Yeah, I gotta talk about it since it was part of history and a topic of discussion over the weekend for so many folks. But as usual, I will share a slightly different opinion than something you may already have heard. Yeah, go figure 😉

Let’s first talk about the villains in this story…or the ‘heroes’ depending on your point of view. There are, or rather was, about 40,000 mercenaries that made up a de facto private army of Yevgeny Prigozhin. The name varies but essentially is called the Wagner Group (WG). The owner is a very, very rich man…as in the neighborhood of multi-billionaire or so. And is, or rather had been, a friend of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of Russia. Okay, maybe not a close ‘friend’ but at least close business ties…depending on the news report you want to believe. And WG was being used a military force in the Ukraine-Russia War…or rather the NATO-Russia War, depending on your point of view.

So let’s recap a bit…WG is part of a larger industry called Private Military Companies or Private Military Contractors, individually referred to, identified as, a PMC. The street terminology varies calling them mercenary groups, guns for hire, paid killers, etc. Russia has five of these PMCs working for them on various ‘projects’…yeah, nice term eh? In Russia there are 5 primary PMCs, Wagner being the largest, best funded, and most effective.

Why do government’s use PMCs? Ah yes, much easier to color outside the lines in ‘military actions’ or on ‘projects’…think along the lines of plausible deniability. A great way for the US government to state, “There are no US troops involved.” Yeah, well, kinda, sorta…the US probably used a PMC to do the dirty work while being able to claim that US troops weren’t involved. Yeah I know…a lie is a lie is a lie. But our government is so good at it…I mean really, really good at lying.

Oh, in Iraq & Afghanistan Wars -that the US started- 50% of the American armed forces in those wars were from PMCs. And that doesn’t include the darkest of the dark working for the CIA. And BTW…the USA has at least 15 PMCs that work openly for the US military establishment.

Let me think a minute…it is clear that America loves war (proven beyond a shadow of a doubt)…and we used very expensive PMCs during the Iraq & Afghanistan wars (that the US started), making many, many corporations, their owners, and their ‘employees’ very rich. And the PMCs are comprised of almost exclusively all former US military leadership and special forces. And it is military leadership that recommends and engages PMCs in our endless lust for war. Hummmmm…let me think…might there be a connection????

Sorry, my ADD kicked in, back to Russia…WG was engaged by Putin to perform contract services in the war waging inside Ukraine. Then a rift developed and Yevgeny Prigozhin warns Putin privately and then publicly that he isn’t happy with how things are going. Putin essentially doesn’t respond to make Prigozhin happy enough. Suddenly WG withdraws from Ukraine and marches on Moscow. Suddenly WG stops its rather successful Russian incursion and announces he will retire to Belarus…a Russian pawn ally.

What questions to do you ask of all that?

For me…follow the money and power. WG likes the power that goes along with it being an army. But Yevgeny Prigozhin likes money slightly more than power…and he knows with enough money he can buy all the power he wants. So simply put…Putin paid him off. Yeah, in the old days it would be called ‘tribute’…paying money for the Golden Hoard not to invade your country and sack your capital city.

No big deal, right? Well, for me we flirted with a nuclear war…might still be doing that dance right now. How so?

I wrote extensively about the complicated issue of Ukraine, quick recap…

• 2012/2013 – USA starts, funds, and runs a soft civil war in Ukraine against a soverign, duly elected Ukrainian government. The US State Department and the CIA are the lead agencies with Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden running the operation.
• Feb 2014 – Ukrainian President Yanukovych is impeached and removed from office by pro-USA Ukrainians. The following day Russia invades the Ukrainian state of Crimea and annexes it within 3 weeks.
• Beginning later in 2014 a close relationship began with Joe Biden (and his son Hunter Biden) and the Ukrainian leadership (widely known to be extremely corrupt). Hunter Biden begins receiving large sums of money from Ukraine to the tune of millions of dollars…during the time period the US State Department is sending 100’s of millions of dollars and aid to Ukraine.
• In January 2022 Biden tells Russia there will be no problem if they did an ‘incursion’ into Ukraine.
• In February 2022 Russia invades Ukraine.
• By late spring 2022 Russia and Ukraine are on the verge of a peace treaty…until the USA and England torpedo that agreement and tells Ukraine they will fight until Putin is replaced.
• November 2022 we learned that Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX (cryptocurrency exchange) was laundering money between the US government – Ukrainian government – the Democratic Party…to the tune of a net profit of $40million dollars to Biden’s Democratic Party. (click here to read about it)
• June 2023 war still rages on.

So as the Russia – NATO/Ukraine War rages we know that the single biggest winner is not Russia, is not Ukraine, is not the thousands and thousands of dead Ukrainian men, women, and children, and it is not the USA. So who is the big winner?

Oh, come on…you know the answer…who is making all the money off this war?

The folks supplying all the weapons…the corporations of the military-industrial complex. And part of the military-industrial complex are PMCs of both Russia and USA/NATO.

But I still haven’t clearly addressed the primary issue about potential for Putin to push the red button sending the world into the stone age. Super quick condensed recap…

1. The USA overthrows the pro-Russia Ukrainian government in 2014 while Putin runs Russia.
2. The USA allows Russia to seize Crimea in 2014.
3. The Joe Biden greenlights the Russian invasion of Ukraine in January 2022.
4. Russia invades Ukraine in February 2022.
5. The USA (along with England) sinks Russian/Ukrainian peace treaty in Spring of 2022 and calls for the removal of Putin as leader of Russia.
6. The USA rallies NATO to fight Russia in the Russia-Ukraine War.
7. By late Spring 2023 Russia is not doing well in the Russia-Ukraine War…mildly said.
8. WG warns Putin to better support WG in the Russia-Ukraine War. Russia fails to do so.
9. June 2023 WG abruptly ceases operations in Ukraine and marches on Moscow threatening to overthrow Putin.
10. Within 72-hours WG, while winning, abruptly stops its march on Moscow.

So let’s think out loud for a minute…

• What if the USA government approached Yevgeny Prigozhin owner of the Wagner Group (WG) and waved big money…like billions of $’s…in front of Prigozhin. All he had to do was a small favor…change allegiances and help depose Putin.
• Putin sees WG betraying him…and WG invades Russia and marches on Moscow.
• Putin vehemently hates the USA for betraying him…starting with the USA overthrowing pro-Russia Ukraine to begin with back in 2012 – 2014.
• Putin also hates the USA even more for betraying him with the bogus Jan 2022 ‘greenlight’ scandal.
• Then add onto that Putin hating the USA for rallying NATO against him and making him (and Russia) look weak in the war.
• Then sprinkle all of that with the USA calling for the ‘removal’ of Putin as leader of Russia.

What do you think would be a logical move for a demented, power-hungry, money-loving, insane, weak/frail so-called world leader? No, I am not talking about Joe Biden.

Yeah, I am thinking we couldn’t give Putin any more reason to nuke us. Or, tactically nuke part of Ukraine as our proxy. Okay, maybe I couldn’t come up with more reasons to nuke us…but I am sure the CIA could.

Do you have a better idea of what is going on?

I just look at the money angle…who is making money off this Ukraine debacle and all wars in general in the last 130 years. Then I look at who gains power as a result of all those wars. Sorry, if your sensibilities are offended let me use the term ‘military actions’.

Then a thought struck me…who would benefit the most from a nuclear strike? Surely not any recipient country’s general population! The world economy would collapse as well. But, if you had the money to put together a really secure site, stocked with everything you needed, and protected by let’s say…a private army or the most powerful military in the world…you might not do too badly. And if you had tons of resources at your disposal after the dust settled…say gold & silver and other natural resources…especially farmland…you might be in a pretty good position to do as you wish with what is left of the world.

But, come on!!! That sounds like some wild fiction novel…one that hasn’t been lived written yet. Right?

Ever feel like a pawn on a chessboard?

 

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