This is not a coup by Prigozhin. This is an inner war between the St Petersburg gang of Putin and the Moscow gang of Gerasimov and Shoigu. This is the beginning of Putin‘s election campaign to become reelected on March 17, 2024. His lapdog Prigozhin is masquerading a coup to put the blame on Gerasimov and Shoigu for losing the war against Ukraine. Prigozhin can always be scapegoated if he fails like this has happened in the past. #geopolitics #Velsig
Not to drive traffic away but I thought this tweet outlined an interesting -conspiracy?- theory about the coup: https://twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1672487248699305987?s=48&t=H0IrC0shugCle7Ly43BoBA
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This is not a coup by Prigozhin. This is an inner war between the St Petersburg gang of Putin and the Moscow gang of Gerasimov and Shoigu. This is the beginning of Putin‘s election campaign to become reelected on March 17, 2024. His lapdog Prigozhin is masquerading a coup to put the blame on Gerasimov and Shoigu for losing the war against Ukraine. Prigozhin can always be scapegoated if he fails like this has happened in the past. #geopolitics #Velsig
Saw this earlier today, and it sounded plausible up until Putin condemned Prigozhin on state TV - that turned it into a 3-way battle
scratch that, looks like it was a plausible theory after all!