coup has already failed, its propagandists continue to make a fool of themselves on social media by presenting the coup as a master move by Russia . And it is that Putin's supporters abroad do not care about the facts, as they have repeatedly shown. They dedicate themselves to adjusting reality with a hammer to make it fit their distorted vision of things, the result of simply believing the constant lies of Russian propaganda, even though the result is completely absurd.

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