[gailtate]

Well, well, well, if this is true...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1672890410547441665[/tweet]

Surovikin is tight with Prigozhin. This would mean Prigozhin is getting his people installed in the MOD, which effectively makes Putin a figurehead only. Prigozhin can bide his time in Belarus and then take over Russia when Putin is further weakened. People in Russia now see him as a hero who can come in and save the country.

Prigozhin backing down only makes sense if Shoigu and Gerasimov are replaced with guys of his choosing. And if that is the case, Progizhin is a strategic genius. You kind of knew he was a savvy operator just based on how Wagner took Bakhmut, but he's also a master communicator and politician who knew all the buttons to push and how to create an image of himself that makes him look strong. He's a terrible person, but it's so clearly obvious he's way smarter than Putin.

One thing that has become abundantly clear to me over this weekend is that Russia is even more of a mafia state than I even realized. There are no real elections, no real loyalty to anyone. Just a bunch of factions that were barely held together by Putin due to crushing corruption everywhere. Everything is decided by money and force. Putin is like a Paul Castellano before John Gotti arranged for his murder and took over the Gambino Crime family in New York. And Prigozhin is like Gotti.

Good analogy. Putin's Russia has been fully exposed as the gangland state is has always been, in one form or another, since the demise of the Romanovs. It's a thug-ocracy with a lot of nukes, which is obviously bad, but not enough to sustain a geopolitical presence of any legitimacy. The sooner somebody puts a round between his shifty eyes the better. And I don't believe he would replaced by a more diabolical devil we don't know about. Gotta wonder what Putin Fatigue is doing to the plutocrats as well as the babushkas. Somethin's gotta give.

[gailtate]

Well, well, well, if this is true...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1672890410547441665[/tweet]

Surovikin is tight with Prigozhin. This would mean Prigozhin is getting his people installed in the MOD, which effectively makes Putin a figurehead only. Prigozhin can bide his time in Belarus and then take over Russia when Putin is further weakened. People in Russia now see him as a hero who can come in and save the country.

Prigozhin backing down only makes sense if Shoigu and Gerasimov are replaced with guys of his choosing. And if that is the case, Progizhin is a strategic genius. You kind of knew he was a savvy operator just based on how Wagner took Bakhmut, but he's also a master communicator and politician who knew all the buttons to push and how to create an image of himself that makes him look strong. He's a terrible person, but it's so clearly obvious he's way smarter than Putin.

One thing that has become abundantly clear to me over this weekend is that Russia is even more of a mafia state than I even realized. There are no real elections, no real loyalty to anyone. Just a bunch of factions that were barely held together by Putin due to crushing corruption everywhere. Everything is decided by money and force. Putin is like a Paul Castellano before John Gotti arranged for his murder and took over the Gambino Crime family in New York. And Prigozhin is like Gotti.

Good analogy. Putin's Russia has been fully exposed as the gangland state is has always been, in one form or another, since the demise of the Romanovs. It's a thug-ocracy with a lot of nukes, which is obviously bad, but not enough to sustain a geopolitical presence of any legitimacy. The sooner somebody puts a round between his shifty eyes the better. And I don't believe he would replaced by a more diabolical devil we don't know about. Gotta wonder what Putin Fatigue is doing to the plutocrats as well as the babushkas. Somethin's gotta give.